But then again, we each have our own reasons and style of blogging.

I won’t take it personally because it’s absolutely not within my control.

Additionally, it’s not really ironic. The sponsored links that I wrote about above are those which are real text links inserted by the bloggers themselves with full knowledge that they’ll get paid just to publish the link.

The Kontera ads on the other hand are inserted automatically by their system. They select the keywords. They select the advertiser. Like I said, it’s not my fault that the advertiser picked irrelevant keywords to showcase their web sites.

Of course, you already know that those links are ads

In your post, you asked “Would you like it if you’re approached by a salesman while you’re eating in a restaurant and he says; Wow, your burger looks delicious! Want to buy this pen? It’s on sale!“.

And I find it ironic that you have Kontera ads on your blog that reflects the above situation. For example, this particular blog post is about irrelevant sponsored links, and when I hovered over the words “search engines”, I was shown an ad that promotes http://www.shoping.com (an online portal that sells, among others, digital cameras, electronics, jewelry, etc).

Check out this screenshot that I took.