• Advertising on AskWoody

    Posted on October 15, 2016 at 12:49 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    As many of you know, I’ve been operating AskWoody without advertising and without cookies (except for the open source avatar site) for several years. I occasionally toss up a post for my books, or for my son’s mobile phone games, but that’s been the extent of the ads. I pay for the site out of my own pocket and, increasingly, spend a whole lot of time keeping up with it.

    I need to start making the site pay its own way. It’s a tough decision for me.

    I’ve thought about doing some sort of pay scheme, but just can’t figure out how to make it work. I subscribe to Paul Thurrott’s $64-a-year Premium service – it’s a great way to support Paul and Brad – but I just can’t see trying to implement anything similar. Windows Secrets Newsletter went the pay route long ago — $25 to $59/year is worth it just for Susan Bradley, Fred Langa and Tracey Capen — but I’ve done the newsletter thing before and it’s a whole lotta overhead. Several of you have suggested putting a PayPal donation button on the site. Martin Brinkmann at ghacks.net does that, but (as he says) his site’s dying.

    So I’m turning back to the old, old approach: Display ads. I found a company that brokers ads, and I trust them. Sometime in the next couple of weeks, I’ll start posting their ads.

    I’m not going to hit you with pop-over black-out, roving scroll, time triggered, blaring ads. They’ll be simple, out of the main line of fire, and relatively unobtrusive.

    Here’s what you can do for me. Turn off add blocking for AskWoody.com. If you see something interesting, click on it. And if you’re ticked off about any ad, shoot me right between the eyes, woody@askwoody.com.

    Let’s see if we can get this baby up and crawling.

    UPDATE: Thanks to all of you for your encouragement!

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