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Advertising Experiment
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Advertising Experiment

You get these things called banner exchanges, where you display banners on your site in exchange for other sites displaying your banner. Generally, you get a percentage... like, for every 2 banners you display, yours gets shown 1 time. This ratio can increase if a decent amount of people click the banners displayed on your site. It can also decrease if nobody clicks the banners Razz

The forums here get about 4000-5000 page views per day from all of you combined. So, what I'm proposing as an experiment, is a totally optional banner on top (or maybe bottom) of each forum page, so that SS's banner(s) get shown at other sites, and may bring more people to the site. At a 2:1 ratio, that's SS's banner being shown to other people 2000-2500 times a day. If 1% of those people click it... that's 20 people a day. Not to the forums, mind you, they'll be going to the main page or maybe some of the subpages. If they do find their way here, that's great too. Even if they don't click the banner, there'll be some info on the banner itself as well.

It'll be completely optional, you won't see any banners unless you specifically turn it on in a little banner option page that I have yet to set up. I just wanna know how many people would actually turn it on before I set it up... Smile
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Re: Advertising Experiment

If it's an option, it could be optional where it's positioned. I'd prefer not to have to scroll past it on my phone. Maybe, though, just stick it up for a few days for everyone and see how well it works.

If we made a little video that a lot of ppl watched on web sites and emailed, I bet that could bring many visitors.
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Quote:If it's an option, it could be optional where it's positioned.

That can be arranged as well.

Quote:Maybe, though, just stick it up for a few days for everyone and see how well it works.

*GASP*
You mean, expose people on SS to advertising they didn't choose to see?! Blasphemy! Laugh

Quote:If we made a little video that a lot of ppl watched on web sites and emailed, I bet that could bring many visitors.

Possibly. OK, Darthmat: do something silly and film it and link to SS. Kthxbye Biggrin
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SoulRiser Wrote:
Quote:Maybe, though, just stick it up for a few days for everyone and see how well it works.

*GASP*
You mean, expose people on SS to advertising they didn't choose to see?! Blasphemy! Laugh
OMG Pleeeeeeeeeease don't ban me I was just brainstorming OMG! Bigeek :waah:

Didn't you have adsense on the site? Suspicious

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I'm confused. D:
Your first post confused me. D:<
I really don't get it. Explain it better please.
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Basically, soul was proposing to add banner ads to the forum pages, for people who enable that option. The more times these ads are viewed, the more times an ad for SS would appear on other sites in the program. Potentially that would lead to more visitors to the site.
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Ooooooh. Well, since my parents are **** I can't upload vids. But I will help write a script. Biggrin
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Quote:OMG Pleeeeeeeeeease don't ban me I was just brainstorming OMG! Bigeek :waah:

DIE, you vile blasphemous creature!
Naw, just kiddin'. Hug

Quote:Didn't you have adsense on the site? Suspicious

I do, but only visitors can see it. If you're logged in, it doesn't show up.

Quote:Basically, soul was proposing to add banner ads to the forum pages, for people who enable that option. The more times these ads are viewed, the more times an ad for SS would appear on other sites in the program. Potentially that would lead to more visitors to the site.

Good summary. Yes

I'll most definitely make it optional as to where on the page it shows up (top or bottom). Won't be too much more effort.
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As a test for in the meantime, I've made it show the banner on top of all pages to people who are not logged in (about 1000 page views a day). It has been there for a while, but it was right at the bottom, and I don't think anyone ever saw it there. So nobody clicked on it, and the ratio for showing SS banners was really low (like 1:10 or something). I wanna see if it goes up.
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Well, about 3 people have clicked SS's banner in the past... what? 4 days? This really isn't worth much unless there's a lot more traffic going into it. It's also possible it just isn't a very eye-catching banner. I'm waiting for the people running the banner place to approve my new one I submitted a few days ago.
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I saw a banner for lingerie up there once.

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Serious? Hmm, I don't think they're supposed to approve stuff like that.
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Meh. Having the ads on the forums has probably gotten a grand total of like... 10 people to come to SS. Doesn't seem worth it, even if everyone opted in. So... I guess I'll switch these silly exchange ads with ads that actually pay me. Shrug
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