Okay: so I've just sent a donation (GPB) to the new link in the sidebar and deleted the old link that I had in my PayPal account.
That's great!
Thanks for your most welcome contributions, mate!
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Okay: so I've just sent a donation (GPB) to the new link in the sidebar and deleted the old link that I had in my PayPal account.
That's great!
Thanks for your most welcome contributions, mate!
Since Google has added more options to Adsense ads, we're going to trial the forum with a few more ads and see if we can generate a little more income.
If these ads cause any problems for members, please let us know by describing the issue.
You probably won’t have long to wait.
The ad at the header of the page restricts ease in navigating to new posts.
Full disclosure, I use Chrome as a browser.
Yes, I find that a bit irritating and will see if I can change that.
Try now as I have excluded the drop-down ad at the top and bottom.
This may take an hour or so to kick in.
These are known as Anchor Ads for info.
Ads turned off - not enough users to generate income.
Relieved that ads have been turned off again. But sorry that the reason is not enough traffic.
I miss them......
On the other hand….
If it's ever half naked females I'll gladly look into it for you.
Why only half naked?
Why only half naked?
Too easy....I like to use my imagination.
I'm sure Splinter has already seen this article from yesterday in The Register:
One of the writer's thoughts struck a chord: back in the days of paper magazines (remember them?) we used to enjoy browsing the advertisements because they were targeted at the people who were interested enough in the subject to actually buy a magazine. What Google Ads and in the context of the article YouTube does is to blast ads based on the highest advertising bidder at auction and uses other opaque algorithms. It's quite an interesting article though the BTL comments go off topic very fast.
At least two other expat sites use specialist ad agencies to deliver ads that are relevant to their readers. ExpatExchange is for Americans expatriating anywhere and I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine what BritishExpats is about. Would there be any mileage - or more importantly, money - in trying a similar approach with this forum?
We tried ads (they have crept back in minimal form without my permission) but we don't have enough participation to make it worthwhile.
How do ads creep back in without permission? Can they be eliminated?
Actually , i got a few ads yesterday and for the first time they were relevant....
GlasgowJohn , do you actually prefer ads on the forum?
GlasgowJohn , do you actually prefer ads on the forum?
Rice , I actually don't mind - yesterday they appeared at the top of the page and didn't interrupt post reading as they did in the past.
I don't have any Ads today. I clear my browsing history regularly to free up disc/memory space. The amount of crap that's left on your system daily is incredible.