Hi, On Wednesday 25 April 2007 22:09, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Things have come to a point where some additional revenue sources will be > very helpful. Donations still trickle in at time but it's not even remotely > close to being able to cover the recurring bills with. What costs do the project create a month? Can you provide us a rough value? > > I've been looking at google adsense for the last little while and it seems > decent enough. I have no idea what to expect revenue wise but seeing it's > free to use, it's worth a shot. > > Besides the fact that ads are evil and all that, can anybody offer up a > good reason not to pursue this? I dont think they are that evil if they will be place in a conservative way. But the cheque coming in from time to time is quite nice to have. > > To clarify: I'm not going to allow the LFS sites to become riddled with > banners and ads. The google adsense ads aren't that intrusive when done > right. I'm certainly not going a design route where the primary content is > ads and you have to really dig around to find any actual LFS information. Good. > > The easiest place to put the ad code is in /common/header.html which means > every page on www.linuxfromscratch.org (ie: all subprojectst too) receive > get the google ads on it. If this is going to cause an outcry, let's > discuss. Well, you dont put the ads in the online-book(s) itself, right? Everywhere else is ok for my opinion.
Btw, dont be afraid of the ads Google will place the first days. It will adjusted in a very good way so the ads will relate to the site than. -- Thomas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
