New Ad Sharing - FreeForums.org

[Victim]

New Ad Sharing - FreeForums.org

Because of the overwhelming feedback we've received about allowing users to put ads on their forum, I'm pleased to announce the completion of a new BETA reward system for FreeForums.org. This is the first of many upcoming features aimed at helping admins make money off their forum. Effective immediately, you can enable the "Ad Sharing" feature from your admin panel. Once enabled, there will be In-Text ads on every page powered by Kontera.

Kontera’s contextual technology analyzes the content on a page and determines the general theme of the page. From there, it will highlight keywords relevant to the theme of the post. The result is resource links your users will find relevant and informative. All while being non-intrusive unlike flashing banner ads or popups. We have been working very closely to Kontera to create a custom solution for ad-serving on the FreeForums.org network.

While other forum hosts keep 100% of the revenue to themselves, we will be giving most of it back in the form of service credits. When you enable the ad sharing feature, you will receive credits towards FreeForums.org purchases (domains, copyright removal, more storage, advanced hosting, etc) based on the amount of traffic your forum gets.

To view a demo of this in action you can go to http://adtest.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=1. The best part of this type of ad is users can turn them off if they wish so you won't annoy or lose any users.

To assist in stat tracking and to allow for legit testing you will have to wait 30-days after enabling the ads before you can disable them. This is a BETA program so we will continuously making changes and your feedback is valuable. We reserve the right to cancel this test at any time.

We understand going from a non-ad to ad-supported forum can be a change so we've prepared some points you can tell your members on our blog.

Thanks for using FreeForums.org

What do you think, is this a good or bad idea?

 

[Ste]

It is ok I wouldn't do it.

 

[Victim]

Yer, neither would i.

At least users have the option to turn them off.

 

[f199]

I find them annoying.

 

[Carson]

I find them annoying.

Yeah, with little ads popping up all over the place. Not only would I hate it - the members would too.

 

[CyberFreak]

They made a topic about it and a few people said it was good and a few said it wasn't. It wasn't really overwhelming but still...

I would prefer google ads rather then loads of words highlighted blue and a pop up thing when you accidentally scroll over it. Google ads blend it more and are more accepted among users and are more bareable.

Freeforums.org have made themselves even worse then they were...

 

[AngelicOne001]

Like said before, at least they made it optional.

 

[Captain]

Bleh. I hate having adds on forums. It gets so very annoying.

 

[f199]

If I ever put some on mine it would just be some text at the bottom of the page.

 

[CyberFreak]

Like said before, at least they made it optional.

It's optional to the admins.... Not the users of that forum.

As i don't run a freeforums forum the only ones i see is forums of other people. That means sites that i used to like i will now not visit as alot of people will enable it as many admins don't think about how it affects the users.

 

[Victim]

Yer.. Google Ads would be better.

 

[spyka]

users can also disable it