I think he means "what are the scores on the doors?"

:Y

Something like that ^ .

 

(it made sense at the time, something along the lines of "squid levels, beep beep snoozing Pete, is it all balanced?" ) :Y

A little short with the TD Affiliate Pot excluded, but otherwise fine...

Hmm...

Been thinking about next year, and being a little short of the total this year.

We now get sufficient enough Guests visiting on a regular basis that it might pay for us to add some Google Adwords (or other advertising scheme) that shows for the Guests. Might help supplement the income a bit more.

They'll be hidden for registered users, of course, like.

Yay? Nay?

How about charging for membership? Perhaps some kind of tiered system depending on how much you pay?

 

(Sorry, couldn't resist. Personally i have no issues with selling out the Guests with google ad words.)

What would be a better idea would be charging for the privelege of being allowed to use certain words within posts. And Peter could bung in a fiver for every time he asks about something he wants which sounds impossible, and it turns out it's all because he doesn't have a phone line.

That's already in place, just you don't know about it.

:'(

I endorse this idea.

 

I also endorse Matts Google ads for Guests idea.

Someone with better organisational skills than myself should go sign up for a Google AdSense account and tell me what you need to inject into the pages (HTML, Javascript, etc) of the pages so I can add it to the pages.

I vote Peter.

Is the referal link still added to links posted? I'm sure it was then got removed, why not put it back for all those of us who forget to use it.

 

Probly worth bookmarking it too.
(added to my list of things to forget to do later).

Sorry, sorry sorry. I still haven't sorted the amazon affiliates thing. I will!

Good idea and one I also endorse :)

W3rd.

It's probably a good idea, as long as we never have to see them.

Hmmm, just to make things clearer: the £427 excludes any referral pots.

TradeDoubler requires a bank account, and I didn't want to put it all in my account until I got around to sorting out a Teh Bank Account, so simplest solution is to use that amount as the starting balance for next year, once I actually get the account setup.

Um, I'll do a diagram:




And that's also excluding the Amazon pot which milko is sorting out very soon, yes? :)


IOW, I don't think we should/need to bother with the AdSense stuff.


However, we should definitely either:

1) just restore the auto-referral links.

2) write a filter that adds a "teh referral link" option after any normal link, so people have a choice which one to follow.

3) same as 2, but in reverse (so main link is referral, and there's a "non referral" placed after it).

The referral stuff should be active, for Play.com and Amazon.co.uk at least. Unless the word filters are broken again, but I don't think they are.

With the Adsense stuff, I'm thinking it would help just to boost the income a little bit. I've seen a few sites go under just trying to survive on donations, and with Beehive becoming more and more popular I wouldn't want this place to start costing anyone (you) lots of money, especially if we start using oodles of bandwidth a month.

If you're worried about people being turned away by the presence of adverts we can always add a little foot note to them explaining how they'll disappear after you register sort of thing.

Xen linked something the other day that didn't have the referral bit on it, and I'm sure I've seen other similar situations.


I'm wondering about you specifying the .co.uk for Amazon there though?

Test...

http://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Building-Commercial-Quality-Plug-Ins/dp/0321228472


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eclipse-Building-Commercial-Quality-Plug-Ins/dp/0321228472

Neither have it in the preview...

As for the AdSense / hosting costs...

 

How much data transfer do we have? - I remember it being something huge like 500GB a month, and we'd have to have quite a lot more visits to reach that (I'd be surprised if we're even near 10% of that at the moment.)

 

I think pushing the affiliate stuff is more likely to boost income than AdSense - how many people actually follow AdSense vs affiliate links?