I'm pretty sure freetalklive.com auctions banners on ebay. That may be the best way to determine pricing for the ads. Preventing proprietary firms from bidding? - I have no idea. It will be interesting to see what kind of demand there is, and from who.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Arc Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok the subject is undoubtedly going to solicit some hostility, but hear me out > > First, pysoy.org (mostly svn.pysoy.org) requires an ever-increasing > level of hosting; last month over 54gigs transfer was needed and at > current pace by the end of 2008 that'll triple. Much of this comes in > unpredictable spikes in a very short period of time when we get dugg > or linked to from a prominent blog. > > I've been paying out of pocket for hosting over the last two years, > from a slice of my home net connection to recently moving the site to > a serverbeach server costing $80/mo, partly to handle these traffic > spikes. This server is only used for pysoy.org and related sites (ie, > copyleftgames). > > Second, about 15% of our new visitors are arriving through Google ads > which is costing on average $18/month to run. Much of this goes to > other free software projects, such as Ogre3D, and to sites we owe some > loyalty to such as gamedev.net, so I don't mind the cost, but it's > something to consider. > > Now the reason we haven't been running Google ads on pysoy.org is we > have no control over which ads appear - it would seem very wrong to > have links to proprietary mmorpgs appear on our site. Head over to > ogre3d.org to see the kind of stuff a similar website gets - including > spyware and "get your free iPod" ads. > > I recently found Project Wonderful - http://www.projectwonderful.com/ > - it's used primarily to advertise web comics but also for more > generic things like domain registration. The short list of > differences between it and Google ads: > > we can filter every ad, thus filtering out proprietary software and > other unsavoury ads from our site before it appears > ads that are mistakenly approved can be rejected after on the site > most of the ads we'll get are likely going to be web comics > > advertising is done via a bid system and is primarily based on site > visitors (impressions), not ad clicks > based on our level of traffic, an ad space could reasonably earn > $10-$20/month over the next few months That may not seem like much, > but it's something and it'll scale as our traffic grows. I'd rather > not use advertising at all, but to be completely on the level, hosting > is starting to exceed what I can afford out-of-pocket. > _______________________________________________ PySoy-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.pysoy.org/mailman/listinfo/pysoy-dev
