I don't even know what to say anymore

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   EricDockettposted 4 years ago

   On one of my articles I have the sentence: "If you plan on a Betta fish please take the time to learn how to care for him correctly. You can start here:"
   
   Then there is space and a link to an article about betta care.
   
   And there is an ad shoved in the space between the two.
   
   So, it looks like I am telling readers to click the ad. This is misleading to say the least.
   
   And I still don't see an affiliate disclosure at the bottom of the page.
   
   I am reporting this because it might be helpful to HP but I am at the point where I feel like it is not worth the effort to offer feedback in these forums.
   
   I am editing the space in my article so nobody ask me to send a screen shot. I have other things to do and feel like I have wasted my time even posting this. I saw this on the first PetHelpful article I looked at so I am guessing you don't need to look far to find more examples.

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   Solarasposted 4 years ago

   I just went to my most popular article and am appalled.  The ads don't fit into their spaces, everything is slow to load, scrolling is chunky, a full screen popup ad on dyson vacuum creation covered my article and worst of all not one but two ads for ad blockers appeared.  It is as though they wanted to punish the reader into purchasing an ad blocking software.  Sad.
   
   And yes, ads are located in strange places that interrupt the flow and the entire article looks bleak.

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      DrMark1961posted 4 years agoin reply to this

      If the CPM went up about 100% it would justify fewer impressions. Unfortunately, I have not seen this. Have you noticed any improvement/change?

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         Solarasposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         From your lips to his ears - CPM shot up 20% on Friday and Saturday lol

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            DrMark1961posted 4 years agoin reply to this

            That is good, but I do not think 20 is going to do it. From what I have seen on the site (more bounces, shorter viewing time so ads do not even have time to load, readers dissatisfied so pages will lose ranking on Goolge) we are going to lose a lot more than 20% of impressions with this change.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 4 years ago

   I leave the advertising and revenue side to HP/Maven. I focus on the writing. I have to say my income's been increasing in recent times, but that could just be due to seasonal factors, need a longer period to really assess what's happening.

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   lobobrandonposted 4 years ago

   Someone else and I have posted the change in bounce rates and time on page after the move. It's horrible. HP staff keep telling us, what the authors want to see and what the readers want to see are different. I agree with that point, but the readers do not like this either.
   
   It is not worth the effort to report anything IMO. There are so many things wrong right now, I personally don't bother. Eugene has created a handful of threads on some issues, there are many more which more or less have been pointed out through the weekly announcement threads.
   
   For example, you know the bottom list of related articles that pops up (not static on the page), well they are all unrelated. There was one related Dengarden article and that was a broken link, checked a few other articles and I couldn't find any other Dengarden links to try and reproduce the problem. I took a screenshot but that's not going to help as the link does not show The title did have %20 in there representing a space. All the Sports Illustrated links from my tomato hub were perfect.

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      DrMark1961posted 4 years agoin reply to this

      The "comments" is a great example of what the reader wants is not necessarily what the writer wants. I am glad not to have 20 comments every day to go through, but then again most of them were from dog owners that had a problem that they needed an answer to. The new format is definitely not a boon for readers, and when a reader notices that they cannot ask about anything some of them will leave the page.
      What happened to HP´s mantra about "promote reader interaction"?
      I think you are correct in that it is not worth the time to report all of the problems. HP kind of proved this by not fixing old issues before migrating more sites, which would have been the proper way to handle things.

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   eugbugposted 4 years ago

   Maven will shortly be going into my blacklist box on Twitter of un-responsive accounts along with Sears, Walmart and other companies to keep them company.

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