OpenEuphoria

Re: OT - 'Ads from Google'

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> May 25, 2004
• 411 views

Juergen Luethje wrote:
> Agreed. But maybe the text
> 
> "The Topica mailing list will be replaced by a message board written
> entirely in Euphoria. It will be free of advertisements, ..."
> 
> on the page <a
> href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/news.htm">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/news.htm</a>
> should be modified? 

Thanks for mentioning that. I'll remove that. 

Yes, we've been experimenting for the past few days
with Google ads on our main page and on the EUforum page.
You need Javascript enabled to see them.

We set up the Message Board originally because of the
excessive advertising that Topica started to inject into 
every single message, as well as slow unreliable delivery,
and other problems. After a while, Topica stopped inserting 
ads, but it could start again.

The Google idea just came up last week. Google
doesn't tell you what revenue to expect
from their AdSense program, and we were curious.
The only way to find out was to set it up.
So far it's going pretty well, and although it's only
a fraction of what we earn through Euphoria 
registrations, it helps. If you are interested in an ad,
click it, but don't do excessive clicks or Google might
bounce us out of the system.

We like Google because the ads are fairly small and unobtrusive
and also highly-targeted. They deliver ads that match the
content of the Web site.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com