{"id":253,"date":"2005-01-23T09:51:49","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T14:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=253"},"modified":"2005-01-21T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T16:19:43","slug":"why-web-advertising-still-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Why web advertising still doesn&#8217;t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the fact that the revenue generated by Google&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\/?hl=en_US&#038;sourceid=aso&#038;subid=us-et-ads\">AdSense program<\/a> would be rather miniscule, and because I wouldn&#8217;t be happy with the aesthetics of ads on this page, there&#8217;s another reason why i haven&#8217;t bothered being an AdSense client: <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6830802\/site\/newsweek\/\">click fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another reason why the &#8216;net is such a seedy place, and why sometimes I think people should probably be licensed before they can use the &#8216;net (no real tests, but if you do something enormously stupid, spam or click-bomb someone, then the license gets revoked).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Click Fraud are getting press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}