I took ads off my website in favor of Bitcoin donations
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Still early days, but does appear to be somewhat lacklustre in donations.
May be a case of offering banner ad's and the option to not have them if you donate and thus get the best of both worlds with the incentive to donate giving a clear result/return over the warm fuzzy feeling.
I will be interested in how it goes after 40 days and with that catch the monethly pay-day cycle of the audience as like many, it is a factor.
Personaly I do not have any bitcoins nor ever had a paypal account, and with that I've always mindful of banner ads and do make the effort to click and explore the adverts on sites. Well elast the non introsive ones that do not splurge you with video's and audio, but thats just my personal taste on a low bandwith network connection.
I do hope that the site gets that balance right without jepodising revenue/running costs. Brave move and have to respect that.
I'm excited to see what happens in the next 10 days, let alone 40 days.
The reason why I've opted for showing no banner ads is because I don't think that the sharing of information should be diluted with outside influences. I have made plenty of money with banner ads in the past and I know with the right audience and the right amount of traffic you can make a killing. But, that's why I'm doing this site. I'm doing it for my love of science and the cosmos.
Thanks again.
That's fine, but the conclusions won't generalize to blogs in general.