Internal stats for January: 382,351 pageviews.
Google Ads stats for January: 53,320 pageviews.
Uh, yeah. Not gonna have effectively unblockable gold farmer ads for $3.41 a month. Hell, if I’m going to give up my integrity, at least give me enough to buy a taco dinner. So if you’re easily amused, buy my footer. This guy did and apparently got a couple of new guildies out of it.
BTW, while I’m at this page, the top referrers for January, in order (where I got the stats from):
slashdot.org
game.search-hp.com (I think it’s a Japanese gaming-specific search engine?)
hardocp.com
raphkoster.com
google.com
zenofdesign.com
bluegartrls.com (guild forum)
neogaf.com (general console-centric gaming forum)
cesspit.net
dailykos.com (ancient Katrina:the Gathering link)
(No snarky searchwords, kinda busy today. Go forth and amuse thyself!)
#1 by Nicademus on January 29th, 2007
Could it be that Google doesn’t count people who use FF with Adblock, I never see your ads. So um… thanks for that.
#2 by TPRJones on January 29th, 2007
This is kind of fun, bidding against myself for cheap ad space on borkentoys.org. I need more websites to make banners for and see if I can outbid myself again.
Suggestions?
#3 by TPRJones on January 29th, 2007
Well, it won’t let me actually outbid myself. I just keep replacing one free ad with another. Darn it.
#4 by Apache on January 29th, 2007
I think you’re well under the mark to even consider having ads on the site. It just annoys the readers and doesn’t give you any benefit.