Comments on: Adsense Kills Business http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/adsense-kills-business.html Conversations about selling crafts on the web. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Suzanna http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/adsense-kills-business.html#comment-72 Suzanna Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:07:56 +0000 http://flashgallerytemplate.com/?p=69#comment-72 Got you, sure makes sense. -Su http://bangalorebuzzz.blogspot.com Got you, sure makes sense.
-Su
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]]> By: Zach Katkin http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/adsense-kills-business.html#comment-71 Zach Katkin Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:37:33 +0000 http://flashgallerytemplate.com/?p=69#comment-71 I just advised a client to this effect. I run a small web firm and we redesigned a major financial blog/subscription website which had previously featured an enormous amount of advertising. It was hard to look at. Since taking the new design live, and removing advertising (2 weeks) amount of time, number of pages per visit, and number of signups are all up. Advertising has no place on a services or company website. I just advised a client to this effect. I run a small web firm and we redesigned a major financial blog/subscription website which had previously featured an enormous amount of advertising. It was hard to look at. Since taking the new design live, and removing advertising (2 weeks) amount of time, number of pages per visit, and number of signups are all up. Advertising has no place on a services or company website.

]]> By: Admin http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/adsense-kills-business.html#comment-69 Admin Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:24:01 +0000 http://flashgallerytemplate.com/?p=69#comment-69 Do you really need to run ads on your site to check out the competition? As a businessperson you should know exactly who your competition is without having to provide them advertising on your own site. Most of my 'cold customers', those who find me via the search engines, are clearly aware of my competition as they have already chosen my listing in the SERPs over the others sites including the ads on the results page by visiting my site. They know and I know that I am far from the only provider out there. I don't see how anyone can hope to hide the competition when they are so easily found via the search engines. I just don't understand the folks who think by putting ads on their site to their competition will ever work in bringing the customer back. As I've mentioned in another comment, that whole 'check out my competition and come back' challenge only works when the challenge is issued. It doesn't work with Adsense and some of the other programs since the TOS expressly prohibits drawing any sort of "attention" to the ads, thereby making it impossible to make the challenge in the first place. Do you really need to run ads on your site to check out the competition? As a businessperson you should know exactly who your competition is without having to provide them advertising on your own site.

Most of my ‘cold customers’, those who find me via the search engines, are clearly aware of my competition as they have already chosen my listing in the SERPs over the others sites including the ads on the results page by visiting my site. They know and I know that I am far from the only provider out there. I don’t see how anyone can hope to hide the competition when they are so easily found via the search engines.

I just don’t understand the folks who think by putting ads on their site to their competition will ever work in bringing the customer back.

As I’ve mentioned in another comment, that whole ‘check out my competition and come back’ challenge only works when the challenge is issued. It doesn’t work with Adsense and some of the other programs since the TOS expressly prohibits drawing any sort of “attention” to the ads, thereby making it impossible to make the challenge in the first place.

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