Those underlined words as ads suck

Easy Cash · 08-23-2008, 12:47 AM

These seem to be popping up on a lot of websites.

Links to ads - where if you hover over the word with your pointer - the ad is shown.

This has to be one of the worst things to do to your content. You can't even read an article without having a stupid ad in the paragraph.

I think Adbrite is one of them.

Taking things to far?

Frank Bruno · 08-23-2008, 01:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Easy Cash

These seem to be popping up on a lot of websites.

Links to ads - where if you hover over the word with your pointer - the ad is shown.

This has to be one of the worst things to do to your content. You can't even read an article without having a stupid ad in the paragraph.

I think Adbrite is one of them.

Taking things to far?

Yes I agree, those have been around quite a while and totally annoy me.

In fact when I come to a page that has that kind of stuff on it, I back out quicker than a snail comes across salt.

Frank Bruno

mario_a · 08-23-2008, 01:23 AM

Those are Kontera ads, right ?

Regards,
Mario

Colin Evans · 08-23-2008, 01:55 AM

If they're earning enough money who cares what people think of them...

You'd have to do a fair bit of testing to see whether they make more money then the money you lose (if any) because visitors get annoyed with the ads and leave...

GarrieWilson · 08-23-2008, 02:46 AM

Just don't hover over them...

I know, simple solution.

jjpmarketing · 08-23-2008, 04:58 AM

Kontera has the best version of these, I believe. As far as being annoying. They are annoying when you put 20 links in a 200 word article. 1 or 2 links is sufficient for 1 article. The ones that are annoying are the ones that have practically the whole damn article as an underlined kontera ad.

crystalq · 08-23-2008, 05:01 AM

If they make you money why not have them?

jjpmarketing · 08-23-2008, 05:14 AM

I can understand the OP's point of view... It really isn't about making money... sometimes you ruin the user experience with bad layouts and overwhelming advertisements. You might make a $1 or two with those ads, but what about the $37 ebook sale you lost, because your site left the user with a "that site sucked" feeling because it had too many ads. In addition it may turn a customer off to your site, that may have ended up being a repeat buyer customer.

Neil Morgan · 08-23-2008, 05:39 AM

Ha! I wrote a whole system and site for doing this for ClickBank products to give content site owners a new way to earn ClickBank commissions.

I'm not sure what to do with it now LOL!

Cheers,

Neil

Easy Cash · 08-23-2008, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neil Morgan

Ha! I wrote a whole system and site for doing this for ClickBank products to give content site owners a new way to earn ClickBank commissions.

I'm not sure what to do with it now LOL!

Cheers,

Neil

Whoops ! - Sorry Neil,

I just find them annoying.

Not sure what the click through rates are like?

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Good Bad?

JayXtreme · 08-23-2008, 04:20 PM

It's amazing how many people guide along their reading with their mouse icon cursor thingy..

On one of my site's back along I had this sofware installed and literally 3 or 4 in every ten visitors follows every word with their cursor... that way the ads really show up aot and get noticed tons of times in a day if you have good traffic...

The CTR was immense on that site too.. personally they annoy the hell out of me, but I can read without the cursor guiding me so it's all good

Jay

Angela V. Edwards · 08-23-2008, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frank Bruno

Yes I agree, those have been around quite a while and totally annoy me.

In fact when I come to a page that has that kind of stuff on it, I back out quicker than a snail comes across salt.

Frank Bruno

Here in these parts we know about slugs and salt.

Jelasco · 08-23-2008, 04:29 PM

You can make the same comments about many things, like popups, that work from a revenue generating point of view.

As was said, why drag your mouse over them in the first place unless you were going to click there?

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jjpmarketing Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 1,131 Thanks: 41 Thanked 90 Times in 71 Posts	Re: Those underlined words as ads suck I can understand the OP's point of view... It really isn't about making money... sometimes you ruin the user experience with bad layouts and overwhelming advertisements. You might make a $1 or two with those ads, but what about the $37 ebook sale you lost, because your site left the user with a "that site sucked" feeling because it had too many ads. In addition it may turn a customer off to your site, that may have ended up being a repeat buyer customer.
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Jelasco Senior Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA. Posts: 1,248 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Those underlined words as ads suck You can make the same comments about many things, like popups, that work from a revenue generating point of view. As was said, why drag your mouse over them in the first place unless you were going to click there?