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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 8:00 pm Post subject:

Then again, if Guests see an annoying number of adverts, they are very unlikely to register with your forum. Bear in mind that they won't know that they will get less adverts if they register. _________________

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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject:

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Then again, if Guests see an annoying number of adverts, they are very unlikely to register with your forum. Bear in mind that they won't know that they will get less adverts if they register.

The if you put an announcement up saying benefits of being a member,, less adverts able to post more etc etc
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject:

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Then again, if Guests see an annoying number of adverts, they are very unlikely to register with your forum. Bear in mind that they won't know that they will get less adverts if they register.

We will never over do it, we are sensitive to this.
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject: Re: hear hear

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give guests the full on 100% advert experience

I can't think of a reason why guests whouldn't have 100% advertisements, unless it causes all of the posts in the thread to have an ad... that could be annoying, but for the ad to show up in the last post every time... I see no reason for it not to, particularly on guests.

i only say this because it annoys me to see 'guest' posts. it doesnt take long to register a name, log in and post.

c'mon alll you guest posters out there, log in and show your face

im for anything that will encourage guests to register....
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 12:17 am Post subject: Re: hear hear

St0rm[TitE] wrote:

xanthakita wrote:

St0rm[TitE] wrote:

give guests the full on 100% advert experience

i only say this because it annoys me to see 'guest' posts. it doesnt take long to register a name, log in and post.

c'mon alll you guest posters out there, log in and show your face

im for anything that will encourage guests to register....

Personally I don't care if people register or not, as long as they're posting. I'd rather have a lot of posts by a few members and several guests than lots of members and no posts.

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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 12:08 pm Post subject:

wait... can't all the complainers pay to get the ads removed? I mean, it's an option guys and if you want to pay for your hosting and support, then do it... otherwise, these ads are doing it for you... sorry, but you can't have your cake and eat it too....

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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 12:11 pm Post subject:

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Please do not click on adverts unless you are interested, as this is defrauding advertisers.

Do you have to stay on an adverted site(e.g. a site that was one of the adverts) for a certain period of time before Google will pay for clicking on that ad?

nope, i think google pays a dime for every click... my friend had people click and click and click and click and just keep clicking without the page ever loading and he made $50...

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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject:

puffinpunk wrote:

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Please do not click on adverts unless you are interested, as this is defrauding advertisers.

Do you have to stay on an adverted site(e.g. a site that was one of the adverts) for a certain period of time before Google will pay for clicking on that ad?

nope, i think google pays a dime for every click... my friend had people click and click and click and click and just keep clicking without the page ever loading and he made $50...

And then no doubt got busted by google and never got paid! At least that is what should have happened. The system works only if everyone is honest. Business pay to advertise and not to be defrauded

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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 1:37 pm Post subject:

I only click ads that interest me. _________________ Court Jester of the Jadepocalypse www.cellardoorpublishing.com

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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 4:46 am Post subject:

Have you ever considered experimenting with pop under ads instead of banner ads? I read somewhere that nowdays banner ads are slowly losing their popularity to pop unders.

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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 5:22 am Post subject:

no one likes popups or pop unders... most people have popup blockers anyway. i hope i'm talking about the same thing here

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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:19 am Post subject:

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Have you ever considered experimenting with pop under ads instead of banner ads? I read somewhere that nowdays banner ads are slowly losing their popularity to pop unders.

Can you imagine the outcry? I can hear it now! and thats just imagining my reaction

pop unders are horrible.
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:34 am Post subject:

Yeah, I'm much happier with banners than popunders... I hate pop-anythings... _________________ Court Jester of the Jadepocalypse www.cellardoorpublishing.com

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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:18 am Post subject:

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Yeah, I'm much happier with banners than popunders... I hate pop-anythings...

Pop anythings are not only way too in your face, you are also forced to take an action to get rid of them. We stated from the very start that we would never do that to people, and we won't.
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:55 pm Post subject:

admin wrote:

SweetSour wrote:

Then again, if Guests see an annoying number of adverts, they are very unlikely to register with your forum. Bear in mind that they won't know that they will get less adverts if they register.

We will never over do it, we are sensitive to this.

Thank you, I'm very glad to hear that.

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The if you put an announcement up saying benefits of being a member,, less adverts able to post more etc etc

That might work with some guests, but I wonder how many guests bother to read forum announcements etc? I'm sure some do, but I bet most just read the threads that interest them.
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