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