--- title: "Experiment: Free advertising on this blog" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/21/experiment-free-advertising-on-this-blog.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/21/experiment-free-advertising-on-this-blog.html" published: "2005-11-21T15:55:00" updated: "2005-11-21T15:55:00" tags: ["Cool sites"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Update : Already got two- . 1 to go... Let's make this more interesting. If you submit an ad without the offer code (not free), I'll get rid of the Google ads today and your ad stays on top for the duration requested (1…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Experiment: Free advertising on this blog By Roy Osherove November 21, 2005 In [Cool sites](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-sites) **Historical article** · Originally published November 21, 2005; technical details may be outdated. _**Update:** Already got two- . 1 to go..._ _Let's make this more interesting. If you submit an ad **without** the offer code (not free), I'll get rid of the Google ads **today** and your ad stays on top for the duration requested (1 week - 3 months), meaning it stays visible **without scrolling** on every page of this blog._ I'm going to try a little experiment. Hopefully, this should benefit everyone involved. I'm going to allow targeted advertising on my blog, **for free,** for a period of 2 weeks. If all goes well, I'll get rid of Google ads, and only keep BlogAds (so only one ad will be on the blog at all times) **Why?** I could use the money to buy books online, pay for the various materials I purchase and basically pay for the time I spend on this blog. Yes, I'd spend the time anyway, but it would be nice to have some virtual cash to spend at Amazon or eBay for it, so I can get interesting stuff to talk about on the blog and to use in my personal life. Hopefully, the readers will like the ads and click on them, and I can prove that the ads are actually good enough to publish, and are not too crappy for this blog, and prove to advertisers that my blog is worth advertising on. Hopefully, the advertisers will realize that they are getting good hits and will want to continue to put up ads out of their own pocket when the two weeks are over. **How?** If you're selling a product, book or cool website that you think might be related to anyone reading this blog, this is your chance to put up an ad that will appear on the top left of this blog, right below the Google Ads (The ad for The Regulator is an example). **The ad only goes up if I personally believe the product suggested is of any value,** so that the readers know that any ad put up here is my own personal choice. Go to this link: [http://www.blogads.com/spzptifspwfdpn/iserializable/advertise](http://www.blogads.com/spzptifspwfdpn/iserializable/advertise) and put up your ad as a suggestion. if/when I approve it, it will appear immediately. **Use the following offer code** on the page to allow free submission: **i41magile** **The first 3 advertisers** will get 2 weeks free (no need to order more than 2 weeks. No money actually has to be paid, or reimbursed).  This offer is valid until the end of this month (December 1st 00:00 GMT+2) **What?** I'm only publishing stuff I can personally attest to. For example, Reshaper, Code Smart, FinalBuilder. If any of these companies approached me with an ad, they would get one (hint!). If you have an interesting book, website or blog, developer tool, addin, IDE or anything to do with .NET or agile development I might be interested in publishing it. For more information contact me directly at **\[email removed\]** . Let's see if the experiment works. ## More in Cool sites [All posts in Cool sites](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-sites) - Feb 1, 2006 ### [Finally a "stable enough" build of Resharper 2.0 Alpha?](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/1/finally-a-quotstable-enoughquot-build-of-resharper-20-alpha.html) - Dec 6, 2005 ### [Nice audio recordings about (Agile) management practices](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/6/nice-audio-recordings-about-agile-management-practices.html) - Jul 1, 2005 ### [How to see the TechEd US sessions online](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/1/how-to-see-the-teched-us-sessions-online.html) - Jun 20, 2005 ### [Nice Free Stock Photos site](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/20/nice-free-stock-photos-site.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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