{"id":1273,"date":"2026-11-11T18:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2026-11-11T18:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:18:23","slug":"no-more-ads-and-old-fashioned-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/11\/1273\/","title":{"rendered":"No more ads and old-fashioned Google"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is about my old website Fagan Finder<\/a>… usually I include these updates only on Fagan Finder’s blog, but the RSS feed for that blog is broken and I am not fixing it right now…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generally I don’t have time for the site, so I ignore it, and over the last few years I guess Google emailed me to tell me they were doing something with the ads and didn’t have the patience to investigate. More recently I visited the site and see that what used to be a simple banner ad at the top, and a smaller one lower down the page had metastasized into all sorts of different ads all over the page, including big ones that covered it up and “links” within the page text masquerading as the site’s content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Removing the ads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’ve had enough of that so I went in and removed all the ads completely. It’s not as if it was making me any significant amount of money and the experience had become unusable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course it’s hard for me to finally get into the code and just leave everything else alone when I know there’s broken links as well as lots of new resources that could be included. So while I very much have not done a really full update, I have removed many of the broken links, changed a bit of what was there, and added some new things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New and changed resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I can’t say whether or when I’ll make further improvements (I update the site so infrequently that every time I do I also want to do a full redesign), but here’s a few noteworthy changes and additions I’ve made:<\/p>\n\n\n\n