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Hello,

I am writing to you as I've recently got approaches from two different online gambling websites asking if they could place links/ads to my website.
They also asked what I would charge them for placing their advert to my page.

Now, I've no idea about these things. Has any of you been approached by same sort of questions and what have you replied?

After all, it could be a little extra cash that would be coming my way. So in that way I would be up for it. But of course what I do not want is a big flashing betting advert on my site.

So, anyone whose had these sort of offers and has taken them on... what's your experiences on the subject and would you recommend it??

(the site they want to place links/ads is the www.googabuphotos.com)

Thanks for any help that you are able to give me on this..
 
They will just send you a banner that you have to have on your website and they will pay you each moth depending on how many hits they get from you.
 
Personally, I would not compromise the integrity of the site, yours is clean, simple and pro looking - why would you want flashing spammy banners on it? Online gambling ads consist of flashing spinny bright colourful crappy flash ads, the worst type of banner ad - spammy as it gets.

Avoid unless the financial reward is so great that it would be stupid not to. One thing I will say, these guys can afford to spend £30+ PER CLICK per goole visitor, so have very deep pockets.

Gary.
 
Hate advertising. Don't do it, you'll only make pennies anyway.....
 
I've had a few car insurance companies pay for an advert on various websites. I know my own page ranking will suffer a few places, but they were willing to pay £ 150 per advert which was enough to pay for the hosting for quite a while...

This was to boost their search engine ranking and was a one off payment and not a click through payment.
 
EdinburghGary said:
Personally, I would not compromise the integrity of the site, yours is clean, simple and pro looking - why would you want flashing spammy banners on it? Online gambling ads consist of flashing spinny bright colourful crappy flash ads, the worst type of banner ad - spammy as it gets.

Avoid unless the financial reward is so great that it would be stupid not to. One thing I will say, these guys can afford to spend £30+ PER CLICK per goole visitor, so have very deep pockets.

Gary.
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What he said :)
 
andrewc said:
I've had a few car insurance companies pay for an advert on various websites. I know my own page ranking will suffer a few places, but they were willing to pay £ 150 per advert which was enough to pay for the hosting for quite a while...

This was to boost their search engine ranking and was a one off payment and not a click through payment.
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You don't loose page rank by linking to other sites, the link itself is not considered. The text of the link, and the sheer number of links as a body of text can upset the balance of keyword weighting on your page, which DOES definately effect page rank...



For example, if you are targetting the keyword Car Insurance, and have a stable page rank, and then add say 20 links to car insurance companies, and every link contains the anchor text "Car Insurance" - the weight of the word will increase and you could destroy your positions, or you could make them better.

You do not loose any page rank when you give a link to someone though, I think you have a "bank of pagerank" which is distributed to people you link to, but that bank is not part of your actual page rank if that makes sense.

This was the case the last time I checked about a year ago...(google).

Gary.
 
You also might want to check your terms and conditions with clikpic - they might not allow off site adverts for some reason. Just a thought.
 
I personally wouldn't do it... It will cheapen your site and promotes a form of betting which devastates families around the world. I would rather put a nikon advert on my site than one for online gambling! ;)
 
Thanks for your views on this one.. decided not to go for it in the end.
It might be few extra £'s here and there.. but as you all pointed out. It would sort of cheapen the site and... in the end I didn't think it worth it.
After all, it is a site to show my photos.. not to go gambling.
 
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