Feedvertising
For the last couple of months, I have had a small sponsored link in the footer of my templates and WordPress themes. That sponsored little link made it possible for me to work as a professional template designer - building up a lot of templates and themes and spending several hours per day on helping people with both my themes and with WordPress in general. It has been a really lovely work, and it is incredibly awarding and inspiring to help other people. I've learned a lot from it, and I can feel good too since many people have appreciated the help.
But that ended today. A few people have expressed worries about these sponsored links in the WordPress themes, so my sponsor has decided to cancel the deal. The result for me is less time for free work and more time for commercial project for now. I am still interested in sponsoring deals, not for the WordPress themes but maybe for templates and for this website. Suggestions and ideas are very welcome!
And speaking of that, I am trying a new advertisement service from Text-Link-Ads.com right now. It is called "Feedvertising", and it puts a similar sponsored link at the bottom of the entries in my feeds. If it looks strange right now, it is because no links have been sold yet. I have no idea how it will work, but as always I want to hear what you think about it. Is this acceptable or just annoying? Do you have any experience of it that you can share? Let me know! If you want to try Feedvertising yourself, sign up as a publisher on Text-Link-Ads.com and you can get it too.
And not to forget: If you want to advertise in my feed, you can do it from here.
Comment from Adrian King
Time: October 12, 2006, 10:35
Hi Andreas,
I am thinking of setting up a movie review site with a few other bits and bobs. My Brothers wife has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer and it has sort of kick started me into a charity champaign.
Just tell me if I am being cheeky but I would love to know if much revenue is made from adds on sites such as this one. The hope being that I can get some money the way of Cancer Research UK through my site. If the revenue is not that large then I will think of another way to help, go for a run or something.