I Dislike Those Highlighted Keyword Popup Advertisements On Webpages.

[rob86 2]

I just felt like saying that I find those highlighted keywords advertisements on webpages very annoying. I see them quite a bit now. The ones where key words in paragraphs are highlighted with double underline and in blue, and when your mouse goes over them a popup comes up. I don't know how much money it makes the webpage owners, but they really make a webpage look bad, it doesn't matter if it's a simple black and white webpage or a fancy one with graphics everywhere, those advertisements look bad on anything. If they're customizable, nobody seems to put any effort into making them look okay. Always the double underline.. If you happen to move your mouse over them, the popup doesn't go away for a few seconds too. Try seeing that with images disabled on a browser which is how I always browse, it's a bunch of transparent boxes and illegible text on text. Yuck. I don't think I'd ever purposely click on one anyway. This is how well that advertising works. On one webpage I'm looking at right now, the word "webpage" is highlighted. I put my mouse over it, it shows me an advertisement for original recipe pine tar. As if that isn't weird enough, when I hover over the word "Linux" and a popup for discount viagra pops up. Sure lowers the "professional appearance" grade of a webpage in my opinion.

[kleong 0]

Irritating they might be, but they are still better than those pop up, pop under, splash ads, expandable ads. Those, IMO, are the most irritating things to have been developed in the online world. They do nothing but are obstacle to users when they are viewing/reading the content. Ban them, I will say.

[mahesh2k 0]

I think you're talking about those kontera, infolinks ad-networks in-line text ads. These text ads are embedded on web page. Depending on keyword bid and traffic for keyword. It creates a hover popup when user take mouse over those double underlined text links. Yes, it is annoying. Why ? Pleny of reasons. First is it makes site looks more ugly. Second, it adds to many links to article or site and this diverts people from main content. It's just too annoying. It's like making money from CPC model that annoys people. And one more thing that i found with kontera is shocking. If you're kontera publisher then you are supposed to earn 100$ within 6 months. If you failed to do that money you earned in last 6 months are not carry forwarded. This is shocking they take your hard earned money. Kontera is good for sites with larger traffic. You can read about this irritating policy on the reviews posted on internet. My only kontera code is working on tp17. I withdraw my publisher id from rest of my site. It is annoying and it's not gonna pay me as well.

[Spudd 0]

They are annoying, I've never liked them. Yes, banner adds and pop-ups are worse, but at least you can block those, or can just scroll down so you don't have to look at them. These, on the other hand, are embedded right into the article, post, or whatever else you're reading, so you see them no matter what. I actually had a Firefox addon that made some of those appear on different webpages. The extension was very useful for its main function, but because it came with that, and there was no way to disable it, I had to disable it. I don't think web developers and software developers should use these, they're ugly, no one clicks them, and they make a whole page look tacky.

[Baniboy 3]

Why don't you just use adblock plus? Just right-click on the ad and block. Don't you have a pop-up blocker? Maybe you could link me somewhere so I can see what you're talking about.Try adblock plus element hiding helper.

Edited October 6, 2009 by Baniboy (see edit history)

[Quatrux 4]

I dislike them too, sometimes when reading some text I usually like to move the mouse and that darn text link ad starts to load, even though it seems that my Privoxy blocks most of them, sometimes they appear in my content. I understand that Ads are needed, but sometimes I think Internet is full of crap and ads Same with TV nowadays if it's a commercial channel, they're full of Ads.Still Internet is great, I wouldn't really understand how people used to study/learn/work without it 10 maybe 20 years ago!

