Piss me off! It used to be that pop up advertising was popular among affiliate sites, marketing scams & pyramid schemes. Today, it has become popular among sites such as imdb.com & ehow.com as a way to get their readers to pay a membership fee for ad free interaction. Why is it popular?
Because businesses such as ChaCha, the text answering service have arrived on the scene. Their sites are getting more traffic than ever from guides who spend their free time getting paid a few cents per question to answer things like "Who was Julia Roberts married too?"
The free traffic to their sites from links that are sent with those answers aren't enough for these popular web sites. Instead, Guides are shying away from sources like Imdb.com or ehow.com to avoid these ads that may take a minute or more to load. Time is money to these people, and if your site isn't going to load quickly, it isn't going to get used.
Greed not only takes its toll on internet users everywhere, but their greed will eventually take its toll out of their profits as people like me get tired of waiting for the tiresome advertisements to load. We will find other sources boys & girls.
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