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- Solkre, on 09/18/2009, -1/+24Whatever, as long as ABP still works on them.
- Pimpalicious316, on 09/18/2009, -1/+15Google'sGoogle. reminds me of Little Ceasar's Pizza Pizza guy.
- SmpleJohn, on 09/18/2009, -3/+16There are no ads on any site I visit. Thank you Adblock.
- norman619, on 09/18/2009, -1/+12Does this mean the ads will be even more annoying than ever?
- Salif, on 09/18/2009, -3/+13they can make whatever ads they want, im still gonna block em
- DagonwebNL, on 09/18/2009, -1/+10And consumers have about had enough and we will break them. Think up a new model to draw in paying customers that does not involve 24/7 harrasment.
- jsp123, on 09/18/2009, -2/+10Yeah, how outrageous that people try to make money off of their hard work! Obtrusive ads like flash overlays and flash ads that make noises are a bit short sighted, but I don't see anything wrong with Adsense and other programs that are relevant to what people are looking for anyways.
- theOster, on 09/18/2009, -0/+6LEELA: Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century?
FRY: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree. - therealgeddylee, on 09/18/2009, -8/+14Christ, how did you write a description so horrendously packed with grammatical errors? Translate it from Russian?
- HyperJack, on 09/18/2009, -0/+6It's usually the alt text for an image directly next to the word Google. You can't paste the image into Digg so the alt text is displayed instead. In this case it's the alt text for the image that links to blippr.com (that =D)
It also happens on here when you try to copy and paste someone names. - Sploxy, on 09/18/2009, -0/+6Why the hell is Google so often doubled in the descriptions? Just do a digg search for "googlegoogle" to see what I mean.
- Logan2784, on 09/18/2009, -0/+5Clearly no one on digg understands this from a business standpoint.
- homercles337, on 09/18/2009, -0/+5And probably disguised as authentic links with information content.
- arunforce, on 09/18/2009, -2/+7As a website owner, I wholly believe in ads. If you don't like the ads a website displays, or find it too obtrusive, don't visit it. I think that would get the message clearly out.
- theOster, on 09/18/2009, -0/+4i've never found googles ads to be very annoying. now flash based animations - THOSE are annoying. or any full page ad that has the "continue to article" button. i just close the tab and screw the article.
- newman8r, on 09/18/2009, -0/+4it depends on the type of content. with that many visitors you should be making at least a few grand through adsense a month.
with adwords/adsense, some categories are pretty worthless, although some categories can pay a few dollars per click.
it also depends on your click through ratio, which depends on placement of the ads and if the ads are relevent and worthwhile to visitors
If you're getting that many visitors though, you can probably monetize the traffic a lot better through direct advertising deals or through a broker in some cases. It's also possible to use the traffic for affiliate marketing of interesting/relevant products - inactive, on 09/18/2009, -0/+3Yeah, I guess they should be more like WSJ and simply charge for content huh?.
- gwaggy12, on 09/18/2009, -0/+3If this works anything like Google's Content Network for display ads, then the conversion rate for advertisers will likely be very low. Still, the capability for small, local advertisers to focus on local brand recognition with Overture's model is very promising.
- happytheclam, on 09/18/2009, -0/+2Yea. Just generic everyday ads are ok. But those annoying ones that try to ***** your eyeballs. Who invented those? That would suck working for the company that develops those.
It's bad enough seeing billboards everywhere. I live in L.A. I can't look anywhere with out seeing an ad. My view of the city looking out my building window is even blocked by a giant mesh tops baseball card ad. - tattertech, on 09/18/2009, -0/+2Written like an author who doesn't understand the display market at all.
- azpat, on 09/18/2009, -0/+2http://digg.com/search?s=googlegoogle
Looks like an issue with content from Mashable. They have that annoying blippr stuff. If you view source the actual text has googlegoogle and the alt-text also has "googlegoogle" but the rendered HTML has that blippr logo/link in place of the second "google" and only the first "google" appears. I haven't looked at the blippr javascript on that site, but something is taking the googlegoogle and expanding it to google + blippr link for google w/icon. - topgigmedia, on 09/18/2009, -0/+2Good call - Babel Fish copy/paste confirms this.
