Hello,

Okay, I have been thinking about putting an ad or two on the site. However, I was thinking I could make it GUEST only ads (members are ad-free).

There are three places I have thought of for putting an ad:
A) Normal banner size above header (the top of page).
B) Normal banner size under footer (the bottom of page).
C) A vertical banner on the bottom of the left side.

Then I have two choices in regards to advertisers:
A) Google AdSense ($$$ per user who clicks on ad)
B) Random advertiser who pays monthly fee.

Or of course I could just have nothing. Basically, no matter what, it will be ad-free for members.

I would like your honest opinion on this.

Do a footer banner :P

I would guess you would make more from the monthly fee thing myself but thats up to you :P Do whichever does best :)

I don't mind banners, so long as I can navigate like normal, i'm happy hehe

For the mostpart i agree with Warklan, but youd probably have more of a chance if the banner were at the top of the page, and it BETTER BE A BANNER, because if for some reason i ever have to visit the site as a guest and i see a pop-up, ill nuke your server. lol j/k

Well, there is no way I would put a popup on this site. (except for popups of "you have a new PM" etc.)

If the banner is on the bottom it is almost a sure thing that I will make more from monthly banner because google is pay per click and I don't know how many people would click it.

Novas idea will probably bring in the most $$$, but I am not sure if I want to put a banner on top because it would change the design a little.

What I would like to do is setup google on the bottom left side (vertical) for about a week, and see how that does.

Google is good maybe a top banner that is incognito too would be good whatever keeps the site running

i think monthly or pay-per-impression is the way to go... monthly would be unlimited impressions at a fixed price per month and pay-per-impression, of course, says you will pay a fixed price for a fixed number of impressions... say $10 for 1,000 impressions

(impressions are not clicks, but how many times a banner is on a page)

i also think you should make room to put a banner up top above the header lines towards the right...

[img]http://ctmu.pcplayground.com/images/pcplayground_advert_placement.jpg[/img]

ooh yeah that's perfect! pay per impression is the way to be! then you can put one on the bottom where nobody sees it but it gets an "impression".


i wonder how banner clicking contests go... I remember a friend who tried to make money by putting a banner on a stupid webpage. i clicked on it a bunch.

oh yeah and about popups. popups are fine with me, my browser pwns popups. Mozilla kills em, if you use IE (or Opera, i think), use meaya popup ad filter. http://www.meaya.com it works really well too. i used it before, it lets a few popups slide though, also kazaalite used to have popups, of which those would slip through.

That looks pretty good Almost-Good


I wouldn't mind it looking like that at top :P

yeah, i agree.

Almost-Good, that was also my idea. :) However, I don't have a clue how to accomplish that. How could I put an AD in a image file?

If you know a way I could do this (and be able to rotate the ads) would you please consider doing it? :)

I think I could just try the whole "impressions" thing as that could be like one week of ADs at a time.

Hrmm, well, my browser blocks popups also. However, I dislike sites that have popups (even if I dont see them). I never liked them before, and thus think the webmasters don't care about their visitors (where as I do). Plus, I doubt everyone has them blocked.

*Waits for Almost-Good's reply*