I’ll post when there is something definate to say, but now I just wanted to let you know that im still here, just real busy trying to fix a few things…

I’d hope for some notice so us bloggers can find an alternative!

Cheers.

Also worth mentioning, that blogrank (which relies on metrics) generates over 35000 backlinks (and many visitors) – and still growing.

If you were to charge or accept donations for it, it would still be great, but if someone buys it from you they are most likely doing it for the income, and will it’ll go down hill from there.

Open source you at least know it’ll be people who aren’t doing it just for the sake of money.

Like right over there in all of that white space ——–>

If the ads are relevant they provide value to site visitors just like magazine ads (many people buy magazines mostly for the ads believe it or not).

Thanks for a great product. I’m a management consultant and I’ll be glad to offer a few pro-bono hours to the cause. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

I’d say this thread has shown some demand for PMetrics which you could use in some way to increase revenues instead of just killing PMetrics. It has an added side affect: by charging even trivial amount for PMetrics you increase revenues and reduce the people who are zombie users – e.g. the people who maybe set it up and just leave it installed but never check in.

I’d say this really compliments your just released ad system. Anything that allows you to put your other, more-profitable products on display is going to pay off in the long run. But if you want to make it open source, I’m not gonna complain

Can’t you slap some Google Adsense on it, let it pay for itself, and this way you don’t loose the traffic that it generates, and can afford to run with it. I do read the blog entries, but only because I am looking at my blogs stats.

Put ads in exchange for free stats software

Personally I am ready to purchase version for $25-$50. I have other software such as mint. Yes I’m interested to see source code as well.

Whatever decision you make don’t kill it. I’m dam sure most of us would like to purchase installable version.

Thanks for creating nice stats software.

Bloggers can have a free version that shows a small ad, or an ad free version for a monthly fee. With both options everyone benefits in some way and the hosting, support and bandwidth gets paid for.

Other metrics and counter services do something similar.

1. Pay for its use
2. Pay for the license to host the service on our data center
3. Allow ads in exchange for using pmetrics

What is the bandwidth usage of pmetrics on a per blog basis? What i am trying to get at, is that , i have bandwidth to spare, and i think the same goes with others in this blog, we could do a cooperative venture of sorts, where, for example, we could host the pmetrics of Philippines, or asian blogs, and another party takes up US etc..

PMetrics performance is still outstanding as it is today and by now you have got so many positive recommendations which is proof for my marketing argument.

To give that tool out of hand is a very bad decision marketing wise. And PMetrics is a great proof to everybody that you can handle the load. Also publishers will have open ears for such a reference.

Killing the blogs wasn’t as bad but back then I thought this is already a bad marketing decision because you are killing personalities inside your community and degrade people to being forum content generators. The signal to noise argument is still pretty true.

Right now I can only speculate about the real reasons behind that decision but I will not do it in public because of my respect for the great work and the great products you have delivered in 2006. But respect at its best should work two ways.

BTW, the biggest advertising company on the Internet is running some great services, one of them being a state of the art analytics package. Think twice!

So for example, let’s say I have 10 blogs running Perf Partner’s house ad. For the sake of argument, let’s say that my traffic per day per blog is between 50 pageviews (after search engines/ bots). It’s a tiny amount per blog, but overall, that would be 500 impressions per day x 30 = 15,000 per month. Since I cover a wide range of topics, not every advertiser will want that space, so you might have to categorize (based on your tag system) and rotate.

It probably means retooling your code, but if you pull it off, it’d be a low-cost way for advertisers to get some breadth in their ad presence without spending loads of money. And it might further entice other advertisers to pay for ads on the very same participating blogs. (At which point you’d give their ads priority over the metrics-tied ads.)

There’s a rough transition period of cash flow, no doubt, but I think that something like this could really work, and would leverage the Perf blogger community as well as give a different type of ROI for advertiser bucks. But the success hinges on proper blog categorization.

I think as open source or commercial, I think it would be a wonderful piece of software for people to take and build upon. Not just because I had a hand in it but because I find it useful every day. I have looked at all the competition and metrics just feels the right way to do blog stats.