The Ads...

[JimLucas]

Presumably as a result of Google ads being added to Concertina.net, the number of different advertisers seems to have increased, though from where I sit it doesn't seem by much.

 

But I think I've noticed another change, and maybe Ken or Paul can tell me if I'm right. I seem to tecall that "in the good old days" the ads would cycle randomly among the advertisers, changing after a certain amount of time even if I were doing nothing. Now I seem to get a new ad only when I enter a page, and it remains there until I go to another page. (Some of the ads have their own internal cycles, but the advertiser doesn't change at all.)

 

If I'm right, I think this means that many people will actually see fewer ads per visit to C.net, and each individual advertiser will get fewer -- albeit longer -- exposures per day. This seems to me somewhat contrary to the purpose of the advertising, so I'm curious.

[Ken_Coles]

Jim, you mean the ad would change simply during static display of a page, while you weren't clicking anything, to a _different_ advertiser? I don't recall it that way, but again, I'm not in charge of the dynamic code and I could be mixed up. OTOH, leaving a page and returning to it...that might be different.

 

Yesterday one of my google ads, when clicked, took me to one of Bob Gaskins' pages! I thought that was great.

[Chris Timson]

Yesterday one of my google ads, when clicked, took me to one of Bob Gaskins' pages!  I thought that was great.

If you look at Google's rates, you'll realise Bob probably pays quite handsomely for that privilege. More power to him - his pages are an excellent routing out to the sites of the rest of us. Thanks, Bob.

 

Chris