Comments on: Stay Away from In-Text Advertising

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:42:35 +0000

With google adsense paying pennies, websites are looking for all the pennies they can muster.

Remember we put hours and hours into our sites and even have writers we need to pay.

A few text ads isn’t too much to ask – especially when you are viewing our sites for FREE.

By: Shad Vick

Shad Vick — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:10:45 +0000

Vibrant requires you to have 500,000 pageviews for the domain you wish to place the intext ads on. They know that if you don’t have a lot of good content – that neither of you are going to make money. Anyone with 500,000 page views hopefully has a credible site and wouldn’t want to tarnish their reputation with a bunch of “fake” links in their articles. This in text ad linking is for the junk sites that happen to have a lot of content. IMHO.

By: richard bel

richard bel — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:47:01 +0000

ive tried kontera and its terrible. i never want to put readers through that on my site ever again! Ads i believe are just ads and should be as unintrusive as possible . If they offer something users want ..they will click . no need for all this placing ads in the middle of content nonsense

By: Ash Blue

Ash Blue — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:01:14 +0000

I hate it when websites use this advertising technique. I click on links expecting relevant information and end up in an unknown website.

By: Muxx

Muxx — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:58:29 +0000

I have to agree after doing some testing over the last 2 months.

After playing around with Adsense, Chitika and other ad programs it just doesn’t do anything for the end user – the reader.

The main problem is that most of the text-link ads are completely irrelevant, it would be better if you could target words as part of an ad group but what often happens is they are attached to completely random words for totally unrelated products.

I blog about DJing and I would get text link ads for insurance, really?

I don’t think it really gives my readers any sort of benefit either. I work hard to write quality posts and then I send them away for a few pennies? Not on my blog, not anymore.

I do keep a small google ads on the very bottom of the post which generally does give me relevant ads but they’re not there to disrupt the flow of the article.