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It seems so strange to me that there is such an ever increasing push to get people to click ads when I can't tell you a single person I know that ever actually
by mungoid 9y ago
It seems so strange to me that there is such an ever increasing push to get people to click ads when I can't tell you a single person I know that ever actually clicks one on purpose. If I see an ad for something I just search it instead because I don't trust ads..
Except for one time years ago when I saw an ad on my own site for a drawing tablet and getting my account suspended for cheating even though I actually bought the tablet. Decided then I'm never gonna do ads on any of my sites.
I think the advertisers care more about about manipulating companies to buy ads than actually increasing that companies sales.
- albertgoeswoof 9y agoI have clicked ads. A lot of people do- if they're relevant and right there we click them.
- mungoid 9y agoOh yeah, I definitely know people do. There wouldn't be so much advertising out there if visitors didn't click them. I'm just generally a little overly suspicious about ads because they can be 'phishy'. That and, like others have commented already, the ads i see are for things I recently bought so I have no need to buy them again soon.
- _rpd 9y agoIt sounds tautological, but ads are designed for the type of people that click ads. This is a far larger portion of the population than you might think. For example, consider that the first 3 links on a search page receive over 50% of all clicks. The first 5 links receive 67% of all clicks. Only 9% of all users view the second page of search results.