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What would you say to membership only with zero Google ads or anything of the sort? I would eliminate any third party items that compromise privacy.

Note that I already eliminated the Facebook and Twitter links earlier tonight. I am personally through with these companies and don't want to subject anyone else to them.

My cost this year was about $8,000 with only marginal Google ad sales and Paypal donations.

I'm thinking that some or most content would be available for reading, but only membership will allow posting. With 32,000 unique visitors a month, it shouldn't be difficult to collect enough to pay expenses. I could also do a "pledge drive" type of format to make sure actual cost is covered.

If I could really boost the income, I could dedicate more resources to moving to increase efficiency. I have a design I'd like to move to that would dramatically reduce cost and increase performance, but it would take a significant amount of time to do myself.

Let me know what you think.

-Jarrod








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    Great site. "got a problem?" donate 20 bucks to ask for help. the knowledge here is the really great resource. maybe regular reminders to donate would work.








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    Have you raised advert prices? CPI rises rapidly and US monetary unit falls. When you reside in a modern world debt fiat currencies. Yet what I make for a living has barely risen correspondingly.

    Charging membership access will drive users to the free facebook Volvo groups, with the facebook ads. And facebook does not work with adblock and third-party cookies off. Facebook limits how many posts with links to Art's cleanflametrap or links to the Volvo 700-900 FAQ pages I point them to here if ad-block is on or third party cookies disabled.

    A pledge drive with a meter for as long as it takes to reach the goal for each time interval. Make it a persistent page? The amount counted as a percent, and not an amount. Maybe offer benefits? Yet your advert schema is hardly intrusive or resource demanding versus a big city daily newspaper web site.

    Charging a membership fee will drive activity down methinks.

    Maybe find more advertisers? Though Google ads is not very profitable or offers much margin, I guess? Yet I do not know how Google Ad Services works entirely.

    I'll continue to exhort them from facebook to here; the facebook echo chamber of nihilistic incomplete answers and misinformation. I though I was bad.

    Remember, I'm out of the job. 10 months engaged at 42 months total. In Spokane, before October 2015 when I stupidly returned to this dump named St. Louis, in 7.5 years, I was employed for three years about.
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