Site Information: April 2004 Archives
Until I post this, I've got exactly 1631 posts and 4863 comments: a comment multiplier of 3x! Considering how many early posts have zero comments, that's pretty great. Thanks for stopping by.
Also, I just remembered that my one year blogoversary was in March, so feel free to send me a gift or something.
Well, no one has actually bought an ad yet, despite the low low prices, so I'll give another couple away. If you want a free ad leave me a comment below and I'll email you the promotion code.
Master of None reaches over 1,200 people a day and you can too for only $25 per month.
So I stayed up until 4am last night trying to come up with a cool logo, and if you look in the upper-left corner you'll see what I devised. Not satisfied with merely one new image, I created a few pics for the permalink/comment/trackback controls as well (inspired by Samizdata).
Eh. I like them now, but I may get tired of them soon. We'll see.
Bill Hobbs wonders how another blogger who gets 368 visits per day can generate $3,000 in revenue each month. C'mon. I must be doing something wrong. I'd like to know how to turn each of you into 27 cents a month!
Meanwhile, back at the lab, our heroes consider the tremendous value of an ad that costs a mere $25 per month and reaches some 25k to 30k unique visitors.
I really appreciate all the people who are visiting my site each day. I write this stuff because I love doing it, but hearing stories about friends' mothers who come across the site and spend hours reading through the archives make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
To tell the truth, this site is pretty cheap to maintain. I've started accepting Blogads to offset the hosting costs a little, but mainly it's an experiment. The site reaches over 1,000 people each day (nearly 2,000 page views) and I wonder: so what?
So, this. I've put up two free ads do far, and I'm curious to see if anyone clicks through -- go ahead, the sites are both totally worth it. The ad rates are really reasonable ($10 for one week, $15 for two weeks, $25 for one month) and I'm eager to find out from some real advertisers how effective the ads are. My readers are from pretty desirable demographics!
Further, I need a little graphic for my site; something small and simple. Unfortunately, I have almost no artistic ability. If you click the link above you'll see my meager effort. I'll be happy to give free ad space to anyone who can design me a nice, neat little graphic (perhaps in the style of Invader Zim?).
Asute readers will glance to the right and notice that I've signed up for Blogads. Keen!
In the grand 'sphere tradition I'm offering not one, but two free ads to my loyal readers, one to each of the first two people who email me with "[free blogad!]" in the subject. Don't forget the exclamation point, because I'm only interested in people who are seriously excited about getting a free ad.
I estimate your ad will be good for around 100,000 hits in the first hour, so what are you waiting for?
Update:
My fellow Bear Flaggers Patterico and the BoifromTroy were the first to respond, so they get the free ads for two weeks. As for the rest of you, the rates are still very reasonable, and likely to give a good return for a nominal investment.
Hopefully these two guinea pigs will see some positive results and write a couple of nice testimonials for me....
