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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

help with an ad...

Glenn Bartley

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Rich,

I'd like to buy banner ad space for the month of September, for my herp societies upcoming show (Oct. 4th). I have never done anything like this before, so I have no clue how to go about it. Sure I understand how to pay for it through paypal, that is not the problem. The problem is how in Hades do I make up an ad, then get it to you in a format that will fit in the space I have rented. I would want an ad for the side of the screen. I currently have MS Publisher 98 that I could work with but I don't have a clue what format to save it in. I am open to suggestions.

I'd also like to know if it is possible to have the ad run from Sept. 5 through October 4 - instead of for the calendar month of September (if not ok - just asking).

Thanks,
Glenn B

p.s.: posted this here instead of emailing because I figured it might help others....
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Actually, when in doubt, hire a professional. :)

I have a lot of my work done by Lacey Wilson of Feral Design, and so do a few people here with their banner ads running. She does an excellent job. She also designed the flyer for FaunaClassifieds that I think you may have seen as well.

Feral Design

Normally Lacey will just forward the banner to me directly, and as long as payment has been made, I just set up the banner account and you are off and running. I would run it from September 1 thru October 4th for you. A few days either way isn't going to make much difference to me at all.

If you want to roll your own, then check out this page for the specs you will need to know:

Advertising Page

As long as your graphics program you are using will output in either JPG or GIF (which most of them will) you will simply save it in one of those two formats, then attach that file to an email to me, or attach and upload it here to a message and let me know about it. I will take it from there.

Any further questions?
 
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