Revenue Sharing

[Karma]

Hey all,

Just looking for ideas really. I have a comment system on my site and have a visitor who has contributed a lot of content though comments, generally just handing out advice. I’d like to give something back to this visitor and I was just wondering if anyone has any ideas how I could go about this.

I have Adsense on all pages across my site and display between 2 and 3 ad blocks per page. I was thinking of giving the main adblock to my visitor but if I remember correctly, Adsense TOS does not allow you to display ads from more than one publisher on the same page. I don’t want to give this visitor all three ad blocks as I wrote the main content of the page.

Ideas?

[europeforvisitors]

Why not simply estimate what the visitor's contribution has been worth and send him a check? That would be less risky than having someone else's publisher code on your site.

[Karma]

Good advice EFV, but if someone sent me a cheque, the first thing I'd think is it must be earning the sender 100x more and start writing about it on my own site (the visitor does have a website). My niche is competitive enough as it is.

[Leva]

Depending on the size of your site, you may want to look into Adsense API. It's working out nicely for me so far.

That said, I'm with the others who say to just send the guy a check. If it were me, if he's just contributing information and advice, and he's sane and sensible, you might make him a mod and just send him a check for a percentage of Google's payment after Google pays you. Pay him for "moderation and user help duties" which would include giving advice. A percentage payment makes him even more vested in making the site profitable and popular.

-- Leva

[edited by: Leva at 9:42 pm (utc) on Oct. 3, 2007]

[jomaxx]

Not a check, a gift to say thank you. Or at least a gift certificate from somewhere like Amazon.com. You probably would start to give the contributor ideas if you sent them money out of the blue.