Nagbalud-balud ti Inq7.

Saanak no, adda man laeng kadakayo ti napannakita nga agtubo met laeng ti Inq7.net iti ad. Agsukisokko a maysa, saan laeng iti main page, addatoy kumadua a 38 a sabali-sabli a ads a nagpaspasawen kadagiti amin a paset.

Naipakita ti screenshot ti main page ken na-coloran iti berde dagiti paset a para kadagik ad. Pinapigsa a pixel babaen ti pixel, dagitoy a ads ket agpataud iti nasurot ngem 25% iti real estate. Daytoy ket napno ti 527,00 square pixels manipud iti total a 1.975 Million square pixels.

Ngem saan met a makasao kadakuada; daytoy ti kaniananda a biag. Naipangngato nga adda iti RSS para iti balita ken maysa a Express a porma a tunggal teksto laeng, a may-ayad pay laeng ti Adsense iti sanga.

Nagkita-kita akong maysa a chat kadua a nagserbi a IT developers kenkuanda, ket insupada da nga saan met laeng agsinnarung ti Inq7 iti sangsangit dagiti ads. Daytoy ti rason para kadagiti cutbacks iti benefits ken halad a naipatpatayon a salary raise.

Dakkel ti panagiparigatan ti US sales teamda tapno makakuad dagiti ad placements. Adda kadagiti masapul a kampanya a nagtultuloy iti Php120,000 ken napigsa babaen iti bulan. Isu a kinuna ko nga daytoy ket dagiti wide leaderboard iti ibabaw ken dagiti square flash animated ads.

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15 Comments

Marc · 21 years ago

We used to advertise on INQ7.. impressions were good but I think their CPM advertising model isn’t too advertiser-friendly.

Sayang traffic nila. Their adsense ad unit’s on the right hand side which, as far as I’m concerned, is on the colder side of the AdSense heatmap. The site can sure use an AdSense makeover…

And what’s up with the URL changes? bad for link monkeys! >:(

http://www.inq7.net/ – PR7
http://www.inq7.net/index_network.htm – PR0

Mike · 21 years ago

They need to start blogging. ;)

Jolo · 21 years ago

It’s time to support Microformats and Web Standards

diong · 21 years ago

I noticed this even last year. The site was so much better when they were inquirer.net. Now it is just so difficult to use. They totally messed up the previous site and redesigned for the worse.

Kaye · 21 years ago

@migs — they might make money through mobile media since 3G will be introduced soon.

given that it takes forever for inq7 to load, no wonder that they’re suffering from the consequences of putting too much ad on their pages. Whatever happened to Usability?

Migs · 21 years ago

An alternative they are pursuing is mobile revenues, though this is limited to Philippine users. They have a launched a new application, My Marketplace.