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		<title>The Great Online Advert Swindle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rubbish websites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[God I&#8217;m getting annoyed today &#8211; was happy when I got into the office but now I&#8217;m angry and getting angrier. And today the object of my impatience and wrath are website adverts. Not the crappy little popups telling me I&#8217;m the millionth visitor or that I have spyware and should click on some Windows [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God I&#8217;m getting annoyed today &#8211; was happy when I got into the office but now I&#8217;m angry and getting angrier. And today the object of my impatience and wrath are website adverts. Not the crappy little popups telling me I&#8217;m the millionth visitor or that I have spyware and should click on some Windows 95 style icon but the high quality adverts that are on a huge pile of websites.</p>
<p>My problem &#8211; they&#8217;re killing websites I visit and making my browsing experience bloody awful. Went to the guardian website to read about a joke Andy Murray made after losing the US Open tennis final, I&#8217;m no real fan of tennis but it sounded like it would be a funny interview, and instead I wait for thrity seconds for a three paragraph story to load as the adserver is taking ages to pass the adverts to the site.</p>
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<p>I go and look for news of the Vaselines reforming &#8211; same problem over @ exclamation.ca &#8211; 7 adverts for Ford. Looks like someones been blind buying inventory for Ford. Bloody awful move &#8211; targeted online media will help your business. Untargeted crap on irrelevant sites will devalue your brand. Yes I&#8217;ll recognise that I saw an orange Ford on your website &#8211; but I ain&#8217;t gonna but your cars that stopped me finding out about the Vaselines.</p>
<p>And more almost every second website I visit is taking an age. Its taking longer to access website content than it did when I used to dial-up for access. Broadband should give a better web experience. And it does often &#8211; but when advert serving services take so long to deliver the image/flash movie/annoying irrelevant pap (which I&#8217;ll never bloody click on anyway) gets in the way.</p>
<p>My plea if you are going to monetise your content with these horrendous ads is not to load your pages with them. You&#8217;ll make more from people looking at multiple pages &#8211; and revisiting your site than by putting an extra ad or two on a page and getting us all annoyed and riled.</p>
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