Make us money to make you money?

I guess you know your website is getting popular when you start getting the banner farmers/spammers of the net interested in your URL… I mention this because today I received an email from rankyou.com that sounded good at first but after inspection of their website and the realization of what they are and what they cost I chose to let them and the world (well, whoever reads alternate anyway) know that they are the scums of the internet that are killing small websites chances of surviving. You see, I believe that the banner farmers/spammers of the net (ie. DoubleClick.net) are the major cause for sites to jump into the world of banner ads to “support” their site.


Why is this bad you ask?


Well, if these websites didn’t have the advertising and administration overhead caused by buying into shite like DoubleClick or RankYou then they could stay alive and not need to bring in money to buy ads so they can sell ads… I mean, Its a big fucking circle jerk, one website pays to get the right to have ads sold, then another company sells those ads and takes some of the money, then the original site pays again to show those ads again…. No wonder the net and its AD supported bretheren are dying …. arghh. We for one will NOT BE A PART OF IT.



At this URL you can see the ridiculousness of the rates (5 cents per hit if less than 1 million hits per month, who the fuck gets that much traffic that cannot figure out how to make money off the site on their own??)



Here is a piece of the email that I found funny (53rd biggest, ewww, wow… and I’ve still never heard of them);

My name is xxxxxxx and I am the Sr. Advertising Executive with
Rankyou.com. Coming off February, we are currently ranked as the 53rd
largest web property in the world and own the 44th most visited site in the
world with over 14 million unique viewers last month, twistedhumor.com (PC
Data).

Now that our traffic is at an all-time high, more than ever we have that
ability to get an extremely targeted group of people over to your site via
several online marketing strategies. Being the industry leader in online
Advertising and Marketing, I would like to speak to your Director or VP of
Marketing to discuss our various online marketing strategies.

Feels like they wanna help us huh? But guess what? They dont, they want our money, period.

Assholes.

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