On 29 Aug 2006 17:51:57 GMT, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:

>Big Bill <kruse@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 29 Aug 2006 16:04:26 GMT, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:
>>
>>>"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> "John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
>>>
>>>[..]
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Ouch, first canadafred, now Bill? Who's next?
>>>>>
>>>>> ( tips his black hat )
>>>>
>>>> Your a programmer, you shouldn't wear a hat. :-)
>>>
>>>But then I am entirely naked!
>>>
>>>>> BTW 12+ k on weekdays last week, 10+ k in the weekend :-p
>>>>> Prognosis: 15+ k by the end of the year :-D.
>>>>
>>>> That is pretty good!
>>>
>>>It scares me now and then :-D.
>>
>> It should; do they make you money or burn bandwidth?
>
>Neither. I still pay the same amount as several years back (which was
>probably way too much at some point, and maybe now almost realistic).
>
>I *do* get work via my site, but indeed the question is, does the total
>number of hours invested in it justify this? I have no idea (yes, this
>is bad). For a big part the site is hobby, but it eats up a lot of time.
>
>On the other hand, if I can make my site grow from roughly under 10k to
>15k in one year, I assume I can make it grow to 20-25k next year. And at
>some point there should be a break even point, e.g. I can pay myself
>from the income I make with ads. So currently it's part hobby, part
>investment.
>
>> I have far more
>> visitors on my posters site than ever before but they're not buying. I
>> need to take a lot of pages off and lean it back more towards art. I
>> also need to have a big chat on the new webmaster communications site
>> about how to get old stuff out of Google's index. It won't let me
>> delete a page if there's a custom 404 in operation it seems. I'll
>> report back when I know more.
>
>Yes, I already explained that 404 means: no idea what happened with this
>resource, it can be back tomorrow, next week, never. If the page is
>gone, return gone. Or better, redirect to the closest match on your
>site.
>
>Ways to reduce bandwidth for a poster size is: smaller images, stronger
>compression, cleaner HTML, using gzip module to compress HTML on the
>fly.
>
>Also, check what's burning your bandwidth. It might be people leeching
>your images.

Um, I wouldn't think so. I imagine they'd leech direct from Allposters
as they'd be easier to find at the moment. Long gone are the days when
I was appearing above them in the serps with their own product. Sniff
:-(

BB
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