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Stripe Ad - It’s Crap

Posted by Paul B | January 19, 2008 .

I installed the top stripe ad after reading about it somewhere (I think it was John Chow but can’t be sure). Anyway I’ve been running it for a little while now and can conclude that it’s a waste of time! Click through rates are really bad, some of the worst I’ve ever seen from any advertising method I’ve used actually. Not only that but 3 people have felt the need to fill in the contact form and complain about it. Where this is unusual is that it only shows for the first 3 page loads on the make money online dot net (my idea was to target search traffic, not regular readers) so the people who have complained are not complaining because it’s a recent addition but instead are complaining because they just don’t like it!

If you want to make money from your websites then you are going to want to sell advertising, and promote affiliate deals etc amongst your content. There has to be a line though where advertising starts to have a big impact the rest of your websites content (for me personally that line is uncontrollable pop-ups and pop-unders). Just to show that I do listen occasionally the stripe ad is gone (it’s got nothing to do with the appalling CTR, honestly! :) )

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  1. The Rookie Blogger.::A Blogger Who Realized the Truth About Make Money Blogs.:: UNITED STATES WordPress 2.3.2  January 30, 2008 5:39 am

    [...] it doesn’t mean you have to.  I came across a few posts that agree with me, but this one proves the click through rate is horrible.  It wouldn’t be so bad if once I close out [...]

  2. RT Cunningham PHILIPPINES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12  February 11, 2008 7:46 pm

    I wouldn’t use something like this for advertising because I know it would do horribly. It does have possible uses for other things, like a status message or something. Which means it would be temporary each time it’s used.

  3. Using A Top Stripe Ad To Get Visitors UNITED STATES WordPress 2.3.3  March 26, 2008 1:52 pm

    [...] wrote before about how I tried using a top stripe ad on this blog and why I removed it. It came down to people not liking it and the fact that the [...]

  4. JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14  May 7, 2008 7:52 pm

    I installed stripe ad on 2 web sites. On my main site (about blogging tips and MMO) it didn’t do anything. But on my technology and gadget blog I made $134 in commisions with it in the first month. It just goes to show what works on one blog with one audience might not work on another. That’s why I have Kontera installed on some more consumer-centric sites, but would never install it on my blogging site. Some money making tools only work well on some sites.

    JTPratt’s Blogging Mistakes’s last blog post..Wordpress Hack #14: 12 Ways to Hack Your Home Page

  5. bb CHINA Fedora Linux Mozilla Firefox 3.0b5  May 26, 2008 4:02 am

    couldn’t agree it more！just a support to make another similar plugin without the ugly function.