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1. kirkamunro
   Member
   Jan 23, 2008, 9:04 PM

   Ok, so I didn't realize until today that WordPress periodically (and very poorly) integrated adsense ads into my blog. I have two huge issues with this:

   1. I really don't want it. I could try to get money through Amazon's link tracking service, or whatever, but I don't. I blog on my own time and I want it 100% ad free. This is non-negotiable, even if I have to pay WordPress to keep their hands off my blog.
   2. As long as WordPress keeps doing this and in which case until I find a new host for my blog, it should be done much, much better. Right now I'm looking at one of my blog entries that I googled, and it is showing ads in such a manner that the entire right-hand side navigation bar is pushed down below the post. This is completely unacceptable. Not only are they inserting ads that I don't want, they're breaking the user experience from my blog.

   Color me a very unhappy camper. What can be done to correct this asap (if not the first one, then the second)?

   Kirk

2. tester21
   Member
   Jan 23, 2008, 9:37 PM

   re:1 here are some relevant links
   http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/09/06/on-ads/
   http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/12/08/adsense/
   http://wordpress.com/vip-hosting/
   http://en.forums.wordpress.com/search.php?q=google+adsense+ads+on+blog
   http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=20803&page#post-158301
   http://wordpress.com/features/ -> very bottom of page under "Advertising"

   re:2 contact staff support[at]wordpress[dot]com

3. options
   Member
   Jan 23, 2008, 10:51 PM

   Kirk: have you happened to make a screenshot to post a link here, how many ads per a webpage did you see on that one post?

   it looks as though you (and quite a few others) have come across the long outstanding bug because

   ...if there's more than one [ad] on a page when they are that's a bug, so send in a support ticket.

   also we were told that the new system should be very tasteful.

4. kissingbandit
   Member
   Jan 24, 2008, 12:53 AM

   To add to the helpful links that tester21 provided, I'll just add the suggestion that if you don't want ads on your blog, you should move to a different service.

   Off the top of my head:
   http://www.typepad.com/
   http://www.blogger.com/
   http://www.tumblr.com/

   -KB

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