Two things
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2012LTZ
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1) The interstitials steal traffic away from people who've never been here.
...sometimes new people never even make it to the site when the site has killer info they might be looking for.
2) Oh sure. I could just BUY my way in.
firstorbit84
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Interstitials? Are you talking about the ads at the top of the page?
$ub$onic
The Sticker Guy
1) The interstitials steal traffic away from people who've never been here.
...sometimes new people never even make it to the site when the site has killer info they might be looking for.
2) Oh sure. I could just BUY my way in.
Buying your way in is the happening way
Eric Smit
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ThatTmoGuy
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Interstitials could either be the the spacing between posts and sigs or the crap page that you land on when you get to the forum sometimes.
2012LTZ
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Nope. It happens when you click a search result.
It doesn't happen all the time but every now and then when you click on a search result AT GOOGLE, you get whisked away to some other site.
It's a sneaky and devious market segment if you ask me.
I tried them once while I was running a multi-million retail site.
Signed up and forgot.
For months after that we had seemingly phantom like problems where people were somehow ending up on a different site, even while we were on the phone with them trying to walk them thru.
Come to find out after a month of searching, it was those stupid interstitial ads. It's not like an add that sits on your site and you see everyday, so it was easy to miss.
Interstitial ads are full page the ads that pop up and try to intercept you when you are trying to get to content.
Swordsmith
242hp/252 ft-lbs BNR EFI
If not paid then what, you think just making a large number of posts should earn you respect? If that were the case we'd all think Smit was the... oh wait, is he listening?
ThatTmoGuy
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He is ALWAYS listening.
firstorbit84
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I'm pretty sure that the site redirect from google searches is not intentional and it's a problem with the forum software. It's been mentioned in this section before but admins haven't done anything about it.
I agree that it is hurting traffic though.
I agree that it is hurting traffic though.
2012LTZ
New member
Oh man. They are Bad News!
( See? I'm earning my keep around here I suppose
)What these guys do see?...
If I thought you were an unaware sysadmin, I could run inters*&^&^%, I hate that word. I would run one of those ads and make my (full page) ad resemble an industry related discussion board. I would get every click! ...thanks to the hard work you've put into the site ( all those juicy serps! )
This is what happened to us. People staring AT THE AD didn't see the little continue to site deal and whoever was running the ad made it up to resemble a familiar industry related site. Gawd I felt terrible. I felt like I had ruined our brand. Out of the bajillion links I've placed over the years, the snippet for the interstitial ad was the only one I ended up regretting.
2012LTZ
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Aha! and HERE we have it.
The elusive intersistal ad.
One of your proud sponsors.
There was a window of some sort that popped up before it went to this page,
but since I use a good browser and stuff, the video or whatever is was that popped up had a bad day.
The keywords here having to do with software backup ( and driver installers ) are top paying.
Whoever, ..is (should be) making more than $1 a click on that download now button.
This is what ruined downloads and why you have to look in obscure places for the real download button.
These guys pay for exposure at your site. Sure are getting it now.
The elusive intersistal ad.
One of your proud sponsors.
There was a window of some sort that popped up before it went to this page,
but since I use a good browser and stuff, the video or whatever is was that popped up had a bad day.
The keywords here having to do with software backup ( and driver installers ) are top paying.
Whoever, ..is (should be) making more than $1 a click on that download now button.
This is what ruined downloads and why you have to look in obscure places for the real download button.
These guys pay for exposure at your site. Sure are getting it now.
firstorbit84
New member
I think that the interstitial is a bug, not intended to be there by the site owners
