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Don’t Be Alarmed!By Steve on Jul 8, 2009 - 11:37 pm
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Really Cute Asians now offers advertising slots, which are self-hosted (i.e. not through a third party ad provider). However, don’t be alarmed, the site will still have a minimalistic advertisement. For advertisers who are interested, you can view more details at the Advertise page. Due to minimalistic advertising, your ads will have a greater opportunity to be noticed. The top leaderboard has already been purchased, but other ad slots are available.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
The necessary evil of ads… if only dedicated hosting with unlimited bw grew on trees…
July 8th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
If only image compression technology was better
Then dedicated hosting would be cheaper
July 8th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I always knew this day will come. Gotta do what you gotta do.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:21 am
I think this will work Steve! The Visitor count is just going up like a bull run. Congrats!
July 9th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Don’t you guys host images on sites like photobucket or something? I mean those sites are made for times like this lol. And, I for one can not see adverts.
July 9th, 2009 at 10:18 am
@Bakahashi – I don’t like free image hosting services for several reasons
1. It would take forever to insert photos into posts, we have WordPress tools to make this process quick
2. I don’t think it looks professional to not use your own domain
3. You no longer have hotlink protection
4. I used to have Photobucket pro and they will delete some of your images sometimes
July 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Sad to hear if came to this, but I think it always does.
July 9th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Hmm, well I see where you’re coming from. But a lot of people have Adblock Plus these days, how exactly do adverts help you? Do outside companies pay you for having their adverts on your site?
July 9th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
A piece of advice;
Don’t put all banners in same folder like http://reallycuteasians.net/ads/*
It makes an easy block.
July 9th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
@Ma Jie Mao – it’s not thaaaat bad is it? Compared to other blogs out there I don’t think there’s much at all
@Bakahashi – yes, outside companies or webmasters pay me for ad space. When we need to eventually switch to dedicated servers, I need to have the budget available for $300USD+/month
@mko – thanks for the advice…I now have a better attempt to block regular expressions
July 9th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
It’s definitely not that bad. But please do us a favor and don’t ever become like concreteloop.com where I tried my best to keep up with them via Twitter (which they spammed the heck out of that I defollowed), RSS (which they spammed and not allow full postings), and their website where it’s hell to navigate and use because they pretty much implemented every type of ad you can ever imagined. Good luck!
July 10th, 2009 at 1:44 am
@mojaam – I’ve seen sites that have full page ads every time you navigate to a new page, ones where you have to scroll down a page before you see content (mass ads at the top), mass inline ads, URL stuff like linksbuck, and more. I’m not a fan of ads either, so I keep it to a minimum.
Blogspot blogs are notorious for mass ads…it’s dreadful
July 11th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
I understand the need for ads, but you might want to delineate them more. With the one I’m seeing for this post, it might be possible to confuse what site I’m really on. Perhaps you should add an “advertisement” notation around them.