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Re:My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden by bookofjoe on Thursday September 14, 2023 @09:06AM (#37508463)
I know exactly why. Back in the heyday of blogs, around 2010, I was SO fired up every day thinking today would be the day I'd strike it rich.

I placed a very small ad featuring my blog's URL in the back pages of The New Yorker: it cost $500 or so.

I figured you never know who might see it and visit.

For perspective: at peak popularity back then I got about 10,000 visitors/15,000 page views DAILY.

Nowadays I get an average of 500 page views daily.

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Re:My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden by Scoundreller on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:21AM (#37509470)
What impact did the ad have?
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Re:My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden by bookofjoe on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:39AM (#37509631)
None. Nada. Zero. Apart from making me $500 ($700 in today's $) poorer.
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Re:My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden by bookofjoe on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:56PM (#37513194)
So this discussion started me thinking about trying again, a simple classified ad like the one I placed in 2010, with just my blog's URL. Perhaps adding a QR code so peeps could easily have a look at my site with their phones.

I checked to see how much such an ad would cost:

>A simple 1-inch black-and-white classified style ad costs $6,066.

Pass.

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