You recently spent your FP$ purchasing an ad placement on this forum for your web hosting company. Would it not bother you if the vast majority of users didn’t even see your ad because of ad block being enabled? Obviously you purchased a text link, but that can easily be blocked like anything else. I know plenty of folks that have signatures hidden altogether. Surely that would be infuriating?
It would be correct but that something I had to simply account for that an ad might not perform as well given these factors in play. Since I am
very understanding as I said before as I was a
personal victim of malicious ads. That's might not be within anyone controls here but at the same time I can understand why the use of ad blockers and such.
What I am
considerably more at unrest at is the ad industry itself when I was attempting to source PPC ad placements. That's however for another day since that deserves a thread of it own.
Ultimately, we have no problem making ends meet here at FP, but I do have the problem of having to explain to my BSA advertisers why impression counts aren’t always what they ought to be, and this is exactly why.
Since I am not into the CPM (I were looking more into CPC/PPC) I might not seeing the whole picture with this but aren't CPMs supposed be with the ad loaded? So if there a total of 10000 users and 3000 are ad blocked wouldn't the ad haven't been even loaded for them therefore you would be "charged" for 7xCPM rate?
That money has to come from somewhere.
Right or a business or project wouldn't function, however nobody said ads which even trigger ad blockers were the only way and mean. It's still in intency but there are even a
few ad networks that practices alternative means of delivering these ads without "upsetting" the users or the ad blocking setup.
A marketplace forum that I used to be at even had zero adsense ads and solely relied on user based ads which didn't bothered my ad blocking at all. Therefore those ads were not blocked as a result even though the ad blocker was on for that site.
Saying that "it is the webmasters problem" is extremely self entitled, you are blocking ads and we are blocking your ad blocker. Its as simple as that.
Yes but your giving up your traffic to a webmaster that doesn't do that. Your site, your rules but that also means if those rules such as not allowing ad blockers
at all or such I will move on and so will many other people I seen online. Even to those banners that won't go away with a simple "X" or "no thank you".
Moral of the story we will contribute if the "product" is good enough, benefit us and so forth.
I'm not sure of anybody who starts a brand new website and thinks hey I better not make this because I don't know if it could support itself when millions of people use it.
Capacity planning is always important regardless if we are talking about how many and what size bins I will need for the worms or how many users I can get and if those users would "pay up" to keep it running.
Webhosting, product based businesses and content based websites are extremely different things and I think its pretty stupid to try to compare them.
You might not make a profit like FP here but you still need a working project, capacity, etc plan. So I disagree with that statement since you still gotta keep the lights on.
