Lionel Takes Over N Guage!!

[ezdays]

So the advertisers keep tabs on "hits" to those sites to determine if their $$'s are well spent..??

Yeah, basically they do. I think that they pay so much per hit, and they know where that came from. Zealot had ads when it was owned by Peter, but his were strictly from Google, and I guess they pay for allowing you to park their ads on your site. When Crowdgather took over, they placed ads in threads as well as the Google banner ads. That was the straw for a lot of people.

So Crowdgather and Zealot are one in the same, or are they two different companies doing the same thing? As if it really makes a difference.

What it is, Growdgather.com owns Zealot and several hundred other forum and chat sites covering just about everything you can name. Motorcycles, political, cooking, scrap-booking, you name it, they have a forum for it. In addition, they own hosting sites where you can start your own forum for no cost. Just that you have to accept constant ads on whatever you create, and you are at their mercy. Here's a quote from their site trying to lure forum owners to "join" (readell your site to), the CG network.

You have spent countless hours cultivating your knowledge about rap music, organic food, or mp3 players. You believe passionately in the untold joys of scrapbooking and it has been worth it — even if it hasn’t always been easy to manage. This is where we come in. We are here to make it a little easier to pursue your dream.

BENEFITS OF JOINING THE CG NETWORK

→ JOIN A THRIVING NETWORK OF COMMUNITIES
→ SOFTWARE PLATFORM & HOSTING
→ SELL MY FORUM
→ MONETIZE MY FORUM

Their only apparent source of income is from ad revenue created from their "network" of forums.