Got an email proposal from England today.

Post #391,454 by Andrew Grygus 7/3/14 8:20:01 PM Reply	Got an email proposal from England today. The guy said that my clovegarden.com site was under-performing, because it needs unique and topical content, which his staff of university trained writers could provide (for a price, of course). So, that must be the reason why in June clovegarden got only a little more than 85,757,000 page views. Maybe I'd better call this guy, huh? Interestingly, there was a lot of interest in pork bungs in June. Tracked it down to a blog discussing the use by restaurants of slices of pork bung, breaded and deep fried, as a cheaper substitute for calamari rings.
Post #391,455 by a6l6e6x 7/3/14 8:25:40 PM Reply	Yeah! You could double your site's profits. :) Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #391,460 by Andrew Grygus 7/3/14 9:16:10 PM Reply	Maybe I could work out a profit sharing deal with them. Double, even triple, or ten times 0 is still a very small number - wouldn't hurt my bank account at all.
Post #391,465 by a6l6e6x 7/4/14 1:02:57 AM Reply	That's what I figured. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #391,456 by Another Scott 7/3/14 8:30:52 PM Reply	Big numbers! Congratulations!
Post #391,463 by drook 7/3/14 11:01:56 PM Reply	[boggle] You could be making $40k/mo with AdSense. -- Drew
Post #391,483 by jake123 7/4/14 10:37:33 AM Reply	Good god 85 million+? As much as I enjoy the ad-free nature of the site, you really should monetize that. Even if only to cover the bandwidth bills you must be paying.
Post #391,486 by Andrew Grygus 7/4/14 11:08:38 AM Reply	OMG! Big Typo . . . This is what happens if you're trying to pay attention to three things at once - that should have ben 85 thousand not 85 million.
Post #391,487 by Another Scott 7/4/14 11:15:01 AM Reply	rofl. :-D
Post #391,488 by a6l6e6x 7/4/14 11:24:51 AM Reply	What's 3 orders of magnitude among friends? :) Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #391,493 by drook 7/4/14 11:40:54 AM Reply	Well ok then AdSense would cover your bandwidth then, but not much more. -- Drew
Post #391,510 by Andrew Grygus 7/4/14 2:06:52 PM Reply	Bandwidth comes out of petty cash. The whole hosting service costs US $44 per year, bandwidth is buried in there somewhere. I'm very conscious of file sizes and other factors, and use no html generators, all for maximum performance, so the whole site, 13,000 files, occupies less than 300 Megs on the server. This also keeps bandwidth low. Since I'm paying for some number of Gigs of storage, and bandwidth to match, I'm nowhere near maxed out.
Post #391,559 by Ashton 7/5/14 5:48:21 AM Reply	Yours is a labour of love but the result, via your meticulous and bully research (while, amazingly--your not weighing 325# !!)--were it done by usual staffs and billed accordingly: well, you know. So many utter-Crap sites bring-in $n000/month, that (while it's none of my fucking-business, whatsoever) ... some (busybody little- *"i"* in the jelloware?) Hates It that such an excellent repository earns-not that Respect--which capitalism aways Does 'monetate'. (But then, maybe that-i has its own ulterior motives?) Were you raking in enough to get a new Porsche (which you wouldn't likely 'get' anyway--am i right, Sir?) I could hit you up for, say ... some unemployed-Cat's vet bill? periodically ;^> As Walt Whitman observed, I contain multitudes! {sigh} Er, never mind.. on seeing what those white-coated-ones charge, just for anesthesia.. you might very well have just sent along a recipe for Cat-kebab á lá Russe.
Post #391,562 by drook 7/5/14 8:57:25 AM Reply	He's said before, cat works in rabbit recipes -- Drew
Post #391,586 by Ashton 7/5/14 5:54:46 PM Reply	(I refuse even to contemplate.. if he's ever Done That.) Nor do I wish ever to Know--either. way. The mere thought is the Deed, as in ... possession of the blueprint? for the 50 MegaTon Tsar Bomb. :-/

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