[H-GEN] Further re installing my website.

[David Harrison]

I'm running Google ads as a 'test' on AusImages 
(http://www.ausimages.com), which is just a little play site I set up to 
tinker with.

I found at first that the Google ad stuff worked really well - even on 
pages which only had a few words it picked up the keywords and delivered 
ads relevant to the content. For example, 
http://www.ausimages.com/view/2005-02-24/52225212MH009_Dubai_Tennis022211_1024x768.jpg 
was delivering ads for Dubai hotels. Pretty neat.

However, at some point it seems to have almost stopped working 
entirely - now I seem to only be getting ads for Subaru related products 
and I have no idea why :) I haven't spent any time looking at it (not 
looking to make money off it or anything, it was just an experiment) - 
I don't know if I changed the page layout or the way the content was 
displayed or if its something I need to configure in the Google admin 
thing.

In any case - its dead easy and quick to sign up with Google ads so 
they're certainly a good place to start. I think you need to be getting 
in the zillions of users coming to your site before you're going to 
start seeing any green though :) However, many of the sites I visit have 
abandoned their old ads in favour of Google ads, so I think they must be 
doing something right.

-- dave


---- Original Message ----
From: "Russell Mathews" <russellm at humbug.org.au>
To: "General Email Humbug" <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:05 PM
Subject: [H-GEN] Further re installing my website.

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> Further re installing my website.
>
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for all the advice. I have already found my /var/www/html/
> directory and I found I do have apache installed. I am checking with
> Aussie Hosts. I am still keen to install here as I think it may lead
> to more aspects. It will be a learning exercise.
>
> I hope I am not about to enter a forbidden topic, if I talk of a
> “commercial aspect”. I think people will know the supplier [there
> seems to be one major one] of selected ads to place on my site
> depending on parameters in their “search engine”. I do not expect to
> make money. [They will not pay until one is entitled to US$100 and
> then in Australia it is only by cheque which may take two to three
> months to arrive by slow mail, apparently.]
>
> I would like to have a rough idea of just how successful that may be;
> to compare revenue with the traffic to the site and the cost of
> traffic to the site. [I have just had a response from Aussie hosts
> that I can run that “Advertising” on their hosting and that it works
> “no problems”.]
> If anyone has any experience of how successful running those ads that
> are “sensed” from the parameters that the browser user has input, I
> would really appreciate that information.
>
> NAT (Network Address Translation) is Enabled and I can access “port
> forwarding”. [I will have to work that one out. Eg Virtual Server is
> used to allow Internet users access to LAN services. ; Rule Name;
> Private IP; Port Start; Port End; Port Map. I may ask this list
> community about that later, so do not bother about it now. I will
> think about it. For now, any info re experience of that “cost per
> click” advertising would be greatly appreciated.