Advertising Gone
Posted by Jacques Chester on Tuesday, August 7, 2007
It never really worked for us; neither the Google adsense ads or the Text Link Ads brought any serious scratch – less than $100 USD in the several months I ran them. Our donation drive on the other hand raised oodles for new kit. Nick has asked me to remove the ads, which also interfere with the presentation of some stories, and so I have.
I was wondering if people will object if we set up a tipjar instead. This is the model LP use and I’m told it works well for them.
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I believe that this is a very progressive move. I am keen to meet the small number of bloggers for which adsense works. I believe a tip jar is more realistic, given that people who benefit may feel inclined to actually support you directly. Not me this week, but perhaps in the future. I have my cash draining kids to think about his week.
Posted on 07-Aug-07 at 11:54 am | PermalinkColin;
If you look at the “Top 100″ Australian blogs, it’s dominated by blogs who talk about nothing else but making money from blogging. We are in the 70-somethings for that list.
Posted on 07-Aug-07 at 12:20 pm | PermalinkMight want to keep the adsense on the archives. It wont annoy the daily audience but may pay for things like hosting/utl etc over the rest of the year by people hitting the archives through search engines.
Posted on 07-Aug-07 at 12:40 pm | PermalinkWe never made a buck from them either, Jacques, and removed them pretty quickly. They’re badly targetted to Australian audiences, and I don’t think that readers of political blogs are their target audience anyway – not very likely to click through.
Posted on 07-Aug-07 at 12:43 pm | PermalinkAnnoying as they are, were they paying for anything other than a better quality (or any) coffee for you stalwarts, I’d reluctantly acquiesce. I can’t imagine ANYONE with double digit IQ responding to them.
Posted on 07-Aug-07 at 1:52 pm | PermalinkI’d suggest that tipjar and occasional fund drive.
cam, I’m not so sure. Day after day the search term which dominates referrals from Google, Yahoo, MSN et al is “female masturbation”. Apparently it was mentioned in a Missing Link.
Posted on 07-Aug-07 at 2:31 pm | PermalinkI’ve never tried the AdSense idea after hearing stories such as this (and I’d only get the merest fraction of hits this site would) but considering that, far and away, my biggest search term referral is “Alexander Downer in Fishnet Stockings” (I posted that photo once) maybe I might have had a reasonable click-through rate…
Posted on 07-Aug-07 at 5:14 pm | PermalinkI think literary performance artists are entitled to busk in cyberspace from behind an upturned hat. A disctete home-page tip jar would accomodate appreciative en passant punters. If it’s not there, you miss out. Lots of people donate on an impulse.
Posted on 07-Aug-07 at 10:05 pm | PermalinkNext time you have to start taking in washing, then perhaps another fund drive.