{"id":238,"date":"2006-10-16T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T01:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/10\/advertising_dilemma\/"},"modified":"2012-01-04T19:57:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T00:57:52","slug":"advertising_dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/10\/advertising_dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertising Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just checked my advertising stats and saw that I had gotten 21 ad clicks today. That&#8217;s a huge number of clicks, maybe the most ever. I checked further and found that 18 of them came from the DeJumbler page. I thought there must be a really good ad on that page, so I paid it a visit. Interestingly enough, there was an ad for Word Unscrambler web sites, or at least a site that would show you the &#8220;top eight&#8221; word unscramblers (the ad only seems to show up if you search for word unscramblers on Google and then follow Google&#8217;s search results to my page). Competitors! It&#8217;s like Honda advertising on Ford&#8217;s web site. I thought about writing and asking for this advertiser not to be listed on my web page.<\/p>\n<p>Then I snapped out of my competition mentality and thought that, in terms of money anyway, I make nothing if they use my DeJumbler, but I do make money when people click on ads. So really the point of the web page is to get people to click ads, not unscramble words. Of course I would rather they use the DeJumbler, which is free, but it may not work for everyone (you have to have Word and you have to be able to enable macros).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just checked my advertising stats and saw that I had gotten 21 ad clicks today. That&#8217;s a huge number of clicks, maybe the most ever. I checked further and found that 18 of them came from the DeJumbler page. I thought there must be a really good ad on that page, so I paid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/10\/advertising_dilemma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advertising Dilemma&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}