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I owe you a bit now that my first Google payment has come in, by the way.

Comicspace isn't nearly as expensive now as it was two weeks ago.

Acid Reflux had Crystal Ball cafes.

The simple pronunciation is adequate.

That's just a matter of priorities, really.

When I started out, I did a year, but lately I've been keeping the ad periods shorter - a week to a month. Ads typically have diminishing returns over time, and my wallet isn't bottomless either. Also, I'm still not quite sure what exactly I'll have on my website in a months' time.

Well, here's a first. I just rejected a Project Wonderful ad and banned the advertiser. It's easy to do. Italian lotteries, be gone!

I can steal it back. Got a couple of $ 0 ads going right now...

Well, that does resolve the issue of whether I should put in a new bid on the Sore Thumbs site. At least I should be able to take Hellbound by this time next week.

I'm hemorrhaging money! But the ads do work. I'm getting much-improved pageviews on my archives in particular, even with the rather awkward shift to White House in Orbit that's going on right now. I think I'm going to shoot for the moon and try to become one of the bigger sites, pageview-wise, within the PW network. That would make my ads even more of a bargain at current rates than they already are!

I wonder how I'm doing within Xepher.net. I don't know if the big all-XN pageview overview page still exists, but if it does, I couldn't find it. Xepher, am I Pwning Amber yet?

Well, one more top-up for my funds, one more round of the standard ROCR buttons, and on Sunday, there'll be changes!

I'm still working on the changes to the site. May be a little while before I get around to putting up new button ads. Sorry.

I'm taking a short break from advertising (I've simply let my funds run out) to evaluate, see how much lasting difference my ads have made and how far my numbers will drop back without any further advertising (preliminary answer: quite far). I'll top up my funds in a few days, but I just might wait before bidding on new ads until after the weekend, because there's a change on the way in the ROCR site that just might affect how I promote it for several months to come. We'll see.

It does look like a drop in visibility results in  a drop in ad bids quite quickly. I still think my ads are undervalued, but that might just be my ego talking.

Maybe you need to prod Ryan North a bit. That sometimes happens.

Because Xepher will ask about this eventually:
My PW ads are doing about as well as I could reasonably expect. I think they're still somewhat undervalued compared to other ad blocks that rake in the same number of page views, but meh. There's probably a reason that I haven't figured out yet. It's in the ballpark with other 10,000 pageviews/day sites.

However, I spend much more through PW than I earn - which is one of the reasons the ROCR comics now get 10,000 pageviews a day. Whether this is worth it, financially at least, really depends on how the google ads are doing. I don't know until I either get the home PC working again, which I don't want to spend too much time on right now, or until Google sends me their next payout. It's unlikely to be big money anyway.

For my ego, on the other hand, having more than 10,000 pageviews (on the comics archive - the blog is not counted in this) is doing me a lot of good.

Now that is very useful information - especially if it means the supplier shafted me with a POS motherboard! Thanks.

I'm not afraid of destructive rescue techniques, as long as I can get to my data first. I'll open up my PCs innards in a couple of days and see what I can do.