I'm not really happy about the system, and the things being advertised. Keyword based advertising doesn't look as good as context based advertising to me.
For example, the word "programming" may appear in many contexts. But it always brings you to earning an online college degree. The word "developer" also always brings you to an online college degree, but from a different college appearantly.
And the word "algorithm" brings you to a media shop...
Spot the GDNet Advert Easter Eggs
I dont really have any problem with the links. But of course I use IE and it doesnt slow it down really.
I just don't want them to get out of control...
I just don't want them to get out of control...
These are far better than the flash-enabled banner ads. If people are worried about system resources, these draw practically none.
I have a question, are the ads relavent to the link text? It doesn't seem that they are. If they were, that would be very cool. I'm very interested in software that can help me streamline or complete any task, so if I see a greeny-link on "software management", I expect to see an advertisement for a source control system or other CM related stuff.
I have a question, are the ads relavent to the link text? It doesn't seem that they are. If they were, that would be very cool. I'm very interested in software that can help me streamline or complete any task, so if I see a greeny-link on "software management", I expect to see an advertisement for a source control system or other CM related stuff.
Quote:Original post by Lode
I'm not really happy about the system, and the things being advertised. Keyword based advertising doesn't look as good as context based advertising to me.
For example, the word "programming" may appear in many contexts. But it always brings you to earning an online college degree. The word "developer" also always brings you to an online college degree, but from a different college appearantly.
And the word "algorithm" brings you to a media shop...
I just tried it out (checked out some articles with ads) - and I have to agree - the lack of context-sensitivity is most anoying.
Like the above example. A lot of the words related to programming are attached to bulk-like "earn your degree" type stuff. Sure it's more relevent than the "breast enlargement magazine" that appeared in the bulk ads with much amusement, but it has absolutly nothing on the non-bulk banners (which are actually often interesting and click-worthy).
I think that - because they really are no more relevent than the bulk ads, and even somewhat less relevent than Google's advertising, it causes them to be less of a "here is some relevent information" type thing and more of a "you're not clicking on our bulk ads enough, so we'll do something to annoy you more".
If the ads really were relevent, then I think it would work really well. But they're so totally irrelevent that it's simply an annoyance. I am starting to think they're quite a bit of a detractor from the site.
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If you dispise ads that much, sign up for GDNet+, they all but disappear then.
Unfortunatly, i'm not make of money...
From,
Nice coder
Some of the particularly bad ones:
"Pointer" goes to cursorcafe.com
"SDK" goes to barcode recognition software.
"DLLs" and "encryption" both lead to trojan-scan.com
"Source Code" leads to fast-report.com
"Memory Management" leads to a PC performance enhancer
"Kernel" leads to starware.com (an IE toolbar)
And some less-bad but still totally out of context:
"Windows Application" leads to a place selling applications for windows.
"Software" goes to a place where you can buy discount software
"Computer" leads to dell4me.com
"Web" leads to test-tool-software-comparison.com
The following lead to online degree type things (or similar):
"XML", "Design Pattern", "Object Oriented", "Program", "Programming Language", "Photoshop",
Some that were relevent and in context:
"Memory Leak", which leads to dynamic-memory.com.
"Server" leads to stuff about buying servers. But, then, so does "cluster" when used in a context with nothing to do with servers.
"Internet Explorer" leads to a site where you can download it (not Microsoft's site, though).
"encrypt" leads to a data encryption program (just barely in context)
[Edited by - Andrew Russell on July 11, 2005 7:17:40 AM]
"Pointer" goes to cursorcafe.com
"SDK" goes to barcode recognition software.
"DLLs" and "encryption" both lead to trojan-scan.com
"Source Code" leads to fast-report.com
"Memory Management" leads to a PC performance enhancer
"Kernel" leads to starware.com (an IE toolbar)
And some less-bad but still totally out of context:
"Windows Application" leads to a place selling applications for windows.
"Software" goes to a place where you can buy discount software
"Computer" leads to dell4me.com
"Web" leads to test-tool-software-comparison.com
The following lead to online degree type things (or similar):
"XML", "Design Pattern", "Object Oriented", "Program", "Programming Language", "Photoshop",
Some that were relevent and in context:
"Memory Leak", which leads to dynamic-memory.com.
"Server" leads to stuff about buying servers. But, then, so does "cluster" when used in a context with nothing to do with servers.
"Internet Explorer" leads to a site where you can download it (not Microsoft's site, though).
"encrypt" leads to a data encryption program (just barely in context)
[Edited by - Andrew Russell on July 11, 2005 7:17:40 AM]
I try to do my part by saving articles to disk instead of looking them up every time, is there any way to keep these things out of them when I do this? Fortunately clicking on a saved article simply reopens the article in a new window.
"other reputable sites use them" are you trying to f*** with me? My opinion of a site greatly declines when I see these things. My esteem of gd.net went down the instant I saw these despite my long years here and for a moment I thought there had been a change in management since I never ever see these things on useful sites.
As others have stated:
ruins concentration,
makes me think it's an important link when it's not,
and something that is of actual importance since it impacts number of users on this site, they look ugly.
ps: They're trying to advertise to me the isp I already use!?!?
"other reputable sites use them" are you trying to f*** with me? My opinion of a site greatly declines when I see these things. My esteem of gd.net went down the instant I saw these despite my long years here and for a moment I thought there had been a change in management since I never ever see these things on useful sites.
As others have stated:
ruins concentration,
makes me think it's an important link when it's not,
and something that is of actual importance since it impacts number of users on this site, they look ugly.
ps: They're trying to advertise to me the isp I already use!?!?
Quote:Original post by jdhardy
... I've long since added *intellitxt* to my AdBlock rules.
more rating for you. :)
My 2 cents:
I found the links really annoying until I nuked 'em with AdBlock - I find the links distracting (others have stated my reasons, so I won't repeat them), and would never purposefully follow the damn things (often into the dusbin of the itarweb) anyway. Hence the nuking - many thanks jdhardy for the AdBlock wildcard text - I highly recommend AdBlock to any fellow Firefox users.
On the other hand, GD benefits from the links (yay!), and some users have stated their interest in following the links for a cursory glance - in such cases the adverts are a success.
How about announcing some ad-disabling strategies for those users who are finding the ads annoying (renaming this thread to better reflect its contents would be a start) - I didn't know about the "what's this?" link to disable the ads until I found this thread. A number of your GDNet subscribers may also be unaware that they might need to clear their cookies before they are saved from the plague of the ugly green linkies.
Quote:Original post by RolandofGilead
My esteem of gd.net went down the instant I saw these despite my long years here and for a moment I thought there had been a change in management since I never ever see these things on useful sites.
Anandtech
Tom's Hardware (see http://www.tomshardware.com/site/intellitxt.html too)
...are the first two that come to mind. Not reputable?
Not only that, but count the number of banner ads on these websites compared to GameDev.net.
I've looked at what they were promoting for a while and I must say that, overall, I'm just not interested. I understand that they can only offer ads for, well, companies that have contacted them, but I honestly do hope they have more in their database than ads for degree mills, Intel processors...
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