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What's wrong with these Ads?

What's wrong with these Ads?

Looking at the Ad in the top right: Does that image look like John Lennon?

How about the other Ads: Are those the images that come to mind when you think about historical events?

Clearly, this is an attempt by the creator of these Ads - using the idea that "Sex Sells" -- to catch our attention, and make us click, even though the image has nothing to do with what the blog post is all about.

All Ad titles, images, body and tags must match what the blog post is primarily about.

Any attempts to go around this very simple rule and you're creating a lot of work for people -- and it's not fair to them.

NOTE: If your post is primarily about ladies in bathing suits, then by all means feel free to use an image of a lady in a bathing suit. 

But here's the bottom line:

As we've discussed many times before, if your objectives (such as making money) are more important than the community's objectives, such that you really don't care what damage your actions are doing to the community, then you're out

Your account gets deleted.

Look, we don't have the resources to personally contact each person that decides to make FanBox his personal toilet to discuss his/her actions.

We could hire a lot of people to do that, but then we would have less funds to provide to the community.

So our approach to such matters, is simply: USE YOUR BRAIN. 

Don't have a brain? That's too bad. You're still out. While we feel bad for you, you don't belong in the Knowledge Economy. Maybe the Porn Ecomony or Stupid Economy -- but you're in the wrong place.

So, go take a look at ALL your Ads today, and make sure each of their titles, image, body and tags all match what the blog post is primarily about. If they don't match, take them down immediately.

Starting in 48 hours, accounts are going down -- disappearing from FanBox FOREVER.

Please don't write to me, your Success Coach or Customer Service and attempt to negotiate about this, or ask for us to review your Ads individually.  USE YOUR BRAIN. We simply do not have the time to waste on people that shoudn't be here in the first place.

When in doubt, take it down.

I see this as a very clear, open / shut situation. FanBox is not your personal toliet. You should be ashamed of yourself. The Success Coaches and I will ensure that all such Ads are taken down, along with their owner's accounts.

Thanks to everyone for helping make FanBox a community that doesn't look like the bathroom walls of a porn shop.

1167 Comments

thanks for sharing johny ,,,
ALiyaan Rai

17 months ago

THATS TRUE MR. JOHN.. JUST ONLY TO GET THE ATTENTION OF THE READERS, THEY POSTING SEXY LADY ONLY UNDERWEARS? MY GOD! THEY JUST SHOWING WHAT ATTITUDE THEY HAVE.. ITS NOT THE RIGHT WAY OF GETTING ATTENTION OF THE READERS.. ITS NOT FUNNY AND ITS NOT A JOKE.. THANKS JOHNNY FOR CEREATING THIS BLOG..

17 months ago

Congratulations for this action!

17 months ago

great information thanks for share !!

17 months ago

WOW,,, GOING BETTER AND BETTER.....


I AM HAPPY TO HEAR THIS POST JC,, NOT JEALOUS ANYMORE....


17 months ago

awesome post.......

17 months ago

good action........but it is too late.we could ..do it b4........we never allow Fanbox out of control.....Thanks fanbox team and management....

17 months ago

Yeah it's really bad and unfair to those who did their best and try hard to make a clean ads...

Kudos to you Mr. Jc and to the Fanbox team...

Two thumbs up sir...

17 months ago

TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, Trillion times true...

It happens most of the time.. and I ma proud that EACH AND EVERY ONE OF MY ADS ARE clean and not filthy... What a cheap way i used to think..
thanks fanbox admin... now its getting even better.. And for the losers who upload nude pics and try to grab people's attention,i feel pity.. FANBOX ROCKS!

17 months ago

very great post

17 months ago

Very nice info, I will try to make my Ads better

17 months ago

nice post!!!!

17 months ago

This is a good response or action to those who cannot understand his role in the FanBox community.

17 months ago

Thank you very much Johnny for this post and the fair warning about the ADS. You are absolutely right when you said in your post that the title and the photo have to match for the AD.

17 months ago

I use to think and try those way of making ads honestly to my self as a way of attraction... but everytime, I submit those ads it was rejected so I learned to do it the right way as JC is mentioning to this post.

This post actually clear the mentality of our fellow members who are still planing to try this ads approaches. I suggest not to do it too, to avoid rejection to your ads campaign.

A good topic that is also Teacher and Coaches will always reminds to our fellow student/beginners here in FanBox to always doing those kind.

Lets us all enjoy learning the good way. Thanks Johnny for this great reminder for everybody. Good Morning to all!

