[Bleeding Purist]

Originally Posted by Dawn

the pop up ones stop me accessing it via my phone...

Dawn

I noticed that this past week when I had to get logged in to get them to go away, it was worse since I have flash running on my phone.

I also wonder why we don't have topic appropriate ads in banners embedded in the page rather than pop ups.

[Rob]

Probably because the advertisers pay more money for pop ups. I can access it ok by phone as the pop ups open in an extra window so I just close it straight away.

[Dawn]

Originally Posted by Rob

Probably because the advertisers pay more money for pop ups. I can access it ok by phone as the pop ups open in an extra window so I just close it straight away.

this was happening to me but there was so many pop ups I couldnt keep up.... and then JT couldnt load...

Dawn

[jtadmin]

Pop-unders and pop-ups are paid per view. Most "normal" ads are paid per click and bring almost zero revenue, especially Google Adsense ads.

Google Adsense stats drycounty.com for may 2010:
Ad impressions 287,460
Ad clicks 69
Click-through rate 0.02%

One of my other sites has 0.64% click-through rate, yes, 32x more.

[Rob]

Originally Posted by jtadmin

Pop-unders and pop-ups are paid per view. Most "normal" ads are paid per click and bring almost zero revenue, especially Google Adsense ads.

Google Adsense stats drycounty.com for may 2010:
Ad impressions 287,460
Ad clicks 69
Click-through rate 0.02%

One of my other sites has 0.64% click-through rate, yes, 32x more.

Yeah thought it'd be something like that. They're bloody annoying and no doubt you're making a fair bit of profit from the pop-unders/pop-ups as well as generating revenue for hosting, maintenance etc.

[Toño]

Originally Posted by jtadmin

Hi all,

starting today, Jovitalk users have an option to view the forums completely AD-FREE. No popups, popunders, full screen ads, banner or even text ads.

Ad-Free Jovitalk subscription costs 12 EUR/year i.e. 1 EUR per month. You can only subscribe for one or two years (discount), as smaller amounts are pointless due to Paypal fees.

To subscribe, click here, select subscription period, and pay using Paypal (subscription will be activated and ads will disappear instantly): http://drycounty.com/jovitalk/payments.php

This option has been planned for some time now, but I've been occupied with other areas of life. The recent uproar due to the amount of ads convinced me to go ahead with implementing Ad-Free Subscription.

I don't view this as donations, but purely as a paid option to use the forums ad-free. Use of forums itself will never be subscription based. But, I will definitely try to introduce specials features for Ad-Free users if there as enough subscriptions. For now, these users have no more PM limits. Other goodies will follow after forum software upgrade to vBulletin 4, coming later this year.

I've tested the subscription procedure and it works fine, but if anything goes wrong (Paypal problems, ads don't disappear, something else stops working, ...), let me know here in this thread or e-mail me at peter@drycounty.com.

Peter

I've just bought this and it works inmediatly and works great! I don't regret buying this!

[Kathleen]

This appears to have stopped working. I was sent an e-mail about renewing but all I get is the message that says no paid subscriptions are available. Has support for this feature been dropped?

edit** Got this answered by Kev - Thanks

[mo_rizwan]

What was the answer? (if you don't mind me asking)

[Kathleen]

Originally Posted by mo_rizwan

What was the answer? (if you don't mind me asking)

Don't mind at all Peter has done away with buying a subscription to get rid of the adverts. He says that he has not decided what to do about the adverts themselves. I guess he is working on it.