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- Bitruder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yeah... about, oh I don't know...90% of web surfers.
- Oakes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Hehe, he only does popunders when visitors aren't coming from tech-savvy sites, because they tend to hate them. Very slick.
Oh, and it's refreshing to hear from someone who doesn't think Google Ads are the end-all, be-all. They're good for certain situations, but sometimes they downright suck. The Digg higher-ups should read this article. - Tarmas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"The web has ads? For some reason, I don't ever see them."
Don't be surprised when, for some reason, most of the pages that you visit regularly will require you to pay for getting in, because otherwise they wouldn't have any money to cover their bandwidth costs, hosting, colocation, hardware, employees, etc. Only because you and a couple of other people were like sooo really annoyed by a couple of banners.
What are you going to say then? "The web has webpages? For some reason, I don't ever see them." - sardonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6yeah but can you blame him? thats how he makes a living...
as for ads i use Yahoo! publisher network its making enough to host the site on its own deticated server but I only get about 20,000 unique a month and its a fairly niche site. - nmoog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I also like how there are no ads on his blog - He only advertises where it is relevant.
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Yea, everybody should use ad blockers, that way free to use advertising supported websites like.. well... nearly all of them, would die instantly overnight.. sweet!
- L0phtpDK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I guess you didn't get the point when he said: "Making money on the internet is HARD"
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5He forgot the latest thing in web advertising, which is ad links. Links all over sites from companies like IntelliTxt and Kontera.
- TugsMcgroin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3One omission to earning money from your site: selling text links.
- laptech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5even better, he especially drops them on MySpace user's heads. Nice.
- cntp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3some people don't wanna pay for anything, either out of principal or because they're poor...
or because they could find the same thing for free just with ads elsewhere... - Sleepingbag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thanks for the useful firefox info! It's really handy having several links to firefox, courtesy of people like you, on every single page of the internet.
If only there were a way to adblock those in my inferior browser... - paulvaldez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What is the big deal. He took the time to write the article. Let him make some money out of it.
- coolmojito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Overall, a good informative piece. I don't mind that he put referral links on the sites he mentioned. If he makes some money off writing this piece, I'm all for it.
- coolguy69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow .. almost all of his links in the article are affiliate links..
- damonlab, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6The web has ads? For some reason, I don't ever see them.
Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Adbock extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/10/
Filterset G extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/
Customize google extension: http://www.customizegoogle.com/ - laptech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4couple ads on his tutorials, though. but his win32 tutorial is pretty popular, so maybe thats why
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4non-techies and IE users deserve pop unders. no mercy LOL. Also max out on the bouncing monkey ads when referrer is myspace, they like bouncing monkeys.
- da_bradler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2pretty good read, I'll admit he is right about a lot of types of advertising, I mean I would never not go to a site because of pop unders, there not soooo bad. but sites that use Interstitials that require you to click on some close thing off screen I mean I don't mind you ramming something in my face but don't make be actually have to do any work to actively avoid it, I normaly just close the page completely one when of those come up and refuse to use the site again(unless it's a free porn site, which actually makes it harder due to the only using one hand thing).
but ya for sure worth the read if you run a site and want an opinion about the types of ads you want or think you could get away with running. - enzomedici, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3
Google Adsense is bad. All you get are a bunch of bloggers using sites like Digg to drive traffic to their site or some other schemes involving click fraud.
On the other hand, most people are too cheap to pay anything and want everything for free. So, the end result
is that you get a bunch of pop unders, overs, or other flashing ads all over the place because servers and bandwith cost money and no one wants to lose money.
Catch 22. - laptech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5oh my god, people making money? what has this world come to?
- bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2he should have mentioned Digg.com as a way to make money. Write something interesting (or something about apple) and you aer guaranteed to atleast make 10$ if ALOT of people read it
- seattle98104, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1well, duh, that's his lesson in how to make money on the internet.
write a blog article about advertising on the internet with a billion affiliate links and get it on digg.
PROFIT!!! - ascott9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2awesome article, definetly going to look into some of these techniques
- PrimoTurbo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3They need to get rid of ads and focus on making services that people want to pay for like music, movies, games, web hosting, etc.
- lukebuzzy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4It was a pretty good article so I clicked on a few of his glowfoto ads.
- laptech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1he mentioned abrite -- is there another way to do this?
- viceranker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice set of extensions for the job. Just add a referrer control and you're really not funding the net.
- PrimoTurbo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ads are useless anyways, if people don’t have money then how are people making money from ads?
- laptech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Right, because music, movies games and web hosting don't exist on the Internet already.
Look, its like enzomedici said, the Internet is ad driven and there's just no way around it. The funny thing is all the people who brag about their ad blockers and then don't understand why site admins start overcrowding pages with ads and popups to compensate. - CarzorStelatis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Funny - I have Firefox and none of his ad tactics will work for me. I suppose people using last-century software like Internet Explorer deserve everything they get though.
- cheezmo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Lots of links to ad services where he gets referral fees. Smells pretty spammy to me.
- doodirock2, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6Awsome insight. Thanks!
- Andrevan, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Crappy article, advocates intrusive advertising that doesn't work well. Popunders are bad. Google Ads, while not the be-all end-all, are a lot less intrusive. Also gives referrals for ad services without disclosing it.
- uziq, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6You mean there's still people out there that aren't running an adblocker? I can't remember the last time I saw an ad.
- Daiver, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1It kinda sucks that he does referrals when he mentions Casale and ValueClick.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -16/+5I hate it and love it at the same time.
- davidirock, on 10/12/2007, -17/+5I laughed, I cried, I bought stuff.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2lol
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