Comments on: 6 Reasons to puts ads on your site that have nothing to do with revenue http://enterventure.com/blog/2009/01/29/6-reasons-to-puts-ads-on-your-site-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-revenue/ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:42:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: freestyle http://enterventure.com/blog/2009/01/29/6-reasons-to-puts-ads-on-your-site-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-revenue/comment-page-1/#comment-599 freestyle Fri, 15 May 2009 02:55:40 +0000 http://enterventure.com/blog/?p=164#comment-599 Hey there, I find these 6 reasons really good, thanks a lot for posting them, I appreciate it.<br><br>Emma Hey there, I find these 6 reasons really good, thanks a lot for posting them, I appreciate it.

Emma

]]> By: Have a website idea? Make it “real” with Balsamiq’s help | Enter Venture http://enterventure.com/blog/2009/01/29/6-reasons-to-puts-ads-on-your-site-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-revenue/comment-page-1/#comment-480 Have a website idea? Make it “real” with Balsamiq’s help | Enter Venture Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:39:49 +0000 http://enterventure.com/blog/?p=164#comment-480 [...] a blogger, I was granted a free license in exchange for an honest review (it meets my advertising tolerance level), so in that vein, here are a few things I think could be [...] [...] a blogger, I was granted a free license in exchange for an honest review (it meets my advertising tolerance level), so in that vein, here are a few things I think could be [...]

]]> By: Patrick http://enterventure.com/blog/2009/01/29/6-reasons-to-puts-ads-on-your-site-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-revenue/comment-page-1/#comment-476 Patrick Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:00:35 +0000 http://enterventure.com/blog/?p=164#comment-476 Thanks. You ran CULPA? That's great. It helped me navigate Columbia for the first few years.<br><br>I've found the same issue with Google vs. affiliate revenue. You'll at least see a trickle of revenue from Google, but the affiliate revenue might only come in bursts, if at all. I've been speaking to bloggers about advertising for Wikinvest lately and most of them generally say the same. Of course, the best route to go is to sell your own ads, but that'll require me to post more than a post every week or so. Thanks. You ran CULPA? That's great. It helped me navigate Columbia for the first few years.

I've found the same issue with Google vs. affiliate revenue. You'll at least see a trickle of revenue from Google, but the affiliate revenue might only come in bursts, if at all. I've been speaking to bloggers about advertising for Wikinvest lately and most of them generally say the same. Of course, the best route to go is to sell your own ads, but that'll require me to post more than a post every week or so.

]]> By: jwegener http://enterventure.com/blog/2009/01/29/6-reasons-to-puts-ads-on-your-site-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-revenue/comment-page-1/#comment-472 jwegener Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:28:21 +0000 http://enterventure.com/blog/?p=164#comment-472 Hey Patrick, excellent post. <br><br>I especially like points #2 and #3 -- they're spot on. When I was running CULPA.info years back as a student, we had some heated arguments over whether to install ads and make money. I was passionately against it because I wanted CULPA to be entirely altruistic and not make money off the user's hard work (culpa is user generated content after all!)<br><br>Finally, I agreed to let my culpa colleague install google adsense and I signed up far a commission junction account and amazon affiliate (to send students to buy used books through <a href="http://half.com" rel="nofollow">half.com</a> and amazon marketplace). We kind of had a gentlemen's bet about which would bring in more money: affiliate links or google's text ads. Google won.<br><br>Playing around with those products taught me so much about online advertising, marketing, and business in general. I learned all the terms you mentioned and more, and learned about the difficulties of sustaining a website through ads alone -- we made about $125/semester I think (which went into hosting fees and advertising the site on facebook). Anyway, I'm really grateful that I finally gave in to my insistent colleague and installed ads. Hey Patrick, excellent post.

I especially like points #2 and #3 — they're spot on. When I was running CULPA.info years back as a student, we had some heated arguments over whether to install ads and make money. I was passionately against it because I wanted CULPA to be entirely altruistic and not make money off the user's hard work (culpa is user generated content after all!)

Finally, I agreed to let my culpa colleague install google adsense and I signed up far a commission junction account and amazon affiliate (to send students to buy used books through half.com and amazon marketplace). We kind of had a gentlemen's bet about which would bring in more money: affiliate links or google's text ads. Google won.

Playing around with those products taught me so much about online advertising, marketing, and business in general. I learned all the terms you mentioned and more, and learned about the difficulties of sustaining a website through ads alone — we made about $125/semester I think (which went into hosting fees and advertising the site on facebook). Anyway, I'm really grateful that I finally gave in to my insistent colleague and installed ads.

]]> By: Abhimanyu http://enterventure.com/blog/2009/01/29/6-reasons-to-puts-ads-on-your-site-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-revenue/comment-page-1/#comment-471 Abhimanyu Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:32:38 +0000 http://enterventure.com/blog/?p=164#comment-471 Really strong and sensible reasoning. And the new design is good too. Gives a concise and compact feel (it's probably the squares). And I like the empty ad idea - I think it will actually make people wonder, "do I have anything that I can advertise in that space?".<br><br>All the best! Really strong and sensible reasoning. And the new design is good too. Gives a concise and compact feel (it's probably the squares). And I like the empty ad idea – I think it will actually make people wonder, “do I have anything that I can advertise in that space?”.

All the best!

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