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[The Simpleton]

This is a really tricky question to answer but why don't you try once Most of you here knows that when you search for something in google, you get two sets of results. One contains the ordinary web-page listings while another contains the sponsored web-page listings, which gives google employees their fat pay-checks In my experience, I have found that most of the time clicking on the sponsored listings is of no use at all, because they hardly ever show me what I'm searching for. Their titles are misleading most of the time and so I have stopped even looking at them and go through the ordinary listings.

Then again, this might not be applicable for all the keywords. Sometimes the sposored listings could save you time and get you what you're looking for in an instant. It all depends onthe keyword. So how often do you click on these listings, knowing that you're profiting google? Ever since I got bad results I stopped clicking on any ads at all, so google's been getting a loss of maybe few cents due to me! But when I'm, not getting what I'm looking for, why should I give profit to someone else? That's my argument.


I think I might as well add another question - do you think the sponsored listings are useful to you? Not to google, but you! They will attract you and tempt you with their clever titles and in some cases flashy banners, but will you fall in the trap?!!!

[akashi]

I haven't clicked it yet, and it's quite probably I won't do that Sorry google... They won't be useful for me, because I only looking for free infos and freeware.

[-Sky-]

I never click them, apart from my own ads. I don't see the point in wasting time clicking alot of Ads by Google.

[The Simpleton]

Well based on your two replies I can see that you aren't very interested in clicking on the ads. But there are millions of people who just click on the ads attracted by the title and most of the time they are led to useless sites. And google can't really do anything about this because the advertiser gives google money for them to be quiet and then place misleading links in their ads, perhaps trying to reach out for customers! The more I think about it, the more I see google as a bad company!!!

[akashi]

But, at least google is much better then youknowwho company They're sucking your money, they're doing any effort they can do to suck your money, and there is no way that youknowwho won't suck your money in the future At least google doesn't suck mine, and that would be ok. And even google loves ppl clicking their ads, it still warn us if we're trying to enter harm site Maybe, few years later we can't enter youknowwho's site because google put it on the blacklist ;p

kasperooney, on Jul 11 2009, 11:05 PM, said:

The more I think about it, the more I see google as a bad company!!!

[The Simpleton]

It's not a problem to say that name aloud, akashi-san; everyone talks about how bad that "youknowwho" company is Well google won't be taking any money from us soon, but we can't say anything about what will happen in the future. And if we're not wrong, in the notebooks which wil come with chrome pre-installed, google will get a part of the money you pay for the notebook (so in that way chrome won't be totally free!)

for now I hope google won't turn into "youknowhow" in a hurry!

[Indou]

youknowwho? What if I don't know who?

I've clicked a few of them. Though yeah, mostly always useless :/ Google. Oh! Does it begin with M? >>;

[akashi]

you knew it already. yes, it begins with M. And it's M? >>;
But i'm surprised that you clicked few of them.

Indou, on Jul 12 2009, 07:54 AM, said:

youknowwho? What if I don't know who?

I've clicked a few of them. Though yeah, mostly always useless :/ Google. Oh! Does it begin with M? >>;

[The Simpleton]

in the documentary i saw google said that with a little money, your ad could compete with the top results. That means, if you're selling something in a category, with a little money you can compete with the top companies which show up in the free listings!! But what if your site doesn't show what it promises? You lose the customer, and you lose the money, and the only benefit is for google! That's why it is never advisable to click on google's ads - they will keep on getting their millions anyway, we should just try and save our time.

[rpgsearcherz]

kasperooney, on Jul 11 2009, 09:13 PM, said:

in the documentary i saw google said that with a little money, your ad could compete with the top results. That means, if you're selling something in a category, with a little money you can compete with the top companies which show up in the free listings!! But what if your site doesn't show what it promises? You lose the customer, and you lose the money, and the only benefit is for google! That's why it is never advisable to click on google's ads - they will keep on getting their millions anyway, we should just try and save our time.

You don't need money to get ranked #1 in Google results... You just have to know what you're doing, .

It is a fun, constant battle for a #1 spot but that's what keeps some of us going, the "cat-and-mouse" game. Nothing beats rocking out in a #1 spot for a month and then noticing you lost it again,lol.

[QueenBea]

I don't know why but i never use the adverts on the right hand side - google's adverts. As other members have said I dont think the google adverts really bring you the information you want.

