My Ad-less Blog is Un-American

I was contacted today by some business who noticed that I had a daily blog for over 13 years. He wanted to sell me stuff. First thing he wanted to sell me was Search Engine Optimization so that more people could find my blog. Second thing they wanted to sell me was advertising placements on my blog so that I could make money on my blog.

The presentation seemed backwards. He should have said advertising and then search engine optimization, but I was not going to tell him how to do his job.

When I said I wasn’t interested the man gasped as if I was crazy. “You are leaving a lot of money on the table.”

I explained that I did not write this blog to make money, although I am not opposed to making money. I just don’t want to annoy my friends with ads junking up my blog.

He promised me they would not be annoying. I brought up the issue that I don’t want to appear to endorse something I have no idea is advertising on my blog. He said they could tailor the ads to have something to do with my blog.

“What in the world could that be?” I asked. He asked me what my blog was about. Of course he never looked at my blog before he called to sell me anything.

I told him blog was about me. “Really?” He said in a shocked kind of way. “Are you someone?”

“Everyone is someone.” I explained.

See this is why I don’t want anyone getting into my blog other than me. I am not looking to specialize in one thing. I want to write everyday about whatever in the world I want to write about. I don’t want to sell anybody anything that I have personally seen and tried. And if I recommend something I am not making any money off it.

I don’t have affiliate links so you can buy things that I hawk. If I tell you about something good I discovered I might tell you how to find it and that is the end of my involvement. I will give links for my friends and family’s site if I know their stuff is good, but that is once in a blue moon.

This man who was trying so hard to put ads on my blog could not believe that I had kept it going for so many years without making money on it.

He did not understand that this blog is now my life’s history, so it is all just for me to be able to have a record of what was going on on any given day. The fact that I share it seemed pointless to him. He didn’t say so in so many words, but he certainly intonated.

I don’t really care how many people read this. I am not looking for more eyeballs, as he called them. This is for me and my friends and the people who become my friends by reading me. You either like it and get it or you don’t read it. This is not a competition and I am not going to make money off of you.

This guy thought I was unAmerican by not trying to make money. I think he was just pissed I was not willing for him to make money off of me. Next time, read my blog before you call to tell me how I could do it better. You might find out I am a waste of your time before you bother to call.