It'll all be worth it in the end.
So I asked my faithful reader(s) back in September of '06 if they wanted pictures in my BLOG. But the only way to get pictures in my BLOG would be to allow advertising on my web page. I had been skeptical at first, not really knowing where they would put the advertising and I was afraid it would detract from my train wreck writing. I left it up for everyone to decide and the ones that did have an opinion on it and left feedback, didn't really have a solid opinion. Basically, they really didn't care and bottom line, I didn't either. I just forgot about it and one day I was allowed pictures. And on that day, I had advertising on my page regardless if I wanted it there or not.
But one day I write a review of Spamalot and I can not get rid of Clay Aiken. He is everywhere on the damn page. Every ad displaying his new (bad) album. It's kind of embarrassing me. Michelle's BLOG doesn't have ads for Clay Aiken! I keep refreshing the page and every time: Clay Aiken.
I click on an entry about me buying sneakers with Liz and the advertisement at the top of my page finally changes. Now I have an ad for roller sneakers. I click on the Venga Bus entry, an ad about Billy Joel's The Stranger pops up.
Interesting. I think I finally figure out what's going on here. Each time I click a specific entry, Livejournal scans the writing for certain words and then displays an ad pertaining to what I write about. I find this pretty cool. I also find it pretty entertaining to click on more entries just to see what the top of the page will say. Not too thrilled about the one for Dieting when I'm squeezing into a bride's maid dress though. I then clicked back to my main page of the journal which displays the last 20 entries I have written. I wanted to see what the general theme to my BLOG would be. Wanted to get a feel for what my readers must think.
Ex-Sufferer of OCD
How I put a stop to my Obsessive- Compulsive-Disorder!
Great. I'm not only fat, I'm crazy too. Thanks Livejournal!
But one day I write a review of Spamalot and I can not get rid of Clay Aiken. He is everywhere on the damn page. Every ad displaying his new (bad) album. It's kind of embarrassing me. Michelle's BLOG doesn't have ads for Clay Aiken! I keep refreshing the page and every time: Clay Aiken.
I click on an entry about me buying sneakers with Liz and the advertisement at the top of my page finally changes. Now I have an ad for roller sneakers. I click on the Venga Bus entry, an ad about Billy Joel's The Stranger pops up.
Interesting. I think I finally figure out what's going on here. Each time I click a specific entry, Livejournal scans the writing for certain words and then displays an ad pertaining to what I write about. I find this pretty cool. I also find it pretty entertaining to click on more entries just to see what the top of the page will say. Not too thrilled about the one for Dieting when I'm squeezing into a bride's maid dress though. I then clicked back to my main page of the journal which displays the last 20 entries I have written. I wanted to see what the general theme to my BLOG would be. Wanted to get a feel for what my readers must think.
Ex-Sufferer of OCD
How I put a stop to my Obsessive- Compulsive-Disorder!
Great. I'm not only fat, I'm crazy too. Thanks Livejournal!