Phil from the Advertising Blogger recently wrote up a complimentary post about me and my advertising page, so in exchange for scratching my back I guess I’ll take some time to shave his.

I actually know of Phil via one of his other blogs called the Romance Tracker, which has been on my list of feed subscriptions for quite some time now, even though the info still hasn’t helped me manage to get a date. Damn you Phil! Damn you and your little blogs too!!!!!!!!

But, *ahem*, back to the advertising discussion…

Ironically enough I spent all of last weekend actually cleaning up my advertising page some more, as well as adding a few more ad blocks for sponsors to choose from. (You may have noticed the new HUGE 300×250 block that I’m throwing in your faces now.)

I also decided to drop the peel away ad as it really didn’t fit my site too well, and the clickthrough ratios were actually worse than any of my ad blocks put together. Forget that then. I am however going to offer stripe ads instead, which I think will be more effective (and far less annoying) than the peel away ad.

Since I’m using Openads, (oh I’m sorry, I mean OpenX… stupid developers and their branding identity crisis,) I was able to recode most of the ad zones using IFrames instead, that way if there’s ever a problem with an ad loading, it won’t affect the load time for the rest of the page. I’m already noticing a speed difference too. This new setup also allows me to experiment with different advertising networks with relative ease. Previously I had Adbrite ads being delivered. Now I’m trying my hand with Project Wonderful instead to see how that performs, and then if that doesn’t do well, I’ll try something else. Sooner or later I’ll stumble onto a winning combination that will make me gobs of money and win me fame, prestige and an ocean of hot babes.

Ok, maybe just one hot babe. At least one please? Please?

And now that I’ve lost all credibility, this would be a great time to make a plug for advertising on my blog! Remember, if you don’t garner a clickthrough rate of at least 1 percent, I’ll refund 25 percent of the costs. So please sponsor me today!

Really, please sponsor me, I’m really getting tired of all these calls from my bill collectors. They’re always so mean and nasty too.