What would people think of this type of ad?

[Cracker]

Originally posted by Canuckkev
It is messing with a users content, but if you are using a free host, the host reserves the right to do whatever they want to your pages. As long as it's in the 15 page TOS that no one reads but must agree to before signing up, it's legit.

I'm not saying it isn't legit, I'm just saying it's mean and would probably cause visitors not to go to its members' pages (at least most of the internet audience accepts that popups/popunders are commonplace).

 

[Canuckkev]

Me, being the visitor to a site, would prefer a few extra words underlined rather than large banners or whole other windows that pop up and I must close.

I don't even think you can call this advertising. No advertising is done until the user clicks on the link. Before, it's just linking to advertising.

Also, in order to not change the appearance of the site, users could specify certain parts of their html to be browsed for keywords, and if no word is found, then maybe insert the banner or popup. Gives users choice. So in a page:

<html>
<body>

<!--BEGIN KEYSEARCH-->
This is my site.  I hope you enjoy your stay.  
Some of my interests are football, gambling, and long 
walks on the beech.

Click on a link to the left.
<!--END KEYSEARCH-->

</html>
</body?

Gambling, being a keyword, would be changed with

<a href="http://targetedlinks.com/?ad=gambling&aff=toefurswebspace">gambling</a>

I would think this is better than large banner ads or poop-ups (sp?). Also, there would be hella more clicks.

 

[Cracker]

Originally posted by Canuckkev
I would think this is better than large banner ads or poop-ups (sp?). Also, there would be hella more clicks.

Yeah, but what's the point of building a website if all the traffic is going to advertisers? You should at least make the links open a new window by using target="_blank" . I still say pop-unders are the best form of advertising, as the surfer doesn't even see them until he or she has left the site that spawned them.

 

[satine]

Just a thought...
If this was a largely-publicised adsystem, such as banners/popups, (which are known to not be part of the user's website), it would work fine. As it is, the majority of visitors would never have met with this system before and therefore would be pretty confused when confronted with a completely off-topic site when clicking one of the links. You would have to make it very clear which links were advertiser's and which were not, for example by a colour change, and as far as I can see this would be quite impractical to sort out. Sorry if I'm wrong, but don't you need CSS to change the colours of individual links? Not all browsers support CSS.
The adsystem's an interesting idea and a pretty clever one, but in my opinion it wouldn't work very well.
Sorry if I've gone and barked up entirely the wrong tree.

 

[Cracker]

Actually, if you want to change the color of an individual link, you just add <font color="[insert color here]"> link text </font> in between the <a> </a> tags.

 

[conkermaniac]

Originally posted by Cracker
Actually, if you want to change the color of an individual link, you just add <font color="[insert color here]"> link text </font> in between the <a> </a> tags.

I always did this: <a href="http://www.linkhere.com" class="nav"><font color=red size=3 face=arial>text here</font></a>

 

[satine]

Oops, sorry . I did bark up entirely the wrong tree. My mistake.

 

[conkermaniac]

Originally posted by satine
Oops, sorry . I did bark up entirely the wrong tree. My mistake.

Hehe...don't worry; I used to make the same mistake.

 

[Webdude]

I think it is a perfectly good way to advertise, but only on free hosts. Sorry, but people ignore ads and use freehosts, but dont support them. The webmaster only looks out for #1, so the free host must look out for itself.

...and your right, if you pay for hosting, then by rights the host cant touch your content. If you are hosting for free, then that is a different story. The general opinion is that if you want no ads that arent your own, dont use a free host. The TOS of any freehost allows it the rights to place any ads on your site using any method. If this means linking to your "words", then that's what will happen. The free host has a right to self preservation. If all current ad method dont work, then they can resort to a new method, regardless if anyone likes it or not.

And before anyone says they wouldnt use a service like that....for every person that says they wouldnt, there are a thousand more who would. Free hosting is mostly for newbies, hobby, or personal sites anyway. Myself, I ignore those who say they wouldnt use my hosting because it doesnt matter. I have more members than I want now anyway. Funny part of that is I have had people actually threaten to take their business elsewhere. Ok, go ahead (what business? it's free! LOL)

 

[therock]

this would interfere with already linked texts...also why don't you try getting rid of ads rather than finding more ways to put them...

ads are f*cking annoying no matter what...on tv, computer, subway, whatever...ads rarely attract people and frequently annoy