As you might imagine running a site like SatelliteGuys is an expensive undertaking. We keep growing and growing and are now approaching serving a HALF MILLION unique IP addresses a month!
As we keep growing and growing the site gets more and more expensive for us to operate. Because of the costs of running the site advertisements are a necessary evil for us to survive and continue to grow. And while the news media says that the economy is getting better we are not seeing that in the internet advertising trends. As the economy supposedly gets better our ad revenue continues to drop.
As you might have notice we have been working on our server to make SatelliteGuys load faster for you, and in this work we have also optimized all of our ads so that they no longer affect the loading speed of the SatelliteGuys content.
Because the ads no longer bog down your SatelliteGuys experience you might have noticed a nag popup on some of the pages here at SatelliteGuys if you have ad blocking software installed and enabled. We have tried to make this nag noticeable yet not annoying on your screen as we don’t want to drive anyone away from the site. We also understand why people use ad blocking software, I will be the first to admit I use ad blockers on sites that have popup ads and ads I find annoying.
We need your help to survive and continue growing.
How can you help?
1) If you are using a ad blocker please consider turning it off on SatelliteGuys, now that the external ads no longer slow down your SatelliteGuys experience the ads will no longer make you wait for the SatelliteGuys content to load. Many of our ads we are paid based on how many times an ad is displayed here. This type of advertising is called CPM advertising.
2) Another big help to us would be to visit some of the ads you might be interested in. Some of the ads that run on the site we do not get paid for unless someone clicks on the ad. This type of advertising is called COST PER CLICK (CPC) many of the Google ads and Syndicated ads are based on CPC. The majority of the CPC syndicated ads that run here at SatelliteGuys I hand pick because of the quality of the ad, the quality of the sponsor and the ad content. While I know which syndicated ads are CPC I cannot tell you which ones they are or which ones to click on. If you want to use an ad blocker please turn it off from time to time and visit some ads then turn it back on when you’re done helping out. That would be a great help to us!
3) Consider becoming a Supporting Pub Member, at only $19.99 a year as a Supporting Pub Member you see no ads except for the ones from our Gold Sponsors on the top of the page. As a Supporting Pub Member you get to see the real speed of our servers since there are no more calls to the server to ask for ads. As a Supporting Pub Member you also get many benefits including access to our Pub Members forum, a larger Private Message Box, the ability to use Animated Avatars, Access to post items for sale in our SatelliteGuys Classifieds forum, the ability to use our new SatelliteGuys Forum Spy feature, a special icon that shows your helping to keep the lights on here for everyone and the great feeling you get by knowing your support is helping America’s Favorite Satellite Information Site stay online! If you are interested in becoming a supporting SatelliteGuys member please CLICK HERE.
I should note that SatelliteGuys.US uses PayPal as our credit card processor, with that said I want to make it clear that you DO NOT need to be a member of PayPal to pay via PayPal. Even then if you would rather not use PayPal you can send a check or money order payable to SatelliteGuys.US to:
SatelliteGuys.US
46 Miami Avenue
Newington, CT 06111
Make sure to include your SatelliteGuys username with your check or money order so we can get you setup as a Supporting Pub Member!
It is my hope that with all the changes that we have made over the past week and with plea for help our ad revenue will shoot back up to where it should be. I don’t like ads myself but as I said in the beginning they are a necessary evil to keep the site running.
Please if you have learned anything or benefitted from SatelliteGuys in any way please consider helping out in one of the 3 ways listed above, it would be much appreciated!
Thank you for your support!
BTW I should note that I have ordered new CPU’s for our main web server which will take us from 2Ghz to 2.8Ghz. These CPU’s are shipping today overnight to our server facility in Dallas. We hope to have the new CPU’s online within the next 48 hours. That should help speed up things even more!
As we keep growing and growing the site gets more and more expensive for us to operate. Because of the costs of running the site advertisements are a necessary evil for us to survive and continue to grow. And while the news media says that the economy is getting better we are not seeing that in the internet advertising trends. As the economy supposedly gets better our ad revenue continues to drop.
As you might have notice we have been working on our server to make SatelliteGuys load faster for you, and in this work we have also optimized all of our ads so that they no longer affect the loading speed of the SatelliteGuys content.
Because the ads no longer bog down your SatelliteGuys experience you might have noticed a nag popup on some of the pages here at SatelliteGuys if you have ad blocking software installed and enabled. We have tried to make this nag noticeable yet not annoying on your screen as we don’t want to drive anyone away from the site. We also understand why people use ad blocking software, I will be the first to admit I use ad blockers on sites that have popup ads and ads I find annoying.
We need your help to survive and continue growing.
How can you help?
1) If you are using a ad blocker please consider turning it off on SatelliteGuys, now that the external ads no longer slow down your SatelliteGuys experience the ads will no longer make you wait for the SatelliteGuys content to load. Many of our ads we are paid based on how many times an ad is displayed here. This type of advertising is called CPM advertising.
2) Another big help to us would be to visit some of the ads you might be interested in. Some of the ads that run on the site we do not get paid for unless someone clicks on the ad. This type of advertising is called COST PER CLICK (CPC) many of the Google ads and Syndicated ads are based on CPC. The majority of the CPC syndicated ads that run here at SatelliteGuys I hand pick because of the quality of the ad, the quality of the sponsor and the ad content. While I know which syndicated ads are CPC I cannot tell you which ones they are or which ones to click on. If you want to use an ad blocker please turn it off from time to time and visit some ads then turn it back on when you’re done helping out. That would be a great help to us!
3) Consider becoming a Supporting Pub Member, at only $19.99 a year as a Supporting Pub Member you see no ads except for the ones from our Gold Sponsors on the top of the page. As a Supporting Pub Member you get to see the real speed of our servers since there are no more calls to the server to ask for ads. As a Supporting Pub Member you also get many benefits including access to our Pub Members forum, a larger Private Message Box, the ability to use Animated Avatars, Access to post items for sale in our SatelliteGuys Classifieds forum, the ability to use our new SatelliteGuys Forum Spy feature, a special icon that shows your helping to keep the lights on here for everyone and the great feeling you get by knowing your support is helping America’s Favorite Satellite Information Site stay online! If you are interested in becoming a supporting SatelliteGuys member please CLICK HERE.
I should note that SatelliteGuys.US uses PayPal as our credit card processor, with that said I want to make it clear that you DO NOT need to be a member of PayPal to pay via PayPal. Even then if you would rather not use PayPal you can send a check or money order payable to SatelliteGuys.US to:
SatelliteGuys.US
46 Miami Avenue
Newington, CT 06111
Make sure to include your SatelliteGuys username with your check or money order so we can get you setup as a Supporting Pub Member!
It is my hope that with all the changes that we have made over the past week and with plea for help our ad revenue will shoot back up to where it should be. I don’t like ads myself but as I said in the beginning they are a necessary evil to keep the site running.
Please if you have learned anything or benefitted from SatelliteGuys in any way please consider helping out in one of the 3 ways listed above, it would be much appreciated!
Thank you for your support!
BTW I should note that I have ordered new CPU’s for our main web server which will take us from 2Ghz to 2.8Ghz. These CPU’s are shipping today overnight to our server facility in Dallas. We hope to have the new CPU’s online within the next 48 hours. That should help speed up things even more!
