Those of you who read Corgie’s post on the front page of Digg the other day, the answer is no — I’m not selling ad space (or sponsored reviews) on my site at this time, and obviously not for $560 a month. I might in the future when I get more traffic but when that time comes the announcement will be made by me, not some idiot who eats roaches for a living. In case you’re wondering why:

1. At the time of this writing, my monthly traffic totals about 756,000 hits per month and 20,000 per day (give or take a few thousand), only a fraction of which are unique, reflected by the stats counter on the right-hand side of my site. Corgie claimed that I get millions of hits of day, making it look like $560 is a fair price to pay. The reality is, most of the sites that I link to already only get 30-100 hits per month from my site, which is probably only worth $2 per month.
2. My site is a personal site mainly focused around programming and the worthless stuff I choose to write about sometimes. I’m not going to fill my website with ads for shit that have nothing to do with the content of my blog.

I’m not against selling ad space, in fact, I’ve already been planning to start doing so in the near future as long as my traffic continues to increase at the same rate it has been for the last 6 months. However, the advertising will only be available for progammers and other site owners who are offering technology-based services.