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Headless Lois, 3 February, 2009 at 11:54 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 9
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Couldn't they be a bit more appropriate, or at least be filtered to be inappropriate?

Last week on a thread where someone was agonising over their relationship, and the attention of someone else, the ad at the top was along the lines of 'Looking for an affair'?

Today at the bottom I've had 'married and want to flirt?' and links to other chat forums (I presume).

I think these are distinctly weird for a wedding website. Is anyone else noticing this?

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Latest activity by Headless Lois, 3 February, 2009 at 15:12
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    Just had this one at the top :

    Married & Flirting
    Married & Want To Flirt Right Now? Register For Free & Get Flirting.
    IllicitEncounters.com/Flirting/
    along with similar
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  • ~~~liz~~~
    Beginner January 2008
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    I havent noticed the ones you mentioned but there are a lot of adverts for 'singles' which I find odd on a wedding planning forum. The 'woo me' adverts with the dancing people are very annoying!

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  • Clairy
    Beginner October 2003
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    Darren will have signed up to Google ads, presumably to boost his ad sales / SEO.

    I think they say the opposite about a site, personally. Cheap and tacky. Also if I was a HIB who (I presume?) paid to be on the Hitched directory and the Google ads were then advertising my competitors for free, I would not be best pleased.

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  • wonderstuff
    Beginner August 2009
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    Married Chat
    Chat With Hot Married Women That Know What They Want
    or
    Marital Affair Network UK
    Feeling flirty & looking for more ? Join 000s online just like you
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  • Curly Girly
    Beginner May 2004
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    They apparently scan the site's content and come up with appropriate ads - goodness knows what they are finding to come up with so many dating ones! Darren could filter out the advertisers that he doesn't want, but obviously that's time consuming.

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    I realise why he's done it, but I agree - some of the ads cheapen the whole site, imo

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  • kierenthecommunity
    Beginner May 2005
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    I saw one the other day on BT titled something like 'click here to find out all the mistakes you're making that are making you not conceive'

    i did temporarily see a slight red mist...

    (edited for piss poor english ?)

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    That's awful, surely there must be a better way to filter them

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  • tahdah
    Beginner September 2009
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    I also think they make the site look cheap and not as professional as it once was, I also don't think I'd click on them cos I'd be worried that they would take me to some porn or spam virus site.

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    Yep, they have that look, and because some of them sound dodgy, that would make me avoid all of them

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