Rttp...did you notice?[views:7779][posts:74]___________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:08am - succubus ""] There are some google ads...these are to help pay for the site which ends up costing the reverend money every year...so help him by clicking on the banner and google ads, especially if you are looking to buy stuff...go trough his links |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:09am - RichHorror ""] Do you mean the banner ads that're always there, or is something new? |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:20am - the_reverend ""] on text.rttp, www.metal-shows.com, and www.nycmetalshows.com I put google ads on the side or bottom. The reason is that with the banner ads, I'm still losing money just the cost of the server. I figured this might be a non-intrusive way to sell my soul. I've been thinking of putting one on the bottom of the main page of the site and at the bottom of the forum pages (under the qik reply). |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:20am - the_reverend ""] http://www.metal-shows.com http://www.nycmetalshows.com http://text.returntothepit.com |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:21am - the_reverend ""] btw I feel like a total sell out doing this, but just on the cost of the server, I've been down over $100 a month. |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:22am - RichHorror ""] Why not, even with a Hybrid you must be spending crazy money on gas. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:22am - DrewBlood ""] clicked |
| ________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:25am - aril ""] uh oh, does that mean that the end of RTTP is near? |
| _____________________________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:39am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] I JUST noticed a google ad on text.returntothepit.com yesterday. I wondered how long that's been there. I'll give them a click every time I use it or so. |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:42am - sinistas ""] I'm not seeing the ads... |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 11:17am - the_reverend ""] they aren't yet on normal rttp. last year with gas, I lost over $11K on rttp. which is better than the year before which was $24K.. somehow... the year before that was $14K i think. This is including camera gear. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 11:18am - the_reverend ""] MSD: you do use text? good. I was wondering if you did from your phone. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 11:20am - aril ""] talk about dedication. if you want, I'm sure the brains on this site can figure out an easy way to make you money. think ytmnd meets youtube, meets rttp. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 11:21am - ArrowHeadNLI ""] I noticed them the other day, yesterday maybe. They were there, then the next time I went they were gone. Now they're there every time. It doesn't bother me at all, and I'll be sure to click em. At first I though they were from google. Some sites come up weird if I go to them straight from a google search (which is my home page). I get like a special google version. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 11:22am - ArrowHeadNLI ""] aril said:talk about dedication. if you want, I'm sure the brains on this site can figure out an easy way to make you money. Aaron IS the brains on this site. The rest of us are fucking retarded. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 11:25am - aril ""] haha, you'd be surprised. along with aaron, there's some pretty bright retards on this site! |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 11:25am - metal_church101 ""] Rev, I hear ya. It's not selling your sole. Shit costs money and nothing is free. One hand washes the other. I'll check out the links. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 11:28am - the_reverend ""] *the best and brightest* |
| _____________________________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 11:29am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] the_reverend said:MSD: you do use text? good. I was wondering if you did from your phone. yupyup. Fuck browsing full websites with mobile IE. Plus full sites are slow as hell. text.returntothepit.com = win. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 11:43am - ArrowHeadNLI ""] menstrual_sweatpants_disco said: yupyup. Fuck browsing full websites with mobile IE. Plus full sites are slow as hell. text.returntothepit.com = win. cantoni.mobi It's the balls for browsing mobile. Just shitloads of links to text and mobile versions of all kinds of sites. It's my first bookmark. I used to use Opera mobile, PIe+, and all kinds of crap that just slowed me down. Now I just use vanilla IE. I use the text RTTP for everything on my phone. It ruins random image threads, but it's way faster for everything else. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 11:56am - the_reverend ""] yeah, clicking on images is a bitch. that's something that I don't like... but I'm thinking of putting a link on the real version to the text version and vice versa. so on text, you can click to the full version. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 11:58am - the_reverend ""] oh and on text, there are 2 different ads. one for me at work who uses firefox for text.rttp, the other for cellphones since they don't have java. funniest thing is that the ads I've gotten (besides shitty spam ones) have been shop.relapse and that pandora radio thing. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 12:30pm - the_reverend ""] does that look stupid? I also just realized that there are now google ads at the bottom of metal-shows.com and nycmetalshows.com.. oops... will remove those tonight. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 12:32pm - the_reverend ""] also, something like this makes me feel like a whore: http://www.returntothepit.com/concert.php?date=2007-07-13&band=immortal |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 12:42pm - brian_dc ""] Aaron had to point them out to me because adblock is a devourer of souls |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 12:59pm - xanonymousx ""] "# Porn Hurts Somerville Porn hurts women. Viewing booths spread AIDS. Boycott Main St Video NoPornNorthampton.org" ads ny google. |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 1:14pm - quintessence ""] Ads are a necessary evil. I hardly even notice them. If thats what you need to keep the site going then so be it. |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 1:46pm - urinal turd ""] skynet. |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 2:58pm - corpus_colostomy ""] click, click, click.. |
