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As you will know running any web site is no longer the
free for all that it once was, in fact our hosting costs have literally
"gone through the roof"! Because of this we
have been forced to increase the advertising content on the Horsted Keynes
web site although the income from net advertising is still very small
amounting to perhaps a few pounds a month, hardly a fortune! If you,
like us, don't like intrusive internet advertising PLEASE do consider helping
with our
costs by making a small donation.
Whilst YOU can get a free basic site included with
your internet connection this is really not good enough when you have a site
as large as HorstedKeynes.Com. With more than 110 pages containing over 70Meg of content,
plus numerous old photographs,
most simply not available anywhere else on the internet, and
with a thousand or more visitors each day we need a site with reliable
professional hosting and the costs for this increases every year.
We have now paid out well over £6000 of our own money
since starting up the popular village web site HorstedKeynes.Com some seven years ago.
Despite being one of the more popular village sites in the UK
with links both to and from the BBC and other important international internet web sites and with
an average 60,000 hits a
month, advertising revenue is still minimal. It now costs us getting on for
£1000 a year just for our internet connection and hosting, not to mention
all the free
time that we devote to the regular updates!
In all this time we have neither asked for nor received ANY formal financial help at all,
and whilst a few villagers have helped us where they can the time has
now come to
ask if YOU will help contribute towards our running costs.
If you have found HorstedKeynes.Com useful or interesting and
do feel able to help please click one of the donate button at the top of
this page and you will be transferred to the British based PayPal web site. Here
you can use any credit or debit card in complete security to donate any
amount from 1p upwards.
If you want
your village to keep its presence on the internet please consider lending us a financial hand.
To see what might happen in the future just take a quick look at
www.danehill.com or
www.lindfield.com .
Scary isn't it?!
Whilst we are not at
this stage suggesting that we will have to pull the plug if we don't receive
help, it is true to say that the cost of running the enlarged HorstedKeynes.Com
web site is now
putting a considerable strain on our personal budgets and this simply cannot
continue for ever.
Many thanks from your village webmasters.
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INSTEAD OF DONATING PLEASE GIVE US A
CLICK!
If you are not able to help us financially
at present please
as an alternative just
click on some of the Google ads that you will see scattered about this web
site. With this sort of advertising we are only paid "by
the click", so the more clicks that you make the more that we earn - UP
TO A POINT.
Google aren't stupid and they know that if someone clicks every ad on
every page on a web site they are probably doing it for reasons other
than interest in the adverts! Therefore if you click every ad ALL
your clicks are ignored and we earn nothing! So a few of clicks on a few
pages would be the ideal, do it regually once or twice a month and you
really can contribute towards our expences!
May we stress that you do NOT need to buy anything - unless you want to of course. Just click on some Google
ads and in a short time we earn
a couple of cents towards running your web site! Thanks. |
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