{"id":311,"date":"2010-05-02T02:39:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T02:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2015-09-22T06:36:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T06:36:37","slug":"advertising-on-this-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/advertising-on-this-site\/311\/","title":{"rendered":"The Advertising on this Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a good one. I get a lot of emails (hate mail) and they all have one thing in common: They all prove what I am saying is right!<\/strong> None of them actually address the issues<\/a> I raise and just take pot shots at me and do things such as attack my anonymity<\/a> and call the site a joke (glad I can amuse you, but I would have thought that this barefoot nutter is a bigger joke<\/a><\/em>). Notice how they resort to those tactics as they are obviously incapable of any rational discussion of the actual issues raised<\/a>. This is a common theme with the barefoot running community in general when it comes to attempts to to debate and have rational discussions.<\/p>\n

A recent common theme in some emails is to attack me for the advertisements for running shoes that appear on the site as part of the Google Adsense program and the eBay Partner Network<\/a>. As\u00a0 I have already stated, I get NO<\/strong> funding from the running shoe industry, though the tin foil hat wearers<\/a> will probably not want to believe. Anyone who is familiar with the Adsense program knows that you have very limited control over the content of the advertisements. Google crawls the page and the algorithm determines what the page is about and does its best to deliver the most relevant advertisements from their inventory. I do not decide what is shown. For information of the critics, I made a whole $1.65 last week from the advertisements. Advertisements for running shoes, for barefoot products, etc may or may not show up.<\/p>\n

However, I am happy to be accused of having no credibility because I have the advertisements here<\/strong>. I am happy with those accusations because:<\/p>\n

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  1. It proves me right in that these nutters are incapable of addressing the issues and have to use tactics like this. Having advertisements do not change the issues!<\/li>\n
  2. It also should prove that the vast majority of the barefoot running websites have no credibility either, as they have advertisements on them as well! Should all websites with advertisements on them be considered as having no credibility? See how nutty<\/a> these people are? How many times have I wrote on this site something like \u201cyou can\u2019t have it both ways\u201d<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And besides, what if I did get funding from the running shoe industry, how does that actually change the issues that get raised<\/a>? All it would do is that it would give the nutters<\/a> another opportunity to attack me and show their irrational cult like behaviour and not address the actual issues raised<\/a>. Can you see how irrational they are?<\/p>\n

    They can criticise me for having some advertisements that Google might serve up for running shoes, but they will not criticise the barefoot running websites for having advertisements on them! I did not see a single barefoot running website try to discredit Liebermann et al’s study<\/a> because they accepted funding for their study from a barefoot company, yet they try and discredit me becasue I get a few indirect bucks from the running shoes via the Google advertisements. How irrational is that? You can’t have it both ways!<\/p>\n

    Thanks to all those who keep proving me right.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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