Hey folks :)

I've just been going through the forums I frequent regularly, setting up ad campaigns for my new book. And I realise this place is the odd one out. Most places I'm active use Project Wonderful for ads, which means that anyone using the site can click an "advertise here" button next to the ad.

I'm wondering how the current ads running here (AdSense?) compare to PW. Obviously, it means I can't add this site to the list of places where my books are marketed; but I have no idea how it compares from the site's point of view. Is it something you've ever considered?

Thanks :p

You can find Adsense at the right top of the banner. right? :D

I believe so.

Please put some ads on here, mrangel!

I don't know how many more mormon.org ads I can pretend to ignore...

I turned both of my ad-blockers off for this site but I am not seeing any advertising. In fact, I have never seen advertising on this site... well, except for the spam posts.

@KV
I don't think I can. Last time I checked, adsense/adwords doesn't allow you to target a specific site. That's why I like Project Wonderful.

Most of the sites I'm on, there's a button under the ads, "Your ad here for $3.50" or similar. A flat daily rate, that turns into an auction if there's multiple bids. On certain sites, the "ad" is often occupied by silly GIFs or whatever made by the users.

A few months ago, one site had a banner advertising a wikipedia article: “List of power grid disruptions caused by squirrels”. I think that's more entertaining than the stream of credit card ads I'm seeing here.

[Most of the sites I'm on, there's a button under the ads, "Your ad here for $3.50" or similar. A flat daily rate, that turns into an auction if there's multiple bids. On certain sites, the "ad" is often occupied by silly GIFs or whatever made by the users.]

Is $3.50 the cost every time it is shown or randomly for a day?

@Text_Quester

Is $3.50 the cost every time it is shown or randomly for a day?

It's per-day. The site owner sets a minimum price, and if more than one person wants to advertise, it goes for the highest bid. If the high bid changes during a day, then you get billed for some fraction of the daily price.
Advertisers can search a list of sites, and look at a graph of what the high bid has been over the last month, and how many daily visits and unique visits there's been during that time.

(Also, did you know this forum lets you put > at the start of a line, to indent the quoted message you're replying to?)