Comments on: Amazon Associates launches contextual beta program

By: billg

billg — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:19:10 +0000

“…what youâ€™re saying is that you dislike links in text?”

Not what I said, as I suspect you know.

I don’t want these links in the middle of web content any more than I want classified ads showing up in the middle of the newspaper articles I read. Segregate ads on the page and I might look at them. Use contextual liks and I’ll ignore the entire site.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:20:23 +0000

I don’t mind the odd one here or there when it’s obvious (double-underline and different colour to normal hyperlinks, for example) but some pages are so stuffed full of them that it gets hard to navigate (I often leave my mouse pointer on the page and use the scroll wheel to page down, inadvertently popping up any inline ads that happen to fall under the pointer). It does interrupt the flow for me, but I’ll get used to it I suppose. Don’t think it’s going to go away.

By: Rambo

Rambo — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:07:39 +0000

They are not intrusive at all!
I find them interesting. If you talk about the popup in the links, i heard that have an option to disable that too. I dont see any reason how they are different from traditional links!

–R

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By: Thord Daniel Hedengren

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:25:34 +0000

So basically what you’re saying is that you dislike links in text?

By: billg

billg — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:23:10 +0000

Make that “legitimate links”.

By: billg

billg — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:22:21 +0000

Legitimate ads are just as anoying if poorly designed.

I just don’t want anyone mucking about with the file that’s displayed in my browser. Microsoft tried something similar a few years ago and was roundly lambasted. If MS was behind contextual ads today, attitudes would be different.

By: Thord Daniel Hedengren

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:38:35 +0000

So the words lose their meaning if they have links in ‘em? Then you hate traditional links in blog posts too?

By: billg

billg — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:14:08 +0000

Hate ‘em. They interfere with the mechanics of reading. Probably good for people who see a blog as a place to put ads, but bad for people who expect bloggers to say something worth reading.