Thread: Open Discussion About Ads

Originally Posted by j15bell

How does this work? Do the companies pay a set amount per year, or pay each time an ad is clicked? If it's the latter I couldn't imagine that very many ads have been clicked.

The way it works is a combination of what is referred to as CPC (cost per click) and CPM (cost per milli [1000 impressions] ). So - Tweleve got paid a small amount when people clicked on the ads and also for each 1000 times an ad was served to a user (an impression). These rates are pennies at best and as you guessed, this forum has a bad case of what would you call it....ad blindness!

On the other hand and something we will still continue to do moderately (because it is way less intrusive and is more fiscally responsible) is offer ad space to private companies and individuals like the CodeBox people. They paid a fair rate to have their ad at the top of the forum index for 3 months. I hope some of you will check their product out. (in fact in my haste I had removed this advertisement as well. It's back up now.)

Originally Posted by j15bell

Will my small donations thru the year actually put a dent in the cost of keeping this site up?

Absolutely. It makes a gigantic difference. I understand the reason you are asking this question, and that is because we used to take donations, then moved to ads and now back...the reasons behind that are basically that we got tired of having to "ask" for money and figured that the ads would be a way for the forum to survive without having to request funding. While this is the case (barely) - the ads were just too garish and inconsistent for us and we decided to pull them and toss the collection plate around.

As always your generosity has made us very proud.

Originally Posted by j15bell

Would it kill us to click on an ad only once each time we log onto tweleve? Especially if it pays the bills? It could become an easy habit.

This is a great suggestion and an idea we had when we first started serving them. Unfortunately after reading the blasted terms of service, we are prohibited from asking or "encouraging" our users to click them. As well, the companies that pay the publishers are very stringent about "click fraud" and recurring clicks from the same IP. I really appreciate your willingness to help.

Originally Posted by j15bell

So. Now that there are no ads. Will Tweleve always be around? I really, really don't want this to cause the eventual demise of Tweleve.org.

Without any doubt at all. Tweleve.org will exsist perpetually and will always be online.

Originally Posted by netsirk

To add to that.....

I know before, there was that special link we could click on when buying things on Amazon.com and Tweleve got a certain percentage of each purchase. I booked marked that page and I still use it. Has that stopped working or is that still in effect? I spend about $2500/year on Amazon.com and have always used our special link - has that been helping? Have you seen that kick back?

That still works and your purchases are a huge help. We get around 3-4 percent for Amazon purchases so thats like $100! Thats huge and we really appreciate that. I'm going to try and make that link more obvious.

Thanks for your questions and comments girls.