MetaTalk posts tagged with textads

What price MeFi's soul?

roofus — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:04:52 -0800

Some of the current adsense ads running for non-members seem inappropriate. For example soulmate calculator, which appears to be a data harvesting, phone spam service. The UK version of the site doesn't even have any T&Cs, to make it clear you are signing up for £9/month of unwanted ringtone/wallpaper hell. Can the adsense filtering be turned up a notch, in line with our community values?

Taking money from the bad guys

homunculus — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:29:56 -0800

Could the AT&T graphic in the advertisement on the front page be replaced by the EFF Death Star image? That would make it less disturbing.

Do old text ads live forever?

evinrude — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:44:43 -0800

I'm seeing a textad for www.electoral-vote.com, a site that hasn't been updated since 2004. (I think.) Do ads, once bought, keep appearing forever? And if so, is that a feature or a bug?

TextAds -- more of a good thing?

wendell — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:32:32 -0800

As long as we're talking about non-fleshy non-sucidal ways for Matt to help pay for this place and his services herein, how about some tweaking of the Original TextAds Program? [much more inside]

Suicide Girls TextAds

mathowie — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:27:12 -0800

So yeah, suicide girls. After some teeth gnashing, and asking all my female friends about taking on suicide girls image ads on mefi, I decided to take them (they seem tasteful to me -- I dropped the ones showing too much skin) with the caveat that a simple click and anyone could hide them forever. Here's what I said when I took their first textad long ago and the same applies here. They are as racy as I will go, and this won't start a slippery slope as they're the exception to the rule.

Text ads linking to linkfarms

shepd — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:00:10 -0800

Looks like some users are using MeFi text ADs to post google linkfarms. Example: This site, and this one.

How does ad filtering affect Metafilter's bottom line?

stet — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:13:20 -0800

Like many of us, I've got AdBlock installed in Mozilla/Firefox. I've gathered from reading threads that Google textads appear in a number of threads, often with hilarious results. However, I don't see these ads because I've got the iframe or whatever filtered out.

Does filtering the ads affect the pageviews or whatever mechanism is used to pay Matt? If so, I'll happily unblock the ads to keep Metafilter solvent. If not, I'm just as happy to skip them.

Trying to run an ad

ScottUltra — Wed, 12 May 2004 08:10:10 -0800

About a month ago I paid for the renewal of a long-running MeFi Text Ad via PayPal. The ad isn't running yet and the payment remains unclaimed. I've emailed #1 twice so far without response, and didn't know where else to turn. Advice, anyone?

There's a weird textad in the sidebar with no title

brownpau — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:30:44 -0800

There's a weird textad in the sidebar with no title, just a blurb that says something about militiamen and no Unabombers. Since it has no title, it has no link.

The Google-Ads are looking awfully visual lately aren't they?

feelinglistless — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:14:48 -0800

The Google-Ads are looking awfully visual lately aren't they?

Bad Impressions

y6y6y6 — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 14:52:34 -0800

Text Ads. Broken? Or just worthless? [more inside]

TextAd graph is dead

wibbler — Sun, 29 Jun 2003 09:41:57 -0800

The TextAd graph has gone belly-up. I want, nay demand, fancy graphs to go with my Ad expense, and all I got was this lousy error:

The chart could not be generated due to an error in the graphing engine.

The error occurred in C:\metafilter sites\www.metafilter.com\adsystem\log_report.cfm: line 218

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Has TextAd revenue been declining?

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:19:14 -0800

Has TextAd revenue been declining? [more inside]

What text do the TextAds use?

taumeson — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 11:54:18 -0800

Right...so we've got Google TextAds on MeFi, and that's great and all, really it is...but what, exactly, are they related to?

I mean, aren't TextAds directed advertising? I.e. I search for learning styles and on the right are some text ads related to learning styles.

What's the "search term" (for lack of a better phrase) used on MeFi, or, for that matter, the comments?

Textad display problem

machaus — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:58:43 -0800

Are the textads and sidebar breaching into the rest of the front page for anyone else? IE5.2.2 on OSX here.

Some textads are too wide

rschram — Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:01:29 -0800

Some TextAds are too wide (on standards-compliant browsers). "www.ArtSwag.com" and
"STICKERS*PINS*SHIRTS For angry ranters and the people who love them" are two examples. It increases the width of the in which it and the sideblog are nested, thereby reducing the width of the main content column, not to mention leaving a large gap between the right-hand page margin and the sideblog.
The culprit seems to be the title field. A multiworld title with spaces will wrap in the ad-box; the above two examples are long (but within 20-char limit) one-word titles. Can something be done?

PayPal sent for textad, but no textads yet?

adamgreenfield — Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:28:20 -0800

Possibly a bug, possibly not:
My PayPal payment for a text ad went through three days ago, yet no text ad in the queue. I say again: my money has left the building.

What gives?

Thanks...

Can we see expired Textads?

skwm — Tue, 21 May 2002 19:51:15 -0800

Is there anyway to see a list of expired Textads? If not, can a feature be added to allow us to see a Textad history of what has been posted in the past?

what to do with a text ad that doesn't work?

elsar — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:07:25 -0800

what to do with a text ad that doesn't work?

for those of us seeking gainful employment, the "hiring in ny" (www.cloud.com/hire) text ad is tantalizing, but out of reach. (it requires a password)

any ideas?

I just noticed a text ad for Suicide Girls

me3dia — Wed, 03 Apr 2002 09:15:36 -0800

I just noticed a text ad for Suicide Girls, a porn site (albeit nicely designed one with a blog), on the front page. What's the policy on porn ads? Should there be one, and if so are we being too puritanical?

About TextAds

Neale — Sun, 03 Feb 2002 18:34:50 -0800

I looked on the about page, the front page, and elsewhere, but could not find a single link to the adwords page. Big barrier to entry that.
Also, would it be possible to use the adwords on other sites by including a piece of code, etc?

Back button runs a new TextAd.

jaysoucy — Mon, 31 Dec 2001 08:38:39 -0800

Back button runs a new TextAd.

Just noticed that if I am in a thread I followed off the homepage, then click back, the page reloads with a new TextAd. But if I've scrolled down a bit to click on the thread in the first place (let's say I'm checking out what I missed yesterday), when I go back I miss the ad (unless I scroll up to see what it may be).

I'd assume this counts as an ad served, but it isn't seen. Now I know the ads are real cheap and it is just one count, but should it be different?

A TextAd posted just to earn affiliate money?

mattpfeff — Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:47:26 -0800

A TextAd posted just to earn affiliate money? kufel, member since 12/20/01, has posted no links, comments or threads to MeFi or MeTa, but has taken out two TextAds for DreamHost, each with what I imagine must be his own WebID appended on the url.

I know they're paid ads, and the proceeds go to mathowie, but this somehow feels weird to me. (Is there even an etiquette for TextAds, anyway?)

a free, reciprocal TextAd system

walrus — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 04:54:03 -0800

BlogSnob is a free, reciprocal TextAd system for weblogs to exchange adverts with each other on an impression for impression basis.

Blogger now does ads (Nov. 2001)

yourpalbill — Thu, 15 Nov 2001 02:57:02 -0800

Pyra (the Blogger company) has a new product called pyRads which promises to become a turnkey microadvertising service for webmasters, like TextAds for anyone's site.