READERS have commented on the Google Adverts that appear on some articles in the Hedon Blog. They have nothing to do with the Hedon Blog but are placed there by WordPress.Com who are the excellent blogging company that host the Hedon Blog. This is one of the unfortunate side affects of this free service.
WordPress on its own Blog says:
We very occassionally show Adsense (contextual text ads) on post and tag pages. Why? To allow us to focus on free features in addition to paid and to offset costs of rapidly rising traffic. The ad code tries hard not to intrude or show ads to regular readers, which means a small percentage of page views might get an ad.”
Google Adsense analyzes the content to show contextually relevant ads, but that might mean a link to something not relevant or even inappropriate to the subject matter. For this the Hedon Blog apologises!
Great move, Ray. Ads are just a pain.
The Hedon Blog is now Ad Free, which means that you should not see any advertising as displayed in the post above.