This thread is just about sausages

[Dan]

Now I have your attention (we're not really meant to draw attention to ads, let alone tell people to ad-block, so excuse the title of the thread) I just wanted to say that we're ad-heavy at the moment while we wait for shops to open and advertisers to start advertising online again. Online advertising revenue dropped instantly in Feb/March and still hasn't really come back up much. Lost around 75% of monthly income.

On the flipside, if you advertise online right now, it's really bloody cheap and you'll get loads of visitors for a couple of pence per click whether it's on Facebook, Twitter or Google. All have dropped.

Anyway, due to this, we've had to go ad-heavy across all our forums. Whether logged in or out. It'll change eventually but I doubt it'll be this side of Christmas.

So with that in mind, any of you reading this, and anybody you speak to who's a member on here (or not and just a visitor) - please feel free to activate ad-blockers on our sites.

If you're the type of person who doesn't click the ads anyway, it actually loses us revenue by you viewing them. So it's okay to activate ad-blockers.

Spread the word.

Cheers.

(p.s. feel free to subscribe though, that also removes all ads https://www.tilersforums.com/account/upgrades )

 

[Keefy]

Dan, if I click on an ad does it create a bit of revenue which you can spend on keeping the website going? I've owned and run six websites/forums (not these days) which were ad free as I was able to afford them via other means but have been told by other webmasters that they were getting something like a penny-a-click which gave them around £1,000 a month. These were high individual visitor sites as well as thousands of regulars so I probably missed a trick there.

What I'm asking is; if I follow an ad link does it create revenue which is helpful for the upkeep of the site? If that's the case then it'd be no problem for me to click on four or five each time I visit. I used to offer access/membership to the equivelent of The Plumbers Arms for £5 lifetime access and all of those PayPal payments went on much needed bandwidth.

In short... would you like us to click on a few advert links now and again?😊