Forum:Adverts on Wikia

All these adds i see as a Logged out viewer on wikia are not clearly marked as ads on here unlike alot of other sites. I've noticed under wikias new skin i now see more of them than before ! Do wikia earn more for the 'in text' popup ones that appear in some pages and appear abit more targeted ?

This also raises the question of how much do wikia and other sites earn per advert that we see when not loged in ? - 88.111.128.212 20:58, January 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * You're asking at the wrong place. Besides, you don't see most of the ads if you log in. Adverts are the price you pay for lurking. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 1:07 PM PST 11 Jan 2011


 * Besides the narrow content space, the insertion of "in-text" ads in content space that are not marked as ads is another reason many of us edit a lot less at Wikia, and edit more elsewhere. Google marks ads with the text "ads". Wikia does not.


 * One of the reasons Google became much more popular than other search engines was that Google decided not to elevate search result rankings of particular company pages if the company made payments to Google. Google will mix in ads in the search results, but they are always marked as ads.


 * I don't mind ads in content space if they are marked as ads in the top or bottom caption. Google ads anywhere on web pages are marked as "ads." I would like Wikia to also mark ads in content space as ads, no matter who the ads are for. That includes ads advertising other Wikia wikis. Wikis would like more control of their content space. --Timeshifter 03:07, January 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * On some pages it can be very misleading that images are actually ads. I have noticed on some new wikis that Wikia is trying to sell 'sponsored external links' below the anoying "Read More" section and it looks like these headings are not removable, which is also bad as a lot of traditional encyclopida style wikis have an External links section anyway as per wikipedia's layout.


 * Fandylic There are a variety of reasons users may not wish to 'log in' at times. But the sheere number of ads you see tends to make me not bother staying on long as an Anon user or bothering to edit & just have a quick check to see whats happening. Mobile diting is not a viable alternative yet as pages are unreadable in the current format on small screen phones when i've looked, but i've not looked at I'pad versions but would thing the data volune is an issue if on mobile broad band. - 11:53, January 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree that the adverts need to be identified more clearly and I hate the dedicated sidebar, but personally, I don't like anonymous edits. As an admin, anonymous edits are a pain. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 10:49 AM PST 12 Jan 2011


 * I think adverts are annoying, for example, the Funorb wiki has problems with them, the maker of their game does want to recognise them as Gold Fansite, but they don't become one because of adverts to other games. (See this link). Therefor I suppose Wikia shouldn't have adverts but donations. If wikia went to my door and asked for some money (like red cross and all others do), I would donate (enough people who donate online by the way).


 * That's never going to happen. Wikia is a business: they were not created to serve mankind, they were created to make money. Ads is how they do it.


 * Isn't it possible to let a wiki pay the whole wikia to delelete adds from that specific wiki?

Wikia doesn't have a policy for that. If you really want to remove the ads, log in. Problem solved.

I take that back - Wikia is starting a new program where you can remove all ads from your wiki for $19.95/month. Regardless, logging in should still remove all the ads from your view.


 * See here - Ad free wikis and there was a blog post about it by User:Sannse when it was launched as a trial last year IIRC - 21:29, January 24, 2011 (UTC)