<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Khalid Baheyeldin</b> <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I think one way to start this is to offer Google Adsense on <a href="http://Drupal.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Drupal.org</a>.<br>Google text ads are not intrusive and clearly marked as ads.
<br>Companies interested in advertising can click "advertise on this site"
<br>and Google automatically handles the back end for the Association.<br clear="all"><br>This can be done for an experimental period (e.g. 2 months) and then<br>reevaluated.<br><br>This serves the main goals of this experiment: expose service providers
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to visitors, and raise money for the association.<br>
<br>It also relieves the Association from the decisions on what ads to run,<br>and all the potential complaints about that. It will be Google's algorithms<br>that are deciding what ads to run in an auction style ad system.
<br><br>Still the downside, whichever way we do it, is that big shops with big<br>bucks can drown out the smaller shops who do not have a large advertising<br>budget.<br><br>The Google Adsense module can be used for this. It offers blocks of
<br>different sizes/channels, and blocks can be made to appear on certain<br>paths only if needed.</blockquote><div><br>If you can wrap this up in a nice proposal that would help.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Kieran<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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