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Raise your hand if you think that website slideshows are a pain in the *** and stupid.

Hotdog

Hotdog

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I'm tired of all these websites that use slideshows as a way of you giving you their content. It's such terrible way to use a website. Who wants to trudge through small bits of information 1 slow click at a time? This is even worse when using it on smart phones. It takes way too long to give you what want, and sometimes you only want one particular thing, but you gotta plow through painfully slow loading pages.

This is the biggest reason to me why bleacherreport is such terrible product. It's bad enough that it's a bunch of amateurs writing. I don't need to take 20 mins reading something that would take 2 min otherwise if it was just a page that scrolls and has all the info right there. I want to quickly scan for the information I'm looking for. I'm not trying to read your web page like a book, one page at a time in order of how you think I should read it. It's much easier to digest information if it's all on one page, in a list. I don't always need a picture with a tiny sentence or paragraph attached as one whole page

You see it everywhere though. Who is telling these website owners this is a good idea? Don't they do market research. I'm more than sure this can't just bug me.

I avoid those type of websites as much as I can. I find it quicker to press back and try a new web page and look for similar info. I think they might do it for page views which could help their numbers in relevant search results for Google, but I'm not sure. All I know is that it is super annoying and it drives me away from websites.
 
Turkish Nightmare said:
20 page slideshow = 20 clicks = 20 page views = more ad revenue.

It sucks but money talks.
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This. Also a secondary reason is that they can have some kind of eye-catching headline only for you to skip through 20 pages of trash, rather than doing one click, seeing it's all trash, and quickly leaving.
 
I won't use USA TODAY or the Salt Lake Tribune's website. I HATE how the Trib will have 90% of an article on one page, but make you click "next page" in order to read the last paragraph or sentence -- along with an entire slew of new ads.

Maybe you're not such a bleached *** hair, Hack.
 
E.J. Wells said:
I won't use USA TODAY or the Salt Lake Tribune's website. I HATE how the Trib will have 90% of an article on one page, but make you click "next page" in order to read the last paragraph or sentence -- along with an entire slew of new ads.

Maybe you're not such a bleached *** hair, Hack.
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Thanks you are sweet.

Turkish Nightmare said:
20 page slideshow = 20 clicks = 20 page views = more ad revenue.

It sucks but money talks.
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Which means it's sort of a scam on the advertisers right? One person clicking 20 times is only one person there that will see the ads. So are advertisers really that dumb and don't get that they are paying for inflated numbers?

I would think this would be important for getting your website at the the top of search results. Not really ad revenue.

I really don't know. I'm just wondering. It's hard to believe that advertisers dont understand what's going on.

Talking about this I just had a thought. I was thinking then why not just have the same Web page just automatically reload every few minutes to manipulate more page views. I think that's what Drudge Report does. Their web page always is refreshing which is annoying too.
 
Hack said:
Thanks you are sweet.




Which means it's sort of a scam on the advertisers right? One person clicking 20 times is only one person there that will see the ads. So are advertisers really that dumb and don't get that they are paying for inflated numbers?

I would think this would be important for getting your website at the the top of search results. Not really ad revenue.

I really don't know. I'm just wondering. It's hard to believe that advertisers dont understand what's going on.

Talking about this I just had a thought. I was thinking then why not just have the same Web page just automatically reload every few minutes to manipulate more page views. I think that's what Drudge Report does. Their web page always is refreshing which is annoying too.
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The two go hand in hand. You're going to have a hard time generating ad revenue if you don't generate traffic because you don't do well in search results.
 
Hack said:
I'm tired of all these websites that use slideshows as a way of you giving you their content. It's such terrible way to use a website. Who wants to trudge through small bits of information 1 slow click at a time? This is even worse when using it on smart phones. It takes way too long to give you what want, and sometimes you only want one particular thing, but you gotta plow through painfully slow loading pages.

This is the biggest reason to me why bleacherreport is such terrible product. It's bad enough that it's a bunch of amateurs writing. I don't need to take 20 mins reading something that would take 2 min otherwise if it was just a page that scrolls and has all the info right there. I want to quickly scan for the information I'm looking for. I'm not trying to read your web page like a book, one page at a time in order of how you think I should read it. It's much easier to digest information if it's all on one page, in a list. I don't always need a picture with a tiny sentence or paragraph attached as one whole page

You see it everywhere though. Who is telling these website owners this is a good idea? Don't they do market research. I'm more than sure this can't just bug me.

I avoid those type of websites as much as I can. I find it quicker to press back and try a new web page and look for similar info. I think they might do it for page views which could help their numbers in relevant search results for Google, but I'm not sure. All I know is that it is super annoying and it drives me away from websites.
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Agreed %100. Unfortunately it's everywhere now. And I agree that it drives away the users too. I don't even bother with it when I see such article or anything.
 
I've noticed some of them start you in the middle too. So if you are scrolling through a list of the top 25 places to go on a trip or whatever in that format and they start you at 13, you have scroll from 13 to 25 or 1 and then you have to click back all the way through again if you want to see the rest.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
I've noticed some of them start you in the middle too. So if you are scrolling through a list of the top 25 places to go on a trip or whatever in that format and they start you at 13, you have scroll from 13 to 25 or 1 and then you have to click back all the way through again if you want to see the rest.
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I havent seen that before. Wow. That's awful.

The other bad thing about these slideshows are that if you want to press back to the search results page you were just on, you have to click back all the way through the slideshow 1 by 1 again. So you can't do that. You have to close the tab and start over.
 
One another trick I loathe is when they have a link with an interesting image and title but it takes you into a gallery with 50 other pictures after you click on it. Then you just have to browse through all the other images to find the picture that made you clicked on the link. Such a cheap and low trick.
 
Enes CanTear You Apart said:
One another trick I loathe is when they have a link with an interesting image and title but it takes you into a gallery with 50 other pictures after you click on it. Then you just have to browse through all the other images to find the picture that made you clicked on the link. Such a cheap and low trick.
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And also when they have a misleading title, and then you waste your time finding out that throat was anything but deep. That sucks.
 
Enes CanTear You Apart said:
One another trick I loathe is when they have a link with an interesting image and title but it takes you into a gallery with 50 other pictures after you click on it. Then you just have to browse through all the other images to find the picture that made you clicked on the link. Such a cheap and low trick.
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Or when the actual arrow to scroll through the slideshow is hidden further down the page and there is a bigger arrow right below the picture that takes you to an advertiser. I've made that mistake a few times.
 
it'll all probably get so bad that folks will be motivated to go back to watching regular old commercial television!


Maybe we need a PBS for the internet!
 
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