BajanThings.com is a hobby site started in December 2014 by cousins William Burton and Peter Burton who have owned the domain since 2005.

We added display ads to the site in March 2015 to help contribute to the annual costs of maintaining the BajanThings.com website.

The display ads that appear on BajanThings.com are provided by our Ad Partners, who aim to place relevant and targeted ads. If our Ad Partners have no ads to serve we either serve no ad or we may serve a default BajanThings ad.

BajanThings Ad Partners is:

• Google AdSense

Ads on BajanThings are manually placed using the WordPress plugin: AdInserter, which allows us to add a label above each ad to clearly indicate its placement – the exception is Vignette ads which are auto delivered page page transition ads. The wording of the label is dictated by our Ad Partner and is: Advertisements .

Below is an example of a typical 728×90 BajanThings House Ad, labelled with the word “Advertisements” above it to clearly indicate that it is an ad:

Advertisements

   

Below is an example of a typical 300×250 BajanThings House Ad, that appears in the sidebar labelled with the word “Advertisements” above it to clearly indicate that it is an ad:

Advertisements

   

Our Ad Partners personalise the ads that you see based on your internet surfing activity outside of BajanThings.com.  This is out of the control of BajanThings.com.

Ads on BajanThings are split into two categories:

1. Display Ads
2. Vignette Ads

The ads appear in these positions:

Display Ads – account for 70% of ad revenue (ordered by contribution to ad revenue)

• Header ad (responsive sized) – contributes 27% of ad revenue
• Ads within the content of posts (responsive sized – within posts we place an ad after the 5^th paragraph and then another ad every 12^th paragraph) – contributes 21% of ad revenue
• Footer ad (responsive sized) – contributes 7% of ad revenue
• Sidebar ad- top (responsive sized – typically 300×250)- contributes 6% of ad revenue
• Sidebar ad – middle (responsive sized – typically 300×250) – contributes 6% of ad revenue
• Sidebar ad – bottom (responsive sized – typically 300×250) – contributes 3% of ad revenue.

Vignette Ads – account for 30% of ad revenue

• Vignette ads (full-screen ads that appear randomly between page loads, specifically when a user navigates away from or returns to a page) – contributes 30% of ad revenue.

For Display ads we use AdInserter to inject ads. Vignetter ads are automatically added randomly by Google AdSense at page transitions.

If you see inappropriate ads on BajanThings please click on Contact Burts, and choose as your Subject: Ad placement feedback. Please tell us about the ad, the advertiser name and if possible the click through URL. Using this we can track the ad down and block it from within our Ad Partners.

Ad revenue plus Donations contribute to off-setting some of the running costs of BajanThings.

Contrary to popular belief for a website our size, advertising revenue does not cover the cost of domain registration, hosting, WordPress theme, cache management, dynamic image delivery or specialist plugins needed to maintain BajanThings.com.

If you enjoy the BajanThings posts please consider making a small donation which will go towards the maintenance and upkeep of the BajanThings website and support our mission to document Barbados’ recent history.

Click here to make a donation to BajanThings or jump straight to the donation gateways provided by Stripe (which will take you to the secure Stripe webpage: buy.stripe.com) or PayPay (which will take you to the secure PayPal webpage: paypal.com/donate/).

Thank you for your support and any donations.

The BajanThings crew: William Burton & Peter Burton
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