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Ads in Disguise
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
A few days ago I stumbled upon an interesting way of selling blog ad-space. The second article on the frontpage of Geenstijl.nl looks like any other post on the blog, but is in fact an advertisement for a Dutch bank. The article is basically a short description/review of the service which is being promoted. After a second visit to the site, the advertisement will be gone or has changed into a new one. Because it looks just like the other articles on the site, I actually read the entire thing - something readers don’t usually do when they see it’s an actual advertisement.
This is a very smart, unobtrusive way of advertising. Unfortunately I didn’t do a screen grab the first time I saw it, so you’ll have to visit the blog yourself and take a closer look at this clever advertising concept.
Update - found a screenshot on Flickr.
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008Why are there so many free wordpress themes to choose from? I’ve been looking for something clean and simple for my new blog, right here at JottingJones.com, and it’s taken me well over a day to find something I kinda liked!
It would have all been so much easier if A. I could design it myself, or B. If I felt like paying someone a ton of money to do it for me.
Since I’m not interested in either option, I guess I’ll be sticking with the free themes, play around with them a bit and hopefully end up with something that I like.
Anyone have any suggestions where to look for clean and simple themes?