- Annoying
- Take time to load
- Distract from the content
But what's the alternative?
If you're a guy with a website that you want to see grow by having more bandwidth and disk space without having a corporate sponsor who's willing to pay for it, the only way is banner ads.
Are there any other alternatives to pay the expenses for maintaining a site today?
This makes perfect sense. But, unfortunately, with the huge number of sites that are featuring banners, advertisers are demanding much more than simply their banner being seen.
The banner company I dealt with for my site asked me to pull off all their banners because the people who're clicking through my site are not making purchases at the target sites.
Now I'm not supposed to only make a site that's good enough that people visit on a daily basis and want to click on banners featured in it, but they must buy something for me to be good enough!
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A movie is barely long enough for one DBZ fight!!!
It's easy to bash banners because they're:
- Annoying
- Take time to load
- Distract from the content
But what's the alternative?
If you're a guy with a website that you want to see grow by having more bandwidth and disk space without having a corporate sponsor who's willing to pay for it, the only way is banner ads.
Are there any other alternatives to pay the expenses for maintaining a site today?
This makes perfect sense. But, unfortunately, with the huge number of sites that are featuring banners, advertisers are demanding much more than simply their banner being seen.
The banner company I dealt with for my site asked me to pull off all their banners because the people who're clicking through my site are not making purchases at the target sites.
Now I'm not supposed to only make a site that's good enough that people visit on a daily basis and want to click on banners featured in it, but they must buy something for me to be good enough!