It seems ridiculous but I have to turn away advertisers from my travel blog, simply because I don’t have enough advertising space, and I don’t want the blog appear to be swamped with ads.

So a lesson I have learnt is plan your advertising space before you choose or design your blog theme, and offer different forms of advertising from RSS, content and different sized banner advertising. I have seen a number of blogs that have adverts within the middle of content and as a reader that drives me mad.

If you plan all this before you launch your blog, it saves you from having to redesign your blog, which is what I have to do on the travel blog.