Thanks as always Mitch for the encouragement. Without it I probably would have thrown the towel in and taken up making model airplanes or something ages ago instead.
Google ads paying for my hosting? To be honest, I hadn't even dared hope for that much initially. The hosting probably costs less than I'd spend on model planes, so if you think of it as a hobby, the cost is unimportant really. And that's all I intended it to be originally - just something to do, to learn something new, to create something myself from scratch.
But since it seems to have worked out reasonably well, it would be a shame for it to be stuck away out of sight. If I had made a particularly nice model, I'd probably want to put it on show on the mantelpiece or somewhere.
I realise of course that I could market my site by advertising it through other (non-internet) media, and possibly the cost of that could be offset by selling advertising on my site to local businesses. But the fact remains, unless I can achieve a decent Google position, nobody is going to take me that seriously, are they?
I guess I'll have to keep working on those links? Not much of a hobby now, is it?
