Eos Wrote:Despite having more traffic than ever, despite having a more active and thriving community than ever and higher even than many of the sites that used to be bigger than us, Southperry is making less revenue than almost since the day it opened.

After analyzing logs and researching traffic to try to come up with a reason for why/how this could be, it became evident that something is amiss.

In February Southperry had ~4 million pageviews within the actual forums themselves.
It had only 2.5m Ad impressions.

Considering there are 3 ads per page, logically there should be nearly 12m ad impressions. Even accounting for the people exempt from ads, ultra donators & moderators, there should still be well over 10m ads.

This discrepancy is alarming because ad revenue is what keeps this site going.
Blocking ads, or ignoring them, is almost second nature to most of us by now, but doing so here means you're contributing to the eventual demise of this site, because without the revenue from Ads Fiel doesn't get paid, and without that pay he can't afford to keep paying for a host for his extractions, let alone waste time trying to improve them and provide them to us.

I'm not asking you to click any ads you're not interested in, that would be click fraud and is absolutely the last thing we want, but we are asking you to White List ads on Southperry and at least give them a chance. Even if you never see anything that interests you just having them enabled counts incrementally towards our impressions, lets google see info about our subject material and who watches it and helps them better target ads that you and others might be more interested in and shows off how valuable of a traffic source we are.

Loose has helped create a banner to display for those of you who are blocking ads, to help remind you who's really being hurt by blocking them;



Hopefully some of you will see it, remember, and fix it.

It's a concept as old as time; If you really like us, show it by supporting us and helping us keep going.

Thank you for your time.

White Listing Tutorials

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Ad Block Plus

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Use chrome://settings/extensions as your URL and click on Options next to Ad Block Plus.
On the Whitelisted Domains tab add southperry.net

No Script

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According to the No Script entry on Wikipedia;



http://noscript.net/faq#qa8_10

Looks like this I believe;

Code:

# google-adsense rule
Site pagead2.googlesyndication.com *.googlesyndication.com
Accept from southperry.net *.southperry.net
Deny

Bremze Wrote:*Mercedes Benz car parts*
*Meet Foreign Men*
*Meet your dream man today*

As a straight male that doesn't have a car, I feel the adds might be slightly off the mark :f6:

Bremze Wrote:*Mercedes Benz car parts*
*Meet Foreign Men*
*Meet your dream man today*

As a straight male that doesn't have a car, I feel the adds might be slightly off the mark :f6:

Eos Wrote:Maybe Google is trying to out you to yourself.

Bremze Wrote:Eh, Google probably knows more about me than I do.

JoshKun Wrote:Well I honestly attempted to do as you ask, but I cannot figure out how to whitelist on firefox abp. I'm not super savvy with these things. I don't think one person will affect your revenue too much x:

Christopher Wrote:I re-enabled ads for sp on both our laptops. lolnoob.

JoshKun Wrote:Hey thanks

Eos Wrote:I find your line of questioning odd and mildly pointless considering it would've taken you less effort to view any page's source than to ask.

Anyone actually interested in those things should be competent enough to do their own research and make their own judgments.

In your case, uh, you're using their browser, so if you have trust issues they're oddly placed.

fwaggle Wrote:Funny you mention effort when it would have taken less effort on your part to just say "Google" (or more accurately, Doubleclick, as when you hinted at "Google" at first, I thought it was simply AdSense). ;D