xaero96

Replacing some ads with cleaner ones

Added 2019-12-03 13:27:27 +0000 UTC

Hi again,

I'd like to let you know about some ad changes that I'm working on, since my Patreon goals are based around removing ads.

As some of you know, not so long ago I removed all "short links" from my download pages because I wasn't happy with the types of ads they were displaying.

Recently I've been invited to the Adfocus clean ads program and have been testing their ads for the last couple of weeks. It's the same as what Minecraft Forge uses. The ads they display have been very clean and mostly Minecraft related. Basically, it's things that modded Minecraft players might actually be interested in. The links are still optional, of course, with mirror links provided. I think I'm going to keep using Adfocus and I'll soon update the Patreon goals to include the removal of short links again. This will not affect the final goal.

Also, when I previously had removed the short links I also added a new ad banner to replace them. The new ad banner turned out to be the best performing of my banners and it still is today, so it doesn't make much sense to remove it now. I'll remove multiple other banners instead. It's probably going to be the ads at the bottom of mod description pages for all of my mods.
At the end, some of the current ads will be replaced by cleaner ones and some of the Patreon goals will probably move closer to the current total pledge, which means sooner removal of more ads :)

I hope you can understand and thank you for the continuous support!