Paul, it's prolly me who should apologize to you. I must admit that your post struck me as a bit offensive but it's likely more my issue than yours. You do it right on the web, I should try and make some cash from my sites too but I'm still quite new to the whole webmaster experience so I'm not up on all the latest tips. I also receive an average of 1500 - 2000 page views per day, I don't think that there's more than 100 or 200 that are from non-members or new IP's. I still don't receive tons of traffic so any campain I put up there isn't going to yeild me much in the way of funds.

My other problem (and biggest one) is you will never, ever, ever, see a scrolling marquee or one of those mouseover .wav files on my site. That also goes for popups and popunders. I absolutely loathe obtrusive advertising and will go broke before using it. Any cash I make will have to be from re-seller programs that are all clearly advertised in an online shopping module or other page with it's own content that the user will have to browse to. Maybe I can load that page up with all the ads in the world but for average websurfing of a typical dynamic webpage with news, reviews, forums, image galleries, etc., I will not add that type of advertising.

To make a long story short, I'm here to learn about optimizing my site and receiving the best PR, the best rating possible in my search categories and getting the most traffic on my sites as possible. I'm hoping this will start bringing in money eventually but I'm not going to worry myself over it. Yes I would like to make cash, and will eventually I'm sure, but not at the risk of compromising my morals or inconveniencing my members in the process.

Any tips you all have for me on my site are all more than welcome. You are all a great bunch of folks with a wealth of knowledge and I'm happy to be a member here.

Sincerely,

Ken