Came across your plugin 'Sitemap' and found that there is 'donate' as your means of generating revenue. I am building a web portal to build revenues on similar terms. If you can offer some understanding onto whether you are satisfied with the way your donation works it would be very helpful for building of the portal. Seeing that there are about 130,000 downloads, do people actually come forward to donate to you?
'Donation' is not effective way of getting revenues.
Raw numbers: from about 300,000 downloads of all my plugins I got about 5 donations for about $150 totally.
From my experience: people does not pay if they does not have to pay.
Future plugins I will make in different way. There will be two version of the plugin: free (basic features) and pro (paid version with all features).
If you are building portal than you should think about paid features. IMHO your site will not get enough money from donations.
Or you may think about ads on your site. From my experience: Google adsense does not give too much money too.
Hello,
Came across your plugin 'Sitemap' and found that there is 'donate' as your means of generating revenue. I am building a web portal to build revenues on similar terms. If you can offer some understanding onto whether you are satisfied with the way your donation works it would be very helpful for building of the portal. Seeing that there are about 130,000 downloads, do people actually come forward to donate to you?
'Donation' is not effective way of getting revenues.
Raw numbers: from about 300,000 downloads of all my plugins I got about 5 donations for about $150 totally.
From my experience: people does not pay if they does not have to pay.
Future plugins I will make in different way. There will be two version of the plugin: free (basic features) and pro (paid version with all features).
If you are building portal than you should think about paid features. IMHO your site will not get enough money from donations.
Or you may think about ads on your site. From my experience: Google adsense does not give too much money too.