That many ads?

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  1. Thomas Swan profile image73
    Thomas Swanposted 22 months ago

    I usually employ an ad blocker, but I just looked at one of my Owlcation articles without it. There were about 30 ads in one ~1500 word article, most of them identical, most of them breaking up paragraphs of text that shouldn't be broken up (why not put ads at the end of each section?), and most of them slow to load, or causing pictures and videos to load slower. What is the point of all that?

    1. chef-de-jour profile image76
      chef-de-jourposted 22 months agoin reply to this

      Ah, you've discovered that many of our articles are drowning in commercial dross! TAG insist on dumbingdown our texts with their awful regime, appealing to a different kind of reader no doubt. Google doesn't like their approach and article status suffers. The appetite for debate on this topic has all but disappeared.

      1. Thomas Swan profile image73
        Thomas Swanposted 22 months agoin reply to this

        I think it's the same kind of problem we have with the "news" on the niche site homepages. TAG appears to treat all the niche sites the same. Owlcation should be prioritizing trustworthy and authoritative content. Putting this "commercial dross" everywhere is killing the site. Owlcation doesn't look like a site whose primary mission is to educate. It looks like a "lets fill it with ads to the point where education is compromised" site. The strategy might work for niche sites where the content is a bit more trivial, but it doesn't appear to be working for Owlcation.

      2. SerenityHalo profile image82
        SerenityHaloposted 22 months agoin reply to this

        May there soon be a path forward. I'm tired of waiting for the reality that the ads are hurting us to finally sink in and to go a different direction. We can do all the editing we want for 2,000 years... but I don't think the articles are the problem. It's the revenue model, which is to stuff it full of ads.

        High ad saturation is a doom spiral.

  2. Joshua Crowder profile image82
    Joshua Crowderposted 22 months ago

    I would argue that the increased use of ad blockers is the reason for the abundance of ads.

    1. Thomas Swan profile image73
      Thomas Swanposted 22 months agoin reply to this

      I would reverse that causality.

  3. Venkatachari M profile image91
    Venkatachari Mposted 22 months ago

    Yes, it is there everywhere. Lots of ads stuffed within a single page. Not only at Hubpages but all over the internet.

 
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