Advertlets, what the *toot* are you up to?
06
January
How many of us would let our own domain name go expired if we still have interest and actively involved in it? What if tomorrow, Google.com goes expired? What about the prospect of Microsoft.com going expired? That should be one hell of a joke no doubt, should be a cyber-squatter’s ultimate dream. Not trying to exaggerate matters here, but Advertlets had done what no other successful business had done so far, having their domain name going expired, while still at it.
It’s not that the expired domain name issue that’s got onto my nerves, nor the money that I’ve earned over the last 6 months that has left remaining unpaid (a pity RM70 more or less), in fact I’ve never gotten any payments from Advertlets. But the stupid redirection to an parking page really annoys me. It’s been like 3-4 days without any Google earnings because of the redirection, traffic’s gone, reader’s gone, is Advertlet’s going, too?
I haven’t heard any official statement from the company yet on their exact grounds. What’s really going on inside Advertlets? Speak up please, Josh Lim.
For those of you who’re having the same redirection problem, please remove all Advertlets ads code, that should save your blog/site being redirected to some shitty spam ads site. Until then, good luck Advertlets, I know you need them.
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1. PSA | January 6th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
“Stupid is as in stupid does!”
This has got to be the most ridiculous case of incompetence I’ve ever come across so far! What a joke and how sad.
2. lilian | January 6th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Eh fren ah, you using the Adsense Beautifier rite? Last I heard, Adsense does not allow it wor.
3. eN | January 6th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I open ur page for a while, then it redirect to other page.
4. wuching | January 6th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
oh so thats what happened…no wonder i couldn’t go to so many blogs
5. napaboaniya | January 6th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
that advertlets shyt irritated the anal out of me yesterday!! which busineseman in the RIGHT mind will allow his domain to get expired?!?!?! That tells me alot about Josh Lim. ZzZzzz
6. Alexallied | January 6th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
PSA: Oh well, I’ve seen you posting the same comments across the blogosphere. Try to improvise next time
lilian: I’ve removed the random images, I’ve been risking it for too long already :/ Thanks for the reminder.
eN: It’s okay now.
wuching: Sad ain’t it? How’s the weather in Melbourne now?
napaboaniya: I don’t know bout Josh, but Advertlet’s credibility’s in deep trouble though.
7. Rice Blogger | January 6th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
i think they are gone
8. aw | January 7th, 2008 at 12:30 am
This has to be said:
When Adverlets started, they had a comparison chart between him and Nuffnang. One of the many idiotic and useless points boasted that Josh had registered his personal domain name a long time ago, and nuffnang.com.my was only recently registered.
(Which is stupid to begin with, so what if you registered a domain name first, anyone can do that. And it’s also your personal domain, duh)
This is too damn ironic. I wonder if that comparison chart is still up.
9. Neo | January 7th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Hahaha… Josh cabut liao ah?
10. zach | January 7th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I have blogged abt it immediately upon facing the problem and had spread the solution to friends including miricommunity on 5th january. i removed the advertlet HTML banner code for the time being. i experiment it.
11. Deejay | January 7th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Well it makes one scared not to put all those wierd widgets in our personal website
12. Zephyr | January 7th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Yeah,I went to your blog before and it redirects to adverlets.com. After that I get an idea, press the stop loading button in IE7 after ur blog completely loaded XD. Luckly I still don’t have any ads or commercial stuff running in my blog coz it still new.
13. Che-Cheh | January 7th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Luckily I only have Nuffnang hehe. Of course it’s not too late to jump boat.