Can adblockers be config'd to block hard-coded links?
Hi all,
I'm thinking of switching from javascript adserving to just hand-coding the text link ads right into the page. I only have a few ads, that run for the entire week, so it's not much extra work. I feel it's worth it, since now my ads will also reach that percentage of surfers who have adblockers installed. (Dastardly, I admit. But I'm poor and they're benefitting from my labor for free!)
However, I still want to track clicks, so I'm gonna use one of those php click trackers that append a string in front of the link.
So I'm wondering: could an adblocker can be configured to 'erase' these links from showing up on the page? Since it's easy to identify an ad as any link that starts with "http://site.com/clickcounter/?q="
What do you think?
Thanks
neo-911.com posted this at 22:03 — 8th July 2006.
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Go to google adsense or google adwords, you can track your clicks that way and google does all the work for you.
https://www.google.com/adsense/
https://adwords.google.com/select/
teammatt3 posted this at 00:02 — 9th July 2006.
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Ad blockers can easily block google ads so that defeats the purpose. I don't think any type of ad blocker can be configured to block those links. To the software, that looks like a normal link.
Why are you so concerned about ad blockers? Not very many people have them, at least I don't think they do.
Anita.Bonghit posted this at 19:42 — 9th July 2006.
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I want to maximize ad exposure. I'm a small site, so every extra click means a lot.
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