1&1 Advertising…
Well I’m not a big believer in all the advertising that lives on the Internet; generally I don’t click through ads and I have Adblock Plus installed on my Firefox browser. But today I did add a little advertising / sponsorship logo to all my sites - a big change from where I’ve been before.
1&1, my web hosting company sent me a little email informing me they would pay me commissions on any hosting contracts that were generated from my ad and so I thought ‘what have I got to lose?’ I’m going to try it for a year and if it generates nothing then I can simply remove it and nothing is lost. After all, I have full control over my websites - I pay for everything and therefore I don’t have to display any sponsorship or logos that I don’t want to.
I’ll report back every few months whether it’s worth a ‘little guy like me’ to put up sponsorship on his site or not.
PS. It goes without saying that I actually endorse 1&1. They have been my hosting company for more than 4 years now and I have never reconsidered switching to anybody else. I manage a half dozen domains through them and even when I’ve switched packages from time to time (I started on MS servers and I now use Linux) everything has been completely flawless.
