Ad-serving oddities
I have ads on my blog, partly to see if it might generate some beer money, but mostly to try out some of the technologies and see how good they are. There’s nothing like first-hand experience. And two cases in point have made me write the apparently self-referential posting I’m writing now…
The first is that Google’s Adsense is serving ads for Hardwood Conservatories on this blog, at least to me. I have no idea why that is. I can’t see any content relevant to conservatories. Behaviourally, I haven’t done anything with Google that has anything to do with conservatories. Are the hardwood conservatory companies targetting people who went to Internet World last week, or to Prague at the weekend? And will this posting increase the likelihood of a Google ad about hardwood conservatories?
You can draw your own (obvious) conclusions about the second case. I wrote a bit about Internet World last week, because I went to it a couple of times. Miva are now serving ads for sessions at Internet World, but bizarrely they’re serving ads for Internet World 2003. Surely these ads can’t still be attracting revenue from the advertiser? Will I get paid if you click on them?
I wouldn’t encourage you to click on anything that you shouldn’t. The last thing I want is spurious traffic from my site. I just thought it was odd, really. Do other people have similar experiences?
