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Ads Should Be Turned Off For Anandtech Members

AMCRambler

AMCRambler

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Article from digg

For those of you too lazy to read it, here's the gist of it. A fellow who owns several websites and helps pay for them through pay per click ads found that it wasn't the regular members of his user group/forum members who were contributing the most revenue from ad clicks, it was the one time visitors that would end up at his site looking for something that would click an ad on the site in the hopes of finding it. Pretty interesting read. Makes a good case for AT to turn off ads for members of the site as we're not going to click them anyway.
Some of the particularly annoying ones I find are the inline text with flash attached to it in the hardware review articles. Mousing over the thing causes a flash popup and you have to click to close it. Obnoxious. The other ads like the banners etc I pretty much ignore.
Of course while we make the case that they should turn the ads off, at the same time AT can spin that the other way and say if we aren't going to be contributing to supporting the site by clicking ads, they should charge us a membership fee. So I guess it's a two way street. I'd sure enjoy not having those stupid text popups in the reviews and news articles though.
 
The only time I've ever clicked an add on any website that wasn't a direct search engine search was completely by accident.. like those damn flash popup ones when you go to highlight text - tricky bastards.
 
Okay, how many people clicked on the XFX "pairs" ads? 😀

Edit:
Ads aren't just about clicking, but also brand recognition. What brands do we buy most often, and where do we get them? I'd bet that they're probably the same ones that you see around 🙂
 
I can truely say that in over 10 years, I have not clicked on a single ad here. The cost of bandwidth to serve those ads to me has almost definitely cost more than they made back from them.
 
Originally posted by: AMCRambler
Article from digg

For those of you too lazy to read it, here's the gist of it. A fellow who owns several websites and helps pay for them through pay per click ads found that it wasn't the regular members of his user group/forum members who were contributing the most revenue from ad clicks, it was the one time visitors that would end up at his site looking for something that would click an ad on the site in the hopes of finding it. Pretty interesting read. Makes a good case for AT to turn off ads for members of the site as we're not going to click them anyway.
Some of the particularly annoying ones I find are the inline text with flash attached to it in the hardware review articles. Mousing over the thing causes a flash popup and you have to click to close it. Obnoxious. The other ads like the banners etc I pretty much ignore.
Of course while we make the case that they should turn the ads off, at the same time AT can spin that the other way and say if we aren't going to be contributing to supporting the site by clicking ads, they should charge us a membership fee. So I guess it's a two way street. I'd sure enjoy not having those stupid text popups in the reviews and news articles though.
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i';ve never found ATs adds intrusive. infact i've never found any ads by google intrusive. and i;'d rather AT benefiting off my visiting (there benefits to just site views as well) rather than me mooching off of them.

plus if you don't like the ads adblock is your friend.
 
i never click them, i don't think i even notice them
i also refuse to give my business to any company that spams to my email address.
 
Originally posted by: BD2003
I can truely say that in over 10 years, I have not clicked on a single ad here. The cost of bandwidth to serve those ads to me has almost definitely cost more than they made back from them.
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i don't think its AT bandwidth, but google's that supplies the ads.

plus you really shuld consider clicking ads once in a while. it does wonders for webmaster's profits;
 
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