| _________________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 3:45pm - SacreligionNLI ""] what do you get for a click? do you get more if people peruse the sites more or order something from them? |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 3:50pm - thuringwethil ""] I think it's great but the CSS changes the fonts around slightly when I scroll down and the ad banner comes onto the screen. Nothing terrible, I am after all using a Mac so I can expect it to act gay. |
| __________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 4:09pm - Niccolai ""] More bands should definately look into paying for adspace on RTTP. When I put the body farm banner up there, I got like thousands of hits. |
| __________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 4:11pm - Niccolai ""] thuringwethil said:I think it's great but the CSS changes the fonts around slightly when I scroll down and the ad banner comes onto the screen. Nothing terrible, I am after all using a Mac so I can expect it to act gay. Is there any way to isolate the ad in an Iframe so that way it won't leak into the CSS on your pages? |
| _________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 4:31pm - sxealex ""] PUT A DONATION BUTTON |
| __________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 4:35pm - succubus ""] wow..look at all the replies. I'm glad I posted this. you guys DO care. My post popular thread to date..lol |
| __________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 4:37pm - Niccolai ""] You could always clean house too and just delete some of the old bands and shit that you took pictures of that no one wil ever look at again. |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 4:44pm - the_reverend ""] I don't see that yet... I will have to look at it in safari. |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 4:52pm - contagion ""] so how does this work do they pay you for every click they get or for every view the site gets? |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 4:59pm - the_reverend ""] I'm not quite sure to be honest... I think that there is money generated from just views... but looking at the stats, it seems that there are only cash generated by clicks. I signed something that said that I wouldn't ask people to click the banner ads so I'm not going to ask people to click on them. I'm just going to say that it looks like if people click on them daily, more money is generated. that's all I'm saying. I'm sure they are smarter than I am. |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 5:01pm - the_reverend ""] hah! some of the ads are friggin hilarious. http://text.returntothepit.com/profiles.php?nickname=NoodleFace I got an ad for noodle soup recipes there. |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 5:02pm - the_reverend ""] [Mar 26,2008 4:37pm - Niccolai] You could always clean house too and just delete some of the old bands and shit that you took pictures of that no one wil ever look at again.that would do absolutely nothing... |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 5:03pm - the_reverend ""] sxealex said:PUT A DONATION BUTTON I've debated something like that... but that would make me feel like a huge sell out. huge. |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 5:03pm - the_reverend ""] ps: HUGE |
| _______________________________ [Mar 26,2008 5:12pm - Troll ""] RTTP sold its soul to the Devil?!?! I could give a shit less. Good for you Rev! We're just a bunch of mooch motherfuckers anyways. I ain't gonna humor you man. People aren't gonna donate to RTTP and if they do their gonna be a few of your close friends. You gotta supply some kinda of service or something. Sell hoodies and shit at shows. Suck some cock in the bathrooms, whatever. The economy is bunk right now and people aren't gonna just throw away their cigarette and beer money to keep their favorite website afloat. Shit, those google ads ain't so ugly. I'm over it. "remember:Breathing Tragic Nun-Muncher" |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 5:27pm - Hungtableed ""] Huh...liberals supporting big business interests. |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:49pm - SacreligionNLI ""] i think you mean "liberals supporting their own interests" everyone who comes here should feel obligated to help out...especially considering that it's just clicking. small price to pay for the amount of time a lot of people spend on here. |
| __________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:52pm - sxealex ""] the_reverend said: sxealex said:PUT A DONATION BUTTON I've debated something like that... but that would make me feel like a huge sell out. huge. LALALALALA! not listening... PUT A DONATION BUTTON |
| __________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:54pm - sxealex ""] ps google adds are a sell out more than a donation button. I say do it... id definitely have donated at least once by now... |
| _________________________________ [Mar 26,2008 10:57pm - NIGGER ""] the_reverend said:on text.rttp, www.metal-shows.com, and www.nycmetalshows.com I put google ads on the side or bottom. The reason is that with the banner ads, I'm still losing money just the cost of the server. I figured this might be a non-intrusive way to sell my soul. I've been thinking of putting one on the bottom of the main page of the site and at the bottom of the forum pages (under the qik reply). GOOD IDEA A NIGGA'S GOT TO MAKE HIS MONEY NO ONE BUT THE LIBERAL EMO HIPPIES WILL MIND AND THEY DON'T HAVE ANY CASH ANYWAY LET ME PUT IT THIS WAY IN PRISON THEY ARE BOTTOMS LOL BLACK POWER! |
| __________________________________ [Mar 27,2008 7:18am - succubus ""] well if people do want to donate..technically they can right now... you'll notice you can buy a hoodie from the site and pay via paypal... the payment email address for this site is orders@returntothepit.com if you paypal money to that address it will go directly to the rev. I'd tell you to do it through the site as if you want to buy a hoodie but then it'll charge you $30. |