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Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 07:28 AM Jun 2012

Romney's campaign runs an ad on DU to join their campaign?

Now, I ask you, is that a wise way to spend money for a campaign to run ads on a large, popular forum of the opposing party?

Is Obama running ads on Freerepublic?

Not that I begrudge the Romney ads. Spend, spend, spend here on DU, to your heart's content. That's wasted dollars.

Talk about having money to burn.

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Romney's campaign runs an ad on DU to join their campaign? (Original Post) Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 OP
It'll keep their Skidmore Jun 2012 #1
+1 Hoyt Jun 2012 #4
I'm not entirely sure how things work anymore Lionessa Jun 2012 #2
Ooooh, I did not know that. Many thanks for the info. Clicking is my fav thing..LOL..n/t monmouth Jun 2012 #3
I'm not talking about that. It was on the HOME pg when I first accessed. It's a bought ad at DU.nt Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #5
And why do you think front page ads aren't automatically and randomly presented based on Lionessa Jun 2012 #6
 

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)
2. I'm not entirely sure how things work anymore
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 07:45 AM
Jun 2012

but the last time I saw this explained, it went something like this.

When setting up the ads you pick keywords, and if those keywords exist on a page that displays Google ads, then it may be displayed. So if the Romney crew used the keywords "political forum", then the randomized ad system will display that on DU. I wonder if the RW forums that have Google ads have Dem ads on them? I would imagine so.

Just a note, if you click on those ads you cost the Romney campaign every time even if you don't contribute, just the click costs. So click away, I say.

 

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)
6. And why do you think front page ads aren't automatically and randomly presented based on
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 12:46 AM
Jun 2012

a site's keywords?

Google ads are on the front page, and there are many other ad sources that work essentially the same.

DU is currently using

easyinline.com
mysupercheap.com
nsdsvc.com

any of those could be creating randomly selected, topic related ads.

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