| There's been enough complaints now that I've been convinced. So the next stage in the experiment is that Google ads have been turned off on the profile pages of Power Networkers. If you actually wanted the ads on your profile page, I'm sorry but I'm not going to start putting in switches so individuals can turn them on or off on particular bits of the site. From some of the comments, it seems that some people think we have some control over what ads appear where. I should just make it clear that we have no control whatsoever once we tell Google to display an ad. Google's choice of ad is completely automatic and based on what Google knows about that page. If they have no knowledge of the page, then they put up charity ads which don't generate money for anyone. Since real ads appear across almost the whole site, we can therefore assume that Google has indexed almost every page. One last question for the people who didn't like to see the ads from competitors. It's quite likely that at some stage in the future we will be taking banner ads via an agency rather than via Google. At that time, we're likely to be showing ads from larger companies. This may or may not give us control over what's shown. So here's the question. Would you put up with seeing an ad on your profile page from someone like Oracle? After all there's bound to be someone who is in competition with them no matter who the ad is from. And the bigger question. How do you feel about advertising on Ecademy in general? Given the traffic we're now getting, this ought to be a significant revenue earner. So if you really don't want them, please suggest some alternate sources of equivalent revenue. [from: JB Ecademy] |
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