Iron Edge
Archive => Site Support => Topic started by: delling on February 09, 2011, 12:27:37 pm
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Out of curiousity, would anyone be explicitly against putting text ads (Google ads) on the IE forum?
I'm mainly interested in finding out if they would actually make any money. About 80% of the forum's visitors are repeat visitors (i.e. Dunemaulers), and I don't know if they would click ads.
But yeah, I'm curious -- for all I know, it might make hundreds of dollars a month, and it seems a bit pointless to waste money that can be easily made.
(We're not talking about Flash/graphical/shiny ads. And if we can find something in-guild to spend the money on, I'm up for that too. Basically, I'm just asking if anyone would find a small box of text ads completely awful.)
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(http://i52.tinypic.com/312d2jr.gif) (http://www.iron-edge.co.uk)
Problem? Why!
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*puts that in the banner rotation*
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I wouldn't mind. They can be filtered out with a browser addon anyway if you dont like them.
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sure, why not. If it pays for the site I don't mind.
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The Ciao thing already pays for the site. This would provide a 'profit', I guess. I just have no clue of how much money it would actually make -- it could be $5/month, it could be $50 or more. That's why I'm curious :)
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(http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3237/wtfaf.jpg)
i'm sure a lot would find this useful ;d
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(http://www.riprenfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/010-ad-RIP-muscles-i-got-ripped-in-4-weeks1.jpg)
(http://stevegetsrippedblog.com/files/beforeafter.jpg)
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If you make on of those with Shan in, Kili, I'll put it in the rotation.
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I'm on the case.
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I can see it now
"I GOT RIPPED IN 4 YEARS"
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more like "I GOT RAPED 4 TIMES!"
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(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/9964/wowlolw.jpg) (http://img121.imageshack.us/i/wowlolw.jpg/)
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Spot on Kage!
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For those of you that are wondering... it seems the ad box is currently making between 0 and 8 pence a day :P
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Benjaminz. You got em!
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Live the dream!$!
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For those of you that are wondering... it seems the ad box is currently making between 0 and 8 pence a day :P
now thats a lotta penis a day...
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The ad box is gone again :(?
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Moving the ads to the top right corner for a day or two to see if it changes anything.
(It probably won't say there -- just testing.)
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Why is the ads box pink when all the other boxes are red? Also the ads box is empty
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Also the ads box is empty
No it isnt, Addblock? :P
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No its just... empty :o, sometimes there is something other times there isnt
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Sounds like classic case of a macintosh
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It doesn't play ads if it doesn't know what to show you, I think.
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Easy to fix, Dell.
if (user == iSky)
display(overpriced_mac_stuff);
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:( So mean Goza
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I'm retiring the ad box.
It made a grand total of about ?1 (1.2 euros).
You guys suck at clicking, obviously :P
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I don't think most of the forum regulars are the advert clicking type.
Would need some content that keeps new people coming to read etc. on front page for that I reckon.
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Yar!
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The solution is clearly to have 20 pop-up windows open automatically every time you load an IE forum page.
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I forgot that thing was there, I might click it sometimes if it has something interesting once in a while :)