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26. June 2005 @ 01:06 |
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As long as you are logged in within our forums, the external links in discussion threads wont carry the "interstitial" ad codes anymore (i.e. the links that showed a "in-between ad page" before taking you to the link you clicked to). This is part of our on-going effort to slowly reduce the number of ads across our site and make the site more user-friendly. We're planning to do the same for forum pop-unders in next 6 months, depending obviously on facts like how our other ad formats like the banners, etc continue to perform (after all, we need to pay our server fees..).
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26. June 2005 @ 01:07 |
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excellent :-)
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26. June 2005 @ 04:19 |
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hi
man anyone got a dictionary? Interstitial...
i used to right click / open in new window to not see it...
;-])
glad you added this bit...
(i.e. the links that showed a "in-between ad page" before taking you to the link you clicked to)
kool - thx....
Nothing here to see, move along folks.
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26. June 2005 @ 20:09 |
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thank god!! those ads were getting a bit tedious to click through.
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26. June 2005 @ 20:18 |
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Thanxs for makin life a bit easier :)
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26. June 2005 @ 23:20 |
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Thanks
I did not like that feature. My pop up blocker killed the ad anyhow. It was a pain to visit a supplied link.
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27. June 2005 @ 00:03 |
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thanks boss, makes viewing and browsing THAT much easier without the little annoyance~ :)
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bobright
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23. July 2005 @ 23:24 |
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yes, big ups to dRD!!!
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26. July 2005 @ 13:54 |
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Haleulujah...thanks dRD!
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27. July 2005 @ 18:35 |
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Yes yes...praises for this!
"From now on we are poison to you Spider-man...Thats why we call ourselves... VENOM"
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28. July 2005 @ 05:21 |
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Great addition, I just clicked on a link and it took me right there no waiting the 20 or 30 seconds to be redirected. Thanx
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3. August 2005 @ 05:55 |
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I thought these ads were gone, they were last week, but today I am clicking on links and go right back to the ads before being redirected. Is it just me?
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ddp
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3. August 2005 @ 09:42 |
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arnie, you aren't the only 1 seeing those ads as there is 1 on this thread besides others
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3. August 2005 @ 09:52 |
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Thanks ddp, I am glad I am not going crazy. Since my comp got hijacked by spyware 2 weeks ago and I had to reformat I am paranoid about everything lately :O
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ddp
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3. August 2005 @ 09:54 |
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can't understand why!!! come close a couple of times but not yet
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3. August 2005 @ 09:57 |
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Your lucky, never saw anything like it. The computer was possessed and not by me, nothing killed it :O
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bobright
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3. August 2005 @ 13:11 |
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Thanks ddp, I am glad I am not going crazy. Since my comp got hijacked by spyware 2 weeks ago and I had to reformat I am paranoid about everything lately :O
oh thats to bad, heh
yeah i noticed the ads also
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2. October 2005 @ 15:23 |
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awesome :-), glad to hear afterdawn is cutting on the advertising - must mean you are making money :-P
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 2. October 2005 @ 15:24
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2. October 2005 @ 23:05 |
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hi
i still get popups sometimes and wait 10 seconds advertizing when links are clicked???
Nothing here to see, move along folks.
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I hate titles
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3. October 2005 @ 00:49 |
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Rotary: Even when you're logged in? And by "popups" do you mean the full-page ad that has the "Wait until you are redirected" ads? If so, I need to investigate -- we've basically been going back and forth with our forum software during the last 3 months in terms of functionality -- we first added some nifty features like on-the-fly HTML tagging, etc but as it put too much pressure on servers, we had to roll back to the previous version. These kinda changes might have caused some loss of "advertised" functionality temporarily.
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3. October 2005 @ 06:17 |
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hi
always logged in...
hey there dRB at this moment in time i have been on ad for 10 mins answering via email links in them and havent had a popup, it only happens sometimes, its not a definate thing...
this past week i have clicked links in pages or on software or guides and got a full page Advert with a redirecter saying click here if you dont want to wait etc or be redirected in 10 seconds, and i am sure its here that i get a popup (half size new window with an ad picture in it)
if its a problem i will watch what links i click from now on and try to get back here with it for you!
but to note i just built a new pc and the old pc wasnt doing this! it stopped ages ago, so could be i had extra blockers on that old pc and this one doesnt? as i think xp pro can block content aswell as my norton internet security running?
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just clicked software at top of this page and got this one!!!
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also went here and clicked link and got this one!
Nothing here to see, move along folks.
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3. October 2005 @ 07:23 |
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Rotary: Yup, you do get pop-unders still from our site, we haven't removed them (yet..? They do produce about significant portion of our income..).
So, lets summarize how things should be now:
-For www.afterdawn.com domain you will get one pop-under, which is session and time capped, i.e. you wont receive another pop-under for that domain until 24 hours have passed. This applies to all users, whether logged in or not. Note, the main front page of the site wont spawn any pops, ever.
-For forums.afterdawn.com, same system as for www.afterdawn.com. Again, same for logged in and non-logged users.
-For www.afterdawn.com, we use interstitials (the "in between" full page ads you'll see for 10 seconds until you get redirected to the correct place) for software item's homepage links (like the one you mentioned) and in some instances, to the "Best links" links visible in the sidebar. This applies to all users, whether logged or not. And these are, again, capped to max one per 24h period, so getting two within 24h period within www.afterdawn.com domain should be impossible.
-For forums.afterdawn.com, we use above-mentioned interstitials for links posted in messages that direct to outside *.afterdawn.com -domain scope. Again, maximum is one per 24h period. And this should be done currently in a way that only people who haven't logged in, get these.
-Additionally, we obviously use 728x90 leaderboards ("big banners") across our site (apart from www.afterdawn.com's homepage and forums.afterdawn.com homepage), 120x600 "skyscrapers" in selected pages on www.afterdawn.com (but not on forums.afterdawn.com) and 300x250 "box ads" in long threads, just before the last message on each page. Finally, our news at www.afterdawn.com carry "contextual" ads, where some of the words get "double-underlined" automatically and allow linking to sponsors for each keyword.
Phew, that's a lot of ad types :-) Despite that, I personally think that we've managed to make the ads as non-annoying as possible, tiptoeing the thin line between user experience and ad dollars. But yes, we have thought about reducing the number of ad types eventually -- this all depends on variety of things. Lets say the "non-intrusive" ad types (leaderboards, box ads and skyscrapers) generate "enough", we will most likely begin a slow process of reducing ad types. The removal of interstitials from forums for logged users was the first step -- I'd imagine removal of popunders in forums for logged users will be the next.
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3. October 2005 @ 07:30 |
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hi
yes say that again PHEW! i had to read that twice, and its still lost me - lol - i will take your word for it, to be honest its not that annoying i just close them...
but its funny i am always the ""WINNER"" muhahaha.....
cheers...
Nothing here to see, move along folks.
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3. October 2005 @ 07:48 |
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but its funny i am always the ""WINNER"" muhahaha.....
You got that one right. I'm personally slightly ashamed of the crap our ad networks sell to the popunder and interstitial inventory at times. IMO, ads actually do boost the site's usefulness if they are highly targeted and provide information for the user that he/she has use for. Thus, the Goooooogle ads we run on our banner space tend to never cause any complains, as people find them useful rather than annoying. But yes, those stupid "you're winner" ads do drop the overall quality of the site and as the very first step I've been planning is to contact our ad networks and ask them to remove crap like that from our inventory, even if it would harm our bottom line.
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5. October 2005 @ 02:13 |
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When using FireFox with adblock plugin it doesn't matter if the site has ads or not.
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