Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1824272-20151212103441/@comment-26402117-20151215190037

Its free and you are guaranteed a portion of the readerbase and conributors that navigate the Wikia domain - coughing up money for a domain is a bit wasteful if you don't end up getting readers and editors willing to add content.

87.115.122.110 wrote: Speedit wrote: Will action be done to at least move "You May Also Like" to the right rail of the page where it may be less intrusive?

As a sidenote, its excessive to use AdBlock if you have an account seeing as its one page. You are getting free hosting for you wiki community and a custom-developed user interface. ...that sucks. Would be much better if we just had vector or monobook.

Another note is that with Vector or Monobook, they would go inside the article's content and mingle with the text. If that is an option for you - because if you got Wikia to immediately adopt your skin, they wouldn't remove the three ads in all pages. Page clickthrough quantity would also decrease because the Read More section would disappear.

BertH wrote: ... More generally, please know that as both Wikia and the web advertising world continue to evolve, Wikia is working to make improvements in the overall user experience around ads. It does matter to us, and your feedback is heard.

I can agree that Wikia staff are willing to listen to community feedback. So I'm being realistic by not overburdening the advertising management with a move that essentially involves a restructural of Wikia's whole ad program and the way that ads are implemented.

Thematic advertisements work to good effect in examples like the "Shortlist" magazine and the Google "AdWords" program. Thematic advertising is better than just using other techniques like cookies because it makes ads better quality and cleaner while physically ensuring more interest from readers.