Google Ads Will Be Here Coming Soon
Statefans Nation will start showing advertisements on many of the pages here — but nothing obnxious. Many blog sites have Google ads, and in our view, they are relatively unobtrusive and won’t detract at all from the mission of the site.
Why?
Basically, we are taking this step in order to defray the costs of operating the site. While you won’t hear us complain about it, it does cost money to lease server space and to have a fast (and redundant) connection to the Internet. As SFN’s popularity has boomed, so have the performance requirements. The best way to offset those costs are through the ads so that SFN remains the best destination on the Internet for sports-related news, opinions and discussion about Wolfpack sports.
You Can Help
If you see an ad that’s interesting to you, click and check it out. That’s like throwing some change in the piggy-bank for us, and it is greatly appreciated.
New Site Toy: Sphere Related ContentÂ
In other news, we’ve implemented a new “widget” that adds a link at the bottom of each article called “Sphere Related Content.”
Basically, it works a lot like most “social link” software, in that it aggregates similar content and makes it easy to find. Sphere takes the context of a given article like the Mario Williams article and will show you links to other news sources, blogs and even message forums on the topic. It’s pretty nifty.
Enjoy the weekend.
