Jeff, have you considered adding Google Ads to CUF? I wouldn't be bothered by them, and hopefully they'd generate enough revenue to cover maintenance costs. Maybe this could be a thread to get the pulse on how people would react to them?
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No, I haven't looked into it. I wonder if our level of volume would generate much income.
Anyone have any experience with this?"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostNo, I haven't looked into it. I wonder if our level of volume would generate much income.
Anyone have any experience with this?
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Originally posted by YOhio View PostDianetics junior much better than Krishna.
Or, on second thought, if we got them then I could click the hell out of the ads and exhaust the advertising budget for a bunch of BYU-related businesses. It'd only take me 20 hours a day, a computer lab, and an army of trained chimps to enact my cyber-terroristic bloodbath.
I'm already drunk with power."More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
-- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)
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Originally posted by Solon View PostI went to the CG archive to look something up last week and the ads were really annoying. I'll up my contribution here, if need be.
Or, on second thought, if we got them then I could click the hell out of the ads and exhaust the advertising budget for a bunch of BYU-related businesses. It'd only take me 20 hours a day, a computer lab, and an army of trained chimps to enact my cyber-terroristic bloodbath.
I'm already drunk with power.
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Originally posted by Babs View PostIt's based on clicks, not volume. That's what makes me think it's not a good fit for us. Most the ads will be "cougar" related, and I figure wuapinmon will be the only one clicking on those."Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied
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Originally posted by wuapinmon View PostUhhh, what?"More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
-- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)
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Originally posted by Solon View Post"Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied
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Originally posted by All-American View PostMy suspicion is that people generally vastly overestimate the amount of money those ads generate. The amount of traffic would have to exponentially increase for it to fully cover costs.
Adsense payout is not strictly a function of traffic. The way it works is, you choose the words you think are most likely to generate clicks from your users. Google has assigned a value to every word in the english language (and by extension to the ads those words produce). They pay you based on the number of clicks per day, times the relative value of the words you chose. Most words are < 10c per click. At a site like this you'd be lucky to get a even dollar a day.
The real way to make money is to set up an entirely separate faux site, made of nothing but google ads, and then get it way up on the google search results, so that people searching for something hit that site and then click on your ads. That's a lot of effort for what it's worth, but that's really the only way anybody makes money with adsense. You see those sites all the time. Some people make thousands of dollars like that.
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Originally posted by wuapinmon View PostI know what a cougar is....my confusion revolves around why I would click on them? Why me?"More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
-- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)
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