Don't Pimp Your Users | The Coffeehouse

SaraJoRedux
GirlDeveloper.com

So, I have a pet peeve, and that is google ads and other god-awful ugly pandering on smaller web sites (even big ones). My site traffic has been growing lately, and I've gotten a few people asking why I haven't put up google ads.... I am just religiously against it.

Nothing turns me off more to a blog site then when they have spastic ads all over it and having to filter content.

If I ever do have ads, and I hope to one day, they will be good looking. Like reddit, or facebook....

how do you all feel about this?

evildictaitor
if( !succeed( try() ) ) { while(true) try(); }

The Internet has adverts? Where!? When did this happen?

Steve411

I don't do advertisements either. A website I had created for a client of mine has achieved a PR of 3 in three months with over 18K+ visitors a month. Ads just suck out money! Don't really need them on blogs unless you want to be a cheap ass and make money off what you write.

Ix
Missed it by that much...

In reply to evildictaitor

#Jul 31st, 2008 @ 7:33 AM

Yes, they live in the interweb tubes. Blocking all the other internets from getting to people. Like interweb gremlins.

SaraJoRedux
GirlDeveloper.com

In reply to Ix

#Jul 31st, 2008 @ 7:47 AM

I can't contact you, Do you have AIM or GTalk or YIM?

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

In reply to SaraJoRedux

#Jul 31st, 2008 @ 8:44 AM

Users, they're all just beotches or hos.

etc.

Ix
Missed it by that much...

In reply to SaraJoRedux

#Jul 31st, 2008 @ 8:44 AM

AIM: ixdatul
on my phone now so responses might be slow.

wisemx
Live it

Sara, I agree with you, sites bathed in Google ads smell exactly the same as rotten Bananas.
I've personally made a stand against them...have not used them once.

Harlequin
http://twitter.com/TrueHarlequin

In reply to wisemx

#Jul 31st, 2008 @ 9:07 AM

http://mashable.com/

Try the Mashable website. The site loads in a nanosecond and it takes up to 20 seconds plus for all the ads to stream in. So much so that you can't even find half the navigation on the site there's so many ads.

Usability nightmare.