I dont know much about google but if your website is good, should it not come up on the first or second

[Ike_ve]

I never click on them. When i first went online, i was thinking that the google ads are viruses or something, so i don't click them. Now i don't click them becouse there isn't ads on my Language and i'm not interested of them. Maybe, when it haves Macedonian ads, maybe i will click on them if i am interested of them. But i don't think so.

[Quatrux]

I click them once in a while, but usually the sites are not so promising, I only click them because I used to use google adsense and still am using, but not as active as I used to to get someone couple of cents for my click, but lets say statistically I click 8 google ads a year

[Alex Cicala]

Personally I us Firefox's extension, Ad-Block Plus and I dont see the ads. I have clicked on Googles Ads before though, they don't bother me really, only if they spam the page it will bother me.

[mahesh2k]

Yes, i do click on google ads if they're relevant to the search query. sometimes i have found better sites from the sponsored links of google. i got result of good book shop near my place from which i can book in few hours. i wasn't aware of this site and service but because of google sponsored results i found that.

another experience is sometimes some results and sponsored links are simply crap. they don't link to the worthy sites at all. i mean if sometimes you're bored and do some random google query and surf the sponsored link. it could turn out to be useless site, affilate blog etc.

so these days i have decided to use the Firefox's ad-block extension. i don't want to wast my time on such waste sites.

[Baniboy]

I never see ads while browsing except if I'm browsing on opera, but I can block ads in opera too, simply by not allowing iframes and javascript on sites I don't know.

And have you thought that by clicking on those ads you may find something useful and benefit people. People get their paycheck, and google could improve it's services like gmail and adsense. Yes they are useless, but somebody could get a job for your clicks

[varalu]

kasperooney, on Jul 11 2009, 02:43 PM, said:

This is a really tricky question to answer but why don't you try once Most of you here knows that when you search for something in google, you get two sets of results. One contains the ordinary web-page listings while another contains the sponsored web-page listings, which gives google employees their fat pay-checks In my experience, I have found that most of the time clicking on the sponsored listings is of no use at all, because they hardly ever show me what I'm searching for. Their titles are misleading most of the time and so I have stopped even looking at them and go through the ordinary listings.

Then again, this might not be applicable for all the keywords. Sometimes the sposored listings could save you time and get you what you're looking for in an instant. It all depends onthe keyword. So how often do you click on these listings, knowing that you're profiting google? Ever since I got bad results I stopped clicking on any ads at all, so google's been getting a loss of maybe few cents due to me! But when I'm, not getting what I'm looking for, why should I give profit to someone else? That's my argument.


I think I might as well add another question - do you think the sponsored listings are useful to you? Not to google, but you! They will attract you and tempt you with their clever titles and in some cases flashy banners, but will you fall in the trap?!!!

This topic is interesting.
Basically it depends on what you were looking for. Most of the time, people are worried about getting the results they want and are very keen on the search results and hardly look at these sponsored results most of the time... Even if they look they do not get the desired results - The sponsored results also show the link of the webpage it gets directed to and if they already know about a particular website and they feel it might not be of that much use, they do not prefer visiting it.

There are few reasons why and why not people visit the sponsored results.

Reason one - Sometimes they are not relevant
Since the ads are created based on the amount paid and key word relevance decided by ad publishers, there is no guarantee that all the sponsored links might be related. Yeah... I know some people might not agree with me. I will give a very practical example.

Say for example i have a company which manufactures fertilizers and when I pay a lot for technology/ software related keywords and display my website. So obviously my website will be displayed when someone is searching for a website related to softwares/ technologies... So, this is basically like bribing Google to show your/ our result on the home page. That is one reason people do not keep them on high regard and give more value... rather trust the actual results which we believe are not tampered in any way... except for the Google Algorithm which is a black box

Reason two - People know what they want
Most of the times, searches are very specif and the ones searching know exactly what they want and get it very quickly from the search results and there is no reason why they have to look for sponsored results. Sponsored results are very useful in case of campaigns. Say for example a company is already very famous for its x and y product and it introduces a product called z and it makes sense to advertise them in sponsored results. This basically kindles interest from reguar users to know more about the product and might click. Again... it depends...

