Ads are generally considered a nuisance. But sometimes, I think they can make a website feel more alive, just like advertisements on the streets of Tokyo or New York. A book like "The Timeless Way Of Building" would probably consider ads the core activity of many websites, and thus an essential quality of their design.
I started thinking about this because I was developing a news website, and needed it to seem authoritative and "alive" from day one. AdSense ads are okay, but lack a certain zest and ridiculousness that I think people expect on tabloid news websites. Companies like Taboola and Outbrain will place "Sponsored Stories From The Internet" on your page, if you have at least a few hundred thousand unique visitors a month.
So, I ended up making my own ad server / tag called "kaboodle". I think it'd be interesting to reciprocally link to other weird interesting sites on the web, mixed in with clickbait nonsense. I've found I've had higher clickthrough rates on sites with the fake ads; I think because people are trying to figure out which are "real ads" and which are "fake ads". Anyways, if you'd like kaboodle ads linking to your website, please submit a PR.
hi a quick question ... does it effect SEO ?? on your website ?? .. also if we have adsense ads running on our website ... will it run along with them ??
I don't think it would have much effect on SEO, since the "ads" are injected into the page via JavaScript. Google does render the page with JavaScript now, though, so it might help. I'm using it with AdSense now, it works fine and I've been noticing higher-than-usual clickthrough rates on the real AdSense ads.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 9.4 ms ] threadAds are generally considered a nuisance. But sometimes, I think they can make a website feel more alive, just like advertisements on the streets of Tokyo or New York. A book like "The Timeless Way Of Building" would probably consider ads the core activity of many websites, and thus an essential quality of their design.
I started thinking about this because I was developing a news website, and needed it to seem authoritative and "alive" from day one. AdSense ads are okay, but lack a certain zest and ridiculousness that I think people expect on tabloid news websites. Companies like Taboola and Outbrain will place "Sponsored Stories From The Internet" on your page, if you have at least a few hundred thousand unique visitors a month.
So, I ended up making my own ad server / tag called "kaboodle". I think it'd be interesting to reciprocally link to other weird interesting sites on the web, mixed in with clickbait nonsense. I've found I've had higher clickthrough rates on sites with the fake ads; I think because people are trying to figure out which are "real ads" and which are "fake ads". Anyways, if you'd like kaboodle ads linking to your website, please submit a PR.