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Those underlined words as ads suck

by Easy Cash
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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?
#ads #underlined #words
  • Profile picture of the author Frank Bruno
    Originally Posted by Easy Cash View Post

    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
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    • Profile picture of the author mario_a
      Those are Kontera ads, right ?

      Regards,
      Mario
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      • Profile picture of the author Colin Evans
        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...
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        • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
          Just don't hover over them...

          I know, simple solution.
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          • Profile picture of the author jjpmarketing
            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.
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            • Profile picture of the author crystalq
              If they make you money why not have them?
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              • Profile picture of the author jjpmarketing
                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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                • Profile picture of the author 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
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                  • Profile picture of the author Easy Cash
                    Originally Posted by Neil Morgan View Post

                    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?
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                    • Profile picture of the author JayXtreme
                      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
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    • Profile picture of the author Angela V. Edwards
      Originally Posted by Frank Bruno View Post

      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.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jelasco
        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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