With the current "If it's not free don't bother" attitude that is rampant on the net, Ads are the only sensible way I can see. Yeah, they're ugly and make you look like you sold out, but there's no reason you should personally fund such a project unless you've got money to burn.
You could try lightly littering the lists of auction items with links to affiliates but I don't know of anybody who's made much money this way except maybe the people you'll affiliate with.
I've been using an Internet Ad agency, called amazing media that seem reasonably leanient towards clickthroughs and page views. You obviously get more money for higher clickthoughs but a low amount still pays something. Also a low pageview rate is acceptable, I signed up with about 3000 pageviews PCM. My reason for doing it was that if everybody else was making money out of ads why can't I.
I haven't recieved a single cent yet so maybe it's all a load of Fetid Dingo's Kidneys, and I've wasted my time.
It's been a long time since I did any thorough research into this so I'm sure that by now there are plenty of similar and better offers out there, but I just haven't been bothered to look.
Also there is webwasher. a windows based proxy that filters banner ads of varying sizes, annoying pop-up javascript windows, animated images and strips out any Referer info your browser tries to send.
Oh yeah, it's free non-commercially!
so if you're a windozer or you have windows running on a box near you, check it out. Version 2.0 should be available soon.
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You could try lightly littering the lists of auction items with links to affiliates but I don't know of anybody who's made much money this way except maybe the people you'll affiliate with.
I've been using an Internet Ad agency, called amazing media that seem reasonably leanient towards clickthroughs and page views. You obviously get more money for higher clickthoughs but a low amount still pays something. Also a low pageview rate is acceptable, I signed up with about 3000 pageviews PCM. My reason for doing it was that if everybody else was making money out of ads why can't I.
I haven't recieved a single cent yet so maybe it's all a load of Fetid Dingo's Kidneys, and I've wasted my time.
It's been a long time since I did any thorough research into this so I'm sure that by now there are plenty of similar and better offers out there, but I just haven't been bothered to look.
I have a Sony Camcorder, model number escapes me at the moment, which has video inputs through an SVHS cable as well as the old coax.
Copying ANY macrovision encoded VHS/DVD on to a Hi8 tape shows no ill effects and the picture quality is very much superior to VHS.
You can then get a very good second generation copy from this onto VHS.
I used it to take some movies with me on a vacation to France.
You can't take a DVD player with you, you can take a mini TV and you are already taking your camcorder, so why not?
a windows based proxy that filters banner ads of varying sizes, annoying pop-up javascript windows, animated images and strips out any Referer info your browser tries to send.
Oh yeah, it's free non-commercially!
so if you're a windozer or you have windows running on a box near you, check it out. Version 2.0 should be available soon.