advertisement in between postings

[Rainman]

isn't it against the google terms to have more than 3 ads per page?
you can get your account terminated and then no ads. 

[hartiberlin]

Many thanks to all your last proposals and very nice ideas !
I am really greatful that you have helped me through these decisions !

Now I have disabled again the inline between posting ads for members.

As guest users are about 3 :1 or 4:1 more over here, they will just see the
inbetween posting ads, but not the members.

Members now will only see some text ads from Google Adsense at the borders
and still some Clickbank ebook ads.

I guess this is the best solution for now, so guests will pay with their clicks
for the used bandwidth and member users have the benefit to read without being
disturbed by any inbetween ads.

I also will then try to implement a PayPal donation page
and maybe such a ticket sales system as proposed, where every month
a price money is offered. But this will come later, as I first have to see,
how such a system could be integrated into the forum software.

I really want to care fulltime about the forum and the energy topics
and I also don?t want to make myself too much dependant from
Google Adsense, as Google sometimes kicks users out for no
reason...

P.S: I am only using 3 Adsense for content pages ads and
3 linkblock ads and 1 search block per page, which is allowed by the google terms.

Many thanks for all your comments and proposals.
Regards, Stefan.

[Bulbz]

I think that you lot need to give Stefan a break... He has to fund this site somehow !. Plus it wont hurt anybody if a few adverts were posted in between every few post. What harm can it do ?, The only difference it is going to make to us is the bit where we would have to do a bit more scrolling. GEEEE WHIZZZ.

So Stefan... If you want to put ads on your site, you go right ahead. I wont think any less of you if you do.

[hartiberlin]

@Bulbz,
many thanks for the supportive words,
okay, but I leave the between posting ads now out for the members.
The guest visitors still will have it betwen the postings, so
they will mostly pay the bandwidth with their clicks.

It is nice to have all these permission settings inside the forum software
to set each membergroup to different advertisement levels !
The forum software with Tinyportal is really great ! 

Regards, Stefan.

[devilzangel]

hey hartiberlin,

I don't mind ads, as long as they are text ads that are color coded from regular forum discussions.

I use flash stoppers and adblock plus to stop 99.9% of all frame pic ads on pretty much all the sites i visit. since many users are using firefox and those extensions, those pic ads u post fall on def ears (or blind eyes if u will)

one way to decrease the cost of running this site is to:
1. get rid of as much bandwidth hungry graphics that are used on this site; we want a simple, clean yet useful and elegant interface.
2. avatars: get rid of them or set dimension limits. ex. 75x75 pixels. (these should be stored on 3rd party image hosters anyways, but your server still has to do work for this.)
3. use scripts that don't waste bandwidth.
4. i dont see a need for that recent posts section at the very bottom.
5. i dont see a need for all the member stats that show to the right of the screen (u can make a tab for this at the top menu for users who want to see this info; this stops the system from querying this data for every use that logs in or comes to the site).
6. try to minimize queries to the database by only showing what the users want, and not presenting info the user doesnt really need.(like all those user stats)
7. no real need to have all those features we see when making a thread or post.

I usually try to help out by not deleting my cache files on my browser .. this saves the website server some bandwidth.

edit: one more thing, get rid of the ability for users to put in a signature with images / animations.; if thats too harsh, then set limits to the dimensions of these sigs.

my half a cent.
devilzangel
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