Text Ads vs Image/Media Ads

[.mike]

(03-10-2009 10:20 PM)IndigoRed Wrote:  Banners for me, you can make it look good and people will get attracted by the colors or whatever you do to make it look good, text ads are boring, they look plain and if you don't add any words that people like, not much success using them.

But it also depends on the type of site you're running. For example, if it is a wordy site, you'll probably be okay with using Text Ads because it won't force the users to look at the ad more than the content.

[O-D-M]

I more like text ads cause images ads are in the most cases ugly =$.

[.mike]

(03-11-2009 02:12 PM)O-D-M Wrote:  I more like text ads cause images ads are in the most cases ugly =$.

Not entirely. It ultimately depends on which service you're using and what type of ads are being displayed on your site, which are consistant with what type of site you have. Some banners/image advertisements are very attractive and can really convince a guest to click on it.

[O-D-M]

There you have a point. But I referred from the webmasters vieuw. Sometimes you have ads on your site that the whole content is
no longer visible. Ok, it depends on what of ads you have but when I see that it really irritates me .

[.mike]

(03-12-2009 08:17 AM)O-D-M Wrote:  There you have a point. But I referred from the webmasters vieuw. Sometimes you have ads on your site that the whole content is
no longer visible. Ok, it depends on what of ads you have but when I see that it really irritates me .

I don't exactly understand what you just said. However, I think you were trying to say that, in general, advertisements on sites are quite annoying.

[O-D-M]

Sorry for my English. And indeed, ads on sites are really annoying like pop-ups!

[.mike]

(03-12-2009 10:32 AM)O-D-M Wrote:  Sorry for my English. And indeed, ads on sites are really annoying like pop-ups!

As Labrocca stated earlier, ads help support the costs and such for some of the more popular sites that aren't able to sustain a stable source of income. There are, however, some very annoying advertisements that are forced upon a user prior to seeing the content of the site. That is something I would classify as annoying and unacceptable. I suppose you really do have to look at the situation from both the webmaster's point of view and the guest's as well.

[Dr.Viper]

What you say is exactly true... Text ads don't do much good...

People tend to ignore them the min they see the "Ads By Google" thing... But when flash and other image media ads are shown., they seem toclick on this...
I asked a few of my friends on thias and they also said the same...

[phatuis]

I have never actually seen any Adsense text ads on any sites, my eyes just skim right past them, but I always seem to see image ads on blogs I visit

[Abby]

I prefer to have media ads. people notice them more,but your image should also be good and less in size so that it don't take much time to load