News Source: http://whydiggisblocked.com
Published: Nov 27, 2007 - 08:29 am
Story Found By: DoshDosh 1539 Days ago
Category: Social Media
10 Comments
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News Source: http://whydiggisblocked.com
Published: Nov 27, 2007 - 08:29 am
Story Found By: DoshDosh 1539 Days ago
Category: Social Media
10 Comments
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Sounds like someone is a little too dependent on certain kinds of advertising. Yeah they don’t click as well from SOME social sites, especially Digg, but killing off all that traffic is something only someone who is totally dependent on Google would do.
LOL. ""It’s my ball, and as you won’t play with me, I’m taking it away. Waaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!"" Interesting concept: Click on my ads or you can’t read my website.
Looks like another rather whacky linkbait job to me. Not that they are entirely wrong in terms of Digg and most others, but blanket statements (and measures) like that do reek of attention whoring.
You’d think he’d put some ads on the block page...
Bandwidth theft? They are visitors, why not make it a member only website and make everyone sign in before continuing? Why don’t they go to digg and ask to disallow any diggs from their URL or build a crappier website that will entice users to leave it for a Google AdSense ad?
Anybody else read the bottom part of this? http://whydiggisblocked.com/response.html
LOL... can’t wait till next week... I <em>love</em> serial fiction! The best part was the bit about <a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1005408">social media users being small in terms of online spending</a>. Somebody wanna ring up eMarketer and let them in on that interesting non-statistic?
While I don’t agree with this route, I do agree that people that use ad blockers should have content blocked for them. The reality is websites have to function somehow and running an ad blocker is essentially liking stealing.
OK, this article is stupid because it focuses on a group of users and a specific browser which is just wrong. I’ve went into in detail on Why Firefox is Misguidely Blocked about 2 months ago. FWIW, if you’re running an AdSense site and block people telling them you can’t come in because you don’t click the ads is probably against the rules because when they get in they might just click the ads to gain access which is click fraud. Too much click fraud, aka BOUNCE, and you’ll probably get banned from AdSense.If you must stop them from downloading, detect when things are being blocked and just say "Access Denied due to blocking of complete content displayed from this site" or something that doesn’t point at the advertising directly.
Funny stuff. I’m amazed that they have the time to focus on that strategy. "we suggest stopping using social media sites and finding the resources through Google instead."Sounds like a spinnmaster from a PAC...Also the term "resources" should actually mean CONTENT, not advertising...IMHO, sites filled with advertising are simply not that "resourceful".