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Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:11 pm
by bnsfben
Okay, is it just me or are there small ads now at the bottom of each thread?

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:15 pm
by Big Frank
bnsfben wrote:Okay, is it just me or are there small ads now at the bottom of each thread?
yes there are im guessing its a funding issue maybe adds would help keep the sight free due to low donations this year as i said before just a guess

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:39 pm
by Jochs
I don't see any, other than links to phpBB and Mark Alexander, and a donate button.

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:51 pm
by conrailmike
Yep, Google Ads at the bottom

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:29 pm
by SW
I have been getting the Google ads also.

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:39 pm
by PAT.C
THIS SITE COSTS ZACK MONEY TO OPERATE.

DONATIONS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME AND NEEDED.

THE ADDS BRING A LITTLE MONEY IN TO OFFSET THE COSTS .

LAST I RECALL WAS THAT DONATIONS WERE NOT COVERING ALL THE COSTS SO PLEASE BE GENEROUS TO ZACK---
WE ALL ENJOY THIS SITE AND OWE ZACK OUR THANKS [AND DOLLARS]. :D :D :D

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:02 pm
by bnsfben
Yes, I agree with Pat C. I was just posting this to see if it was just me for some reason. The ads do not bother me at all! I would MUCH rather have ads than not have railroadfan.com. I would start getting angry if there were pop-up ads like on railpictures.net!

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:51 am
by AARR
The ads are not intrusive IMO

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:27 pm
by TrainWatcher
I was going to add something last night and noted it, I like the idea as some of the ads are quite funny.

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:39 pm
by AARR
It's been noted that quite a few of you have clicked on the penile enlargement ads :P :lol:

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:22 pm
by ~Z~
You guys are correct, the donations are not keeping up with server costs anymore. Thought it was a good idea to see how these ads would do. I'm also going to contact a number of railroad related companies to see if they are interested in displaying a banner on the site. As for the ads, never planning on any pop-ups, and I hope they remain very unintrusive. If you are interested in something that the ads shows.... well, I'm bound by their Terms of Service not to expand on that thought.

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:46 pm
by Saturnalia
I installed Google Ad-block for Google Chrome....no more ads!

My question is would that affect ad revenue?

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 7:13 pm
by 59caddy
MQT3001 wrote:I installed Google Ad-block for Google Chrome....no more ads!

My question is would that affect ad revenue?
It shouldn't, unless you were clicking on ads before you installed Ad-block. Google basically charges advertisers on a cost-per-click basis.

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 10:42 pm
by GreatLakesRailfan
~Z~ wrote:You guys are correct, the donations are not keeping up with server costs anymore. Thought it was a good idea to see how these ads would do. I'm also going to contact a number of railroad related companies to see if they are interested in displaying a banner on the site. As for the ads, never planning on any pop-ups, and I hope they remain very unintrusive. If you are interested in something that the ads shows.... well, I'm bound by their Terms of Service not to expand on that thought.

Other hobby sites do this. One I joined because of their N scale community foes this. It does put a little damper on discussing non-sponsor companies, especially if the non-sponsor has a particularly good deal or unique product offering.

Regardless, I hope it works out, Zack. Do you know yet what impact the ads will have on our behavior "guidelines"?

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 10:45 pm
by Saturnalia
MKT_fan11 wrote: Regardless, I hope it works out, Zack. Do you know yet what impact the ads will have on our behavior "guidelines"?
The ads have been online since 2010 :wink:

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 12:23 am
by brysonda
Thought this ad on the CSX location updates thread was amusing the other day:

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Relevant ad? by David M Bryson, on Flickr

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 6:51 am
by 59caddy
brysonda wrote:Thought this ad on the CSX location updates thread was amusing the other day:

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Relevant ad? by David M Bryson, on Flickr
Don't know about you, but I am seeing those all the time on here 8)

Re: Ads on Railroadfan?

Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:33 pm
by brysonda
Lately the ads have been trying to sell me a Dell. Quite unsuccessfully at that (have been using OSX for going on a decade, and iOS since its inception).

Of course, I can't remember ever clicking on an ad that wasn't for the explicit purpose of supporting something. I much prefer the direct donation for that though.