Comments on: Text Link Ads. A Scam? http://www.dotcult.com/text-link-ads-a-scam Ryan Jones Blogs About Internet Culture, Marketing, SEO, & Social Media Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dropping Text Link Ads - h0bbel http://www.dotcult.com/text-link-ads-a-scam#comment-3360 Dropping Text Link Ads - h0bbel Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:07:34 +0000 http://www.dotcult.com/text-link-ads-a-scam#comment-3360 [...] I’m not the first one to do this, Ryan Jones over at dotcult.com did the exact same thing back in January, and got suspended from TLA (only to be let back in later). Like Ryan, I looked for a ToS on the TLA site, but could not find one. I therefore modified the raw PHP plugin that they provide, to add the nofollow tag. [...] [...] I’m not the first one to do this, Ryan Jones over at dotcult.com did the exact same thing back in January, and got suspended from TLA (only to be let back in later). Like Ryan, I looked for a ToS on the TLA site, but could not find one. I therefore modified the raw PHP plugin that they provide, to add the nofollow tag. [...]

]]> By: Garry Conn http://www.dotcult.com/text-link-ads-a-scam#comment-3327 Garry Conn Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:04:12 +0000 http://www.dotcult.com/text-link-ads-a-scam#comment-3327 Ryan, excellent article. I really love Google. Type what I want in the search bar and "Boom!" your article pulls up. lol I have been trying to figure out how to do this, can you reply back and let me know how you added the nofollow to the links? If not here, then email me directly is fine too. Best Regards, Garry Ryan, excellent article. I really love Google. Type what I want in the search bar and “Boom!” your article pulls up. lol

I have been trying to figure out how to do this, can you reply back and let me know how you added the nofollow to the links? If not here, then email me directly is fine too.

Best Regards,
Garry

]]> By: Alexander http://www.dotcult.com/text-link-ads-a-scam#comment-91 Alexander Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:02:57 +0000 http://www.dotcult.com/text-link-ads-a-scam#comment-91 Oh I see, kinda like a sponsored affiliates deal? Fair enough then. Oh I see, kinda like a sponsored affiliates deal? Fair enough then.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.dotcult.com/text-link-ads-a-scam#comment-86 Ryan Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:25:35 +0000 http://www.dotcult.com/text-link-ads-a-scam#comment-86 Hey Alex.. the "ads" we were talking about weren't really ads, but just a part of a sidebar saying "Sponsored websites:" and then plain old a href tags below it. Sorta like the "My Websites" section of this page that whores out my other shit. Hey Alex.. the “ads” we were talking about weren’t really ads, but just a part of a sidebar saying

“Sponsored websites:” and then plain old a href tags below it. Sorta like the “My Websites” section of this page that whores out my other shit.

]]> By: Alexander http://www.dotcult.com/text-link-ads-a-scam#comment-85 Alexander Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:55:19 +0000 http://www.dotcult.com/text-link-ads-a-scam#comment-85 Well, HG you know my views on adverts on websites. Frankly, I don't see any difference between V14GRA spam and google ads whatsoever, I'm not going to click on either of them. Web hosting keeps getting cheaper, but yet webmasters seem more and more willing to pollute their pages with ads, trying to send their visitors away from their content to some spurious third party. I don't get it. Plus, I can only see returns on text ads (and banner ads etc) diminishing over time as more people get clued up to "filtering" content from adverts on a web page using their eyes. The same way you don't stop and read every billboard you walk past, you just blank them out because they're irrelevant to your daily life. But maybe that's just me. Well, HG you know my views on adverts on websites. Frankly, I don’t see any difference between V14GRA spam and google ads whatsoever, I’m not going to click on either of them.

Web hosting keeps getting cheaper, but yet webmasters seem more and more willing to pollute their pages with ads, trying to send their visitors away from their content to some spurious third party. I don’t get it.

Plus, I can only see returns on text ads (and banner ads etc) diminishing over time as more people get clued up to “filtering” content from adverts on a web page using their eyes. The same way you don’t stop and read every billboard you walk past, you just blank them out because they’re irrelevant to your daily life.

But maybe that’s just me.

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