A while back, I noticed that Xanga places ads on a blog based on the contents of the posts. I'm sure there's some kind of automated software that allows them to do this and this isn't exactly a profound discovery, but sometimes these ads are a bit of a miss.
It all started when I wrote a post about working out at the gym. The next thing I knew, there were ads all over my blog for a gay gym

. I thought this was
hilarious! Since then, I've been paying attention to the ads on my site as well as those on my friend/subscription sites. Just today, for example, I read the blog of a friend who mentioned "Gucci purses" and what were the ads in the borders for? You guessed it: handbags! The ads do rotate, however, so you won't see handbags every time you go to that particular page. Sometimes you get the oh-so-common ads like "imvu" cyber-dating or, more recently, "Evony" online role-playing game (those two companies must be paying
massive ad fees).
I must admit, the concept is pure genius and I would like to get a look at the software they use, but more than this, I want to know what word combinations yield the best ads.
So let's try a little experiment. From time to time, I will post a random phrase to see what kind of ad I get (this is one of the advanges of
not going "premium"). Hopefully we will see some interesting stuff, although the gay gym has inexplicably disappeared from my workout posts (perhaps they've stopped paying their ad fees). I will mark these posts with the heading "Random Phrase Ad Test". Any suggestions for phrases will be greatly appreciated (as long as they're completely
INSANE 
).
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