Who does this silly stuff?

8 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

I notice the "outrageous" ads that appear on so many sites - such as "20 stars that gained weight" or "look what plastic surgery did to these stars".

I ignore them - until today when I clicked a couple. How stupid is this stuff? The absolute craziest was "what happened to Brigette Bardot's looks"? Seriously - time happened, dude... the woman is in her 80's. I don't care how famous you are, mean old Mr Gravity wins in the end.

Don't care who you are - if you put a photo of you at 18 next to a photo of you taken 40-60 years later....going to be a big difference.

These ads seems to be the online equivalent of "The Enquirer" and other rag mags that used to grace checkout counters.

Why are these ads so prevalent? I must be dense but I don't get it except it must be people get bored and click on ads instead of more stupid photos???

People love trivia, gossip, are fascinated by it. The top ten of this and that or top ten reasons etc have huge click through rates. Then the sites just serve ads alongside them to make a buck.

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Kay King 8 years ago

I couldn't even make it all the way through one slide show before I was totally bored...."people" must be less interesting than even I thought they were
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- lanfear63 8 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kay King
  
  I couldn't even make it all the way through one slide show before I was totally bored...."people" must be less interesting than even I thought they were
  
  Let's face it, when we look through these, we don't know who half of the celebrities are anyway.
  
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SteveJohnson

8 years ago

Those pages take SO long to load that they're unbearable, but a lot of people click all the way through the slideshows.

I can almost guarantee that they're getting paid per ad impression for most of the ads.

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Kay King 8 years ago

Gun control means never having to say, "I missed you."

I love that!!!
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Claude Whitacre

8 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

Those pages take SO long to load that they're unbearable, but a lot of people click all the way through the slideshows.

I can almost guarantee that they're getting paid per ad impression for most of the ads.

Yup. Even if you see the same ad over and over again, on each page, that counts as an impression.

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Claude Whitacre

8 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

I notice the "outrageous" ads that appear on so many sites - such as "20 stars that gained weight" or "look what plastic surgery did to these stars".

I ignore them - until today when I clicked a couple. How stupid is this stuff? The absolute craziest was "what happened to Brigette Bardot's looks"? Seriously - time happened, dude... the woman is in her 80's. I don't care how famous you are, mean old Mr Gravity wins in the end.

Don't care who you are - if you put a photo of you at 18 next to a photo of you taken 40-60 years later....going to be a big difference.

These ads seems to be the online equivalent of "The Enquirer" and other rag mags that used to grace checkout counters.

Why are these ads so prevalent? I must be dense but I don't get it except it must be people get bored and click on ads instead of more stupid photos???

These sites are there for one reason, to sell ad space. The reason each photo is on another page, is because Google ranks websites partly on how much time is spent on the site, and how many pages are clicked. Each page takes so long to load, because each page has a different set of ads.

Celebrity photos always get the most clicks.

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lanfear63

8 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

These sites are there for one reason, to sell ad space. The reason each photo is on another page, is because Google ranks websites partly on how much time is spent on the site, and how many pages are clicked. Each page takes so long to load, because each page has a different set of ads.

Celebrity photos always get the most clicks.

Exactly, and that is why I changed your bio from "The Claude Whitacre Story" to "100 Things About Claude Whitacre He Never Thought I Knew"

I wont need a publisher as I know you will pay up once I send you a copy of the manuscript.

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discrat

8 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

The reason each photo is on another page, is because Google ranks websites partly on how much time is spent on the site, and how many pages are clicked. Each page takes so long to load, because each page has a different set of ads.

Celebrity photos always get the most clicks.

Yeah, anymore I refuse to view these one page slideshows that take forever to load. It may be advantageous in some regards to these advertisers but it is turning a lot of people off.

I used to view a lot of these interesting articles...and it's just not celebrity stuff. Interesting things like Unique Houses from unique locations, scientific things etc..etc..but now with this one page deal I do not fool with it

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Mike Anthony

8 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

These sites are there for one reason, to sell ad space. The reason each photo is on another page, is because Google ranks websites partly on how much time is spent on the site, and how many pages are clicked.

The first part in regard to google is widely claimed but never been verified. The second part is very unlikely and almost impossible. Google could only use chrome to determine how many links you clicked on a site and as a metric that would be a huge waste of data storage and processing.

