There has been a banner, advertised on cag stating that I am the 1,000,000 visitor amd I could win a mini, however no clue as to who put it there. Any ideas ?

Pretty sure it's just a spam advertisement. It will ask you to call a premium rate number to find out.

Anyone can advertise on CAG as they are using an ad network. Best to ignore it.

Yes, I wasn't planning to click on it as it appeared misleading as it had stated that I was the 1,000,000 visitor every time I saw it..

Unfortunately they can put almost anything there to try to get people to fall for it.

OIC, and cag is not able to block them ?

It's where the money to run the site comes from. I believe they should be able to block certain ads from appearing, but depending on the network they are using. One of them should see this post though.

The ads can't be filtered to what a site would like. It's a very old money making trick.

Why do PDL's such as Sunny appear in the banners on CAG?

Because of Google...we have no control over the advertising.

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Andy

Can't anuything be done about what appears on this site as surely it goes against the grain...desperate people come on here hoping for help not expecting another pdl to be showing up

You can install various software to block....but we also require revenue to run this forum...which google ads create

It only shows what YOU have been googling neil.

So for example, I get Policemen in Gimp suits

is there noway of liasing with google so that this type of add doesnt appear?

oh very funny.....trouble is there are a lot of people on here with pdl problems, so yes when they are searching for help on pdls then yes I understand but there must be a way of add selection?

It only shows what YOU have been googling neil.

 

So for example, I get Policemen in Gimp suits

then i suppose we should all google police in gimp suits then

How about looking at it from this point of view.

Every time somebody clicks one of the adverts, we get a couple of pence dropped into our begging bowl.

The people who pay this are the people whose goods or services are being advertised. This means that if you click on a payday loan advertisement, the revenue that we get contribute to the upkeep of this site.

Don't you think that there is a delicious irony in getting the payday loan companies and the rest to pay for this site which helps to protect ordinary people against them.

Here's another point of view. We receive very few donations. Most people that we help simply disappear and we don't even get a thanks. That's not really a problem because we are not here to be thanked or paid. However, a huge number of people do benefit very substantially from the advice that we give. Very often they get the benefit of hundreds and probably thousands of pounds worth of advice which they couldn't possibly afford if we went here.

If we don't make money somehow, we can't pay our bills. If we can't pay our bills we cease to exist. If we cease to exist, then people have nowhere to turn to and they give up and they accept Oprah's of behaviour is inflicted on them by the payday loan companies, the insurance companies, the banks, the private parking companies, the bailiffs, big retailers – and everyone else who manages to ride roughshod over ordinary people – because ordinary people have no idea what their rights are or how to enforce them – unless we help them.

If you really begrudge our advertising then install some ad blockers. However, if you do block our ads or if you don't occasionally click on them if you are seriously looking around at the possibility of some product or service, then you are effectively throttling our revenue stream (it is not very much) and eventually you are handing a victory to all of the big companies who don't need this kind of petty change for their revenue.

We are very worried about plans by various Internet providers to provide ad blockers as a matter of course. It may put us and other organisations and all of the other small discussion forums on every subject you can imagine out of action within a few months.

What will be left will be the huge organisations that have no interest in you or me or any of us as consumers ordinary people other than merely a way of generating revenue for their shareholders.

Maybe you are one of those shareholders?

love that i will start clicking on pdls then...love it

The ads can't be filtered to what a site would like. It's a very old money making trick.

Who controls that I wonder ?

Theyre pulled from an ad server based on what you have viewed on the internet. The site can dictate what kind of adds to display/filter but those adsense things are too easy to workaround for the companies/[problematic] that are persistant.

Give it a go. Go to a catalogue and click on something and you will see ads for that.

Is this right or is this wrong..

I do not see any adverts on CAG , have everyone got their aviator back now?

Give it a go. Go to a catalogue and click on something and you will see ads for that.

Yeah, I've had this.

So, who is responsible for misleading adds on cag then..

So, who is responsible for misleading adds on cag then..

No one. It is the algorithm of Google. That looks at what your browser has been seeing and displays ads that correspond to that. If you have cleared the cache and there is nothing in the browser temp file, it will display ads of the site you are looking at at the time. So if you have an empty temp file and come on to CAG, it will see it is mainly finance and display an ad to suit beit a payday loan or whatever or, if you lucky, some pretty girl on a dating site.

If you have a look at knickers on the Littlewoods site, that is what you will get in the ads.