'Do you click the ads on Google?' poll discussion

[Deleted User]

I use Firefox with the Adblock Plus add-on, so I never have to see them!

See a video of it here

neverthesamedaytwice

Deleted_User wrote: »

I use Firefox with the Adblock Plus add-on, so I never have to see them!

Same here - I haven't seen an advert for years.

moneyballs2

I never click them. If I actually wish to visit the site advertised, I'll type the address into the address bar. Google doesn't get paid for their click, and if the website is what I'm looking for they get my traffic.

Google are earning enough money as it is, so it's not as if I'm harming them. The website I'm visiting is highly likely to be in a worse off financial state that Google ever will be. I think of it as good Karma.

southernscouser

On the DFW board we kept clicking through the ones that appeared for searches under CCCS, Payplan and National Debt Line.

They tend to have a set budget for hits each month until they are removed. They went within a couple of days just clicking them through, and wasting their money.

Good times. :rotfl:

Cloudane

We use them at work, as they do actually generate enough traceable leads to be worthwhile. I'd be insulting my own employer if I didn't at least consider that there might be decent, honest business operating behind some of them.

But, I tend to check the organic searches first. Both systems can be abused, but AdWords is more open to it (e.g. you can run an ad using a popular competitor's brand name so that yours pops up when people search for it).

photonbucket

Our retail company uses Google Ads. The simple reason is that we are in a competitive market and it is very difficult to compete on the search engines with companies like Screwfix spending millions on marketing.

We are 100% legit and if we didn't feel our deal was the best; we wouldn't waste our time. So keep checking those sponsored links! :money:

A_fiend_for_life

southernscouser wrote: »

On the DFW board we kept clicking through the ones that appeared for searches under CCCS, Payplan and National Debt Line.

They tend to have a set budget for hits each month until they are removed. They went within a couple of days just clicking them through, and wasting their money.

Good times. :rotfl:

poor vultures!

A_fiend_for_life

I avoid them.

If I've ever clicked on one it will be through trying to get rid of scroll out flash ads or pop up surveys. The Guardian site is bad for this.

Davenjon

southernscouser wrote: »

On the DFW board we kept clicking through the ones that appeared for searches under CCCS, Payplan and National Debt Line.

They tend to have a set budget for hits each month until they are removed. They went within a couple of days just clicking them through, and wasting their money.

Good times. :rotfl:

My company use adwords, and it is very effective. It means your ad is presented to someone searching a relevant words to your company goods or services. It should be win, win (or win, win, win if you include google).

However given some clicks can cost the advertiser up to £15 (they can start at 2p), its not surprising that there is an inbuilt mechanism that means once you have clicked an ad, further clicks from you for 180 days do not get charged to the advertiser.

helga73

We run ad campaigns on Google for many of our clients. I can assure you that the vast majority of advertisers are fantastic small local businesses who are merely trying to earn a crust, and do so legally and ethically. Google tries very hard to stop spam-type sites from advertising and to make sure that the best ads rise to the top. The 'main' listings on the left hand side, below the sponsored listings, are not paid for directly by the website - they may well have paid a specialist company to make changes to their site that make it rank more highly, but they haven't paid anything to Google.
Whether or not people click on the sponsored results is, in my opinion, a bit of a silly question - of course people do click on those ads - otherwise Google would have no money. It is well known that people will tend to click on the left hand side in preference to the right, there is no debate about that at all.