Comments on: Irritating Flashing Bright Colored Ads http://www.emediastrategist.com/blog/irritating-flashing-bright-colored-ads/ Personal blog of Eric Shanfelt, Online Business Strategist Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Frank Chloupek http://www.emediastrategist.com/blog/irritating-flashing-bright-colored-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-5559 Frank Chloupek Fri, 04 May 2007 00:25:54 +0000 http://www.emediastrategist.com/blog/?p=47#comment-5559 Let me add a point 5 5. Go into your ad serving system and judge the "performance" of each of these ad spots. Are any of them real dogs? The other thing you *might* consider -- especially if Eric's step 4 shows a problem, is removing the animation from the site and only accepting static ads. I've heard more complaints regarding blinking ads than static ones, and especially if all the ads are blinking at different rates, the page can have a sideshow feel to it. But, don;t take one compaint too seriously (unless its from someone tied to your paycheck, or from Eric ;)) Let me add a point 5

5. Go into your ad serving system and judge the “performance” of each of these ad spots. Are any of them real dogs?

The other thing you *might* consider — especially if Eric’s step 4 shows a problem, is removing the animation from the site and only accepting static ads. I’ve heard more complaints regarding blinking ads than static ones, and especially if all the ads are blinking at different rates, the page can have a sideshow feel to it.

But, don;t take one compaint too seriously (unless its from someone tied to your paycheck, or from Eric ;) )

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