for youtube, i hadn’t joinin yet, not all of everyone internet connection speed is the same, so maybe later with youtube.

hope your doing well with your business

take care and best wishes

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Glad you are enjoying the tips.

It sounds like life is keeping you busy. Your blog will always be there, and blogs are suppose to be hobbies (?), so we will all understand if you aren’t “making the rounds”, visiting and commenting.

Ads above the fold will work great on some blogs. This blog, I see differently though. First of all, I want my content to stand out, and to hopefully help others as they journey into blogging.

Secondly, most bloggers are not clickers, therefore, I have my ads below the fold. And the ads I do shoe, are not so much to get clicks or sales, but to show my readers examples of ads.

I feel the space above the fold on this blog is pretty valuable “real estate”, and I want to maximize it to the fullest.

I believe ad placement will be greatly influenced by one’s audience.

Great tips! It is so great that you are really experimenting and sharing your experience with us.

It is probably time for me to re-work my site a bit, but recently I have been juggling so many things, I am behind everything. (Probably you noticed….) Once I catch up with everything, I will come back to the site and review everything I need to think about. (And hopefully that happens in the next few weeks….sigh…)

Website is like a store, ads, contents, navigation bars, everything has to be intuitive, easy and enjoyable. In the retail business, we tend to put a promotional item upfront, and then hide the high demand items in the back. So if we have something people would definitely visit to look for, then, it may be OK to have promotion up above the fold. But the difference is we do not want people exit from the site, when they pick our promotion up. So probably the ads above the fold have to be set to open a new browser window.

The challenge is how to make the ads enjoyable and meaningful experience, while we have only few tools we can tap into, AdSense, Commission Junction, Amazon, etc. So I like your approach of putting it below the fold to allow readers to focus and enjoy articles and navigate smoothly when they are done.

Thank you, Barbara.

If you are talking about your blog, “Phoenix From The Ashes”, I can see it’s already beginning to take on a new personality. Although you may consider it being just a personal blog, you are continuing to share very valuable “business” type information. That, is something, we all can learn from, whether we are in business, or, if one day, we would like to start one.

Monetizing a blog, is always a choice for any blogger. I do understand when you say you’re enjoying it, and don’t want to lose the fun. However, all advertising isn’t necessarily bad, if you can steer someone onto a product or service that will make their life easier. Sometimes ads and posts, go hand in hand.

Also, monetizing a blog doesn’t guarantee an income. It’s all depends on your audience.

Just food for thought.

I think your blog and content is excellent. It provokes thought and educates us all.

I am not against advertising on blogs at all. I suppose the company blog is limited in the advertising, if any, it displays.

The personal blog is probably ripe for monetising in some way, but in some ways I don’t want to do that. At least yet! It would perhaps turn it into something else – I’m actually just enjoying it! And I don’t want to lose the fun.