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I keep hearing this weird reasoning, but have yet to come across anyone who confused a poorly designed, ad-filled placeholder site for a real website. Put diff

by r0h1n 13y ago

I keep hearing this weird reasoning, but have yet to come across anyone who confused a poorly designed, ad-filled placeholder site for a real website. Put differently, if you're losing people who click shady text ads on a shady website, they probably weren't potential customers to begin with.

elsewhen 13y ago
The "shady" ads are usually adwords ads - yes, adwords allows some shady ads, but they also include lots of legit advertisers too. Yes, the parked pages are nothing but ads, but users who land there are looking for an escape and a surprisingly high number click on the ads. You can find out more from Marchex which is a public company (ticker: MCHX) that runs a large domain portfolio (since it is public, they disclose lots of info).