Bloggin' fo' Bling

"By the way - just saw Jeremy posted about his eMiniMall earnings - $700 for the month of October is pretty good seeing as his blog isn?t a product related blog. Congratulations mate."

So being quite the sinister person I instantly thought 'SYMPATHY' Clicks! By this I didn't mean that people feel sorry for him and just click to help this poor blogger out, quite the contrary. I more meant people whom are a fan of the blog, know that the author makes income from the blog so they click on the ads as they feel they owe him something and not because they are genuinely interested in the advert.

Unlike other thoughts this stuck in my head for more than a few seconds so I decided to post a comment on Darren's post and get his thoughts. I got some good feedback from Darren and his posters were quick to write the idea off.

While I believe Darren and Co. that most of the money comes though search engines and not regular readers, it still doesn't dismiss the idea completely out of my mind. Being a web publisher (albeit very very small time) with ads on my site, when I visit someone else's site and I see their ads I sometimes think "Why not click on their ads, help 'em out, I know what it's like, hopefully people will do the same to me, get some sort of anonymous clicking gang thing going on", luckily this thought is usually dismissed when I realize that this is only going to hurt me rather than help me, no one wants clicks becoming worthless, another internet bubble bursting anyone?

I hope that 'Sympathy Clicks' are a very small percentage and if your thinking of clicking one of my ads to spite me, well don't!!!

In other news I added a review of Madvillain - Madvillainy.