explorerdestroyer.com claims 500% increase in profit?

This site claims to increase your site revenue by 500% (over adsense revenue) by nagging users to download Firefox.. any opinions?

http://explorerdestroyer.com/

-RonMo

 

i've seen it in action. it works but it could easily kill your traffic (many people won't change)

 

This is used by www.bugmenot.com . What's nice about theirs is that it slides out and gets peoples' attention. Also, after you see the message once, you won't see it again when you go back so it's not too intrusive.

 

Since I use IE, and I went to a site that had any of that stuff, I would leave at once and never come back.
One thing to see on any site a button about firefox, but to have this huge thing at the top of a site telling me to switch because it will lessen MS's hold on browsers, etc....terrible!

Wonder if firefox has a hand in this site???

 

well the only way to know if it works, is to test the script.

I just installed the level 1 version of the explorerdestroyer on a 10,000 visitor a day entertainment site, 85% of my vistors are IE users from the USA. I'll report back in 2 days on the results.

I don't think it will increase my income by 500%, more likely to be a 5% to 10% increase.

 

[tragic]
The "Dead Serious" level should mostly kill the earnings of any site, since only Firefox people will end up using the site, and we all know that firefox people are already ad blinded to death so they rarely click on ads.

But hey, firefox crew got some more people to go and use their browser! and those new firefox users will do searchs on the google thing embedded in the browser that makes money to the firefox guys when they click on an add (rarely, but firefox has a massive number of people using their browser all thetime and doing tons of google searchs a day, so it is not shabby )

And that shows how you can give all your hard work to them, and end up with nothing.

[/tragic]

 

Ok, I'll give it a try.

I've installed level 1 on one of my arcade sites with 400 visitors a day.

I'll report back in 3 days.

 

Looks like they have taken the site down.

 

I tried the level one version of the script for a day. i got no referal installs and my adsence ctr dropped 50%. In addition, my site was way slower in loading for IE users. So i think its fair to say that the script is really a sitedestroyer.

Anyone else have any luck?

 

I was going to try it for 3 days, but dropped it after 2 days as I didn't get a single referral (only 2 clicks) from over 700 unique visitors.

It may depend on the type of site, but I'm going to give this one a miss