2007, an ATS Odyssey

www.abovetopsecret.com... Yesterday we broke one long-standing record, and set a second record. For the first time, the number of posts in one day exceeded 2,000. Our total for January 21st, 2004 was 2,007 posts! This new total blew away our previous record of 1,842 on November 19th, 2003. Also, we stayed above the magic 600 mark in the "members who have visited in the past 24 hours" category for most of the evening (EST) and peaked at 618 at around 9:13 PM (EST). Excellent!

This is excellent!!!! With all the tremendous growth I have to beg the question how is ATS doing as far as google ad revenue?

Pretty fair. We're still in the red (overall) since moving to dedicated servers, but slowly moving toward break-even.

How much money do you receive for each google ad clicked? Maybe a better question how many google ads would you like for active members to click on a daily basis?

Basically how many ads would each member need to click if only 600 members showed up in one 24 hour period?

It sounds like it's time to pony up the cashola if you can afford it! I am in for a Ben Franklin. Anybody else?

PEACE...
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What happened to William and who's this guy I've never heard of being IT DIRECTOR?

Long time no see Illmatic.

They are one and the same, doppelgangers of an ATS order.

Congratulations on contributing approximately 0.05% of posts in the past 24 hours.

This is great news The growth over the last few months is a useful gauge of where this site will be going in the future, onwards and upwards hehe

Good to hear. It just keeps getting better and better.

Excellent news SO!!

ATS is moving "onwards, and upwards"!! Will ensure I click an advert every so often and try to increase funding: bandwidth needs to be maintained - and - boy! - does that cost ....

Keep up the GREAT work people!!

Great News I'll try and do a little better on clicking the google ads. I love this place

Originally posted by Illmatic67
What happened to William and who's this guy I've never heard of being IT DIRECTOR?

Illmatic, so you're back ?

But who's this William ? Do you know how many posters we have on ATS ? Try to be more explicit please.Thx.

Keep up the Great work!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ive been trying to do my share of "clicking" the googles...


oh yeah.. the ads too

Keep on keepN on

Excellent numbers on a steady trend.

(although the server seems a bit flaky today)

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord

Who's "William"?

Your such a dork, dude.

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
I've removed the PayPal link... it's better if we focus on support through our Google advertising.

Who's "William"?

I didn't know we at ATS now call each other by our real names.

The William I refer to is the William, there's no other.

What happened to him?

Originally posted by Illmatic67

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
I've removed the PayPal link... it's better if we focus on support through our Google advertising.

Who's "William"?

I didn't know we at ATS now call each other by our real names.

The William I refer to is the William, there's no other.

What happened to him?

lol. SkepticOverlord=William. Hes just yanking your chain.Im still not sure why he switched nicks.

[Edited on 1-23-2004 by theshadowknows]

Originally posted by Spica
...NOTHING HAPPENS...
just thought I would mention that, because you might be able to raise the "click rate" and therefore revenue if the Ads worked all the time.

Sounds like your popup killer is working too hard.

Originally posted by UniversalFiction

Originally posted by Spica
...NOTHING HAPPENS...
just thought I would mention that, because you might be able to raise the "click rate" and therefore revenue if the Ads worked all the time.

Sounds like your popup killer is working too hard.

Thanks for the advice Universal but i don't have any pop-up killing software installed that i am aware of.And pop-ups on other sites seem to "pop-up" and annoy me with no trouble at all!..lol