17 months ago

I am not too late this time..
You said it all JC. Thank you for being here for us. xxx

17 months ago

If I am not mistaken these ads are easy to fix for example if you want to have a girl in the picture because you think that it will help you in some way have her in sports gear or holding a football or basketball. That goes for all the history posts. As far as John Lennon goes here is a good example of a image I found on Bing.com that would work fine. http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvv3mzVJC21qzp4rxo1_500.jpg
I am not sure if you all have noticed but girls like to get their picture taken and if you go to Bing,Yahoo or Google they have pictures with a girls holding ever thing from fish to footballs standing with cars to trains being with girls that are their friends to boyfriends. I would know as I spend lots of time chasing down just the right image for all of my clients ads. So good luck and happy hunting!

17 months ago

Thanks for this information.
I created lots of ads for my own blogs and other blogger too.
I have a long list of do's and dont's for creating ads.
This post serve as a warning to all of us.
Thank you so much JC *_*

17 months ago

I think this is the time when we can save this community from that kind of stuff. Thanks JC for raising this main issue. Even now we can't open FanBox in front of our family. I am also going to check my all ads if I have any mature stuff I will delete it. This is our family community and it is our duty to save it for our future generation.Thank JC for your support and help.

17 months ago

yeah thats correct lots of people have girls profile pic and in back ground too .. but they are buy actually :D

17 months ago

Gud Post I Like it

17 months ago

TRUE! :)

17 months ago

Thanks for your support, good citizens of the world!

It's never fun to give or receive "rules" -- so I appreciate your support! :)

17 months ago

Great information & very useful post about fanbox ads Thanks

17 months ago

Thanks Mr. Jc for sharing this, actually i've noticed it with some ads here, but dont worry all my paused ads are very clear in porns and nudity, im not also entertaining this kind of photos in my blogs or posts. Also some photos have some nudity and i saw some, thanks.

17 months ago

To be clear everyone, I'll repeat:

It is OK to have images of ladies in bathing suits -- but ONLY if those images relates to the the PRIMARY topic of your blog posts.

If your blog post is PRIMARILY about FOOTBALL, then do not show images of half-naked ladies in your Ad.

In that manner, if someone is interested in FOOTBALL, they should NOT see Ads with ladies in bathing suits - but they will see Ads that show FOOTBALLS and similar images.

It's really very simple: THINK. If it sounds gray -- if you're not sure... then simply don't do it.

We have a big job ahead of us now -- visiting over 100,000 Ads to take down the Ads where the images, titles, body or tags do not match the blog post -- that should never have been approved in the first place.

Thanks for everyone's understanding.

17 months ago

thanks for the warning

17 months ago

Muahahahaha.... I like the part when Johnny say "make FanBox his personal toilet" that to me is hillarious... thanks for making me laugh I mean really LOL

17 months ago

Yes, Johnny! It's about time we, as a community, sought self respect and ceased to look to outsiders like patrons of a porn shop whose sole objective is to make money, even through immoral and unethical means.

17 months ago

thanks for the warning

17 months ago

If a writer is writing a blog about her personal experiences on any given topic, it's okay for us to post a picture of her in the ad submission process isn't it? Just a normal profile picture, not a swim suit one? Reason I ask is that in some ongoing diary-type blogs, people identify with seeing her photo by her ads, if they like her writing, they see, her picture, she's easy to find for them, when they see her picture in an ad advertising her work.

17 months ago

very nice.

17 months ago

great post... thanks for giving us guide on how to make the right image ads...

17 months ago

Good post JC and about time, some of the pictures are getting a bit out of hand. While some may like them it can be offensive to others.
I totally agrre with Khalil Al-Halwa, from the outsider it is looking very tacky!!
Some 'new' guidelines need drawing up.

17 months ago

I am SO glad you posted this! Thank you!

17 months ago

Yeah, i love this post, this is what I 'm waiting for JC
very straight forward
pornography doesn't have a place here in FanBox
we deserve respect and love, especially you guys that work hard and doing everything to make this community more better
I am happy you posted this, two thumbs up FanBox TEAM :) :)

17 months ago

Ditto. Some lowbrows just never understand. It might be on their minds, but as you say so eloquently, "tasteless". Keep up the good work JC.

17 months ago

agree with you100%
thank you for this action

17 months ago

thanks for sharing

17 months ago

so glad, I am sick of seeing pictures of girls boobs. Thank you thank you. I was really mad that people were so proud of their click rate because they kept using sexy pictures. Thanks you!

17 months ago

Good thought I wish more ppl would fallow this.

17 months ago

It's lesson for everybody, a room for everyone to develop his/her own individual performance to be responsible enough in making appropriate ads.

17 months ago

Great Post J.C!!

17 months ago

thanks JC.. apreciated

17 months ago

Great Johnny, that make our community more better and better. this is the good lesson for everyone.

thank you, picture in ads must match the post content, I also think like what you lecture here.

17 months ago