I’ve been thinking for quite a while now as to whether or not I should advertise on SmartCanucks.ca. I’m proud of SmartCanuck.ca’s clean elegant feeling that is unscarred by the ugly ads that have become a common seen on the Internet. At the same time, SmartCanucks.ca’s survival and success will require some financing.
After a lot of thought I decided to add a few ads but in return I’ll make things a little bit more interesting for SmartCanucks.ca’s contributors and visitors! I’ll split my ads revenue with you 🙂
– 50% will be shared amongst the 3 founders of SmartCanucks.ca.
– 25% will be shared amongst SmartCanucks.ca’s contributors. Right now we have 3 contributors: Curiosity, nolookingca and Thilipan.
– 25% will go to SmartCanucks.ca (regular) visitors! I haven’t decided how… maybe through a contest or by rewarding the person with most comments, or other bloggers who posted about SmartCanucks.ca like David, John and Sara.
So basically every month, when I get a check from advertising I’ll post the amount here on SmartCanucks.ca and we’ll go on from there. I don’t expect to make a lot of money out of advertising, at least not at this stage. However as SmartCanucks.ca grows the check values should increase. If in 5 years time I’m making $0 or $1000 per month, the 50/25/25 ratio will not change.
What do you think of this idea? Should I remove or leave the ads?
No offence, but by the time it’s split up, I doubt you’ll have any cash left.
Assuming a hypothetical $10:
Founders: 5/3 = approx 1.7 each
Contributers/Visitors: 2.5/3 = approx 0.8 each
Certainly not enough to cover hosting. Maybe time for a cheaper hosting co?
P.S. What are you paying now for hosting?
I don’t mind having to see pub but please, nothing brutal like a million pop-ups or flashy colors saying I won 1 Million dollars on both side of the screens lol.
I think no ads is the way to go, because as a faithful reader, I want my eye to go directly to the information you post, and if I have be distracted by ads, then I am less likely to keep visiting the site. Just my opinion, but as nolookingca said, by the time you spilt it up, it won’t be worth much.
If you need to pay the hosting etc. go for ads all the way. But try to keep them to simple google text ads etc. I have abosultely no problems with seeing these.
nolookingca – the 50% the founders get will cover hosting first before it gets spilt so it should be enough. Oh and I sure would hope that the real amount is greater than your hypothetical 😉 but I’m not very optimistic.
intelmic – nothing flashy. I already added the google ads yesterday. It’s right under the header tabs. What do you think of that?
Sara – thanks for your reply. My main priority is not to lose any of my faithful readers. I added the google ads under the main header and I made sure it doesn’t distract my readers. So I won’t be hiding any ads in links or anything like that. What you see right now is as far as I’ll go with adds: a simple google link bar at the top. Don’t click on these links and you’ll never get distracted. Is that ok?
Joel – yup, that’s all I’ll have Joel. Thanks for your suggestions.
Hey! I’ve been coming to this website a lot lately! I think it’s great! Keep up the good work!! And I think you deserve to keep all revenue to yourself!
Boo-imposter? 😛
BTW, why does the first page show a ad-search bar? who in their right mind will use a “Search for Ads” box??
I appreciate that new publicity.
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