We've been through various difficulties trying to get adverts on the site in order to increase revenue and pay for everything. The problem with a lot of advertising networks is that they often serve malware (sometimes by accident), and I don't want to force that on anyone. The advert networks that we have more control over are all very strict about things, and hardly seem to pay small sites anything.
It struck me that what might be a good idea would be to create our own, very basic advertising network. The idea being that people can design their own banner ads, add them to the system, and pay certain amounts for visibility on the forums.
The system would monitor how many views each advert got, and how many clicks, and cost would be based on one (or both) of these metrics. So, you could pay for your advert until it is shown 10,000 times, or pay for it until it is clicked on 100 times, etc. Alternatively, for a higher fee, you could pay for it to be "permanent" for a specific period of time.
What I'd like to know is whether anyone would be interested in doing this, and how much they think would be a fair amount to pay for each of the above (views, clicks, permanent). If anyone knows of systems like this, and can link to their prices, that would be good as well.
So yeah, let me know.
It struck me that what might be a good idea would be to create our own, very basic advertising network. The idea being that people can design their own banner ads, add them to the system, and pay certain amounts for visibility on the forums.
The system would monitor how many views each advert got, and how many clicks, and cost would be based on one (or both) of these metrics. So, you could pay for your advert until it is shown 10,000 times, or pay for it until it is clicked on 100 times, etc. Alternatively, for a higher fee, you could pay for it to be "permanent" for a specific period of time.
What I'd like to know is whether anyone would be interested in doing this, and how much they think would be a fair amount to pay for each of the above (views, clicks, permanent). If anyone knows of systems like this, and can link to their prices, that would be good as well.
So yeah, let me know.
