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| RogerLacroix |
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Man am I asleep at the wheel or what.
I saw this discussion before but it just didn't register. I hadn't noticed any change, so I just thought this was just some goofy thread.
This weekend I used IE on some else's PC and I was surprised to see the google ads. When I got home tonight, I fired up my browser and the google ads were gone again. I logged in and out of mqseries.net and no ads. So, I figured Brandon was testing google ads stuff.
Then it hit me. Duh!! One of the main reasons I use Maxthon web browser is because IT BLOCKS ADS!! Duh!! Sure enough, I fired up IE and there were the google ads. So, I'll go bury my head in the sand again.
I also noticed that my MQ Visual Edit google ad is appearing on certain web pages. In case you were wondering, NO, I did not place this ad to be obnoxious at mqseries.net. I have been running this google ad for 1-year now (standard search stuff). It just so happens that it matches here for obvious reasons.
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Roger Lacroix
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| bduncan |
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Hopefully, you're finding that clickthrus as well as purchases have gone up since I started running this 
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| Michael Dag |
| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:52 am Post subject: |
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Have the Google Ads been moved to the left of the page??? (they appear in my browser on the left now...)
Can this please please please be returned to showing the ads on the right???
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| jefflowrey |
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| Michael Dag wrote: |
Have the Google Ads been moved to the left of the page??? (they appear in my browser on the left now...)
Can this please please please be returned to showing the ads on the right??? |
Second!
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| sebastianhirt |
| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:57 am Post subject: |
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I thought the same but didn't dare to ask 
Pleeease Brandon put them to the right side again  |
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| hopsala |
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| sebastianhirt wrote: |
| Pleeease Brandon put them to the right side again |
Yes, please do, we're all very confused  |
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| PeterPotkay |
| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:32 am Post subject: |
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Ugh, thought it was just me and a Firefox thing. Yeah, they feel weird there.
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| bduncan |
| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Well, the point of having the ads at all is to get people to click on them (because I don't get anything if people just look at them). As it turns out, extensive human/computer interaction studies have shown that you're more likely to click on the ad if it's on the left side than if it's on the right side (at least so says Google). I really would like to make these as unobtrusive as possible, but of course that will make them less effective. I'm just trying to cover costs here, and unfortunately donations alone don't cut it. Not that I don't appreciate the donations people have made, believe me, I'm very grateful. It's just that it's quite sporadic and the Google ads at least offer some hope of consistent income to cover the consistent web hosting fees
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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The real problem for me is...
Work completely blocks the Google ads. So despite my own inclinations to click through... I can't.
And with them on the left, I'm, umm, left with a lot of "leading" spaces.
And it is distracting.
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| Michael Dag |
| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| bduncan wrote: |
| As it turns out, extensive human/computer interaction studies have shown that you're more likely to click on the ad if it's on the left side than if it's on the right side (at least so says Google). |
Interesting research, when the ads appeared on the right I look at them and sometimes think "hey interesting, let's see where this leads me...", my first reaction when they appeared on the left "what the .... are those ads doing there! and was totally distracted from the "content".
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| hopsala |
| Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:17 am Post subject: |
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I can confirm Dag's experience with my own - I've never consciously noticed the ads before, and if you were to ask me if there are any ads on MQSeries.net I'd say "no, none that I could see" (I saw them, they were so out of the way and textual that I disregarded them as content  ); but *immediately* after the "great switch", I felt it was taking up my entire page.
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:19 am Post subject: |
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All,
If you are truly bothered by the Google Ads then you should download and install Maxthon.
http://www.maxthon.com/
I've been using it for almost a year now and I really like it - tab browsing, ad blocking, etc... and best of all, it is free.
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
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| Michael Dag |
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| wschutz |
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Where's the linux version?
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