[consulting] Drupal.org advertising proposals requested

[Karthik]

On 29/05/07, Kieran Lal <kieran at civicspacelabs.org> wrote:
>
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> On 5/29/07, Karthik <narakasura at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > How does an affiliate link to a hosting provider not qualify as paid
> > > advertising?
> >
> > They are not paying us to place them on the page. They are paying us
> > because we are sending business their way. We do so because we believe
> > that they are compliant and sound. There's a difference, subtle as it
> > may be.
>
> To me, that is just straight up advertising.
>
> Based on my research, targeted advertising  is most effective as affiliate
> sales links. The big hosting companies are offering only affiliate links for
> paid advertising.  They aren't interested in image or text ads, because they
> aren't effective and they don't want to pay for click-fraud.

If it's any help, I'm specifically talking about each entry here:
http://drupal.org/services/hosting and not ads all over the place. It
can't get more targeted than that and does not involve text or image
ads as such. While the whole page could be considered one, I consider
it ethically digestible and a service to the community as long as the
entries are researched thoroughly. They currently are not.

-K