On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:39:07 -0600, Curtis L. Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dumb question: do we want to investigate the possibility of adding > google adds to the FlightGear site? Is this out of bounds, or within > bounds for an open-source project. It's a potential revenue generator, > but it's unclear if it will generate $0.39 per month or $39.00 per month > or $390.00 per month. Maybe $39/month. I have a redirect page on my Web site to saxproject.org (many people use an old URL at megginson.com for SAX from books, stale pages, etc.). This page gets an enormous number of hits, so I decided to put Google adwords on it to let the page pay its own hosting costs. After 3-4 months, I got a cheque from Google for a bit over USD 200.00. In this case, I have a lot of people visiting who are just getting started with XML, so they're very likely to click on ads to get more information about XML-related things (and nearly all of the ads were highly relevant, the last time I checked). To get an idea of what kinds of ads would appear on the FlightGear home page, I went to Google and typed the search string "flight simulator". The ads on the right did not look too promising (they included a couple of warez sites for MSFS, among other things). I wonder if there are any better advertising options. I have no problem with the principle of running ads, and Google adwords certainly is easy to set up. All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
