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Just a thought: I might consider a different monetization strategy than AdSense. The ads really look awful and make the site seem significantly less 'quality' t
by jessepollak 14y ago
Just a thought: I might consider a different monetization strategy than AdSense. The ads really look awful and make the site seem significantly less 'quality' than it actually is.
I might experiment with some sort of freemium model; maybe for free you could get the first half of sections for every chapter and then you can pay ~$5 to get access to everything.
Or, as someone above mentioned, compile it into an ebook and have that advertised on the site for ~$10, but make the entire website free.
- AlexMuir 14y agoYou are right, the ads look absolutely shit - I could perhaps go with Buysellads when traffic picks up. Interesting idea - I'm a huge admirer of things that follow that model - Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial and Avdi Grimm's Object's On Rails. I am hoping that people fixing cars are more transactional (read likely to click an ad) than people looking for coding tutorials. I might leave it as ads for six months and then try six months of freemium access and compare the two.
- jessepollak 14y agoI like the idea of A/B testing the ad v. freemium models, but make sure to take into account the growth in traffic that will happen in the first 6 months etc.