We now have Ads!
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
My only request about ads is that they are hosted on ML, not pulled from an ad stream.
They are. These are pure images with "a" link tags. We are keeping this light, safe and fast.
That seems like a lot of extra work. Although at least then you can guarantee the content displayed.
It's very little work.
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@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
I realize it's a ton of extra work, plus many vendors might not allow/want it because then they have to trust ML's numbers and not get them directly from the tracking crap they tack on when you pull from their streams.. but yeah know what F#%@@#'em. I want a light, fast, CLEAN experience.
I hope, Hope, HOPE that doesn't change here.
I doubt it will. Vendors will probably still have a records of ML since they will see what site the inbound link was from, are they called referral links? Look at the link for this xbyte add. It has that right in there.
only if you click on it. If you don't click, they know nothing.
Isn't that the same as a normal ad agency? At my last position we didn't get charged by AdSense until someone clicked on our Ad.
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
I realize it's a ton of extra work, plus many vendors might not allow/want it because then they have to trust ML's numbers and not get them directly from the tracking crap they tack on when you pull from their streams.. but yeah know what F#%@@#'em. I want a light, fast, CLEAN experience.
I hope, Hope, HOPE that doesn't change here.
I doubt it will. Vendors will probably still have a records of ML since they will see what site the inbound link was from, are they called referral links? Look at the link for this xbyte add. It has that right in there.
only if you click on it. If you don't click, they know nothing.
Isn't that the same as a normal ad agency? At my last position we didn't get charged by AdSense until someone clicked on our Ad.
Uh no...
most places have a place holder spot.. that spot goes out to, let's say google, and fetches whatever ad is in the rotation.. along with all the tracking crap they also attach to it. so they know that ML pulled a page, and they know it was you because of the tracking. They will also know if you click because of the click itself.Interesting. I've never looked too deeply into it just that we got charged per click and not per view.
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Depends on the kind of site you are. If you are just doing random ads on a typical site, you go for that pay per click model. If you building brand awareness and working with high profile sites, you do other things.
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really bad CSS layout at the moment..
~1186 wide it shows the add, but with a ton of wasted spaceonthe right.
http://i.imgur.com/rK42g0g.jpg
If I shrink past that, it pops the add to the bottom.
http://i.imgur.com/goyYa89.jpgChrome current version.
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@JaredBusch said:
really bad CSS layout at the moment..
~1186 wide it shows the add, but with a ton of wasted spaceonthe right.
http://i.imgur.com/rK42g0g.jpg
If I shrink past that, it pops the add to the bottom.
http://i.imgur.com/goyYa89.jpgChrome current version.
http://i.imgur.com/7fLYkTH.jpgI tried to re-size the columns with developer tools but everything I tried either forced it to the bottom or pushed the main column further to the left.
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@scottalanmiller Galaxy S6 the ads show up under the topics list.
In a topic, same thing.
At the bottom of the pile. a Horizontal option might be better than the vertical for these...
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@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller Galaxy S6 the ads show up under the topics list.
In a topic, same thing.
At the bottom of the pile. a Horizontal option might be better than the vertical for these...
I was thinking that or in line with the conversation... although that may break the flow a little bit too much.
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I keep reading this as "We now have Aids!" and I can't get the ?monty python? song out of my head....
"Yes we have AIDS, not HIV but full blown AIDS"
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@MattSpeller said:
I keep reading this as "We now have Aids!" and I can't get the ?monty python? song out of my head....
"Yes we have AIDS, not HIV but full blown AIDS"
Is that Monty Python? I only remember that from Family Guy.
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@Minion-Queen said:
On both my iphone and ipad mini the ads show up at the bottom of the screen.
I'm famous, I'd recognize my icon anywhere!
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And @Minion-Queen why didn't you use the screenshot functionality on your iPad?
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@MattSpeller said:
I keep reading this as "We now have Aids!" and I can't get the ?monty python? song out of my head....
"Yes we have AIDS, not HIV but full blown AIDS"
My brain goes straight to "Everyone has AIDS" from Team America...
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@DustinB3403 said:
And @Minion-Queen why didn't you use the screenshot functionality on your iPad?
I was wondering that but didn't want to say anything.
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The ad gets pushed under the list on Windows Phone 8.1
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@Dashrender said:
The ad gets pushed under the list on Windows Phone 8.1
Same on iOS, which is good because otherwise it would dominate the screen.
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Good for ML. This site should have had ads a long time ago. I would like to see Google Adsense implemented as well. This site deserves some revenue from ads.
It's funny how people accept ads on a website that starts out with them, but they don't accept them on a website that ads them later on
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Thank you IRJ! Yes we have needed them, remember that all of this was started and has been done without any revenue. Remember we don't charge anyone for posting. So the need to have Ads is a pretty big deal for us. This will allow us to grow and offer more value to all of you who post and have helped us grow!
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Features like high availability, for one thing, require ad revenue to cover!