[mahesh2k 0]

Kontera,infolinks and cliksor are disabled by ad-block plus. I just checked it right now. I tried few sites which was hosting ads from these publisher. By enabling ad-block plus you can disable them. I guess this is one more reason to stick with firefox. I don't mind ads. Besides i do earn from ads on some of my websites. But ads on my sites are never pop-up or text-link type. I prefer banners that too smaller as much as possible. I actually hate ad-block plus as it degrades my revenue as well as revenue of many genuine publisher who run blogs solely from money from ads. But if ads like kontera and clicksor comes on blog, have no option than enabling them. :-/

[Baniboy 3]

I actually hate ad-block plus as it degrades my revenue as well as revenue of many genuine publisher who run blogs solely from money from ads.

Well that's your point of view, instead, look at it from the readers view. A reader that doesn't click on any ads anyways, like me, just gets annoyed by ads. I think most of the people clicking on ads aren't the type of people bothered by them that much, that they make the effort to block them.(Like install a new browser and install plug-ins)

[rpgsearcherz 5]

I find the ads quite annoying as well. I completely agree that they draw your attention from what matters (the actual content) to the advertisements.At least a banner is in one spot, with the textual advertisements they are all over the place, sometimes 30+ on one page.

[mahesh2k 0]

Well that's your point of view, instead, look at it from the readers view. A reader that doesn't click on any ads anyways, like me, just gets annoyed by ads. I think most of the people clicking on ads aren't the type of people bothered by them that much, that they make the effort to block them.(Like install a new browser and install plug-ins)

As far as i've seen from any readers point of view. Flashy ads, video ads and text-link-hover ads(kontera/infolinks type) are annoying. Other than that gif/static ads don't annoy people at all. I would like to see if static banner ads annoys people, i bet people hardly even notice those ads.

[rpgsearcherz 5]

As far as i've seen from any readers point of view. Flashy ads, video ads and text-link-hover ads(kontera/infolinks type) are annoying. Other than that gif/static ads don't annoy people at all. I would like to see if static banner ads annoys people, i bet people hardly even notice those ads.

Some would argue that the ones people don't notice are the ones that work the best. If people don't really notice something is an advertisement it may increase their chances of clicking on it.

I, for example, dislike clicking on people's ads. If someone's site has a link that is relevant and seems to be part of the site I have a much greater chance of "checking it out" than if I can tell right off the bat that it's an advertisement.

[kleong 0]

I think you're talking about those kontera, infolinks ad-networks in-line text ads. These text ads are embedded on web page. Depending on keyword bid and traffic for keyword. It creates a hover popup when user take mouse over those double underlined text links. Yes, it is annoying. Why ? Pleny of reasons. First is it makes site looks more ugly. Second, it adds to many links to article or site and this diverts people from main content. It's just too annoying. It's like making money from CPC model that annoys people.
And one more thing that i found with kontera is shocking. If you're kontera publisher then you are supposed to earn 100$ within 6 months. If you failed to do that money you earned in last 6 months are not carry forwarded. This is shocking they take your hard earned money. Kontera is good for sites with larger traffic. You can read about this irritating policy on the reviews posted on internet. My only kontera code is working on tp17. I withdraw my publisher id from rest of my site. It is annoying and it's not gonna pay me as well.

That is something new. If that is the case, then I will cease all kontera ads on my websites. No point since I am not going to get my hands on the revenue.

[mahesh2k 0]

Some would argue that the ones people don't notice are the ones that work the best. If people don't really notice something is an advertisement it may increase their chances of clicking on it.
I, for example, dislike clicking on people's ads. If someone's site has a link that is relevant and seems to be part of the site I have a much greater chance of "checking it out" than if I can tell right off the bat that it's an advertisement.

Yeah, people have difference in onion about noticing ads. In any case, advertising is the only medium with which free services on internet are alive. If people argue for ads on free service, then i see no point in discussing side of advertising. But the reason flashy ads, video ads and text-link ads are in the market is because static ads perform only well if reader is in sync with website and finds those ads helpful. This is rare that's why static banner ads are replaced by those annoying ads. But in case of video ads, flashy ads or textads/hover ads, they annoy people. They are designed to catch attention. And most of the readers don't like forced to see something from advertisers.