# Free thingie for promoting your website thingie . :) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-thingie-for-promoting-your-website-thingie/63555 "2001-04-27T19:01:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-thingie-for-promoting-your-website-thingie/63555/1 "2001-04-27T19:01:20Z")
I’ve installed a banner exchange system thingie. [http://fff.fathom.org/bp](http://fff.fathom.org/bp) It’s, like, free. You get 100 free “credits” at first, and thereafter it’s 1.5… so you get 2 credits for every 3 times the banner is shown on your page. Anyway, I figured it would be a cool way to help each other out, share traffic, and also a way to get to visit everyone else’s site 😃 Personal and business and other sites welcome. Except blatant porn. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-thingie-for-promoting-your-website-thingie/63555/2 "2001-04-27T19:08:06Z")
Oh yeah. Banners must be 468 x 60, and under 18k in size. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-thingie-for-promoting-your-website-thingie/63555/3 "2001-04-27T23:22:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > **Personal and business and other sites welcome. Except blatant porn.** Are you going to charge money for these business sites? If so, please don’t recruit for them on this message board. Since you said the program is free (I’m not much of a techhead, I’m afraid), I’m assuming businesses get free adspace as well? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-thingie-for-promoting-your-website-thingie/63555/4 "2001-04-27T23:45:01Z")
I said it’s free. I mean it’s free. (And did I mention it’s free?) I am not expecting Microsoft to join or anything, after all. I just wanted to make sure that if someone makes money from their homepage, they don’t feel that they can’t join up. By the way, I’ve upped the free credits to 1000, since I’m such a nice person 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-thingie-for-promoting-your-website-thingie/63555/5 "2001-04-28T00:03:45Z")
Fair enough - just checking. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-thingie-for-promoting-your-website-thingie/63555/6 "2001-04-28T15:16:26Z")
Does it launch 1,500 extra windows when you click on it? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-thingie-for-promoting-your-website-thingie/63555/7 "2001-04-28T18:31:03Z")
It doesn’t launch anything, it just links to the page the banner is for. Btw, if you have a website but don’t know how to make a banner for it, we have a page of links to places you can generate a banner instantly online, just go here: [http://fff.fathom.org/bp/examples.fhtml](http://fff.fathom.org/bp/examples.fhtml)