Web site advertising – 388 days old

[rcurl]

FYI- At the top of each page I'm seeing this:

--- This is a test - only visible to admins ---
--- advertisement may go here ---

....but I'm not an Admin, so something my be set incorrectly.

-Rick

[towlerg]

same here.

[RGV250]

Interesting, I see adverts as guest and logged in?

Bob

[Lester]

Google ads are now enabled in three locations near the header, footer and in the sidebar

ads are relavant to pages YOU most recently visited.

[RGV250]

Hi Lester,
ads are relavant to pages YOU most recently visited.

I am a bit worried now, at the bottom of the screen I have Asian dating.com??

[Lester]

I am a bit worried now, at the bottom of the screen I have Asian dating.com??

Well, i'm still in the learnin phase, but as far as I can see google look at the site and select relavant adverts and they also look at your browsing history to present adverts relavent to you.

I dont think we have any content related to Asian dating................

I will look at the options to remove certain advert catagories later in the week after we have some traffic.

I'm assuming Asian dating is not wanted?

[RGV250]

I did wonder if Google had a psychic search.

I'm assuming Asian dating is not wanted?
Afraid not, I can't stand the food.

Bob

[Lester]

I've been looking into this, you should be seeing adverts related to your previous browsing activity mixed with adverts related to subjects on this web site.

I cannot tailor adverts to an individual. I can remove Dating adverts, but who knows, some users may be interested?

To tailor your individual expierience, you can delete the advert by clicking the small cross on the top right if the advert, the advert is deleted and you'll be asked why you wish to delete it. You can select inappropriate.



and visit Googles "myactivity page, to understand waht google has stored for your browsing history"

[Lester]

I hate this advertising malarky, but its probably better than asking users for payment to access the forum !

[Lester]

Note that in googles activity center, you can delete all activity and remove the profile that google has built based upon your browsing activity.

Its not a good idea, because oogle will then present all types of advertising, until a new profile is developed from your browsing activity. Its better to selectively items from your browsing history.

[joesaliba]

This morning there are no adverts.

[Lester]

none at all?

i'm trying to tweak the settings to remove some of the garbage. May i broke it

[Oldhack]

Hello
It would be nice to have Electronic advertiisments, it is probably to much work to make this happen.
A few Crownhill products on the sidebar would be great.
Sponsors such as Scope,and electronic test equipment Companies woud be good too.
Gary

[Lester]

It would be nice to have Electronic advertiisments, it is probably to much work to make this happen.
A few Crownhill products on the sidebar would be great.
Sponsors such as Scope,and electronic test equipment Companies woud be good too.
Gary

Yes, agreed.

With google, i can filter the advertising to a certain extent, so eventually after the machine learning settles, you should see electronics adverts plus adverts related to your browsing history. If there is no browsing history it would become electronics plus random adverts.

by allowing google to build a history of your browsing, you will, over time get advertising which is tightly related to your browsing interests. By preventing google building a history, you get garbage.

....well you might concider all advertising garbage !

I will be adding some advertising of products available from the Crownhill web site and possibly fro third party web sites, but thats a longer term project.

[Lester]

With the exception of advertisements for products on the Crownhill web site, advertising in now enabled on this forum.

I hope that the level of advertising is not too intrusive, feedback is welcome.

I will be adding a few randomly placed adverts for heavily discounted ietms on the Crownhill sales portal, in the near future.

Crownhill will be undertaking a stock clearance and i thought it might be interesting to offer items for sale on a pay what you want basis.

i.e. we will charge the normal shipping costs, but buyers can decide what to pay, possibly with NO minimum price.... should be fun :-)

Notice that there is a small link to AMAZON Prime sign up. If users sign up to amazon prime via that link , we receive a small commission, which will be used to offset some of the runing costs for the forum. Users do not need to use amazon prime, just sign up for the trial and then cancell....we still get a smll commission.

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