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BJ on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/FORUM-OWNERS-MAKE-MONEY-tp7190033p7209681.html
That works Hugo. THANK YOU!
That is exactly what I was asking about. I know basic html; enough to edit templates, embed items. and minor tweaks. Where exacly do I find the code for my forum, and how do I edit it and re-save it so as to place the code for my adsense ad next to yours?
This is perfect; we both benefit and you have another extremely satisfied user who will spread the word about Nabble and NAML.
You guys are kind, very responsive, and you have a great product. Most importantly you have an ear and open mind to your user base. If you can keep that last quality as you grow, the sky is the limit. Thanks again. Please write back about ad placement/editing html.
Bjc
Bjc
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:46:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: FORUM OWNERS MAKE MONEY
BJ wrote
Thanks for the response. I respect what you're working on here. It looks like a great product, and you are bringing it to market at a great time. That is a winning formula. I wish you the best. I also want to compliment you and your team for the atttitude in professionlism I've read in many of the posts in the support forum. It looks to me as if you've answered nearly every inquiry in detail, and furthermore it looks to me like you've implemented many of the requests by the users for different functionalities.
Thanks a lot. We have a small team, but we try our best to keep our users happy.
BJ wrote
In regard to my inquiry; i'm not sure I understand your perspective. Why can't I leave your ads and ad some of my own? Then we both share in traffic. Why is my only option to pay for removal of the ads? That doesn't seem flexible, it seems rigid; against the Nable culture no? What did you mean by the feature I requested is suitable for more rigid sites? For example if I buy a domain from godaddy and set up VBulletin on server side I am in control of my own destiny right? Full flexibility.
Sorry, my explanation was incomplete. If you want, you can put your ads together with Nabble's. The only requirement here – and this is part of google's adsense policy – is that you cannot place more than two ads per page and the formatting and colors of your ads must be different from ours. So now we have three possibilities:
(1) the user keeps our ads
(2) the user pays to remove our ads
(3) the user keeps our ads, and place his/her ads
(4) the user pays to remove our ads, and place his/her ads
So how would the feature you suggested work? We would have to offer several position possibilities for the ads and this would have to take into account if the user has paid to remove our ads or not. Since the user can easily tweak the HTML of his/her app (through NAML), we believe it is much simpler if we let them change the HTML pages as they want instead of creating a feature specific to handle third-party ads. If the user knows HTML, he/she should be able to make such changes without problems and have the ads running within minutes. What do you think?
BJ wrote
Nabble's selling point is easy implementation, easy management, and easy embeddability. It's an alternative to a more robust form like Vbulletin. If you approach this correctly and keep your users happy, engaged, and partners in this you will succeed greatly.
Our selling point is also
extreme flexibility. Remember that NAML allows you to build complex websites by simply tweaking a forum or any other Nabble app. For example, our
documentation page is a forum with some tweaks. Of course, the user must understand the NAML concepts and we still have to create more tutorials and examples.
BJ wrote
One other quick question which is off topic: what happens if you change something in the future I'm not happy with and I have 1million posts on the forum? Is there a way to back up my site and transfer it (export) it to another option like vBulletin for example?
You can export your forum to XML format (Options > Download archives). You would probably need a small program to move the exported data into a different system.
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