>a blog has to have a LOT of traffic (like 100k a month) to move the meter, and if you don't get that kind of traffic you're just hurting your credibility by running ads.
I get a quarter of that on my blog, but I'm pretty random and rarely blog. All my ads do is pay the hosting costs for itself and a couple of extra domains that are in perpetual [un]development and maybe if I'm lucky buy me a meal out once a year (at a pretty low class restaurant) - but do people really disrespect me for that?
Personally despite it being cheap I probably couldn't afford to run the blog without ads (for at least another year) and 250k visits p.a. suggests that at least a few thousand folks might be moderately distracted or find worth in my blog.
In your opinion should I stop the blog? (based on this very limited information alone).
It's up to you. I won't think less of you for running ads (I run several non-blog advertising funded sites), but I know that some people would. Paying for your hosting costs is fine, but it's another thing to get paid for your time.
I get a quarter of that on my blog, but I'm pretty random and rarely blog. All my ads do is pay the hosting costs for itself and a couple of extra domains that are in perpetual [un]development and maybe if I'm lucky buy me a meal out once a year (at a pretty low class restaurant) - but do people really disrespect me for that?
Personally despite it being cheap I probably couldn't afford to run the blog without ads (for at least another year) and 250k visits p.a. suggests that at least a few thousand folks might be moderately distracted or find worth in my blog.
In your opinion should I stop the blog? (based on this very limited information alone).