What is Luminate?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 7, 2014 at 7:12 pm

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  It could also be that Luminate had some system trouble over the weekend. I haven’t noticed any problems as you describe today.

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  pkweis · Member · Apr 7, 2014 at 7:17 pm

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  This was not a weekend problem. It began some time back, I suppose about the time Laminate.com showed up and my site has not loaded quickly for a few weeks and I’ve just now had time to look it over and now it is fine absent Laminate.com which makes me think it is anything but benign…..thanks for the unhook…pk

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 7, 2014 at 7:50 pm

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  We started Luminate on April 1st, 6 days ago, so Luminate would not have been the cause of your site slowing down weeks ago.

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  mjbonfanti · Member · Apr 8, 2014 at 7:43 pm

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  Hey macmanx,

  I am a WordAds user. Do you have to opt into Luminate Ads (I am seeing them on my site)? Will a small share of the revenue be added into the regular WordAds revenue users receive?

  Thanks.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 8, 2014 at 7:52 pm

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  At the moment, we only rolled out Luminate to a small amount of randomly selected WordAds blogs. There is no way to opt-in yet, but you can opt-out if you want to and are one of the few who were chosen.

  The ads do provide additional revenue.

  Would you like me to disable them on your blog?

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  mjbonfanti · Member · Apr 8, 2014 at 7:56 pm

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  Nope! I’m kinda flattered my little old site was randomly selected for their trial. They are not that annoying and can easily be clicked shut.

  Thank you for the information!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 8, 2014 at 9:54 pm

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  You’re welcome!

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  kevinspocket · Member · Apr 10, 2014 at 2:00 am

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  Hi – I’m all for additional ad opportunities on my site, but I feel like the laminate ads on the pictures take away from the content. Can they please be removed from my blog? I would much rather have the ability to add ads like a widget in the sidebars – just my 2 cents :)

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  studiosnacks · Member · Apr 10, 2014 at 2:38 am

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  I would also like the Luminate ads removed from my blog, please! And I did not receive the email about this update…

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 10, 2014 at 6:14 pm

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  studiosnacks, it looks like you already reached out to us via http://wordads.co/contact/ and we have removed them.

  kevinspocket, I have removed them from your blog as well.

  If you folks have any further questions or concerns about Luminate, please reach out to us via http://wordads.co/contact/