Pixel Add Menu
It takes up a little space but it is needed for Draw-N-Paint to continue to give free grid drawing patterns to newsletter subscribers. In the left column of the main page is a new add menu bar. Advertisers can buy one pixel for twenty five cents each. I found from signing up to a top affiliate site that it just doesn’t bring in the monies to pay for web hosting, programming and other Internet fees. Oh yes, I could do a lot of things to drive web traffic to my site and make the adds work. But I would rather not do that. I’d rather bring to my site people who are interested in my site’s content or subject. If your not interested in drawing and painting, why are you here?
I remember seeing a statement on a well known art site near one affiliate add that said, “Please support our sponsors.” I’ve got to ask the question, why place something on a site that visitors are not interested in and then beg them to go some where and buy something they don’t want? And then these adds are just taking up web space that could be used for what visitors do want. A web site becomes like a newspaper. When you cut out all the add stuff your not interested in what do you have left over?
A concept that many other web sites have done is to sell pixel space. This add menu is not a whole web page of pixel adds like some other sites but just a side bar menu. Two things it accomplishes from the start. I can customize the design of the add menu to my site and I gain more control of which sites in the add bar are relevant to my web site. Each pixel add is hard linked to the advertiser’s web site and more important is my visitors see advertiser adds they are more likely to be interested in. It’s some what like Google adds. I like Google adds because they contain material people are interested in and that’s what people are clicking on to learn more about, that is artist drawing and painting. It’s the bringing together of two concepts.