New ads at Emulation64 and EmuTalk

[Martin]

I joined a new ad program (pay per click) and have put the ads on emulation64 and emutalk for evaluation. I don't know how long I'll test them, a week minimum I suppose.

If you want to support us and if you find the ads interesting, feel free to click them once a day or something (I'd probably break the TOS by asking for clicks so I won't ask you to click them just to support us, you must actually find the ads interesting ;). It'll help. :)

BTW, some ads don't pay anything at all, like American Cancer Society, National PTA, Red Cross etc, these are "default" banners. Any ad that holds googlesyndication.com in the URL are paying ads. The ones that have ?caha are non-paying ones. The robots must come and visit more often so we get more targeted banners. I've heard webhosting ads pay great, so you know what to do if you see one err I mean ;)

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[Lex]

Cool, the extra money is always welcome to :)

[Martin]

Well we don't know if it's extra money yet, we're most certainly are making less now. Remember the popups which are our main source of revenue otherwise are gone right now.

[Lex]

Well we don't know if it's extra money yet, we're most certainly are making less now. Remember the popups which are our main source of revenue otherwise are gone right now.
hmm, i didn't thought of that.

[Remote]

Can't you use both, as in standard ads and popups. I figure most of us use popup stopping software but since it's for a good cause I really don't mind seing them pop...

[The Khan Artist]

* Clicks the ad

[Lex]

* Clicks the ad
I already clicked them about 10 times :P

[Martin]

Can't you use both, as in standard ads and popups. I figure most of us use popup stopping software but since it's for a good cause I really don't mind seing them pop...

Yeah, could do and probably will. I just decided to run this across the whole network to see how much we could make on these ads, it's hard to make an idea by just running them on Emu64 and EmuTalk. Stay tuned, I'll report the results soon. :)


I already clicked them about 10 times :P
I really hope you're joking. :)

Don't click too often or they will claim we have cheated and kick us out and we don't want that to happen. Aight? :D

EDIT: OK, it's setup.

[Martin]

I've seen nice results so far, in fact so nice I've decided to stick with these ads (will run adaptoid and other banners on some sites, and these ads on most). Who would have thought regular text ads actually make us any money? They will pay less soon, but I think I can afford this:

From now on we're using only 1 popup company instead of 2, and set it to popup only once per user every 24 hours across the whole network! Blimey, how about that?

Thank you, keep clicking...err...supporting us. ;)

[ra5555]

/click/click/click :emutalk:

[vampireuk]

did you read where it said click once a day?

[ra5555]

vampireuk don't worry, I clicked just once :P

[Lex]

I'd rather click on a good old text link then on those flashing pictures, so i think it is a good improvement.

[Martin]

Agreed, they're very eye friendly. The main problem I have with these ads is that the default banners can't be replaced with our own. So instead of giving us the ability to show our own banners (like I could show the Adaptoid banner and maybe get some revenue through sales), they show charity banners that gives us no revenue, when you click one it will report as a click but I will get $0.00 for the click. And the thing is, a lot of pages show their default non-paying text links. :(

I hope they'll consider the ability for us to have our own default banners. Anyway, I'm very impressed of how targetted the ads are, look at this thread for instance: it shows ads about clicks. :)

A few examples:

http://www.emulation64.com/gethosted.php <- Emu64's get hosted page shows webhosting banners
http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?threadid=15193 <- TechTalk shows hardware links.
http://1964emu.emulation64.com/ <- 1964 website shows "fix my website ads" lol, no idea why though :P
http://mupen64.emulation64.com/ <- Mupen main page shows debugger and assembly tools ads
http://pj64.emulation64.com/code/mainiframe_downloads.htm <- Pj64's download page shows reverse engineering ads
http://www.emufanatics.com/ <- Emufanatics (only shows ad if you're a guest) shows ads for X-Arcade and downloads.

And so on. But as I said, lots and lots of pages show default banners, especially for the smaller sites and subpages on those sites. It's still cool though, when there's an ad to display it's usually very targeted. Sorry for the ranting, people. :)

[Martin]

Hmm...revenue is not even half of what it was yesterday by this time, I hope you're not clicking the charity ads by mistake (they pay nothing). :unsure:

I'm not asking you to click the ads, that would be against the TOS. I'm just asking you to support us. :P

[vampireuk]

I click everyday, at work then at home :)

[Martin]

Cool. :D

I'm trying to work out a way to only display these banners on pages where they're targeted, and to display the jandaman/network banners on pages they're not. I'm sure you've seen the charity adverts on many sites on the network, and why not put the in-house ads on those instead? :)

I just spoke to Brave and he'll try to help me find a solution.

[AlphaWolf]

Hmm...revenue is not even half of what it was yesterday by this time, I hope you're not clicking the charity ads by mistake (they pay nothing). :unsure:

I'm not asking you to click the ads, that would be against the TOS. I'm just asking you to support us. :P

So far you are getting more revenue from me now than before as I never saw any popups :P

I already clicked the ads of two sites that are selling computer hardware, one of which I think I may buy some laptop memory and a laptop hard drive from because its cheaper than what I found on pricewatch.

[vampireuk]

Allow me to say, click damnit! (but only if the ads interest you)

[Trotterwatch]

The ads are becoming more and more targetted, just seens ads for buying Gamecubes on top of a Gamecube discussion thread :) Seems like Google have figured out how to target ads pretty effectively.

[Martin]

Yup, the mediabots crawls more and more of our pages.

However, the related searches at the bottom doesn't pay -anything- and sometimes has questionable content. This is bad for revenue, I'm seing our worst day so far yet. :(

[zorbid]

This is the screenshot page of the glN64 homepage. There are banjo and kazooie pictures..

[nephalim]

I'm not sure if pay-per-click ads are the best idea for this site...not many people who will go for an internet ad in here. The only thing you got going for you is alot of us (myself included) will click ads just to get you money (which will probably get you in trouble eventually, even if you didn't ask.) Maybe that'll be enough, I don't know. Of course, it's your call and your judgement on the issue is far superior to mine :)

[Martin]

It actually works pretty good, thank you for the support. :) Keep in mind we have a lot of visitors across the network and the ads are pretty targeted on many sites. We've making more than with jandaman's banners, or else we wouldn't still have them.

[Jimbot]

You know whats funny, i was thinking about clicks and getting money for clicks with ads for my website, and magically, an ad like that was at the top of the page. ...Can they read minds?

[Jimbot]

I think that the charity ones go at the top when it can't decipher quite what the page has on it. Its sort of like a default, i cant find it option.