Congratulations to Dries on the financing of Acquia
I am just a delighted Drupal user. Like many of us I use Drupal to host specialist community web sites, with limited budget and limited access to technical resources.
Once again a big thank you to the many experts who have so freely offered code snippets, suggestions and such - so that people like me can build such professional solutions.
My area of experience and expertise, which I would like to offer back to the community, is in search, specifically for this post in search term and content based Internet advertising.
This is not for you if you have 1000's of users per hour, and millions of page impressions - stop now!
For us smaller guys, we get it - to generate advertising revenue we must display advertising (banners, texts etc.) to the users visiting the content on our sites.
But this is where the fun begins:
First - we do not want our sites to be filled with intrusive banner advertising - this is not why we have built them. In fact we are explicitly against this - and in my case would rather pay the costs of the site myself.
By the way 1&1 really do seem to have their stuff together when it comes to hosting Drupal, osCommerce and Openads.
My two examples are:
http://love4marin.org
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