Maxnpaddy - 12:55 am on Aug 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

then I noticed that there were Amazon ads in the middle of the articles

That's a 90's style of click capture, hoping some punter stops reading his nice article and suddenly click on the advert.

Every time I see one of those, I ignore it, until I finish reading my lovely article, and probably forget the ad once finished too.

There are much better ways to get noticed you know, and it ain't by using social sites. Response rates are lower, to increase them requires new methods, ways to catch people's attention, and further ways to keep them there!

I don't think social sites are the way to go here.

[edited by: Maxnpaddy at 1:11 am (utc) on Aug. 28, 2007]