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A problem with these sort of sites is that you're associating your business with another business that could easily be competing with your own, or worse be some
by citricsquid 14y ago
A problem with these sort of sites is that you're associating your business with another business that could easily be competing with your own, or worse be something that affects the image of your business (for example race hate, pornography).
The other problem is that why would a website use this service? Because they have low traffic; how many low traffic websites are there? Millions. So you're going to be competing with millions of other (potentially crappy) websites to get your advert on... a potentially crappy low traffic website, one that will probably not be related to yours in any way. The traffic will be of no real value, someone making a blog about fashion reviews isn't going to want traffic from a website that sells potatoes.
I assume the basic idea is they sell it for such a small price ($2.95/m) that most people will sign up and then not really care if it doesn't work all that great, if they have a million customers they're going to make a substantial amount of revenue even if their value to customers is non-existent.
- mirsadm 14y agoThis is pretty spot on. It seems comparable to cross promotion for mobile apps. I found those to have the same issues you described. Lots of apps with very little users/value promoting each other.
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- vasco 14y agoThe video did say you can have your ad display just in websites related to your own.
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