Ok, here is how it works. Many "real blogs" have an agenda. They don't need ads. Maybe it's a friend's product they review, or an opinion they post, as long as

Ok, here is how it works. Many "real blogs" have an agenda. They don't need ads. Maybe it's a friend's product they review, or an opinion they post, as long as they have an influence on you, ads aren't needed. Ads are for when your audience is so large that you don't have a single message that reverberates with all of them or a significant percentage of them. Ads are also good if you might want to change positions about an issue/product/agenda later. A nice little trick next time you read anything. Identify all the proper nouns in a passage, compile up the adjectives as well and take a fresh look at the whole article.