myMacBUZZ was reviewed by Malaysia’s most hardworking web designer Danny Foo. I tried posting a comment on his blog but kept getting flagged as spam (some weird plugin you installed, Danny?) so I wanted to respond to his points about advertising on myMacBUZZ here.

One of the biggest changes with this new design is an increased amount of advertising space. My reasoning in moving the 728×90 ad banner to the top of the page was actually to make it less intrusive than being in between the nav and main content, where it was previously. Plus this is a position that you see on may high profile sites like Gizmodo, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and even ComputerWorld. I’ve actually consciously placed all my ads in spots where they are only ‘medium hot’ according to Google’s recommendations. However, I’m interested to see more feedback on the new ad placements. Are the ads bothering you guys?

Also, to quote our advertising policy on our Ads page:

Advertising is the simplest way for us to continue growing and cover our hosting costs, buying items to review and time taken to provide our readers with free, Creative Commons-licensed content. myMacBUZZ values the relationship we have with you, our readers, and promise not to jeopardise this relationship because of our advertisers and make the follow promises to you:

• We will limit our advertising to ensure a pleasant experience for you on this site. There will never be pop-ups and intro screens (we hate them ourselves!).
• Paid editorials of any form will be clearly marked.
• We will only endorse products or services that we believe are worthy of such endorsement.
• The advertisers will not be allowed to influence the content, topics and posts made in this blog.

To Danny, thanks again for your review. Danny also brings up some other points, so do check it out. I really appreciate it and I hope you and our other readers stay subscribed (the feed still hasn’t got any ads) and keep visiting.