Adverts in posts?

alan_dr · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:13 am Post subject: Adverts in posts?

Hi
Every time I look at a post now I see an ad as the second entry. Is this a new thing? I don't mind seeing ads on the outside borders but I think its a bit much having them in the posts as well.
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Darren · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:58 am Post subject:

Alan this is a trial to see where they generate the most traffic. It's a temporary test which was supposed to have ended by now but MikeB, our web expert is in the US and without web access at the moment so the trial is running longer than anticipated.

We are a business and have to generate advertising income to cover costs, they annoyed me too at first but I have to say I hardly notice them now.
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Geoff_UK · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:39 pm Post subject:

how long has the trial been running for ??

I hope it's not been long because until I read this thread, I'd never even noticed them !!!

You're not the only forum to run ads in the posts, as long as it's restricted to the way you've done it, I don't mind at all.
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Darren · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject:

It's been going a week, was originally intended to run two days.
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject:

I wonder how some of these people would feel if i went into their employers / social security office and "blocked" their pay / benefits?

jean · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 150

As someone who used to have a website and appreciates the ability to make some money by advertising on site, I do not see a problem at all with the adverts. They do not bother me and I have been known to click on an odd one.
As one poster said, they had not even noticed they were there so they cannot be very obtrusive.

I enjoy the comments on the site and can live with the adverts no problem.

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:15 pm Post subject:

As I said before, I was quite happy to live with adverts down the side, but sticking them in forum posts was, for me, going too far.
Not moaning, not bothered, just got rid of them.

Can't quite get my head round PaulB's post...

Darren · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject:

Personally, I don't have a problem with other websites where advertising is present, of course there is a balance and I'd like to think we're on the right side of it. I don't like the many pages of ads in magazines but know that it offsets the cost of the publication. You access this website free of charges so is it too much to ask that you accept the limited advertising we deploy?

Of course there are ways to block adverts but they are targeted i.e. 90%+ of the Google Ads are for GPS or related stuff and the regular advertisers are all GPS related. If you block them then you may just miss something that would have interested you!

Were we to start accepting advertising from SKY or other unconnected retailers (and we do get approached) then I could understand the concern but as it stands it's all related to the topic of GPS. If everyone was to block the advertising then we'd have to find another method of raising funds, we're open to suggestions of course but I can't think of any!
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alan_dr · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:47 am Post subject:

Hi Darren
Its just about positioning. Like you, I accept adverts in magazines, but I would not like it if one was put slap bang in the middle of an article I was reading. Its the same with ads in posts. Put as many ads as you like on the fringes, but let's leave the post clear for reading.
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:02 am Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject:

I understood it.... just couldn't get my head round it Wink

The comparison didn't seem particularly relevant, that's all. But hey, lets agree to differ.

PGPSW, don't take it personally: another forum I'm involved with (on a totally different subject) decided that any companies who advertised on the site could also add an advert (the size of those "banner" ads you get at the top of some web pages) as a "signature" at the foot of every one of their posts.
This means that many threads are just a huge mass of repeated adverts with the occasional single line of text buried in between them. I moaned much harder about that (with no luck! Laughing

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tanda · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

Can the Adverts be put at the bottom, and as a new post is added, the advert moves down below it, so it always stays at the bottom, then the site gets its income, and people who don't like it, don't have to look at it?
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Darren · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject:

That'd likely annoy more people as it'd be always in view? As it is, it's only visible for the first two or three posts of a thread, if you follow new post links you're taken to the last post automatically and so don't even see it?
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RobBrady · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:11 am Post subject:

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