Reason three - Not all sponsored results have answers
Not all sponsored results have answers to your questions. A website without much worth will not hold for long in peoples mind. Even if it shows up in sponsored results... people will eventually come to know that its not worth it and might not click it... it might help to advertise there during the initial stages... At the later stages... you might have to let the website speak for itself.


I also have a similar questions.
How many of you click ads inside your Gmail? I ask this because... atleast in case of search engines you are searching for something and you get these results... but in case of Mails you are reading your mails and there is not reason why you have to click the ads that show up... Yeah... if you are jobless enough and not enough mails to read in your inbox, you might click these ads.

[varalu]

This topic is interesting.
Basically it depends on what you were looking for. Most of the time, people are worried about getting the results they want and are very keen on the search results and hardly look at these sponsored results most of the time... Even if they look they do not get the desired results - The sponsored results also show the link of the webpage it gets directed to and if they already know about a particular website and they feel it might not be of that much use, they do not prefer visiting it.

There are few reasons why and why not people visit the sponsored results.

Reason one - Sometimes they are not relevant
Since the ads are created based on the amount paid and key word relevance decided by ad publishers, there is no guarantee that all the sponsored links might be related. Yeah... I know some people might not agree with me. I will give a very practical example.

Say for example i have a company which manufactures fertilizers and when I pay a lot for technology/ software related keywords and display my website. So obviously my website will be displayed when someone is searching for a website related to softwares/ technologies... So, this is basically like bribing Google to show your/ our result on the home page. That is one reason people do not keep them on high regard and give more value... rather trust the actual results which we believe are not tampered in any way... except for the Google Algorithm which is a black box

Reason two - People know what they want
Most of the times, searches are very specif and the ones searching know exactly what they want and get it very quickly from the search results and there is no reason why they have to look for sponsored results. Sponsored results are very useful in case of campaigns. Say for example a company is already very famous for its x and y product and it introduces a product called z and it makes sense to advertise them in sponsored results. This basically kindles interest from reguar users to know more about the product and might click. Again... it depends...

Reason three - Not all sponsored results have answers
Not all sponsored results have answers to your questions. A website without much worth will not hold for long in peoples mind. Even if it shows up in sponsored results... people will eventually come to know that its not worth it and might not click it... it might help to advertise there during the initial stages... At the later stages... you might have to let the website speak for itself.


I also have a similar questions.
How many of you click ads inside your Gmail? I ask this because... atleast in case of search engines you are searching for something and you get these results... but in case of Mails you are reading your mails and there is not reason why you have to click the ads that show up... Yeah... if you are jobless enough and not enough mails to read in your inbox, you might click these ads.

[mahesh2k]

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And have you thought that by clicking on those ads you may find something useful and benefit people. People get their paycheck, and google could improve it's services like gmail and adsense. Yes they are useless, but somebody could get a job for your clicks

I completely agree with baniboy on this one. We all are using Kontera to earn from forums in similar way. If any visitor or member clicks on the kontera ads we all are getting paid based on the turn system made by Vbulletin Mod. It is really interesting thing to keep each other have their paycheck. Advertising system is considered as bad by many people. but they do help us have some money in one way or the other atleast on the internet. And there are plenty of internet millionaire earning using blogs, forums or other ways. All this is possible because of ads. either google or other ad networks, internet is alive because of ads. otherwise we all know how hard it is to run the network/site/forums/blog using donation/product based site.

So clicking ads is not that bad things. just make sure that you're not clicking on your own sites ads.

[Tramposch]

I never have, and it is funny, whenever people try to I yell NOOOO DON'T DO IT IT IS A TRAP.

And make them not click it. haha.

[sheepdog]

I nearly always ignore the sponser ads, due to the fact that most of the time when I am doing a search, I am looking for information, not to buy something. For example, I was trying to find out when is the best time to dig and transplant Irises. If I click on a sponser link, I will find lots of companies that want to sell me Irises, but no information on propagating my own.

[VishBoy]

Well, I like to help other people, and i constantly Click on the adds ... When i visit some site, if there are some Google Adds, i rater click them first, before checking the other things on that site. I also click on my site's adds, when i can't and i would like someone clicks on my adds too

[amalfitravels]

I do click them when

1. E-bay fails me and in desperate need of something
2. Just simply got board its amazing how many things you can learn just by clicking around

Well that's all the reason for me to click those adds and please avoid putting them in the center of the web page really annoying for me.