So one of my favorite movies is The Social Network. Not because its well directed or the fact that i think Jessie Eisenhower makes a good Mark Zuckerberg, its the whole concept of the movie. The concept of how Mark never sold his application to Microsoft for an undisclosed amount of money (which was probably a lot) or how he turned down the $1 billion dollar sale of Facebook because because he didnt want it to be about money. It kind of just makes you think "hmph" what would i do in a situation like that because at first glance, your first choice is to take the billion dollars hands down but building an empire from a blank white canvas is not easy task and you can build up a lot of friends and enemies and just to sell it all away to have someone else mess it all up? Mark Zuckerberg's top priority was to have 0 ads on facebook. He was losing more money then he was getting from facebook ( even though at the time he had half-a-million users ) because he didnt want to be a sell-out.
I think there is nothing wrong with placing ads on your website ... to a certain extent. Here are my thoughts on advertisements:
-No more then 2 advertisements. One across the top and one down the side of the page.
-NO pop-ups. there is nothing more annoying then a pop-up and will deter users from your site
-Keep it constant! dont change where ads are placed, this might not seem bad but will deter users from your site and when it is just in the early days of development, word of mouth is the best advertisement and you need all the viewers you can get.
You can basically run your entire website off of ads. Advertisements generate a lot of money in comparison to the work it takes for you to put them live on your website. The best way to support a website you like is to simply click on the ads. Your website generates money from the amount of clicks you receive. Therefore putting ads on your website, in my eyes, is not selling-out, its being smart.
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