- xOrion73x, on 09/18/2009, -0/+2As long as I don't have to look at them, I don't care what they do to advertise.
Active ad blocking is sweet.. I am starting to forget how annoying they were. - Solkre, on 09/20/2009, -0/+2ABP simply makes my browsing experience better and faster. I've NEVER made an impulse buy from an internet ad. When I want to buy something, I use Google to research the item then.
- arunforce, on 09/19/2009, -0/+250k hits a day for $1,000 is way too low.
Well, it depends on your target audience. Even gaming ads make that much. My forum, which only displays 3 ads to guests, and 1 to members, can easily make over $1000. - VertigoOne, on 09/18/2009, -0/+2Oh the Irony!
- isnaurus, on 09/18/2009, -0/+1Wow, they got this far with text ads, think what this will do for them..
- bb112266, on 09/18/2009, -0/+1I use Firefox/Flock browser. They have great addons, like adblock plus, cookiesafe, and noscript. These addons can block unwanted spyware that are on online ads.
- FunFactor100, on 09/18/2009, -0/+1What does this do that AdSense doesn't? I have both text and images appearing on my AdSense placements. I would assume that the advertisers are targeting geographically and by keywords.
- xngk, on 09/18/2009, -0/+1So annoying flash ads will be more relevant to my interests? erm...I guess thats a little better than before. Maybe no more hearing this :
Congratulations! You just won a free iPod! - Weasler, on 09/21/2009, -0/+1...You people blow my mind. Are you all still going to be complaining about Ads when all of your favorite websites are shut down due to you all blocking their main source of income?
- webworldtech, on 09/18/2009, -1/+1So now, instead of spam blogs with adsense all over them, we're going to be having spam blogs that you have to scroll through 6 screens of display ads and popup videos? Argh! Way to make the internet cooler for everyone!
- NeoNcP, on 09/18/2009, -1/+1advertising rules the internet.
Google is trying to improve an outdated system and create a better experience for the advertiser and the customer. - sodade, on 09/18/2009, -2/+2The advertising industry is a plague of the mind. We need severe regulation of this crap - this is the only way to force advertising to grow the ***** up. If you are showing me (a man) douche ads or netflix popunders (I already have a ***** 5 disk membership you pricks) then you ***** suck.
- happytheclam, on 09/18/2009, -1/+1What's the math on hits vs money on an ad anyway? I heard its 50k hits a day will equal about $1,000 a month. With a generic ad provider setup. Is this true?
- jayelx, on 09/18/2009, -1/+0hahaha EPIC!
- inactive, on 09/18/2009, -2/+1Yeah, as long as they're not obtrusive, I don't care-I can toggle off the ads with sounds an images in Opera, anyway.
Unless you have a slow connection or band cap, ad blocking is kind of a dick move in my book. If you enjoy a site's content, then let the owner's earn their revenue. - cubicledrone, on 09/18/2009, -3/+1If you block Google's ads, you are a hypocrite. Adsense ads are neither obtrusive nor disruptive. In fact, they improve most sites. Google has spent billions of dollars improving the web advertising business and is probably 75% of the reason there is any content on the web at all that isn't sitcoms and detergent commercials.
Sites run ads because web traffic is cheap-ass and selfish. They grab all the high-bandwidth free entertainment they can find, though, and someone has to pay for it.
Oh, and thanks for the ad for Adblock. - happytheclam, on 09/18/2009, -3/+1Shortly after making my last post above I had a life evaluation. I too am actually an ad poster spammer. I realized that i've been posting posters and cards all over various southern california college university's. I guess that's worst then an ad on your website. Poor UCSD students can't go anywhere without seeing a card for my site. What have I become?
- happytheclam, on 09/18/2009, -15/+5There are no ads on my Site :) http://urwrong.net/
Ads are annoying people need to figure out smarter ways to make money on their site. Some ads are so unbearable it's incredible. They are designed to pop up to block what you need to get to, then another pop up will block the close button tab. It's like that video on thewebsiteisdown.com the second one. Hilarious.
Second to annoying ads is spam. People trying to get you to go to their website :)
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