As long as you have a monetary based economy and cash to spare, then why is advertising ridiculous?
Lets say a completely new, innovative, or maybe simply entertaining product is created. As the seller, do you have to wait for "word of mouth" (which btw is a form of advertising) or do you deliver the product via channels to reach an audience? Ads are just a form of communication like standing on a stage with a tophat selling snake oil. Face it, you are a consumer and people are willing to pay a little to earn the chance to get your business. It's a FUNDAMENTAL force in driving an economy. Not ridiculous. Certainly it's more fun than trading a goat for some chickens.
Good websites deserve support. People need to get off their high horse and realize ads are a part of the web economy and a click is a small donation of time to support a quality website.
I used to avoid clicking referall links within a website, and manually punch in the location in my address bar, as a way to protest the whole ad media concept. Not any longer, sometimes I go back to a site that provided me with info/product support and USE their link to earn them commission.
(Obviously I'm not talking here about those god awful "FED CUTS RATES AGAIN" ads... But don't lump all ads together)
> Like bad coinage, bad ads drive out good ads.
Google's AdSense program deals with this by lowering the rank of ads that people don't click on. I've attempted to place ads in top positions using keywords that dont quite fit the product, and over a period of a few days the rank falls (no matter how much I bid) until the ad is completely removed. So bad ads really aren't driving out good ones. The actual users determine the tops ads by what they click on the most.
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As long as you have a monetary based economy and cash to spare, then why is advertising ridiculous? Lets say a completely new, innovative, or maybe simply entertaining product is created. As the seller, do you have to wait for "word of mouth" (which btw is a form of advertising) or do you deliver the product via channels to reach an audience? Ads are just a form of communication like standing on a stage with a tophat selling snake oil. Face it, you are a consumer and people are willing to pay a little to earn the chance to get your business. It's a FUNDAMENTAL force in driving an economy. Not ridiculous. Certainly it's more fun than trading a goat for some chickens.
Good websites deserve support. People need to get off their high horse and realize ads are a part of the web economy and a click is a small donation of time to support a quality website. I used to avoid clicking referall links within a website, and manually punch in the location in my address bar, as a way to protest the whole ad media concept. Not any longer, sometimes I go back to a site that provided me with info/product support and USE their link to earn them commission. (Obviously I'm not talking here about those god awful "FED CUTS RATES AGAIN" ads... But don't lump all ads together)
> Like bad coinage, bad ads drive out good ads. Google's AdSense program deals with this by lowering the rank of ads that people don't click on. I've attempted to place ads in top positions using keywords that dont quite fit the product, and over a period of a few days the rank falls (no matter how much I bid) until the ad is completely removed. So bad ads really aren't driving out good ones. The actual users determine the tops ads by what they click on the most.