Today, a treat for those of you who may be interested in money, statistics, or the inner working of a fan website. Ads were added to Boosterrific one month ago yesterday, and the totals are in. In a month of whoring ourselves out Booster Gold style, we've earned... $1.08. Ads on Boosterrific are brought to you by Google, and Google won't even consider this an actual revenue-generating website until it has acquired $10 in credit. At the present rate, that's November 2010. However, Google won't actually cut a check until we've acquired $100 in credit. At the present rate, that's not until May 2018. So mark your calendars: come 2018, we'll be partying like it's 1999.
Phil posted on Feb. 27, 2010 at 1:49 AM
I just stumbled upon this site today, it's awesome. Definitely bookmark worthy for any booster gold fan. Keep up the good work
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 27, 2010 at 2:51 PM
Thanks, Phil.
Harry posted on Feb. 27, 2010 at 5:57 PM
Welcome to the site Phil. I used (still use) it to fill in my period of Booster knowledge gap (1991 - 2005). Very helpful.
What determines if you get ad revenue Boosterrific?
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 27, 2010 at 8:35 PM
With Google Adsense the ad space here at Boosterrific is available for auction to the highest bidder via Google's Adwords program. So someone who thought that visitors to Boosterrific would make viable advertising targets would pay Google their bid price each time a visitor to Boosterrific clicked on an ad to travel to the advertiser's website. In theory Google would then kickback a percentage of that bid price to Boosterrific. So we make money when a lot of people come to Boosterrific and then click ads to travel to other people's websites.
The Amazon ads around the site are different. A visitor has to actually click the ad and then buy a product from Amazon for Amazon to offer any kickback. We've hosted Amazon ads for over a year with zero activity: some clicks, but nothing that has apparently lead directly to a purchase.
Ideally, the site should be partnered with comic book store advertisers, so that visitors could turn around and buy comic books that they see on the site. But Boosterrific doesn't yet generate the kind of traffic necessary to attract that kind of advertising. (Hence the implementation of the blog and comments in the hopes of luring more steady return visitors. Boosterrific.com: the slow path to world domination paying our bills one click at a time.)
Harry posted on Feb. 27, 2010 at 9:58 PM
I will make an effort to use the ad links then.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 28, 2010 at 1:20 AM
Be careful, Harry, or you'll ruin the timetable for our party!
tiggerpete posted on Feb. 28, 2010 at 1:29 AM
there are definitely some comics on here I don't have and would like to get, so links to comic sellers would be perfect, I would definitely be interested in that if it were available (plus I like this site, and would like to keep it going)
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 28, 2010 at 2:57 AM
Back when I was young, supporting the things that you liked was the American (i.e. Capitalist) way to keep a business alive. These days, maybe I should mismanage this site into the ground and wait for a bailout. Don't worry, tiggerpete, I'm not planning on going anywhere. I didn't work my way up to become one of the world's foremost authorities on Booster Gold for nothing! (Apparently, I did it for $1.08!)
