Today I was reminded of that old story:

A guy falls off the roof.

(Bad!)

He lands in a haystack

(Good!)

There’s a pitchfork in the haystack

(Bad!)

He misses the pitchfork

(Good!) etc. etc. etc.

 

Here’s my Ads on Blogs version:
I discovered blogging as a great forum for self expression and began blogging on WordPress.com. It was easy to use, had great features, and was free!

(Good!)

After a few months of blogging, I looked into putting ads on my blog, but found out I couldn’t at WordPress.com because they did not allow ads on blogs. However, they reserved the right to occasionally put their own ads on your blog to support their free service.

(Bad!)

This turned out to be ok, because the I prefer reading blogs without ads myself, and most of the blogs I read I had discovered through WordPress.com tag surfing, as mine is frequently discovered through being part of the WordPress.com blogging community.

(Good!)

I was meeting with my business counselor at SCORE today re: my new web store, and we put in a search term: “saging your home” in relation to one of my relatively unique products, which is a homeselling kit that contains sage for purifying your home of negative energy. There were 76,000 responses to this search query.

(Bad!)

My blog entry came up on the front page at #5.

(Good!!!!!!)

We clicked onto the entry, and there were ads all over my page, that of course, were not mine.

(Bad!)

I get a lot of traffic to my blog site through that post. Every day it’s one of my top posts that people access my blog through. I also have some links on that page that go to my store.

(Good!)

I don’t know if my post alone would’ve placed itself at #5 just as it was, or if it got picked up somewhere someplace and all these places started pointing at it and that’s how it got up there. Or if one ad found it somehow and then it started getting action and then all these ads started finding it and that’s why it’s such a popular post. I have no idea.

So though I can’t have ads on my blog, being found as #5 out of 76,000 is a good thing. And I don’t know if you can have it all ways.