On the heels of Advertlets’ recent boo-boo, Nuffnang introduced Nuffnang Gliterati – allegedly an exclusive program to reward ‘Nuffnangers’ for their loyalty.
Well, if you are a ‘Nuffnangers’ of the Inner Circle, this is definitely the thing for you. If you are a blogger looking into earning some money from your blog traffic or one that has not gotten an ad from Nuffnang ever since you put it up on your blog, then I suggest you take a look at this before making your decision.
Anyway, as I read about this new Nuffnang drive, an analogy came to mind: ‘It’s like someone proposing to a girl to marry him, and in return the girl will have to give up meeting all those other prospective guys. But the problem is, there is already some talk as to how this guy is treating his existing girlfriends to begin with and it’s not all positive.’
A even better one would be this, ‘it’s like those young Manchu girls in Qing China. They are make to believe that to enter the palace and serve the Emperor alone, would fulfil their dreams to a good luxurious life. But they just didn’t realise that few gained the chance to enter his chambers, not to mention the rumors in the palace that the Emperor only graces the chambers of a few of his favorite concubines.’
I couldn’t help but laugh when I thought of them. And so I am putting them down in words as I think that about sums it all.
And if you want to understand what my analogy is all about, just visit a dozen or so blogs at random (not those of Xiasuay, Kenny Seah and those on Innit, of course), and look out for the ‘I serve Nuffnang ads’, and then just see how many of them are actually serving ads at all.
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Word of the Day
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3. the persons or class so ruling.
Dennis> The way ads are given to bloggers on NN is questionable and lacks transparency. It is almost certain death in earnings for a blogger who hardly get an ad to sign up with NN.
cc> I agree. Advertlets (and Blog2U) for the matter, is very very transparent as far as ads assignment is concerned. Blog2U is even better… if you don’t match, they won’t even ask you to put the widget up.
hanneng> I agree with you absolutely. 🙂
Ian Timothy> Glad you liked the analogy. Someone told me that this now gives NN the justification on why some people aren’t getting ads at all. And on further thoughts on this, the more unscrupulous can take this even further – have a different pay scale for non-gliterati NN’gers which pays 20 – 50% less while not actually paying Gliterati NN’gers anything more. But let me qualify to say that I am not accusing them of actually doing this, but it can be done to their own benefits.
teller> I agree with you. A lot of people are losing sight on what a blog is originally for. It seems to me like some of these people are desperate for income.
bobo> hahah.. especially for those who has watched 金枝玉孽… have a even better idea what I am talking about. 🙂
Whoa I like the Manchu girls analogy… good one man… haiz
It is like a girl telling a guy in a SDU (now defunct) function that he has to promise not to date any other girls when they proceed to their dating stage. I know of a real case like that.
I know that advertisements are seem to be important to bloggers. But are we getting overly concerned about advertisements when we just wanted to blog about things. The content is the most important thing here.
I like your concubine(s) analogy.
despite problem here & there, I won’t put all egg in one basket..
even though with the recent problem with advertlets, I’m still sticking to them.
hey, they don’t discriminate! (not like i am saying who discriminates though)
Exactly. It could be that joining the exclusive Nuffnang club may not even earn more than having both Nuffnang and Advertlets ads together. Its too early to tell anyway and Nuffnang seems to favour more for the Malaysian publishers currently.