Yes. I mean it. I love this blog, and that is why, I am making a conscious effort to make it ugly. I just stumbled across this post on Blogger2Blogger where Viraj describes this blog as missionary. Thanks Viraj. I couldn’t have thought of a better description.

Which brings me to the point… to run a mission, one needs funds. That is why you see all the ugly ads on the sidebar. Most of them are affiliate links and honestly, so far they haven’t helped us out that much. I will not remove all the affiliate ads, but their sizes are gonna get smaller. Project Wonderful stays as it is.

So, how is the site gonna get uglier? For one month, I will give away four 125×125 ad spots on my sidebar, for FREE. No catch, no money, no Entrecredits. Unlike your Entrecard widgets that stays for a day, your ad will get month-long visibility on this blog.

We are not the most visited blog on Entrecard by any stretch of imagination, but over the last two weeks, we have seen our Technorati rank go up by three times to what it was earlier. Same goes for our Alexa ranking.

I suspect Entrecard has got to play a role in this jump. So, as a big thank you to all Entrecarders, I will open these ad slots for free for a whole month.

How does this help our mission? Well, I will monitor the performances of these ads for a month, and then fix a price for each slot based on its performance.

Are you game for some free ad? If so, leave a comment on this post, and a message for me on Entrecard.

I only have one pre-requisite for this give away… You HAVE TO BE AN ENTRECARDER.

And before I finish… I really think you guys should try out the Crazy Egg heat maps to monitor the ads on your blogs. Don’t worry… this is not an affiliate link.