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March 03, 2005

The Selling Out Begins

Following James's lead, I've decided to go commercial and put up some Google adwords on A Cry for Help. This is mostly so that I can afford some decent hosting and not have to deal with all sorts of outages and server errors (plus you won't have to hear me complain). I put them on the inner pages so my extremely strict front page design will remain unblemished. I hope no one minds too much.

Also, in anticipation of trying to make millions of adwords dollars, I revamped the file names of the individual posts, which is extremely important for getting search engine hits. If you run Movable Type, here's the page I used to guide me along.

And! I'm going over to php pages, which, if I'm feeling especially ambitious, could mean some cool new features for you guys (like an automated Q, perhaps? That one's for you, Jim).

So that's the purpose of all the server errors and testing posts you may have seen here lately. It looks like everything is square now. Let me know if you run into any problems, or just have general comments.

And if I start randomly posting about annuities or asbestos cancer lawyers, it's most likely because the ads that will appear on those pages pay me something ridiculous like $8 per click. (I'm just kidding, my posts won't change. But if you ever see one of those ads, give it a click!)

Posted by Bil at March 3, 2005 03:12 PM
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Oh, sure. Blame me for the ads!

Good luck with 'em.

Posted by: James at March 3, 2005 04:22 PM : Link this comment

Yes, political cover. Thanks! And sorry if I flooded anyone's feed readers with rebuilt posts.

Posted by: Bil at March 3, 2005 06:11 PM : Link this comment

How many times can i click on an ad? can I click on all of them so you get paid?

If this website goes under, where else will I get my information for up-and-coming Up and Atom releases?

Posted by: Joe at March 5, 2005 08:38 PM : Link this comment

Nice to be noted.

good luck w/ em... I hope you pay your bandwidth at the very least. I've never felt the need to go commercial but I suppose if the bandwidth hit was bigger, I'd consider it.

Posted by: Jim S at March 9, 2005 11:23 AM : Link this comment
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