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Is anyone aware of general UI design guidelines for increasing ad revenue from web ads? Obviously many SO users use adblock, and probably find this type of question reprehensible, but I believe that it is possible to integrate advertising (and other revenue streams) into sites so that they are visually appealing, on-target, and functional. However, this is only a belief ;).

Given the widespread use of advertising as a means of income, this seems like it must be an active area of research.

I believe that any web design that is intended to generate income should take this into account, since the web designer (read: a sizable portion of the SO user base) should be trying to get the biggest return on their time/skills.

(This question is a repost because there is noway* on SO to contest a 'closed question', and it only takes one person with enough rep to decide they don't like it.)

Edit: Just incase anyone goes looking, I deleted the initial question (which was closed) since it didn't make sense to pollute the search results.

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In fact, one of the people who created this site made a post regarding this on his blog

Mez
ah, interesting! The (few) posts I've read on Jeff's blog have been more MS-centric than appeals to me (I just don't use those platforms) so I don't read coding horror frequently. This is a good place to have a link to that article!
rcreswick
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You may be interested in seeing what Google has to say about the placement of ads.

Kevin Pang
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i've always appreciated sites that let me disable ads too.

DanWoolston