Last updated: August 30, 2026
All About Ticks is an independent, self-funded site. Advertising covers hosting, domain costs, and the research time that goes into keeping pages current. This page states exactly how that money reaches the site, because a reader deciding whether to trust health information is entitled to know who is paying for it.
Advertising on this site
The site runs Google AdSense. That is the only advertising on it and the only revenue source of any kind.
AdSense is programmatic, which means Google decides which ads appear in each slot based on its own targeting. We do not sell ad space directly, we have no advertiser relationships, we do not know in advance which brands will appear, and we cannot approve or reject an individual ad before it is served. We do not control the content of third-party ads, and an ad appearing next to an article is not a recommendation from us.
Advertising cookies are set by Google and its partners, not by us. What those cookies do, which vendors may be involved, and how to opt out of personalised advertising are covered in the Privacy Policy.
No affiliate links, and nothing else for sale
There are no affiliate links anywhere on this site. We are not enrolled in Amazon Associates or any other affiliate programme, we earn no commission on any product mentioned, and no link here is monetised. The site sells nothing: no products, no courses, no consultations, no email list, no memberships.
We also do not accept paid links, sponsored posts, guest articles, paid product reviews, or paid placement inside an article. Requests of that kind are declined. If that ever changes, this page changes first and every affected link gets labelled; today there is nothing to label.
How ads are kept separate from editorial content
- Ads sit in their own containers. Advertising appears in Google's own ad frames, visually distinct from article text. Nothing inside a paragraph, a source note, or a citation is an ad.
- Links in article text are never paid. Outbound links point at public health agencies, provincial and state health authorities, university extension services, and journals, chosen because they support the claim next to them. We have no commercial relationship with any of them.
- No product recommendations for money. Where a page discusses repellent active ingredients, it cites the EPA and the CDC and names ingredients rather than brands. That is not a marketing decision; ingredient-level guidance is what the sources actually support.
- Ad revenue does not decide what gets written. Topics come from what readers search for and what the site can answer accurately.
Advertisers have no input on content
No advertiser has, or can have, any influence over what appears here. There is no advance sight of pages, no approval step, no way to request a change or a removal, and no advertiser has ever been given one. Because the inventory is programmatic, we could not offer that even if we wanted to: there is nobody on the other side of a conversation to offer it to.
What that means in practice is that a page will say a treatment is unproven, or that a commercial tick-testing service is not recommended by the CDC, regardless of what is being advertised in the margin that day. The sourcing rules that produce those judgements are set out in the Editorial Policy, and the limits of our review are stated in the Review Policy.
Ads and health content
Health topics attract advertising for products with weak evidence behind them. Two things follow. First, treat any ad you see here as an ad and nothing more: it has not been vetted by us and its presence implies no endorsement. Second, if you are making a decision about a bite, a symptom, or a treatment, the pages to weigh are the cited agency pages, not the marketing next to them. For anything clinical, contact a clinician or your local public health service.
Ad blockers are welcome. Nothing on the site is withheld from readers who use one, and there is no prompt asking you to switch it off.
Reporting a problem with an ad
If an ad here is misleading, offensive, or broken, two things help. Google's ad frames carry their own reporting control, which is the fastest route because Google is the party serving it. Telling us as well is useful, because publishers can block categories and specific advertiser URLs in AdSense, and we do use those controls when a report warrants it. Use the address on the Contact page and include the page you saw it on and, if you can, a screenshot.