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Posted By: Sandi Moses In Response To: Before I ban your IP# and email you a tray of explosive brownies... (MaaMaw)
Thursday, 17 August 2006, at 9:05 p.m.
> I thought I would comment on your reply :-)
> It is.
> Go ahead, hit me.
> I probably (or definitely) listed my goals in the wrong order in my
> initial message.
> Affiliate sales are few and far between, and the commissions are small.
> Adsense, on the other hand, is paying half my mortgage now, and my goal is
> to make a living with it before the turn of the century.
That's OK. But subtlety is a virtue. Entice them down the page with promises of whatever suits your fancy, and have them trip over the Adsense on the way. :)
> Ideally, I would like to have nothing but sites where people go right for
> the grand and glorious information I provide -- and that's what I'm
> striving for on AmericaZoo. I'm excited about my Junior and Senior Ranger
> program (so is Chief Ranger Dave!). I'm excited about making the critter
> exhibits interactive and putting up puzzles and games and worksheets and
> all kinds of neat stuff. I'm excited about putting the kids' own drawings
> and stories in the critter exhibits.
> It all makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
> But it doesn't pay the bills.
> It will help, but AmericaZoo crashes on the weekends and it CRASHES on
> school holidays, and it **CRASHED AND BURNED** over the summer.
> So I need to take what I have there and rework it into some sites that
> provide legitimate information but focus on bringing in the bucks.
> I hope that doesn't sound too mercenary coming from a sweet little lady
> such as myself, but that's the way it is. I'm doing my best to provide the
> information they came looking for -- I won't create junk sites -- but if
> they click on Adsense and leave, oh well.
> This is all kind of a test for me. See on Mr. Giraffe at AZoo how I
> "hide" the Adsense ads above and below a line of eyeballs?
> (http://www.americazoo.com/giraffe)
> I have to wonder how much more I could bring in if I didn't do that -- but
> on AZoo, I want to give the impression of fun and education with the
> advertising being just an inconspicuous but necessary evil.
> I've been told the spot where I have them on ZooAnimalsA-Z is the best
> place to put them -- front and center and in your face -- and since
> they're the best moneymaker I've got at this point, I'm hoping that's
> true.
> So in summary...
> == AZoo is my baby.
> == ZooAnimalsA-Z is dinner (and there will be more, once I get the hang of
> it).
> Thanks for saying so. I've been worried about it, and it's going to be a
> problem no matter what I put in the middle, because each critter is going
> to end up a different length.
> I need to keep all those links there, at least until I see what it does
> for me (or against me) with the search engines. It's entirely possible
> I'll end up putting them on a page all by themselves, with the only link
> on the left being "Index of Animals" or something similar.
> I think you're right about the different column lengths looking
> unprofessional, and I'm going to see what I can do about that...
> I'm thinking just "Bats" and then the list of bats pops out on
> the right; there are tons of free scripts for that, but I'm not sure if
> the SE's see the text or not.
> I'm also thinking, "DO I CARE?"
> If my main goal is Adsense income, it might not matter if it's
> unprofessional, as long as it isn't a waste of space that doesn't provide
> the information they're looking for.
> Oh, I like that. It's better than pop-out menu boxes!
> UGH! If that's true, then I definitely care.
> Don't say I didn't warn you!!
Missed me!
> Luv,
> MaaMaw
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