I don't understand something, and I'm hoping you guys can help me out. I really begin to feel like most Amiga sites are missing out on a lot of opportunities here to promote the platform (and their site) by not using readily available resources like the google adwords program.
There are two different programs by Google.
Adwords - the program used by advertisers to place their ads on the various sites.
AdSense - the program to display the adverts on each individual site.
Since putting up the google ads on the site, there are essentially only 7 total Amiga advertisements I've seen, though there are many, many Amiga sites out there. I enrolled Amiga.org into the Google Adwords program and our advertisement's getting displayed thousands of times.
At the same time, we're only being charged (about 5 cents) each time someone clicks on the advertisement via a number of keywords. Our advertisements with the google adwords program have ranged between 50 cents and 1 dollar per day. Meanwhile, our Google Adsense ads (the ads you see) have brought in on average, about 60 to 75 cents per day.
In essence, we're getting a buttload of free advertising for the site while the number of new AO members has gone through the roof and is currently hitting about 7 new members per day. So, given that, why don't more Amiga sites bother to use the gifts that are handed to them?
Wayne