Come on Hawkwing!

I know advertising is important, but the ad in "Sponsored Links" at the bottom right when I came on site this morning was for Chinese-LadyDate.com. It had an apparent oriental female with short shorts and lacy underwear showing? Come on! Really? Honestly at first I thought it was kind of joke, but I don't think so.

Kind of embarrassing. Hawkwing has nothing to do with which ads you see. You and your search habits on the other hand . . .



There's a classic post on CB where some yewt complained about seeing scantily clad young men in an ad only to be taught about how ads are placed.

All I see are ads for Rogaine and Low-T supplements.



I think those are based on each individual viewer's browser history..... ;)



All joking aside, at home all my ads across the web lately are for women's bathing suits, which lets me know all I need to know about what the wife, daughters, and sister-in-law are browsing for these days.

Well unless my kids are getting on sites with scantily dressed females, then it was pretty much a random ad. I'll have to check their access and browsing history.

How funny, now there's an ad for Eastbay Superior Gear with the Zag's logo. It's getting worse.

EM_Puma wrote:

Well unless my kids are getting on sites with scantily dressed females, then it was pretty much a random ad. I'll have to check their access and browsing history.

People who view sports websites are predominately males. Could just be that.

The ads are based on Google's algorithm. It does base some information on your search history, the demographics it knows about you (age, sex, location, etc.) as well as the type of site and keywords it finds here. I think dating sites are often times popular with sports fans and so you'll see dating type ads on here on occasion, though in my profile I've listed it to limit the amount of provocative results it returns, still there are some things that are primarily out of my hands.

The company I work for is involved in human capital (IT Staffing) and our largest facilities are in the Philippines and our bank is in China, so I'm on sites all over that area verifying expenditures and searching for items to purchase. It amazes me the ads I see related to the hospitality industry in those areas. It's really scary, and then seeing that ad today really surprised me, but I remember there was a time on old TotalBlueSports.com when they got some "racy" ads show up and it was more before this individualized stuff. There's a PayPal ad right now. I guess they're setting me up so I can purchase a Chinese Lady Date!

In the last two days I've had ads for motorcycles and Toyota 4Runners. I only have so much will power. If I go out and blow 50 grand because of this website I'm gonna be very very mad (OK actually I'll be stoked but my wife will be mad)

ABYUFAN wrote:

In the last two days I've had ads for motorcycles and Toyota 4Runners. I only have so much will power. If I go out and blow 50 grand because of this website I'm gonna be very very mad (OK actually I'll be stoked but my wife will be mad)

You can do what I did with my last purchase like that. Let her know what a great deal it was, and then inform her that "oh-by-the-way, honey, you now have an unlimited budget at Victoria's Secret!"



Let me know if it works for you.



Totally did not work for me. :munch:

Pssh, I see porn ads on this website all the time!



;)

My wife's comeback, when she's bought something that she shouldn't is, "they were practically giving them away." Yeah sure.



I'm the tightwad in the family. I sprang for some Josh Groban tickets this week for our anniversary and it's the 1st (and I hope the last) that I ever pay $400 for a pair of concert tickets, but there's a story there. When he came through Utah the last time she had gotten tickets and she broke her knee cap at a Elder Holland devotional at BYU two weeks before and couldn't go. I had to take one of my adult daughters. I've never heard the end of that one, and if I'm going to go, I don't want to be where I'm watching the video board to see who the actual performer is.

All my ads are for reading the Book of Mormon, so Google (or the divine) is trying to tell me something

Ads?

This site has ads?

snoscythe wrote:

In the last two days I've had ads for motorcycles and Toyota 4Runners. I only have so much will power. If I go out and blow 50 grand because of this website I'm gonna be very very mad (OK actually I'll be stoked but my wife will be mad)

You can do what I did with my last purchase like that. Let her know what a great deal it was, and then inform her that "oh-by-the-way, honey, you now have an unlimited budget at Victoria's Secret!"



Let me know if it works for you.



Totally did not work for me. :munch:

Sneaky, trying to get two presents for yourself!

Just for fun I turned off adblocker, Which I use for many reasons. Living on satellite internet in the boonies and having limited GBs per month being one of those. The last 2 ads have been for "get a job with a tech company", and "make your website happen". ha ha. Zero interest in either and makes me wonder where it came up with those suggested ads.



A while ago, I was following Ukraine news pretty closely. After a while I noticed that ads were about mail order brides from East Europe. I never pulled the trigger though.



I don't think the Victoria Secret shopping offer would have went over well if I had...

BroncoBot wrote:

I don't think the Victoria Secret shopping offer would have went over well if I had...

My wife would be thinking I was joking if I did that. :P



I've been watching now more attentively what has been appearing. I'm getting a lot of PayPal, TaxAct, memory foam beds, Discover card, and resort/hotel offers. I hate it when I do a search and then get on FaceBook. I search a coin or picture or word and immediately I have adds related to those items. I really don't like anything that is studying my life. It feels like that movie, Minority Report, where when you walked in a mall, your eyes were scanned and ads related to what you have bought in the past show up. I don't know why that bugs me so, but it feels like someone looking over your shoulder as you're reading a book and very annoying. I think I just want to be more invisible in life and not the subject of some search algorithm.

I also just want to thank everyone for paying the bills to keep the lights on at CougarCorner.

hawkwing wrote:

I also just want to thank everyone for paying the bills to keep the lights on at CougarCorner.

I assume that you get more revenue when the ads are clicked on - so I click on one of them about 2 or three times a week just to make you some more money - If I'm wrong in that assumption let me know and I'll definitely stop doing that

ABYUFAN wrote:

I also just want to thank everyone for paying the bills to keep the lights on at CougarCorner.

I assume that you get more revenue when the ads are clicked on - so I click on one of them about 2 or three times a week just to make you some more money - If I'm wrong in that assumption let me know and I'll definitely stop doing that

Ad revenues are great for clicked on items. Especially if they are actually of interest to you.