Make ads dissapear once clicked..

...nones likes ads anyway :)

[roRisc]

I'm looking for a way to make ads dissapear once visitors have clicked on them... thus - implicitly, persue them in clicking so they would just dissapear.. more like a popup window.. but .. heh. I get payed for ppl 'closing' the pupups. :)

I'm just using ads on my site for 6 days.. and even I'm annoyed seing them :) - I even made them go in so well with the layout no one can tell they are ads. -- which adversly turned out in 0.03 CTR... :) down from 1.5 CTR, when using the 'mother earth' default....

anyhow..
here's what I'm talking about:
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.. see the '+' and '-' for the blocks?
I was just looking through this site's code.. and thinking maybe someone already got this figured...

I run a community site with few very frequent users. They will be delighted to 'turn off' ads visiting the advertiser's sites :)

Thank you!
Cheers.

If this is totally a bad idea.. please pitch in with remarks, thoughts, other ideas.. :)
maybe innovate on what I've come up with :)

[edited by: Jenstar at 3:51 am (utc) on April 5, 2004]
[edit reason] Sorry, no URLs as per TOS [/edit]

[TheDave]

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, or a wrong idea, but heres what pops into my head

-User clicks first ad, with intention of returning to check out the others, visitor returns, finds ads gone and you miss out on 2 or 3 clicks.

-Google may not like, so check with them first

[digitalv]

One easy way I can think of would be to display your ads in a div or table with an ID on it, and using show/hide layers you can determine whether you want to display this table or not.

You can set a cookie once the user has clicked in the area and that cookie can be referenced to determine whether to show that area of the page or not in the future. If the user has no cookie, they see the ad. If cookie exists, no ad.

[TheDave]

I would remove the ad code from the page, rather than accumulate impressions which aren't actually happening.

[digitalv]

Actually yeah, TheDave's suggestion is better. Rather than using show/hide layers, just make the page that shows your advertisements dynamic like ASP or PHP.

If the cookie exists, don't even use the AdWords code at all - if not, load up AdWords. This way you'll only be showing ads to people who don't have the cookie, and won't be wasting impressions for people who already do.

[paybacksa]

or, just use the standard Google text ads layout and color scheme, and put the ads in a sidebar. After a while, you won't even see the ads anymore!

(snicker)

[roRisc]

:)

.. and I could just as easily put a "show Ads" link, and when users click it, the cookie deletes itself.

:) thank you.
does anyone have this already implemented? (I wonder why.. if they don't) where should I be looking for snipets?

Cheers!