Forum:Ad experiment

Hi all,

I would guess that most of you reading this message are logged in, and so don't see the site ads... but I wanted to tell you about an experiment we are running with the ads here. Instead of the usual box ads, we are trying out info-links. These are the double underlined links you see on some sites, which lead to an ad related to the linked word. We would like to see whether people find them less or more intrusive on the articles than in-article boxes, and whether they will actually get used by visitors and so whether they would be a viable alternative to the usual ads. So, your opinions would be great.. and we also need to gather some practical data from the visitors on the site as they are show the different type of ads (we will compare the results with other similar wikis to see what actually happens when they are shown). Depending on what data we get, the change is likely to be in place for about 2 months.

You should be able to see the change sometime tomorrow... Let me know what you think!

Thanks, -- sannse (talk) 22:36, April 7, 2010 (UTC)