After my recent post on the death of free, I attempted to run an ad on Yahoo’s network for our free dating site, downtoearth.com. The ad was pretty simple. It text in the ad read simply Online Dating. 100% Free.
The ad was rejected by Yahoo.
Why?
It lacked a disclaimer on the word “Free.” That’s right. They [...]
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