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madmumbler
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Re: FSU product discussion
Sat May 27 2006 09:35 AM

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I think that the major problem with the reliable sites is that they get too many hits when something is brewing. That costs the maintanence for the websites to get expensive.

Another thing I meant to add is that the problem is you have "scientists" who don't know how to make a page pay for itself. They should set up Googleads on the pages and I'd be willing to bet with that massive amount of people coming through, it might not pay for itself, but it certainly would help offset a goodly chunk of expenses. They could solicit paid sponsors or partnerships with commercial sites to help offset even more.

There's a lot they CAN do to make it pay for itself.

The problem there is that may rankle them because of the principle of it.

I started using Google ads -- not obnoxiously, but around the lower edges and bottom of my pages -- and I was shocked that the first month I made more than enough on the ad revenue to pay for my monthly host fees. In my case (embroidery designs and tutorials) all I have to do is offer a new freebie every week or so and people flock to the site. In a case like hurricane season, they would get MORE than enough people coming to the site to offset the view/click ratio. They can link with popular sites to get even more traffic.

In this day and age, "paying" for a site is no longer an excuse if they take the time to look into the options. And that's only one option of many.

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Lesli in SWFL.
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Subject	Posted by	Posted on
FSU product discussion	Clark	Sat May 27 2006 09:35 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	GuppieGrouper	Fri Jun 09 2006 07:46 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	Hootowl	Fri Jun 16 2006 11:28 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	Margie	Fri Jun 16 2006 11:45 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	madmumbler	Fri May 26 2006 03:46 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	Random Chaos	Fri May 26 2006 06:08 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	madmumbler	Sat May 27 2006 09:25 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	GuppieGrouper	Fri May 26 2006 06:40 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	madmumbler	Sat May 27 2006 09:35 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	Clark	Sat May 27 2006 03:37 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	madmumbler	Thu Jun 08 2006 07:22 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	Margie	Sun Jun 04 2006 02:10 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	GuppieGrouper	Sun Jun 04 2006 04:08 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	Clark	Sun Jun 04 2006 05:53 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	CaneTrackerInSoFl	Sun Jun 04 2006 04:27 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	madmumbler	Sat May 27 2006 09:27 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	Hootowl	Fri May 26 2006 12:10 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	RedingtonBeachGuy	Thu May 25 2006 08:10 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	wereallgonnadie	Thu May 25 2006 10:34 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Random Chaos	Thu May 25 2006 10:51 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	winterwx	Thu May 25 2006 11:53 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	firestar_1	Fri May 26 2006 12:09 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Hootowl	Thu May 25 2006 06:22 AM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Steve H1	Thu May 25 2006 09:38 AM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Margie	Thu May 25 2006 02:51 PM
dark day?	HanKFranK	Thu May 25 2006 03:45 PM
Re: dark day?	Major7	Thu May 25 2006 05:45 PM
Re: dark day?	Margie	Thu May 25 2006 06:05 PM
Re: dark day?	Major7	Fri May 26 2006 09:15 PM
Re: dark day?	Bloodstar	Thu May 25 2006 07:36 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Wingman51	Thu May 25 2006 09:34 AM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	leetdan	Wed May 24 2006 06:52 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Bloodstar	Wed May 24 2006 07:12 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	danielw	Wed May 24 2006 07:53 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Clark	Wed May 24 2006 08:29 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	CaneTrackerInSoFl	Wed May 24 2006 06:13 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	cdm-orlando	Wed May 24 2006 05:28 PM
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