Comments on: Ads for regulars? http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:24:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Not Showing Adverts to Regular Visitors at Dave’s Rants http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-3525 Not Showing Adverts to Regular Visitors at Dave’s Rants Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:09:33 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-3525 [...] So a while back I mentioned here and on Tom’s blog that I’d love just to show ads to people who stumble across my site and not show them to people who are visiting more regularly. So I set about trying to do this last night/this morning. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to really manage it. [...] [...] So a while back I mentioned here and on Tom’s blog that I’d love just to show ads to people who stumble across my site and not show them to people who are visiting more regularly. So I set about trying to do this last night/this morning. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to really manage it. [...]

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-2539 Tom Raftery Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:16:33 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-2539 Erica - I use a nifty little WordPress plugin called <a href="http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/">Ultimate Tag Warrior</a> Erica - I use a nifty little WordPress plugin called Ultimate Tag Warrior

]]> By: erica http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-2535 erica Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:24:14 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-2535 how do you make that google adlinks shown at the middle of your wp pages? how do you make that google adlinks shown at the middle of your wp pages?

]]> By: Damien Mulley http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-2003 Damien Mulley Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:51:45 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-2003 and only 2 broken thumbs to get to that point! and only 2 broken thumbs to get to that point!

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1992 Tom Raftery Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:18:45 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1992 <blockquote>see your regulars reward you by blogging about what you say and linking to your posts, driving you higher up in search engine results, which means more people visiting you</blockquote> Damn you Damien and your uncanny ability to hit the nail on the head!

see your regulars reward you by blogging about what you say and linking to your posts, driving you higher up in search engine results, which means more people visiting you

Damn you Damien and your uncanny ability to hit the nail on the head!

]]> By: Damien Mulley http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1991 Damien Mulley Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:54:33 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1991 Tom, see your regulars reward you by blogging about what you say and linking to your posts, driving you higher up in search engine results, which means more people visiting you. Also if the comments under a post are good and educational, (to me at least) they are far better than an ad click. I guess I'm more into the knowledge economy than making money though from blogs. Tom, see your regulars reward you by blogging about what you say and linking to your posts, driving you higher up in search engine results, which means more people visiting you.

Also if the comments under a post are good and educational, (to me at least) they are far better than an ad click. I guess I’m more into the knowledge economy than making money though from blogs.

]]> By: Rory Parle http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1988 Rory Parle Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:03:42 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1988 Well unfortunately I haven't anything to compare my data to, because I never served ads differently to how I do now. Also, apparently Google isn't keen on me telling you about my click through rate. I guess I can tell you I have a very low readership, less than fifty unique visitors per day, most of them from searches, and I cover about a third of my hosting bill with advertising. I imagine Nicole's observations are accurate for most blogs; blog readers just don't often click on ads. Then again I don't know that many of them are bothered by small text ads, so there may be no harm in showing them to everyone just in case. Well unfortunately I haven’t anything to compare my data to, because I never served ads differently to how I do now. Also, apparently Google isn’t keen on me telling you about my click through rate. I guess I can tell you I have a very low readership, less than fifty unique visitors per day, most of them from searches, and I cover about a third of my hosting bill with advertising.

I imagine Nicole’s observations are accurate for most blogs; blog readers just don’t often click on ads. Then again I don’t know that many of them are bothered by small text ads, so there may be no harm in showing them to everyone just in case.

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1987 Tom Raftery Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:45:59 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1987 Hmmm, it sounds like I am being a little naive hoping regulars will click on my ads (as a thanks from time to time) so! Hmmm. Nice idea Rory - how does this strategy work out for you (within the confines of what you can say re Google's TOS)? Hmmm,

it sounds like I am being a little naive hoping regulars will click on my ads (as a thanks from time to time) so! Hmmm.

Nice idea Rory - how does this strategy work out for you (within the confines of what you can say re Google’s TOS)?

]]> By: Rory Parle http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1986 Rory Parle Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:28:31 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1986 I've been running AdSense ads on my site for about six months now, but I've only ever served them to people who arrived via a search engine. It's not bulllet-proof, but I just look for "google", "msn", "yahoo" or "search" in the referrer header and serve the ads if I find one of those strings. Obviously I don't include people who used my site's own search. I’ve been running AdSense ads on my site for about six months now, but I’ve only ever served them to people who arrived via a search engine. It’s not bulllet-proof, but I just look for “google”, “msn”, “yahoo” or “search” in the referrer header and serve the ads if I find one of those strings. Obviously I don’t include people who used my site’s own search.

]]> By: danger http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1985 danger Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:28:02 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1985 Milkandcookies.com, a giant cool stuff site with a large community posting material, has it set that only those who aren't members of it's forums etc. get the ads. For a site like that it makes sense - the incoming randoms from google will always dwarf the numbers of returning regulars, so not seeing the ads is a 'reward' for becoming an active part of the community, which helps grow the community, which means more links posted ... which helps gets more incoming links, which helps ad revenue and the cycle continues etc. etc. Milkandcookies.com, a giant cool stuff site with a large community posting material, has it set that only those who aren’t members of it’s forums etc. get the ads. For a site like that it makes sense - the incoming randoms from google will always dwarf the numbers of returning regulars, so not seeing the ads is a ‘reward’ for becoming an active part of the community, which helps grow the community, which means more links posted … which helps gets more incoming links, which helps ad revenue and the cycle continues etc. etc.

]]> By: Nicole Simon http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1984 Nicole Simon Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:25:36 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1984 I had set up special channels to analyse the date to my blog post. I found that blog readers - other than search engine users - don't click at all. So why bother and present them with it. Any posting older than two days does get advertisement. So if you stay up to date with my blog, you will not see advertisement. :) I had set up special channels to analyse the date to my blog post.

I found that blog readers - other than search engine users - don’t click at all. So why bother and present them with it.

Any posting older than two days does get advertisement. So if you stay up to date with my blog, you will not see advertisement. :)

]]> By: Dave http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1981 Dave Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:50:16 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/ads-for-regulars/#comment-1981 You'd want to be careful there Tom, encouraging people to click violates the Google TOS ;) You’d want to be careful there Tom, encouraging people to click violates the Google TOS ;)

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