The One Ad on Your Free Website — and How to Switch It Off for Good
A free website is paid for by somebody. On blasa it is paid for by one small ad near the bottom of the page. This is the whole story of what that ad is, what it deliberately is not, and how to make it disappear.
One ad, labelled, below your content
The rule we set ourselves is that a customer arriving on your website should never be confused about which part is yours. So the ad slot sits in one fixed place — after your content, before your contact block — it carries a visible “Advertisement” label translated into the page’s language, and the space it needs is reserved before the ad loads so nothing on the page jumps down when it arrives.
Directly above it there is a second line, and it is not for your customers: “Your business? Remove ads →”. It links to the upgrade for that specific site, so an owner who has never signed in still lands on their own page rather than a cold homepage.
Why it is not Google AdSense
It was, for a while. AdSense reviewed our account three times without approving it, and during those weeks the reserved slot on every free site rendered an empty box: the free plan earned nothing and the “pay to remove these ads” offer sitting on top of it pointed at blank space.
There is a structural reason too. AdSense assumes a publisher who is approved, kept approved, and paid through channels that are uneven in a lot of the markets these businesses actually operate in. We switched the free plan to a-ads — a network that serves without a review queue and pays without a Google account. It is not a better-paying network. It is the one that pays at all.
No advertising script runs on your page
This is the part that mattered most, and it is a happy consequence of the switch. AdSense needs a JavaScript loader on the page. a-ads needs an <iframe> — plain markup, nothing to execute.
So every published blasa site is back to being prerendered static HTML with zero third-party JavaScript. Concretely, on your site that means:
- Nothing blocks the first paint. The page is readable before an ad has done anything at all.
- The crawlers and answer engines that read the page see complete text in the markup — none of it assembled by a script they will not run.
- The site’s Content-Security-Policy permits exactly one extra frame origin and no third-party script, anywhere.
- Desktop and phone get differently sized units, chosen by a CSS media query — not by JavaScript sniffing your visitor.
Turning it off is one payment
Paid plans remove the ad and the badge the moment they are active, let you put the site on your own domain name, and keep publishing new pages every month written from your reviews. There are two ways to buy the same thing: yearly, or a single payment that never renews — the reasoning behind that second option is in the pay-once write-up.
And if you never upgrade, that is a legitimate outcome. The free site stays live, keeps its address, keeps getting crawled — it just carries one small ad that says so.
Questions people actually ask
Does my free website show ads?
One, on the free plan only. It sits near the bottom, between your content and your contact details, inside a container labelled “Advertisement” in your site’s own language. It never appears in the middle of your text, never over your phone number, and there is never more than one per page.
Which ad network does blasa use?
a-ads (acceptable.a-ads.com), served inside a sandboxed iframe. It replaced Google AdSense in August 2026. The practical difference for a business owner: no publisher review queue to wait in, and no advertising script running on your customers’ page.
Do the ads track my customers?
We put no advertising script and no tracking pixel on your page. The unit is a cross-origin iframe, so by the browser’s own same-origin rule it cannot read your page, your visitors’ clicks, or anything you have written. The network we chose is built around serving ads without profiling the person seeing them.
How do I remove the ad from my website?
Upgrade. Both paid plans strip the ad and the “Made with blasa” badge, let you point your own domain at the site, and keep publishing new pages written from your reviews every month. One of them is a single payment, once, forever — no renewal date and no card kept on file.
If I stop paying, does my website disappear?
No. The site stays live at the same address. The free plan’s single labelled ad and the badge come back and the monthly new pages stop, but nothing is deleted and no link you have given a customer ever breaks.