Mathew Ingram on crappy ad links: they look like ass
I’m fully in agreement with David Churbuck and Mathew Ingram on what the latter wonderfully describes as “crappy ad links”: they are crappy, and as Ingram also notes, “they look like ass.” They look cheap, they look spammy, they’re manipulative.
And on a semi-related topic, I’m surprised at the number of mainstream sites that overuse “interior links,” or links within stories to related stories or other kinds of content. The Washington Post online gets special mention here — it’s annoying to the point of distraction to be forced to ignore links to words like Russia or foreign policy while reading a story, knowing that they lead to a generally useless page of site search results (and bonus ad impressions!) within the site.
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