The reason each photo is loaded on another page is for ad reasons - more impressions...more advertising revenue

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Formal Shorts 8 years ago

I've seen it used as a list building method as well. A big button saying "show all entries on one page" but when you click it, you have to give your email address for it to work. Ugh.
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yukon

Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

The first part in regard to google is widely claimed but never been verified. The second part is very unlikely and almost impossible. Google could only use chrome to determine how many links you clicked on a site and as a metric that would be a huge waste of data storage and processing.

The reason each photo is loaded on another page is for ad reasons - more impressions...more advertising revenue

...and for the other 87% of the web, Google will use Google Fonts for analytics just like they're doing with this forum thread page.

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discrat 8 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

...and for the other 87% of the web, Google will use Google Fonts for analytics just like they're doing with this forum thread page.

You SEOers sure are a crazy bunch
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- yukon Banned 8 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by discrat
  
  You SEOers sure are a crazy bunch
  
  SEO is all about the details.
  
  Check out the data on the most popular Google Font. They're showing 24,777,566,545 font views for a single week. That's only one Google Font out of 708 available fonts.
  
  The Open Sans Google Font is also the default font for Wordpress & even If you change the default font on WP it's still the default font for the same WP install on the WP admin login/option pages.
  
  My point here with the fonts is Google obviously has analytics hooked up to their fonts & I have no doubts Google only created Google Fonts for collecting traffic data.
  
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discrat

8 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

These ads seems to be the online equivalent of "The Enquirer" and other rag mags that used to grace checkout counters.

Why are these ads so prevalent?

Because they are making someone money thru simple supply and demand and current Market conditions... doesn't take a Brain Scientist or Rocket Surgeon to understand that.

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positivenegative

8 years ago

Originally Posted by discrat

. . . doesn't take a Brain Scientist or Rocket Surgeon to understand that.

Actually, it's Brain Surgeon or Rocket Scientist - and it doesn't take either to understand that.

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discrat

8 years ago

Originally Posted by positivenegative

Actually, it doesn't take a "Brain Scientist" or "Rocket Surgeon" to realize discrat was using satire and taking his 'regular' jabs at two overly used phrases with a purposeful mix up of words

Fixed that for you

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agc 8 years ago

Originally Posted by positivenegative

Actually, it's Brain Surgeon or Rocket Scientist - and it doesn't take either to understand that.

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(Apparently) It's a thing too.
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Zodiax

8 years ago

I stopped clicking on those sites because I realized they ran super slow and tried to install adware in my browser.

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enjamulahsan

Banned 8 years ago

This is soo that I was exactly thinking about.

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Dennis Gaskill 8 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

Those pages take SO long to load that they're unbearable, but a lot of people click all the way through the slideshows.

Which is why I won't visit some sites, no matter how interesting they make their content seem in their advertising. Answers(dot)com is one site that advertises on Facebook a lot, and I absolutely will not go to that site again.
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agc

8 years ago

Clickbait. It's a thing.

On the one hand, it's plumbing the depths of the human experience.

On the other hand, it's giving us a pretty good map of those depths in the process.

"The curiousity gap" Want to make money? Learn to write headlines that exploit the curiousity gap.

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Princess Balestra

8 years ago

Is this a boy or a girl T-shirt?

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agc

8 years ago

looks like he's giving the rocket implants, so... maybe it's a boy's shirt?

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Princess Balestra

8 years ago

Originally Posted by agc

looks like he's giving the rocket implants, so... maybe it's a boy's shirt?

Ha!

Jus' gotta hope the exploratory pod shoots off into outer space well after the main housin' has figured a way to make eventual splashdown as uninstantaneous as possible.

So, yeah: guy's T.

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Zodiax

8 years ago

Originally Posted by Princess Balestra

Ha!

Jus' gotta hope the exploratory pod shoots off into outer space well after the main housin' has figured a way to make eventual splashdown as uninstantaneous as possible.

So, yeah: guy's T.

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Zodiax

8 years ago

We live in a small earth. Only capable of 24 billion impressions.

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yukon Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by Zodiax

We live in a small earth. Only capable of 24 billion impressions.

One font, one week...

If that's an average week that one font is generating 1.29 trillion impressions a year.
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- whateverpedia 8 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  one font is generating 1.29 trillion impressions a year.
  
  Which is very (ahem) impressive.
  
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