Adverts of any kind are annoying. They are even annoying if you happen to be searching for a specific product. Things such as TiVo are so popular because people hate watching adverts. So, it is better for you and your viewers if you make your adverts a little less offensive to the eye and a little less annoying. Here are a few ways you can make your adverts less annoying.
image-credit- planetwebsites.comStop creating pop-up adverts
If you are guilty of doing this then have the words, “No pop up adverts” tattooed on the palm of your hands and slap yourself until the ink starts to rub off. Pop up adverts are the worst and are the reason that anti-popup software is so popular. The problem is that the anti-popup software is crap (i.e. not very good). There are still adverts that pop up as a page loads that you have to click off of, and adverts that work with redirects.
The only things that popup blockers stop are pop-ups that open a new tab or new window, and there are still ways of getting around that so that they still appear. So, it is all down to the website owner or developer. You must be the one to stop this annoying plague and vow to never create any sort of message or advert that comes onto the screen where the user has to click off of it.
Do not have auto-start video or audio adverts
These are almost as bad as popup adverts, except that this sort of thing helps to inform the online community of which websites they should never visit again. With popup adverts you may see them appear on websites that are otherwise good. But websites that have auto-start videos or audio adverts are only in it for the money and so are instantly clicked off of by anyone with more than half a brain or at least one finger.
If you want to make your websites less annoying and you want to lower your massive bounce rate, then get rid of your auto-start videos and audios. Opt for the ones that need to be clicked on to star. At a push you can place one in a sidebar that may start if the mouse pointer hovers over it for more than 5 seconds.
Put your affiliate adverts in the top right hand corner
The current trend seems to be that the ads in the top right corner are the ones that are the most inoffensive and least annoying. For some reason we have all become so used to adverts in the top right corner that we just assume they are part of the furniture and therefore are not as annoying as the other types of advert.
Have affiliate adverts that match your color scheme
Some people are going to tell you that this is a bad idea because it makes them harder to see and therefore less clickable. This is true, but it also makes them less annoying, so you have to take the rough with the smooth. It is sometimes a little difficult to match up your color scheme with your affiliate adverts if they change all the time, so it may be a good idea to host mostly text adverts and that way they will all have a white background.
Put banner ads at the bottom of your page
Banner ads are now the mark of a cheaply made website and people avoid them, but there is no need to get rid of them completely. Just pop one at the bottom of each page and nobody will ever be annoyed by them again. Plus, they do not make your website look cheap or ineffective. They just sit there happily waiting for a person to click on them.
Consider making them smaller
Be wary when you do this because some affiliate networks do not like you tampering with their adverts. Some of them will not allow you to make your adverts smaller, and some will. If you think your adverts are annoying then make them a little smaller. Try to make them a fraction smaller than the other page elements on your website. This may help to make them sink a little further into the background and become less annoying.
Only have them on certain pages
Design your website with categories and sub-categories and only put adverts on the sub categories. You should definitely keep your affiliate adverts off of the home page, but add them onto subsequent pages or sub-category pages.
There is a horror movie website that has done something similar. It has no adverts on the home page, and then has an index of movies from A to Z. So, if you click “C” then you see pages full of horror movie reviews for horror films that begin with C. The first page of reviews for movies beginning with C is free of adverts, but all of the other pages with reviews for C movies have affiliate advertising on them. Doing something like this is a sneaky way of hiding your affiliate adverts in the least annoying places.
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