{"id":784,"date":"2006-11-30T18:46:16","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T23:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=784"},"modified":"2008-08-17T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T19:14:00","slug":"a-nod-of-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"A Nod of Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=738\">I complained<\/a> about Google Ads when I put them in.  Since then they have begun behaving themselves, and are offering just the right sort of stuff. There are lots of offers for videogames and dice, which is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.  I added a few dice images here and there on this site with a bunch of geek-culture keywords in the description.  I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s what fixed it, but it&#8217;s working fine now.  (Mouse over the d20 at the top of the sidebar to see what I mean.)<\/p>\n<p>More to the point, the income is almost perfectly offsetting the bandwidth overages.  In the beginning I was worried that this would be a bunch of visual clutter and it wouldn&#8217;t really help, but after all of this traffic and all of these hits the income is within a dollar or two of my expenses.  That is a really great solution that scales with usage.  It doesn&#8217;t have that unseemly &#8220;panhandling&#8221; feeling of using a tipjar, and it isn&#8217;t too ugly or annoying.  Someday DMotR will complete its run (we&#8217;re over 1\/3 of the way through the story already) and I&#8217;ll take the ads down, but in the meantime this is a great way to keep things from going in the red. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who clicked.  I hope it was because you saw something you liked.  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I complained about Google Ads when I put them in. Since then they have begun behaving themselves, and are offering just the right sort of stuff. There are lots of offers for videogames and dice, which is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. I added a few dice images here and there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}