[WEB4LIB] affiliate programs and library web sites

[Garet Nelson]

Part of the answer depends on how many hits your site gets. I'm at a small
college library and we did the math to see what the profit would be:

Our public services librarian checked it out and based on our web server
statistics, our web searching page got looked at 3,232 times last year. If
all those people did a search on google through our page, we would earn

        3232 x .03 cents = about 97 cents.

I'm not sure what those other search engines would pay, but i don't think we
get
enough traffic make it worth it.
-garet-

Garet Nelson
Director of Library Instructional Technology
Samuel Read Hall Library
Lyndon State College
Lyndonville, Vermont 05851
(802)626-6446
nelsong at mail.lsc.vsc.edu
http://www.lsc.vsc.edu/intranet/services/library/




> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Bryan H. Davidson
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:52 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] affiliate programs and library web sites
>
>
> I don't know how this will fly, but here it goes:
>
> Currently on our library home page (http://dante.uark.edu) we
> provide a list
> of several search engines, as well as a search box that allows users to
> perform a google search directly. I always thought of this as no more than
> an extra convenience, and since google seems to be one of the
> search engines
> of choice among librarians here, all the better.
>
> What we have considered proposing to our director is that we sign up for
> google's affiliate program, which pays .03 cents per search performed from
> our site. The search box is similar to what I've already got in
> place, with
> the added addition of a small google logo.
>
> Since we provide free printing, we have discussed this a possible means of
> recouping some of our printing/paper cost.
>
> I would like to know what the group thinks about this. Is this a viable
> alternative source of revenue, or a major code of ethics violation? Have
> other libraries done something similar?
>
> Thanks
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Bryan H. Davidson
> Electronic Products Librarian / Webmaster
> University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville
> Ph. 501-575-4665
>