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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If it were a Sooner board, I'd say go for it. But I don't particularly want to see a bunch of Cougar ads. -
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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It'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.Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostComment
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I'm trying my best! Sheesh.Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
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Dianetics ads on CG now.Comment
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I 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.Originally posted by YOhio View Post
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.
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Funny that you think like that, because sometimes I do as well. I'll see an ad by a company selling a product or service that I find particularly annoying, and I will click the ad knowing that I just cost the company a dime. In hippienese we call this 'sticking it to the man.'Originally posted by Solon View PostComment
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Uhhh, what?Originally posted by Babs View Post"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --SolonComment
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Cougar: http://static.twirlit.com/wp-content...-tv-land-1.jpgOriginally posted by wuapinmon View Post"More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
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My 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.τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσινComment
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I know what a cougar is....my confusion revolves around why I would click on them? Why me?Originally posted by Solon View Post"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --SolonComment
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We've got a couple hundred users, so we would hardly want the traffic here to increase exponentially. Our costs would increase significantly.Originally posted by All-American View Post
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.Comment
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Yeah, I wasn't thinking that you didn't know about these types of predators. i just wanted to do a google search for one.Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post"More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
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