Comments on: Is this girl Cute? -The New Low for Desparate Traffic and What works in Banner Ads

By: Matrimony

Matrimony — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:25:33 +0000

It’s like this…sex sells. But an ad like that is a big blow to the brands image because not every Indian has liberal view of things. I would understand if a dating website posted an ad like since half of the users are only signed up for a fling but a matrimonial site is just crossing the line, considering there are parents and other family members posting profiles of loved ones. Shame shame.

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:25:54 +0000

Its not serving any purpose..except a click

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:22:27 +0000

Thats the limit. But how does the marketing divisions of such companies go with such FAKE campaigns??

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By: Arvind

Arvind — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:25:16 +0000

I have a strong belief (intuition) that these shaadi/marriage websites are gonna run out of business in next couple of years. Marriage-after-love is quite deep rooted in the new growing generation.

And I really find college kids these days far maturer and adaptive than the ‘parenting generation’. In many other different ways too. And matrimony website guys, it’s just that they r totally confused between the ‘dating concept’ and ‘arranged marriages’ these days.

Speaks about the current social situation in our country. lol

Cheers,
Arvind

By: Himanshu Khurana

Himanshu Khurana — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:24:54 +0000

….Where is the whole idea of targeted and relevant advertisements?

By: Himanshu Khurana

Himanshu Khurana — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:24:05 +0000

Quite desparate indeed! I hate when online marketing is used as a source of only getting hits or getting junk traffic. This makes an end user lose trust in online advertisement. Where is the whole idea of targete

By: Rajat

Rajat — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:09:08 +0000

This is nicely put up….There is a difference between getting a hit and asking somebody to register….Such ads target hits but not the end users…

By: D j

D j — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:23:48 +0000

Hi Naman,

Our resident satirist has given her take on your article

http://www.techgoss.com/Story/2260S14-Sexy-girl-leads-to-Shaadi.aspx

By: naman

naman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:46:29 +0000

that is of December but the ad was still live as of 7th march. Lets wait for few days and see if they have really taken some action.

In that case it would prove my point about the campaign manager.

By: Lochan

Lochan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:38:10 +0000

@jaggy: Yay! @ShaadiDotCom responds to http://is.gd/5jvr0 and says “the ads will be off soon. The affiliate has been asked to do so” #fb
1:47 AM Dec 11th, 2009 via web

Found it in @Shaadidotcom’s favorites

By: naman

naman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:59:17 +0000

Could you please point to that tweet.
I don’t find any such clarification.

By: Lochan

Lochan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:48:46 +0000

Hey! @ShaadiDotCom on twitter clarified it. Its not them but a few of their affiliates who got it wrong. They had promised that it will be stopped and it has thankfully!

By: Angel Of Death

Angel Of Death — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:26:33 +0000

R u Guys serious If you want porn go to a porn site. Dont search for porn on face book….. Having said that the ads look interesting where can i find them

By: naman

naman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:31:54 +0000

LOL.

I didn’t mean it that way. .

Just meant that it is misleading.

By: Vishnu

Vishnu — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:29:22 +0000

Please have a luk at this…

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Walkins & Off Campus
Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:49 PM
Subject: Receive Marriage Proposals – Create your Matrimonial Profile in SimplyMarry.com
To: ..@gmail.com

Receive Marriage Proposals – Create your Matrimonial Profile Now

Click here to Register in SimplyMarry

By: Arpit Kumar

Arpit Kumar — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:02:36 +0000

“The basic problem with this ad is that BharatMatrimony does not allow free chat as mentioned.”

lol

By: affiliate

affiliate — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:16:36 +0000

The adv is not from bharatmatrimony and it was done by one of the affiliate of bharatmatrimony and the affiliate has been banned.

BharatMatrimony never encourages these kind of adv and it’s stands for trust and service.

By: Kanupriya

Kanupriya — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:16:10 +0000

Wow, really? This seems to be one of the most desperate strategies to have clicks anyhow!

By: naman

naman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:11:51 +0000

Mandar,

Are you sure the ads dont lead to BM. Because when i checked, a few weeks ago, the landing page was BM’s homepage.

By: Jyotirmoy

Jyotirmoy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:07:11 +0000

arey forget about facebook and these ads…. BM, Shaadi n a lot more showcase a lot crap advertisements on rediff, yahoo pages and elsewhere.

These ads not only lower the trust of Indian parents over the online search processes, but also lower the standard of Indian web industry.

More than half of them says : kayastha for kayastha, brahmin for brahmin and all other sort of racist advertising. Offline media houses r no less handy in this scheme of the wretched.

By: mandar

mandar — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:48:03 +0000

the bharatmatrimony ad is not true. only their name was used but the ad was leading to some other dating site. i reported this to bharatmatrimony last week. hope they r planning some action against those ads by now. shaadi.com seems to have seen this ad and mislead by this assuming this is really a bharatmatrimony’s ad. cause, their ad is really going to shaadi.com page with NRI bride / groom registration page.