http://disqus.com/by/vikas/enThu, 29 Nov 2007 10:08:56 -0000https://disqus.com/home/discussion/chai-garam/making_chai_garam_self_sustaining/#comment-21789<p>a week is good enough for voting and since we have majority (relatively speaking) for the ads, I will setup a google adsense for 'chai-garam'</p>vikasThu, 29 Nov 2007 10:08:56 -0000https://disqus.com/home/discussion/chai-garam/making_chai_garam_self_sustaining/#comment-16445<p>A good cause and pizza party sounds like great ideas :)</p><p>Tracking the clicks/posts will be kind of difficult at the moment, considering that usually there is relatively heavy traffic every time we make a post, irrespective of the content which dies down in a day or two, but its something to keep in mind if we become famous :)</p><p>PS<br>Mardav's comment : ..... why not have some Google Ads on the blog while we’re at it…I know they clutter the place and I hate them too but as they say its not wrong to make some hay while we have a little sunshine :)</p><p>Reply to Mardav : That was the initial plan, to make 'chai-garam' self sustaining, and hopefully reap some benefits for everyone (those with active participation - atleast &gt;1 post at the moment). It is still something that should be implemented in the future if we have enough material i.e. posts/day.</p><p>Briefly we had an amazon referral program activated, it links to products based on the words used in posts... like if I have a title of a book in my post and it matches amazon book list it is hyperlinked by amazon plugin and if someone buys the book following that link we get a cut!</p><p>Reason why I removed that and don't have google adsense.<br>We have 5800+ pageviews (2200+ unique pageviews) since April 2007, with google adsense, we would have got less than a dollar, we didn't (imo still don't) have enough content to keep the reader on the page.</p><p>If we get down to having anything &gt;/=1 post/day it will help. Everytime we post, popular blog search engines/rss feeders (like technorati, bloglines) are pinged and users know that there has been an activity on the blog and we get more hits.</p>vikasTue, 20 Nov 2007 16:36:38 -0000