Google AdSense, ads in the UGC and banners in our posts.

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by maxholloway, May 11, 2011.

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    This forum is easily one of the highest authority forums around.

    What are your thoughts on their quick-solution advertising on

    • making you not want to come back
    • damaging their brand
    • little annoyances

    It seems that this strategy will yeild a high return right now, but if Digital forums doesn't invest in a healthier way to monetise their traffic in less intrusive ways they risk alienating their users!

    @Digital point, now out of interest. How has your bounce rate, and brand traffic been affected by aggressive and quite spammy advertising?

    If I hadn't looked at the #inbound linking domains my first impression of this site is that it is not worthwhile.

    No offence intended.
     
    maxholloway, May 11, 2011 IP
  2. maxholloway

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    And just now I see a paid ad, which has red as its main colour. Which clashes with green.
     
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    They have already alienated their real users because this place is full of stupid ass people joining everyday
     
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    What did this place used to be like?
     
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    Used to be a forum with members that are not stupid and dumb. People that actually post something useful not what you see now in the Adsense section, or basically every section on DP
     
    Project Mobius, May 11, 2011 IP