Comments on: Adding Ads to Kelso’s Corner http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2389 Blogging at KelsoCartography.com Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: DropAds http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2389&cpage=1#comment-16131 DropAds Mon, 18 May 2009 02:27:39 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2389#comment-16131 Nathaniel

I encourage you to drop the ads. I do visit from time to time, and would be willing to donate a few bucks (you could add a simple paypal button which would generate more than $10/month. Personally, I wouldn’t want any ads on my site unless I could control the content 100%.

Many thanks for your posts and links. It is a nice legacy for you, and a legacy well deserved.

Best wishes, your anonymous friend!

]]> By: Steven Hoober http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2389&cpage=1#comment-15991 Steven Hoober Fri, 15 May 2009 19:01:48 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2389#comment-15991 A site I run as a hobby has gotten semi-stupidly popular, such that I had to increase the hosting level twice last year. And I was worse off in that it’s about [gasp!] guns. Really, historical information about someone that went out of business 20 years ago. But I cannot get anyone good to serve ads to my evil, evil site, and all the “related” services were awful.

Ended up begging for donations and selling T-shirts. I have made enough to pay for hosting, which is nice, but I am not getting rich off my hobby. No one will mind, especially when it’s clear that you have to pay for all this out of your own pocket. I don’t think readers mind that much.

Thanks for telling us all. (And I agree, add text ads to the feed; avoid graphics there if you can, though).

]]> By: The WebMacheter http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2389&cpage=1#comment-15985 The WebMacheter Fri, 15 May 2009 15:55:31 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2389#comment-15985 How many RSS suscribers do you have? you could also put some text ads in your feed, and make a little more money ;)

]]> By: Yvette Hoitink http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2389&cpage=1#comment-15975 Yvette Hoitink Fri, 15 May 2009 14:46:46 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2389#comment-15975 You may want to explore cheaper hosting. For my own websites, I’ve been able to find a hosting company in my country (the Netherlands) that hosts my sites for 28 euros per year including domain registration. This means I don’t have to place any ads. On one of my sites, I’ve placed a Paypal donate-button and that generates enough income to pay for the bills. Another option is to join Amazon’s affiliate program. With a topic like yours, an Amazon aStore might be a nice addition to your site or you can place Amazon links to related books with your articles. You’ll get referral fees for each purchase your visitors make after landing on Amazon through your site, even if they end up buying different books than you recommended.

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