Some people claim that AD blindness makes people less likely to click on ads, but I think that if you can get a lot of targeted traffic from people interested in your ads. Ad blindness won't be as big of a problem when it comes to earning money on a forum.
I typically only click on Ads and links which I am interested in, or don't click at all and I can pretty easily tell if the webmaster is trying to trick the user into thinking the ad is a regular link instead of an ad.
I've heard of ad blindness. I'm told it's when the user is immune to the ads because they know that they are ads and ignore them. But if you can get targeted traffic from search engines, I'm told you have a higher chance of getting a click on your google adsene ads.
I agree people from search engines probably tend to click on ads when they want more info about a subject since contextual ads are targeted to a website content.
If I was searching for Info about Symantec antivirus, and see an ad for Symantec antivirus on the sponsored results in google search or on a website with a Symantec ad. I'm more likely to click on an Antivirus ad for Symantec or one of its competitors like Avast, AVG, or Avira.
Well I guess because i have built and run websites for about 10 years now I tend to avoid clicking ads on purpose, I like to stay on the site I am on, if its no good i go back top search on "G"
I read if you kept clicking on other peoples ads for Adbrite and other advertising networks, and you are a member of Adbrite. Adbrite might think you are in an illegal click exchange program with the webmaster, and your Adbrite account can get banned.
I think some webmasters avoid clicking on ads because they don't want to get banned from Adbrite, Adsense, Infolinks, etc because those companies might suspect you are gaming the system via click fraud.
