Well the site only costs $39.99+GST per year for the domain name – yes I know it’s possible to get them for $29.95 but I couldn’t be bothered shopping around.

The web hosting is free though, it runs off the back of my own personal account so doesn’t cost the club a cent.

I’m all for advertising. I’ve looked at using Google Adwords, but the amount of money we’d make wouldn’t really justify how annoying the ads would be (<$40/year probably). However if we could get direct advertising, say from SK8 or something like that, then it may be more doable. AFAIK we get more traffic on here than any other hockey sites in New Zealand so it wouldn’t be a bad investment. I’m pretty sure a decent proportion of our New Zealand visitors [b:35xtysg3]aren’t[/b:35xtysg3] from Dunedin, probably players from other regions, so they wouldn’t be just marketing to Dunedinites – but this kind of thing is impossible to track accurately, so who knows. So in a nutshell, yep, advertising is a good idea, but only if we can get a decent amount for it. I’m not keen on cluttering it up with annoying banner ads or pop ups or anything unless we’re getting a decent amount of coin for it. Ryan, PS: I’d need to run any advertising by the DIHA first, but can’t imagine they’d mind though.

Absolutely. I think advertising is a great idea. Additionally, targeted advertising could also be quite beneficial for dunedin ice hockey as a whole. After all there’s nothing wrong with attention being drawn unobtrusively to relevant products and services.

Kyle is right, the advertising should first be used to pay for the site itself.