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Re: Change in LUGNET news appearance
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:22:08 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Gereon Stein wrote:
> Hi all,
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> in the next couple of days, you may notice some changes in the appearance of
> LUGNET news web pages.
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> These changes are basically a testing scenario and will have the following
> impact:
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> As long as you are visiting LUGNET news web pages (hierarchy below
> http://news.lugnet.com/) without being signed on with a valid LUGNET member id,
> you will find some small advertisements inserted into each individual page.
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> As soon as you sign on with a valid LUGNET user id, you will see the
> advertisements disappear again.
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> The idea behind this is: Registered LUGNET members have donated a certain amount
> of money in order to support LUGNET. The majority of visitors, however, are
> unregistered users. In order to continue improving the services LUGNET offers,
> René and I are evaluating the possibilities to insert commercial advertisements
> which will display only to unregistered "guest" users.
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> If this actually proves to work, we will keep it that way. Regular visitors of
> LUGNET will be able to easily rid themselves of the ads by becoming registered
> members - for all others we expect the ads won't hurt much.
>
> Please note that for now we are only testing this functionality. It may be that
> affiliate programs and positioning of ads will change over the next few days if
> not weeks. We will update you once we have decided to either keep ads in some
> final configuration or chosen to discontinue the ads altogether.
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> Your feedback is very much appreciated, so please contact me personally or
> followup to this message. I have personally taken technical responsibility for
> the ads setup, so I'll be your first point of contact.
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> Parties interested in some sort of individual advertising are invited to contact
> me with their ideas as well - we can certainly figure something out.
This is an excellent idea, and it's entirely in line with what countless other
web-forums do already. If it helps to keep LUGNET afloat, I say great!
When does LUGNET get "credit" for an ad? Does the user have to purchase
something, or just click on the link?
If the latter, then I could spend some time each afternoon just clicking away...
Dave!
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| (...) Hi Dave, the average ad works on a pay-per-click scheme, however it is pointless for anyone to just click on several ads in a row - anti click-fraud mechanisms with affiliate programs prevent this from generating cash for LUGNET and will (...) (17 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Hi all, in the next couple of days, you may notice some changes in the appearance of LUGNET news web pages. These changes are basically a testing scenario and will have the following impact: As long as you are visiting LUGNET news web pages (...) (17 years ago, 13-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce) !
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