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It seems today's the day...
Jun. 25th, 2009 08:58 pm...I take advice from people.
Not only have I added a comment system back onto my story sites, but I've decided to split up the ad boxes. Ever since I unified the layouts on my story sites, I've also shared the ad boxes among them. It seemed like a good way to give advertisers a little extra value for their money.
But now that the "little" stories are getting updated more often, it seems like they might be worth their own slots, and while I love the people who read every single thing I put out, the individual stories are different enough that they may attract different audiences as they come into their own.
Also, the stories have varying levels of "safe-for-workness". As was pointed out to me, having a graphic gay fantasy comic at the top of 3 Seas might turn some people off from it. Actually, I'm not sure I want that particular ad even running on Tales of MU. As un-work-safe as TOMU can be, text is fairly innocuous to a casual glance, whereas graphics are... graphic. I'll be thinking about it. It's not the comic being advertised that's the problem... it's the fact that the ad includes things that require a censor dot.
Anyway, if you're one of the people reading this blog who has a crafty site or a comic site or a serial site, you can get yourself some deep discount advertising by being one of the first people to place ads on Star Harbor Nights or The 3 Seas. Note that 3 Seas in particular is getting a lot of extra hits as I'm advertising it in a few places. I've also removed the Google ads from those sites... I keep flirting with Google, but I'm never happy with the results and I'd rather that my Project Wonderful advertisers get more prominent placement.
I'll be doing the same to Void Dogs and Tribe: Fantasy In Miniature tomorrow or Saturday.
Not only have I added a comment system back onto my story sites, but I've decided to split up the ad boxes. Ever since I unified the layouts on my story sites, I've also shared the ad boxes among them. It seemed like a good way to give advertisers a little extra value for their money.
But now that the "little" stories are getting updated more often, it seems like they might be worth their own slots, and while I love the people who read every single thing I put out, the individual stories are different enough that they may attract different audiences as they come into their own.
Also, the stories have varying levels of "safe-for-workness". As was pointed out to me, having a graphic gay fantasy comic at the top of 3 Seas might turn some people off from it. Actually, I'm not sure I want that particular ad even running on Tales of MU. As un-work-safe as TOMU can be, text is fairly innocuous to a casual glance, whereas graphics are... graphic. I'll be thinking about it. It's not the comic being advertised that's the problem... it's the fact that the ad includes things that require a censor dot.
Anyway, if you're one of the people reading this blog who has a crafty site or a comic site or a serial site, you can get yourself some deep discount advertising by being one of the first people to place ads on Star Harbor Nights or The 3 Seas. Note that 3 Seas in particular is getting a lot of extra hits as I'm advertising it in a few places. I've also removed the Google ads from those sites... I keep flirting with Google, but I'm never happy with the results and I'd rather that my Project Wonderful advertisers get more prominent placement.
I'll be doing the same to Void Dogs and Tribe: Fantasy In Miniature tomorrow or Saturday.
