{"id":51802,"date":"2015-07-20T22:52:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T04:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/20\/dear-web-sites-i-like.html"},"modified":"2015-07-25T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T17:53:44","slug":"dear-web-sites-i-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/20\/dear-web-sites-i-like.html","title":{"rendered":"Dear Web Sites I Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that the need to &quot;monetize&quot; or somehow pay for your interesting and worthwhile content is a critical component of your web world. <\/p>\n<p>That said, when you throw the door open to this kind of craptastic &quot;promoted content,&quot; any incremental money earned only comes at the cost of damage to the credibility of <i>anything<\/i> you choose to say.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I have been known to <i>not<\/i> direct traffic to a page or article because of this sort of schlockery.<\/p>\n<p>Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.<\/p>\n<p>(Dear Web Sites I Despise &#8230; pay no attention to the above.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6173818538969146625\/6173818547654005554'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-94QdJ_QpJq4\/Va3PQkCikzI\/AAAAAAADVuA\/WerIuXKuPog\/bad%2Badverts.png?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/3qQK1RF61A9'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that the need to &quot;monetize&quot; or somehow pay for your interesting and worthwhile content is a critical component of your web world. That said, when you throw the door open to this kind of craptastic &quot;promoted content,&quot; any incremental money earned only comes at the cost of damage to the credibility of anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/20\/dear-web-sites-i-like.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dear Web Sites I Like&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bad+adverts.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13027,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/14\/survey_says_spaaaam.html","url_meta":{"origin":51802,"position":0},"title":"Survey says &#8230; SPAAAAM!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Aug-08 10:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow! 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