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- xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31"blogger credibility"
Is it bad that I chuckle when I hear those two words together? - trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23It usually doesn't bother me who they're advertising for.
It bothers me when there are more ads than content or when you can't click on a damn thing with out accidentally clicking on an Ad. - Sarki, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19As long as it is clear what is an ad and what isn't an ad, I don't see the problem. I don't have an issue with bloggers making a few bucks off their work. I benefit from it, and that's why I don't block ads. If a blogger abuses that trust though, I won't visit anymore.
- uzusan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I hate text link ads. I dont mind ads being on a page at the side or something, i know they are one (sometimes the only) source of income for webmaster's etc, but i wish they would keep the ads out of the actual content.
- bionicvskungfu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@limbo
Much like actual limbo your comment is "neither here nor there" - bs3arch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, they were doing some limited testing with their own product and partnered product (Firefox) systems, but now have opened the pay-per-action model for more advertisers and publishers.
I think the argument here is that given the placement of the ads, especially in content or a news story, will such placement first be adopted by web publishers and secondly, if so, what is the reaction of their audience.
Ads in text offerings from Intellitxt and Kontera are quite widespread, ranging from mass media sites like Forbes to sub-domain hosted blogs, and in my opinion, general user feedback has been negative. I'm actually quite surprised that Google is jumping into this market. - torifile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I hate inline ads when they're intellitxt and I'll hate them when they're google.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Every other text ad network has long ago dropped any identification that their ads are ads.. Nobody sees "Ads by Adbrite" or "Ads by Kanoodle" anymore. They just see links. The entire point of text ads is to trick people into clicking on them, by making them looking like navigational links on a page.
Now that Google has with this announcement said that they will start serving ads with absolutely NO indication to the user that they are ads, Google has firmly joined the rest of the industry.
Do you people realize how sad this is?
The source of 100% of the Web 2.0 industry's profits are text ads. Did it ever occur to you why text ads have a clickthrough rate 50x greater than banners? Even TARGETED banners that are based on content?
It's because the whole genius of text ads is that newbie users don't realize they are ads! It's why the first 3 results on any Google search term are ads, only seperated by a light blue box. Do you think newbie users understand that light blue box means the first 3 results are ads? Do you think they understand that the tiny light gray "ads by google" 4 inches off to the right-hand-side of the screen means that any link to the left of those words are advertisements?
NO. Don't believe me? Sit down and watch your parents use the web. Watch them use Google. Learn what's happening in the real world. - neuropsychguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not all bloggers lack credibility. There are a lot of professionals who maintain blogs. I maintain a psychology-related blog (I have a Master's degree in psychology from a real university and I am working on a PhD) and have at least a little credibility.
True, a lot of bloggers are just random people posting random things but a lot of people use blogging as a way to teach others what they know well. - neuropsychguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You must read the wrong blogs then. The only blogs I ever really read are done by people with education and experience related to what they blog about but then again I don't read any blogs regularly and I have a very limited number of blogs that I visit.
- SamsLembas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4As long as an update is released for AdBlock Pro, I couldn't care less.
- ionut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3They're not quite new. They were launched some months ago as part of AdSense Referrals (for Firefox, AdSense, Google Pack etc.)
Post from April 2006:
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/04/announcing-text-links-for-referrals.html
Now they'll be extended to other advertisers. - Petronski, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hmmm, "jaedn," let's see:
a) "Seems the only people who blog are uneducated John Doe's with opinions on everything."
b) "Those who are actually educated and working, don't have time to try and broadcast their opinions every which way."
c) "Hell, even digg is a blog."
d) You are posting on digg.
Ergo you are, by your own words, an "uneducated John Doe" who isn't "actually educated and working."
Pity that. - Fastamber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Interesting. I might have to test out those new ad units. I'm not to impressed with the conversion rates on AdSense though. I don't think they will reduce credibility at all. You have to write a bit of themed pages to make the site profitable. People know that.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@farksucks:
If the pic in the article is representative, they'll have tooltips/alt indications...
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/google-text-link-ads.png - Rammsteined, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4If you use a service like this, I will block your entire website because you've just turned it into one giant spam message.
- DoubtfulSalmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Holy *****... I started out by trying to look through the source to see which bits to adblock, but after a bit of fishing around I found that the only sure way to deal with all the advertising on that page was to block "searchenginejournal.com".
That page is sick (I mean that in the negative way). No idea what the content was, I never made it past the overdose of advertising! - bs3arch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What if Digg were to use it? They're big time AdSense partners.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The whole point about this story is that you won't be able to tell what are ads and what aren't ads, because there will no longer be any "Ads by google" identifier.
It'll just be a link anywhere on the page. - iloveroundtable, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1no.
- danielspencer2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0These are all new ways to make money.i like the new adsense tools where revenue can be shared with website or forum users. i am hoping to buy www.revenueshare.org because it is for sale and all the other .com's and.nets are taken. revenuesharing is new too!
- sheslikeheroine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0*****
- modelcadet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www.*****.com/search.pl?query=google
- rouben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Blogs, imo, are personal opinions of people. Anyone taking bloggers' (or anyone else's) opinions for granted (or anything else for granted, for that matter) is a gullible person. Don't be a gullible person. Do your own research and know how to get to the truth.
- thailand1972, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0farksucks, agree with you, but accidental clicks are pretty useless to advertisers. If I click on a text link thinking it's a genuine link to something useful instead of something paid for (which is likely useless), and I land on a "buy here! buy now!" page, I'm just going to click back. Intended clicks are what advertisers want. Sure they can trick everyone into clicking on a paid link, but I doubt this will help the advertiser's bottom line.
I totally agree with your sentiments though. I don't like the way the web is going with advertising. It's far far spammier in 2007 than it was in 1997 when I first started browsing. What gets me is how affiliates "review" a product they're an affiliate of - shock horror, they think it's the bees knees. Do a search for Article Equalizer to get an idea:-
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=article+equalizer+review&btnG=Search
Check out the "reviews". This is what I mean about how dirty the web is getting. - marketnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A few years ago, didn't Google have issues a few years ago with other services that offered text ads within the content of the page?
- HUKI365, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1There only ONE box on digg. What "box" did you mean precisely? lol
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2wrong box, dig me down
- ummmmm, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6What's Google?
- jaedn, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Am I the only one who gets annoyed at bloggers and blogging? Seems the only people who blog are uneducated John Doe's with opinions on everything.
And to add insult to injury... some bloggers are brazen enough to try and generate revenues from these opinions using such things as AdSense. Those who are actually educated and working, don't have time to try and broadcast their opinions every which way.
Even the word blog is a crap word, makes me just want to punch someone every time i hear it. Sounds like it was invented by a dyslexic social worker.
Call it what you want, blogging and blogs are just a slight variation on MySpace, nothing more. Hell, even digg is a blog. Originally it was all about information sharing, now it's just about the number of diggs you can get. As for the millions of digg clones out there, don't even start.
Bloggers have no credibility, the sooner the fad is over, the better as far as I can see - limbo1334, on 10/12/2007, -21/+0Abdul Kalam, the president of India, is a rocket scientist.
Did I mention he's Muslim? Who would have thought a Muslim would be non-violent.
Hindus need to get India back; it's Hindus' homeland, like Israel is for Jews. Kill the Muslims and you'll have no problems.
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