[consulting] Drupal.org advertising proposals requested

[Kieran Lal]

On 5/26/07, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
> I think one way to start this is to offer Google Adsense on Drupal.org.
> Google text ads are not intrusive and clearly marked as ads.
> Companies interested in advertising can click "advertise on this site"
> and Google automatically handles the back end for the Association.
>
> This can be done for an experimental period (e.g. 2 months) and then
> reevaluated.
>
> This serves the main goals of this experiment: expose service providers
> to visitors, and raise money for the association.
>
> It also relieves the Association from the decisions on what ads to run,
> and all the potential complaints about that. It will be Google's
> algorithms
> that are deciding what ads to run in an auction style ad system.
>
> Still the downside, whichever way we do it, is that big shops with big
> bucks can drown out the smaller shops who do not have a large advertising
> budget.
>
> The Google Adsense module can be used for this. It offers blocks of
> different sizes/channels, and blocks can be made to appear on certain
> paths only if needed.


If you can wrap this up in a nice proposal that would help.

Cheers,
Kieran


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