Comments on: The Advertising Dilemma http://mattbrett.com/2005/12/the-advertising-dilemma/ Freelance Web Design, Premium WordPress Themes, and Video Game Reviews Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:08:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: beez http://mattbrett.com/2005/12/the-advertising-dilemma/#comment-7035 beez Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:14:25 +0000 http://www.mattbrett.com/?p=166#comment-7035 man I know what you mean. usually for me though, advertising is a way of reassuring myself that the content actually means something to someone, needless to say that can be quite a downer when it doesn't generate revenue. I came across your site from the widescreen gaming article. good stuff. man I know what you mean.
usually for me though, advertising is a way of reassuring myself that the content actually means something to someone, needless to say that can be quite a downer when it doesn’t generate revenue.

I came across your site from the widescreen gaming article. good stuff.

]]> By: Donald King http://mattbrett.com/2005/12/the-advertising-dilemma/#comment-824 Donald King Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:26:15 +0000 http://www.mattbrett.com/?p=166#comment-824 FYI, the default Opera User-Agent string contains both "MSIE 6.0" and "Opera x.xx". You have to manually change it from "Identify as MSIE" to "Identify as Opera" to get a User-Agent that actually starts with "Opera/x.xx". The regexp I use for XHTML-related browser-sniffing is "/\bOpera(?:\/|\s\d)/", which means "starting at a word boundary, match text that begins with Opera followed by either a slash or a space and a number". FYI, the default Opera User-Agent string contains both “MSIE 6.0″ and “Opera x.xx”. You have to manually change it from “Identify as MSIE” to “Identify as Opera” to get a User-Agent that actually starts with “Opera/x.xx”. The regexp I use for XHTML-related browser-sniffing is “/\bOpera(?:\/|\s\d)/”, which means “starting at a word boundary, match text that begins with Opera followed by either a slash or a space and a number”.

]]> By: m3nt0r http://mattbrett.com/2005/12/the-advertising-dilemma/#comment-783 m3nt0r Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:01:15 +0000 http://www.mattbrett.com/?p=166#comment-783 I been through exactly the same while trying to make some money from my blog. It's just crap. Maybe there are ways to place ads nicley but also long loading times and stuff are just way too messy. I love my site validated and without any warnings codewise. And adsense or other affilate javascripts just kill all the coolness. I removed nearly everything what didn't validate and now i am mostly back to normal. I agree on the immune-to-adsense theory. i ran it for two weeks and made 30 cents.. also i had hiphop links in all my ads for some reason.. lol good choice in taking the ads off. nothing beats a cool clean website. I been through exactly the same while trying to make some money from my blog. It’s just crap. Maybe there are ways to place ads nicley but also long loading times and stuff are just way too messy. I love my site validated and without any warnings codewise. And adsense or other affilate javascripts just kill all the coolness.

I removed nearly everything what didn’t validate and now i am mostly back to normal. I agree on the immune-to-adsense theory. i ran it for two weeks and made 30 cents.. also i had hiphop links in all my ads for some reason.. lol

good choice in taking the ads off. nothing beats a cool clean website.

]]> By: Matt http://mattbrett.com/2005/12/the-advertising-dilemma/#comment-779 Matt Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:49:34 +0000 http://www.mattbrett.com/?p=166#comment-779 @Hans: Great comment! Thanks for your perspective on this topic. I agree that it doesn't benefit anyone to just plop ads all over the place wherever there seems to be room. It not only looks cluttered and tacky, but it's obvious that you didn't put much effort into placing them and your users will immediately be turned off. @Hans: Great comment! Thanks for your perspective on this topic. I agree that it doesn’t benefit anyone to just plop ads all over the place wherever there seems to be room. It not only looks cluttered and tacky, but it’s obvious that you didn’t put much effort into placing them and your users will immediately be turned off.

]]> By: Hans http://mattbrett.com/2005/12/the-advertising-dilemma/#comment-774 Hans Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:10:05 +0000 http://www.mattbrett.com/?p=166#comment-774 Hi Matt my ideas about ads : you see actually what’s wrong is that people just see ads as a source of revenue but not like content itself. Ad is something that should be given structure and much thinking must be put just like the content of a site itself. I think that ad is one of those things that’s actually making the web survive but actually people don’t really know how to integrate it to their sites. I give you some examples : #1 for your site itself Seeing your design, I know that spacing is actually not something to be kidding with, so you could just place a Google adsense searchbox there on your sidebar and allowing people to search on the net. The ads will therefore be displayed on the search results page and not on your site itself. This adds functionality to your site. #2 You see depending on your site and its content, the ads must follow. If your site is just one with only only plain text and no images : you could place out some image ads there just to relax the eyes from all those text. Selecting the right images also is the game. And so on : you see ads itself is content in itself : people should know how to give it a meaning, a structure and a sense. But the most important of it all is just like what you did testing and seeing whether the ads cope with your site : that the fundamental basic because I myself have a Frenchy site and I have also opted for no ads (just being a Firefox referral and the search box that I have been talking about). Hey I came here from Paulstamatiou.com : you know there’s a great contest frying out there you could checked it out. Thanks bye and see you ! Hi Matt my ideas about ads : you see actually what’s wrong is that people just see ads as a source of revenue but not like content itself. Ad is something that should be given structure and much thinking must be put just like the content of a site itself. I think that ad is one of those things that’s actually making the web survive but actually people don’t really know how to integrate it to their sites. I give you some examples :

#1 for your site itself

Seeing your design, I know that spacing is actually not something to be kidding with, so you could just place a Google adsense searchbox there on your sidebar and allowing people to search on the net. The ads will therefore be displayed on the search results page and not on your site itself. This adds functionality to your site.
#2

You see depending on your site and its content, the ads must follow. If your site is just one with only only plain text and no images : you could place out some image ads there just to relax the eyes from all those text. Selecting the right images also is the game.

