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I find this truly bizarre. Who are these 8%? Is there some new, widespread form of obsessive compulsive behaviour that involves clicking through EVERY link on E

by DanI-S 16y ago

I find this truly bizarre. Who are these 8%? Is there some new, widespread form of obsessive compulsive behaviour that involves clicking through EVERY link on EVERY page?

julianz 16y ago
Presumably quite a lot of them are being paid to go around and click on ads to increase revenue for certain sites.
fbnt 16y ago
My dad is in that 8%. I guess the more you're a computer illiterate, the less you're likely to get the difference between a genuine and an advertising link.
- zaidf 16y ago
  We made the most money(via adsense) when our music website's streaming server would go down but the site would be up. It was a painful reality.
  - jacquesm 16y ago
    Being a destination site definitely does not help your ad revenues.
    - zaidf 16y ago
      It was only a so-so destination site with 70%(50K+ visitors) of our daily visitors coming via google search.
      - jacquesm 16y ago
        That's a lot of traffic from a single source, scary! The point is that as soon as your service was down the ads were the more interesting content, as long as the site was up that apparently wasn't the case. I think most advertising based websites will see this effect, I'm sure that there is a way to figure out just how much 'strategic downtime' you can get away with :)
    - zaidf 16y ago
      It was only a so-so destination site with 70%(50K+ visitors) of our daily visitors coming via google search.
acangiano 16y ago
The thought process of non-technical people is truly fascinating. These are people who type "www.google.com" on Google, have 5+ toolbars and smiley screensavers installed, and generally act on any call to action that is presented to them (including fake antivirus warnings). As web entrepreneurs we need to learn how to exploit these people and make as much money as possible from them. It's the right thing to do to preserve the natural selection process and ensure the proper evolution of the Homo Iunctus. /kidding
- noahth 16y ago
  But in all seriousness, if you want to make a lot of money, it is in your interest to understand these people and make something that they want.
- saint-loup 16y ago
  >>>and generally act on any call to action that is presented to them... There is also the exactly opposite behavior : non-technical people who are uncomfortable with computers and scared of doing something wrong, and thus do nothing. People who don't read dialogs not because they are lazy, but because they're sure they won't understand a single word of it. They never click, never never try to fix the problem themselves (and find out there's probably no real problem) or understand what's going on.
blacksmythe 16y ago
The title is misleading. The 8% are probably fairly normal. The headline should read "92% of people hardly ever click on ads". Much less surprising.

by DanI-S 16y ago

I find this truly bizarre. Who are these 8%? Is there some new, widespread form of obsessive compulsive behaviour that involves clicking through EVERY link on EVERY page?

julianz 16y ago

Presumably quite a lot of them are being paid to go around and click on ads to increase revenue for certain sites.

fbnt 16y ago

My dad is in that 8%. I guess the more you're a computer illiterate, the less you're likely to get the difference between a genuine and an advertising link.

zaidf 16y ago
We made the most money(via adsense) when our music website's streaming server would go down but the site would be up. It was a painful reality.
- jacquesm 16y ago
  Being a destination site definitely does not help your ad revenues.
  - zaidf 16y ago
    It was only a so-so destination site with 70%(50K+ visitors) of our daily visitors coming via google search.
    - jacquesm 16y ago
      That's a lot of traffic from a single source, scary! The point is that as soon as your service was down the ads were the more interesting content, as long as the site was up that apparently wasn't the case. I think most advertising based websites will see this effect, I'm sure that there is a way to figure out just how much 'strategic downtime' you can get away with :)
  - zaidf 16y ago
    It was only a so-so destination site with 70%(50K+ visitors) of our daily visitors coming via google search.

acangiano 16y ago

The thought process of non-technical people is truly fascinating. These are people who type "www.google.com" on Google, have 5+ toolbars and smiley screensavers installed, and generally act on any call to action that is presented to them (including fake antivirus warnings). As web entrepreneurs we need to learn how to exploit these people and make as much money as possible from them. It's the right thing to do to preserve the natural selection process and ensure the proper evolution of the Homo Iunctus. /kidding

noahth 16y ago
But in all seriousness, if you want to make a lot of money, it is in your interest to understand these people and make something that they want.
saint-loup 16y ago
>>>and generally act on any call to action that is presented to them... There is also the exactly opposite behavior : non-technical people who are uncomfortable with computers and scared of doing something wrong, and thus do nothing. People who don't read dialogs not because they are lazy, but because they're sure they won't understand a single word of it. They never click, never never try to fix the problem themselves (and find out there's probably no real problem) or understand what's going on.

blacksmythe 16y ago

The title is misleading. The 8% are probably fairly normal. The headline should read "92% of people hardly ever click on ads". Much less surprising.