jeremy@spotanime.com (Jeremy Rutz) wrote in message news:<6a424f5f.0212110612.1cafabca@posting.google.com>...
> Wow, I ask for feedback and get brutally honest criticism...but that's
> okay, it's a valid point.

Well, I assumed that's what you wanted.


> The reason there are so many advertisements on the page isn't because
> I'm trying to make a buck. It's because I wanted the site to look
> professional to anime companies.

Littering your website with 15 advertisements on its front page does
not make it look professional. I suggest you stop listening to whoever
told you otherwise.


> If they see their product can be sufficiently promoted on my site, they
> may be more inclined to provide my site with banner ads for upcoming
> releases and stuff.

Oh yeah, man, I'm sure the ad execs will be all like, "That
SpotAnime.com guy--you know, the new one with virtually no
visitors--has 15 banner ads on his page. Let's totally buy all of them
out before ADVision gets them." After which, they will be promptly
fired for being complete morons.


> That'a also why I made a direct link to an e-tailer for each review
> posted, because when companies see that they know there's a sell-through
> opportunity.

Yes, a link to an affiliate where people can buy stuff you review is a
good idea,  but don't kid yourself into thinking these "e-tailers"
will specifically seek you out and do, well, I guess I don't know what
you expect them to do. o_O


> Believe me, if I ever make a dime from that site it will
> just go back into it, either for review material or contests and
> stuff.

You're missing my point. Best I can tell, you have no visitors at the
moment.  You can't expect to just start a website and automatically
make money off it. Until you have a fair amount of visitors, don't
even both with any advertising right now. It's not doing you any good,
and it's certainly not attracting any new visitors.


> Admittedly I signed up for all the affilate programs in advance of
> content because I had just launched it and was parading my site at
> AXNY this year to the various companies on hand. The site looked
> pretty bare at the time, because a) I'm not creatively inclined to
> make graphics for the site.

Adverisements don't cover that fact up, they accentuate it.


> b) I wanted to see what my monthly bandwidth levels would look like
> before I started sending graphics down the pipeline.

I can assure you the biggest drain on your bandwidth right now is
those huge banner ads.


> - I've got a large limit through my hosting company,
> but since this is my first stab at running a web site I needed to test
> the waters. So putting the ads on the page was a way to color it up
> and and make it professional-looking at the same time.

I might as well say you're getting ripped off on hosting.
Tera-Byte.com (I've been using them for two years now without any
major problems) has a 400 MB hosting plan with 25 GB transfer for just
under $157/year with all the features you could possible need.

But I digress... The bottom line is that you should be working right
now on writing some content for your website and getting the word out
about it. You don't need banner ads right now. The only thing you
could need less at this moment is a popup or two, which I *hope* you
don't have on your page, but since Mozilla would have blocked them
anyway, I can only assume. o_O

-Nogana Naishi
http://www.cardcaptors-uncensored.com/