A fairly serious question: how much can we (as users) donate to get the Google ads off the Wiki? I guess this does not give so much revenue, and it is really distracting. So, if we can match the annual income of Google Ads on the Wiki, I think I (and others) are willing to compensate this with donations. I have seen some potential Dutch users getting turned away seeing the main CentOS site because it looked unprofessional. They main nit probably being the Google Ads. -- Daniel
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 15:21 +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote: > A fairly serious question: how much can we (as users) donate to get the > Google ads off the Wiki? I guess this does not give so much revenue, and > it is really distracting. So, if we can match the annual income of Google > Ads on the Wiki, I think I (and others) are willing to compensate this > with donations. > > I have seen some potential Dutch users getting turned away seeing the main > CentOS site because it looked unprofessional. They main nit probably being > the Google Ads. > > -- Daniel We make more than 1200.00 a month on wiki ads .. don't think we are going to get that kind of cash dontated ... as it is our only real income stream. Our other donations are not even a small percent of those ads. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20061019/caead3a6/a...
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 08:26 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 15:21 +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote: > > A fairly serious question: how much can we (as users) donate to get the > > Google ads off the Wiki? I guess this does not give so much revenue, and > > it is really distracting. So, if we can match the annual income of Google > > Ads on the Wiki, I think I (and others) are willing to compensate this > > with donations. > > > > I have seen some potential Dutch users getting turned away seeing the main > > CentOS site because it looked unprofessional. They main nit probably being > > the Google Ads. > > > > -- Daniel > > We make more than 1200.00 a month on wiki ads .. don't think we are -----------------------------------^^^ google ads (I meant google ads) > going to get that kind of cash dontated ... as it is our only real > income stream. > > Our other donations are not even a small percent of those ads. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20061019/ade6eac0/a...
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Johnny Hughes wrote: > We make more than 1200.00 a month on wiki ads .. don't think we are > going to get that kind of cash dontated ... as it is our only real > income stream. Wow, that really changes things. I thought the actual revenue was only a few cents per click. Sorry for the noise! > Our other donations are not even a small percent of those ads. Which is sad IMHO :(. -- Daniel
Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 15:21 +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote: >> A fairly serious question: how much can we (as users) donate to get the >> Google ads off the Wiki? I guess this does not give so much revenue, and >> it is really distracting. So, if we can match the annual income of Google >> Ads on the Wiki, I think I (and others) are willing to compensate this >> with donations. >> >> I have seen some potential Dutch users getting turned away seeing the main >> CentOS site because it looked unprofessional. They main nit probably being >> the Google Ads. >> >> -- Daniel > > We make more than 1200.00 a month on wiki ads .. don't think we are > going to get that kind of cash dontated ... as it is our only real > income stream. > > Our other donations are not even a small percent of those ads. > I am sure we can do a better job of the adverts though - they look terrible right now. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Daniel de Kok wrote:
> I have seen some potential Dutch users getting turned away seeing the main
> CentOS site because it looked unprofessional. They main nit probably being
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Of course, this being their opinion, not mine. Also s/They/Their/ :)
-- Daniel
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Daniel de Kok wrote: > A fairly serious question: how much can we (as users) donate to get the > Google ads off the Wiki? I guess this does not give so much revenue, and > it is really distracting. So, if we can match the annual income of Google > Ads on the Wiki, I think I (and others) are willing to compensate this > with donations. Johnny was a bit misleading as the income he quoted related to the whole website and as we only implemented the ads on the wiki today we dont know how much revenue they will generate. We may be able to look in a month or two and see what the wiki.centos.org traffic has been like and reappraise. > I have seen some potential Dutch users getting turned away seeing the main > CentOS site because it looked unprofessional. They main nit probably being > the Google Ads. Google ads are _everywhere_ on the internet nowadays and I am surprised that their presencewould put anyone off looking at centos ??? There are far more unprofessional aspects of the centos website than the google ads - IMHO :) I am also about to put sections of amazon ads on both the website and wiki pointing at relevant books that users may want to buy and CentOS project would get a % revenue - but of course you would have to browse to that page , and it wouldnt be as in your face as the google ads at the top ... Regards Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.