aeiouy - 2:13 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

In the Telivision industry they have a saying: "Broadcast TV is not designed for you; it's designed for advertisers"

Yeah but they still have to deliver compelling content in order to deliver eyeballs to their customers.

The online ad game has not gotten to that point yet. Advertisers are not going to accept paying for people who are being extorted into clicking on their advertisements. It does not set up the kind of relationship most mainstream advertisers want with their customers.

I think you are going to see some pretty dramatic changes on how this exists in the coming years. People who are providing real content and real information are going to start receiving the bulk of the advertising dollars through these programs and people who are just trying to trick and mislead people into doing nothing other than clicking on an ad are going to be left with nothing.

You say you are an adwords advertiser, so they are affordable now at 5 cents a click and they deliver you more sales (or whatever you are after), per money invested than anything else? That is all fine and good, but there is even a limit to that. Like I said, bigger advertisers take other factors into consideration besides just price.

I for one am interested to see how things shake out, but I don't think it is going to favor this who ply misdirection as their main tool for revenue.