View Poll Results: Have you clicked a scoobynet advertisement link
No, never.
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Yes, I have a few times in the past.
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I frequently click advertisements.
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I have a problem, I click them all and just buy, buy, buy!!
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25 March 2009, 11:25 PM
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I presume that a lot of the revenue stream for a bit BBS like this comes from the advertising links placed within it. However, I completely ignore them and haven't clicked them once? I'm curious how many people actually do or have?
25 March 2009, 11:28 PM
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No idea as I can't see them, along with most adblock users.
Based on my own pay per click revenue I guess SN earns about £8k per month on google adwords, plus the paid for adverts from suppliers etc.
just a guess, I may be way out !
Based on my own pay per click revenue I guess SN earns about £8k per month on google adwords, plus the paid for adverts from suppliers etc.
just a guess, I may be way out !
25 March 2009, 11:31 PM
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I guess SN earns about £8k per month on google adwords
25 March 2009, 11:43 PM
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100,000 users inc viewers, 10% click on a link every week/month/year at everywhere between 1p and £1.50 per click it gets a bit mad
cliché time: It is easier to get £1 each from a million people than getting £1m from one person
26 March 2009, 12:09 AM
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One of the reasons I block adverts is I 99.999999999999999999999% of the time have never clicked on one, so why have them displayed. Waste of bandwidth. I know I'm being unfair to the site owners, but if they got the new memberships sorted, particularly the updated Plus membership, I'd be happy to make a contribution to the sites running costs.
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26 March 2009, 01:37 PM
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26 March 2009, 01:40 PM
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No they are not, but its double click et al that slow the site down, im always waiting for adshare or double click to finish loading!
Put it this way, its a lot slower since IB took over, and they have introduced more advertisers, can you make the connection, cos i can!
Put it this way, its a lot slower since IB took over, and they have introduced more advertisers, can you make the connection, cos i can!
26 March 2009, 01:42 PM
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No, but then I'm in the web hosting industry and know what I'm talking about.
26 March 2009, 01:44 PM
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Fair enough, but im still under the impression that more ads equals slower loading, is that not correct?
They take up band with dont they?
They take up band with dont they?
26 March 2009, 01:51 PM
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They take up your bandwidth, yes. But they don't slow Scoobynet down because they load asynchronously. If you don't click on the adverts, do you care that you're still waiting for a Viagra ad to download while you're reading the rest of the completed page? The ads may stop the page saying "Done" quickly but usually the Scoobynet servers have delivered all of their content way before the ads load. And with ads blocked, you wouldn't even have that problem.
26 March 2009, 02:51 PM
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Think I'm going to start up a forum, and give up my day job, £8k a month I could just about manage on that! Just got to figure out that up and coming subject 
26 March 2009, 03:27 PM
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If you look hard enough you can see a forum in the middle of a page full of adverts.
I use Safari and I'm not sure if there's an Ad-blocker for that yet.
I use Safari and I'm not sure if there's an Ad-blocker for that yet.
26 March 2009, 03:38 PM
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I've started using FF over IE as I'm sick of Scoobynet being so slow. FF is slowing now though 
Anywho, how do you get the ad blocker on, as I've found the ads load before the page content does. This slows it down my end. You'd think the Scoobynet content would load first, but it seems the multitude of advertisements takes precidence now
Anywho, how do you get the ad blocker on, as I've found the ads load before the page content does. This slows it down my end. You'd think the Scoobynet content would load first, but it seems the multitude of advertisements takes precidence now
26 March 2009, 03:39 PM
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so 10% do click on the ads so far. thats more than enough for decent income. pay per click ranges can run to hundreds of pounds. add banner advertising revenues etc and comes up to a decent whck. it is a profit making business - they just dont seem to pay all there staff (mods)? lol.
26 March 2009, 04:04 PM
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26 March 2009, 06:41 PM
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Cheers but I should have said, an Ad-Blocker for Safari on Windows. Cheers Dedrater too, but that's for Mac.
I've done the thing with a custom CSS sheet but that doesn't give the functionality of Adblocker in Firefox, and doesn't catch all ads anyway.
I know what you're going to say - use Firefox
I've done the thing with a custom CSS sheet but that doesn't give the functionality of Adblocker in Firefox, and doesn't catch all ads anyway.
I know what you're going to say - use Firefox