Ads In BeTwittered

Posted Fri, 08/29/2008 - 16:40 by metarobert
Sadly, I finally had to give in.  I got my bill for the server and bandwidth costs.  It surprised me to see that the continued growth of BeTwittered pushed me over my 1 Terabyte net traffic allowance.  I'll have to pay for bandwidth on top of the normal charge for the server.  I hated to do it, but I've put adsense ads at the bottom of the gadget, below the timeline.  I need to find an effective way to recoup the costs, adsense doesn't appear to be it.  I guess I'll find out over the next week.  I also found out that Apache was *not* compressing traffic.  I've confirmed that I have it setup to compress now, so I may get a bit of relief from that, too.

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Hi Neonpaul, Thanks for the

by robert (not verified) - 08/31/2008 - 04:48

Hi Neonpaul,
Thanks for the pointer. I've had a quick look at http://www.projectwonderful.com already. that looks very promising! Very much appreciated. :-)
Thanks,
Robert

You might want to give Ryan

by Neonpaul (not verified) - 08/29/2008 - 23:19

You might want to give Ryan North's Project Wonderful a go. They pay based on how long you display the ads instead of how many clicks you get, it's quite a fresh way of doing things.

However, I'm not sure how effective it would be for a log-in service like BeTwittered. Might bew worth a look anyway.
http://www.projectwonderful.com