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Tell HN: Adblocks are killing niche blogs
Just checked analytics from my blogs: during this quarter vs the one before, despite having 40% more pageviews, adsense visualizations decreased 45%.
If I didn't get some funds from a banner that escapes ad-blocks my blogs would be abandonware already.
- dazc 10y agoThe people using adblockers are not the people who were clicking ads.
- ramtatatam 10y agoWould you consider running a "paid zone"? I have seen many blogs with no adds at all but with a group of subscribers who had access to deep insights - information otherwise not available to wide audience.
- galfarragem 10y agoThat depends heavily on the niche. In Architecture and Arts (my niche) would be very difficult to make people pay for it despite providing some value (40% pageviews increase during this quarter).
- executesorder66 10y agoOr perhaps do what LWN do. Paid subscribers can read the latest posts as soon as you publish them, but others can only read them a few weeks later(or whatever time period you prefer)
- anilgulecha 10y agoUnfortunately, the only practical options are using tracking/analytics heavy ad based niche blogs, or no niche blogs. I think most people are A-OK with "no niche blogs" until a better privacy-respecting third alternative is found. (Paid can be a viable third option for some)
- faet 10y agoHow is your banner avoid ad-blocks? Over the past year Ive doubled my traffic but adsense views were flat. My site gets a ton of ad-blocked traffic now. http://roadcamvideos.com http://roadcamvideos.com