Sorry to hear that Costello. I am actually quite surprised the paypal end run stuff actually worked both in terms of there not being a suitable alternative to paypal and it having an effect in the first place but hey.
Do what? Granted I do not imagine Costello and co have as much fine grain control as they did with the banners and interstitial stuff hosted on site but the chances of here becoming a malware installer filled site is rather more than slim than most places.
Web advertising is more boring and convoluted than I care to explain (read I can just about scratch the surface) but the basics for click through is usually something along the lines of you get paid for impressions (not a lot), click throughs (more) and on some systems a cut of something if someone ends up buying something (somewhat more). On top of that there is usually some "we will pay you when you get enough from it". There is an awful lot more to it ( http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/05/security_incent.html being an example of it getting weird) with various ad networks, contracts, middlemen and more if you want to try doing it for real as well*.
*before someone says something signing up for google ads makes you as much an earner from ads as installing wordpress on shared hosting makes you a web developer but both can get something done so carry on if it works for you.
As much as I hate ads I really like gbatemp so I whitelisted it on my adblocker, Its the least I can do.
Enjoy having to wipe and reinstall everything on your computer monthly.
Do what? Granted I do not imagine Costello and co have as much fine grain control as they did with the banners and interstitial stuff hosted on site but the chances of here becoming a malware installer filled site is rather more than slim than most places.
Internet hosting noob here:
Pa- per-click advertising? Does that mean you only receive payment if one of the advertised links is actually clicked on?
Web advertising is more boring and convoluted than I care to explain (read I can just about scratch the surface) but the basics for click through is usually something along the lines of you get paid for impressions (not a lot), click throughs (more) and on some systems a cut of something if someone ends up buying something (somewhat more). On top of that there is usually some "we will pay you when you get enough from it". There is an awful lot more to it ( http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/05/security_incent.html being an example of it getting weird) with various ad networks, contracts, middlemen and more if you want to try doing it for real as well*.
*before someone says something signing up for google ads makes you as much an earner from ads as installing wordpress on shared hosting makes you a web developer but both can get something done so carry on if it works for you.