Blogging for Advertisement

lol, i see you stopped by long enough to put a (-) on the blog. you are a true hero. post your comments please. would like to see what you have to say.

Regards,
DosDawg

Well I thought it was supposed to all go into Ads.?! But I see spam in the Forums, Blogs, Questions, Just about anywhere you can put it. I personally thought making your profile all "marketing/fetching" then partcipating normally without putting ads would draw the most attention to one's profile. Which it has been proven effective, eh ;) But anyone new or 'I don't care' isn't going to bother reading the rules before exploiting the web platform. I would LOVE...LOVE to see Boonex activate see more You, or sammie, or many others in my Friends as Moderators with delete privilleges and this place would clean right up... But that's my worthless 2 cents... How you been by the way :).?! The HAT Fricken cracks me up!!! Such a wonderful improvement from the old days of a blue dolphin screen shot :)!!!!!!

I'd say it all depends on what's being advertised. It you just want to advertise your Dolphin website, that should be done in the community section. If you are advertising mods for sale or any type of service, there are places for that too. If you are advertising Christmas gift baskets... that's a definite sitewide NO.

If however, you are advertising helpful information and other useful things for no commercial gain, I'd say it's ok. Basically, I'd say that the blog section is no place to see more advertise for any type of commercial gain, or to use as a billboard to advertise your website, or any other type of self-serving interest.

I dont see why not, good a use of the blogs as any. I think there will have to be rules though, something like only one advertisement per week per person or something, or you will get some smarty putting blog after blog on the same day, saying the same thing. like this Christmas basket person has done. At least then all the advertising blogs will be different. Perhaps too there could be a revue of the said site, its advertising, quality, accuracy and so on of the advert. a bit like they do with the see more hosting section on here.

The gift baskets are now gone. New rules will appear on Monday.

Hey now.... I was getting ready to buy one of those gift baskets.

houston, i have an old wine basket i can send ya, the gift is gone, but you can have the basket.


regards,
DosDawg

Throughout the web the press is to get ads out in any way possible. Spam and ads have gotten to the point of near ruining most enjoyable web surfing. I can understand a sponsor or some other way to generate income, but the pops ups and info that just leads to sales, well they have become potholes on my Roaming of the Information Superhighway. I would say if the info or link actually leads ot further clarification, bravo and carry on, however if not do not throw needless detours in my way.

As the decision about the rules of where and what to post may have already been decided this may be moot thought. But here it is in any case.

They should not be so convoluted. Maybe trim down the options of where to post. For example, forums usually have sections for advertising, program updates, general BS chats, etc. It should be very easy to monitor what's posted where and if someone posts an advertisement for example in the wrong forum it can be moved to it's proper place without causing see more an upheaval.

The blogs can then be freed up for the members to blog about whatever comes to mind, helpful thoughts or not.

I think part of the problem is the robustness of this software. With so many options spread out across the board there's always going to be confusion and thus issues.

just my 2 cents....

DosDawg - I agree. I was just using adverts as an example of what might be able to be done with post in the wrong part of the forum. Maybe even set up a place for buy/sell so that people can advertise AND ask for services in the same place.

More specifically to your question "should the blogs be used for adverts?" I would think not. Perhaps there could be a section of our profiles that tells others of "services available" or some such thing.

Add the category "Advertisement Blogs" to the list of Blog categories and Presto! - No problem

Juker,
there is no blog categories per say, there is a section on this site that allows for adverts to be submitted, but as mentioned, to my knowledge it has never worked. hopefully we can get that rectified, and we can start using that for all adverts. even then, there will be attempts at abuse.

Regards,
DosDawg