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riccostar:
While perusing the intertubes earlier I had an idea that could help Jeph out a little bit.  Often times the advert companies pay not just to host their ads on a site but also pay for the number of times visitors to the site click on the ads.  I'm not exactly sure what the money arrangement was for the ads but we could probably help out Jeph a little if we just clicked on an ad every few visits or so.

pwhodges:
Buying one thing from the store would very likely get him more than the number of ad clicks you could bear to do; but if that's what you want, fine.  I suspect the ad companies don't pay for placement at all, but only for clicks - but what would I know?

mustang6172:
As I understand, Project Wonderful pays by time rather than by clicks.

cam94509:

--- Quote from: riccostar on 17 Nov 2012, 21:36 ---While perusing the intertubes earlier I had an idea that could help Jeph out a little bit.  Often times the advert companies pay not just to host their ads on a site but also pay for the number of times visitors to the site click on the ads.  I'm not exactly sure what the money arrangement was for the ads but we could probably help out Jeph a little if we just clicked on an ad every few visits or so.

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No. Never, ever, ever, ever click ads in this manner. While project wonderful doesn't pay based on clicks, so you are fine, if you do this with Google Adsense (or any other CPC (cost per click), I just talk about Adsense because I know a thing or two about it) ads, you could literally lose the person whose ads you are click on the ability to use Google Adsense if they don't notice their CTR (click-through-rate) being absurdly high, and even if they do, they pretty much have to remove the ads until the problem goes away. It's O.K to click on an ad to figure out where it goes or because you are legitimately interested, but don't click ads just to get the person whose site is hosting those ads extra money. You could well be doing more harm than good.

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