I'm going to have a go at removing the google adverts on the site and make the space available for advertising by businesses more in line with what the site is about.

I hate the google adverts. I have no control over what they want to advertise, and where on the page they advertise. Those adverts on each side of the page, I didn't put them there, the space is at the bottom of the page, but google decided to move it to the sides. Plus google wants us site owners to jump through more and more legal hoops, its just a pain. They can get stuffed.

The adverts do earn between $120 and $150 a month income for the site, which pays for the hosting and coffee. But I dont keep the site going for the earnings, its more so for you guys who use is. If the income stopped, the site would continue.

So thinking of putting up place holders with a "Advertise here" banner. If a individual or business wanted to place a advert, I would sign them up into a ad rotator ( my own code, nothing external ), and they could pay per click through, or bulk impressions. The code will give them a report of how many impressions or click through their advert got, the remote IP, date/time, etc. Prices will be more than reasonable, like a dollar for 1000 impressions, 20c to 50c a click through, depending on size and type. The ads will need to be approved by me first, so nothing political, religious, sexy, nasty, conspiracy theory, etc. Any charity ( not church based ) will be free.

Hope to have this in place in January.

Glenn

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JAQ

Sounds great!  
I would use it for my business.

I must admit that I tried to keep TBS out of my add-blocker but I got fed up with the adds for skimpy underwear and other suspicious click-bait.
Prostrate cancer has put an end to any need for 'enhancement'

I will unblock again when you have the new system up and running.

I might even click on the links.

Jim

Is this by any chance a side effect of the Google Ad changes?

I'm now getting ads in the middle of posts.



At least they're good quality ads. Why yes, I do like to be driven around in a limousine. I'll have my butler order one post-haste my good man!