And so on : you see ads itself is content in itself : people should know how to give it a meaning, a structure and a sense. But the most important of it all is just like what you did testing and seeing whether the ads cope with your site : that the fundamental basic because I myself have a Frenchy site and I have also opted for no ads (just being a Firefox referral and the search box that I have been talking about). Hey I came here from Paulstamatiou.com : you know there’s a great contest frying out there you could checked it out. Thanks bye and see you !

]]> By: Alan http://mattbrett.com/2005/12/the-advertising-dilemma/#comment-656 Alan Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:32:55 +0000 http://www.mattbrett.com/?p=166#comment-656 I hear what you are saying about not using ads on your site. I hate seeing them everywhere but I have actually just thrown them on my site with no due care and attention just to see what the big deal is about and also so I have an understanding of how they all work. Another reason being that they tie in with my silky Google Analytics account so I wanted to get the lowdown on the integration... I fully intend on ripping them out shortly as I am in the process of building my own theme from scratch (with a little help from yourself) and will have no place for them. Props on the site btw... very nice work and I like your subject matters too... Cheers :D I hear what you are saying about not using ads on your site. I hate seeing them everywhere but I have actually just thrown them on my site with no due care and attention just to see what the big deal is about and also so I have an understanding of how they all work. Another reason being that they tie in with my silky Google Analytics account so I wanted to get the lowdown on the integration…

I fully intend on ripping them out shortly as I am in the process of building my own theme from scratch (with a little help from yourself) and will have no place for them.

Props on the site btw… very nice work and I like your subject matters too…

Cheers :D

]]> By: Matt http://mattbrett.com/2005/12/the-advertising-dilemma/#comment-654 Matt Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:11:25 +0000 http://www.mattbrett.com/?p=166#comment-654 <blockquote>Opera only identifies as MSIE when selected to do so from the menu (tools / quick preferences).</blockquote> Oh wow, that's so weird! Why would the default be "Identify as Internet Explorer"? Sucks that that's the case. Aw well, I prefer Firefox over Opera, so in my opinion, it wouldn't hurt to <em>convert</em> some Opera users as well. :-P

Opera only identifies as MSIE when selected to do so from the menu (tools / quick preferences).

Oh wow, that’s so weird! Why would the default be “Identify as Internet Explorer”? Sucks that that’s the case. Aw well, I prefer Firefox over Opera, so in my opinion, it wouldn’t hurt to convert some Opera users as well. :-P

]]> By: Jem http://mattbrett.com/2005/12/the-advertising-dilemma/#comment-653 Jem Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:40:45 +0000 http://www.mattbrett.com/?p=166#comment-653 Opera only identifies as MSIE when selected to do so from the menu (tools / quick preferences). Mucho respect for remaining ad-free. It seems those of us who've made that choice are few and far between recently.. or maybe I'm just browsing the same sites over and over? Opera only identifies as MSIE when selected to do so from the menu (tools / quick preferences).

Mucho respect for remaining ad-free. It seems those of us who’ve made that choice are few and far between recently.. or maybe I’m just browsing the same sites over and over?

]]> By: Trevor http://mattbrett.com/2005/12/the-advertising-dilemma/#comment-651 Trevor Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:12:44 +0000 http://www.mattbrett.com/?p=166#comment-651 Have a seperate web site for ad's :) I have a buddy who generates 9k a month in a psp hacks blog. It did have some help with businessweek.com magazine though because of its target audience and successful psp hacking but moreover has made more than enough money for advertisements that hes buying a condo! Very smart move they did, now he has about 7 web sites with hundreds of ad campaigns a month in the near future. Have a seperate web site for ad’s :) I have a buddy who generates 9k a month in a psp hacks blog. It did have some help with businessweek.com magazine though because of its target audience and successful psp hacking but moreover has made more than enough money for advertisements that hes buying a condo!

Very smart move they did, now he has about 7 web sites with hundreds of ad campaigns a month in the near future.

]]> By: dave http://mattbrett.com/2005/12/the-advertising-dilemma/#comment-650 dave Tue, 06 Dec 2005 07:40:34 +0000 http://www.mattbrett.com/?p=166#comment-650 Big names for 9rules? I'm guessing Matt Good, it's a musical Matt invasion. The guy's got some design chops. Big names for 9rules? I’m guessing Matt Good, it’s a musical Matt invasion. The guy’s got some design chops.

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