Even though I have stripped off AdSense from my blogs, I am heavily dependant on a local blog advert to sustain them financially. However, it does not help that the loading times of these blocks of advertisements load extremely slow, dragging the load times of my blogs. I know the culprit and it sometimes are not even able to display any ads but show a blank box or a little square with a red X replacing the image.

I have already mentioned this to the head honcho, only because when this happens, my traffic is not recorded, hence I am not being compensated for the actual amount of impressions my blogs managed to generate and that means loss of income to me.

So what do I do? Do I just remove them for the sake of my blogs and a better reader experience or do I bear with it and hope that things will improve? I am still waiting for see what exclusive programme they come with so that I could decide which company to stick to exclusively. Since the launch of the exclusive club of the OTHER company, I am not getting my rightful share of the pie and it pisses me off because I worked so hard on building my blogs, been with them since the beginning and now I am being shortchanged just because I do not show total loyalty?

I received an assignment that comes with a requirement of no archiving of that particular post for three months. I said “No, thank you”. For one, I hate shifting the time of my posts to keep them on the front page. It is unfair to the others who have paid for their spot on the front.

It is also not fair to me as a blogger to give the advertiser a feature post for three months for $10. A feature post would cost a whole lot more than that, don’t you think so?

Also, it is against the TOS of some companies to shift the timestamp of our blog posts. Will $10 be worth it if we are caught and banned from one marketplace? I don’t think so. With the dry season upon us, we really cannot afford to be banned ANYWHERE!

What do you think of the new TOS of TigaP where they will accept blogs that are only as young as thirty days with only ten existing posts? I think that this is a desperate measure by TigaP to counter the numerous member blogs that have been sandboxed by Big G so they need to replenish their inventory with young, virgin blogs.

I ask you, I am sure you have started blogs before. Thirty days, what sort of value can this young blog give to the advertiser? I have started many blogs and I tell you, building content and traffic is not easy at all. The difference between me and other bloggers is that I never let my family and real friends know of my blogs and I do not join any community or am I part of a clique. Also, I do not go avisting to other blogs because I have no time.

So, what others can do in thirty days, perhaps I require sixty or ninety days but to be honest, you cannot do much with a blog that is only thirty days old. All the stats will be horrible and who wants to advertise on such a blog knowing that the risk of this blog being killed upon the next update is high?