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seahorse
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 Posted - 20 September 2005 : 12:42:14
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I was reading Entrepreneur magazine online and noticed that they had these odd double underlined ads in the articles.
Has anyone ever used them?
http://www.vibrantmedia.com/site/advertisers_01a.html
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Shaggy
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Posted - 20 September 2005 : 12:46:29
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Never used them but seen them popping up on more and more sites recently too, annoying the hell out of me - just find them far too invasive and distracting from the page content.
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MarkJH
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 September 2005 : 12:46:59
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| Signed up with them ages ago but as it looks like spyware to the average user I was never quite sure whether to implement it or not. Could end up doing more harm than good. |
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 20 September 2005 : 13:02:33
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| I was thinking of implimenting something like this. I guess we will see. |
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
1075 Posts |
Posted - 20 September 2005 : 17:31:28
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I'm not thinking of implementing it, but using it as an advertiser.
I was just wondering what people's reaction was. I think they're kind of annoying too, but more importantly, it kind of feels like some kind of scam ad to me because of the non-standard nature of the link. |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21 September 2005 : 04:48:54
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| Please don't use this - I hate it and firefox adblock doesn't strip them out...so I end up surfing elsewhere...! |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 21 September 2005 : 11:17:21
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Originally posted by Podge
Try Google Adwords, its far better. Its also contextual and not anywhere near annoying. Don't spend more than 5c per click & choose lots of relevant keywords.
I am planning to use adwords, but I'm always looking for worthwhile alternatives too.
Has anyone noticed that adwords ads are getting more expensive?
On the plus side, I'm also making more in adsense ad too, but still... |
Ken
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 28 September 2005 : 14:35:08
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| I just got an offer from a company that wants to run something very similar to this on my website. I'm wondering what the heck I should do. I think it would be kind of annoying myself, but $ talks. I guess I will ask them what kind of length in time we are talking here and how the payment model is based. |
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Davio
Development Team Member
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Posted - 28 September 2005 : 14:50:24
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| $ talk, but people walking else where means $ talking else where. |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 29 September 2005 : 10:25:21
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| Eirck, is this Vibrant Media, or a different company? |
Ken
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 29 September 2005 : 10:49:26
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| It is a different company. They call it "content integration". They are running a campaign for Polaris Industries ( http://www.polarisind.com ). I think I'm going to have to tell them "no" though, as I've been thinking about it and it would be just too annoying and not broad enough yet. |
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