{"id":3380,"date":"2008-03-29T00:20:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T00:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/03\/on-google-ads.html"},"modified":"2008-03-29T00:20:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T00:20:33","slug":"on-google-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/03\/on-google-ads.html","title":{"rendered":"On Google Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kris and I both think blogs that are cluttered with ads are unattractive. So, we&#8217;ve done our dead-level best to avoid putting up ads. But, recently we read problogger.com&#8217;s stuff about AdSense, a Google Ad program, and thought it was worth the effort. So, for two days we tried &#8230;<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nOn Day 1 I found 30 or so sites that I had to block &#8230; some having to do with &#8220;dating&#8221; services that came over as &#8220;Jesus&#8221; sites. Manipulation and it was taking more time than I cared to give. 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