Thank you for visiting CentralOregonTrailCourse.com and thank you for taking the time to visit this page. I especially wanted to thank you for reading this page, because that tells me that you care enough about CentralOregonTrailCourse.com to find out if you can help support it. Thank you so much!
Running this website is a labor of love for me. The funds needed to pay for hosting, domain name registration, etc., have been paid for out-of-pocket, which I don’t mind in the slightest, like I said it’s a labor of love. And I gratefully acknowledge those individuals who have provided feedback and moral support. That being said, it would be nice to be able to generate some revenue to help defray costs.
And there is more than one way you can help support this site, not just monetarily but also thru link-backs and telling others about CentralOregonTrailCourse.com. Some of these ways will be for you, some won’t, but each and every one goes towards growing this site, bringing you a better experience, and keeping our site and content free for you!
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Affiliate Advertisers
See the sidebar to the right –> (Scroll down, just below the Community Events). Those are our affiliate advertisers.
The simplest and most convenient way to support this site is to consider making your purchases when possible via one of our affiliate advertisers. These approved advertising affiliate links help cover operational expenses and offset the uncounted thousands of hours dedicated to construction and development of this website. How does that work you ask? Most of the advertising on the site is affiliate marketing. In other words, if you see an ad for cowboy boots, and you click that ad, we don’t make any money. We only make money if you buy boots from that advertiser.
Ads by Google
Other advertising on the site is in the form of Google ads. (See the “Google Ads” at the bottom of the pages?) These are the pay per click ads, and we get paid when you click those ads. For example: On November 17, 2009, someone clicked on a Google ad making us $.94 cents. Not much you say? Image if everyone who visited our site clicked on a Google ad?!!!
Amazon.com
Shopping through Amazon.com helps support this site! But you have to use the links provided on this site. When you shop at Amazon.com, get there by either clicking that link or the Amazon button on sidebar. It has a code in it that tracks the purchases and makes CentralOregonTrailCourse.com 5% of the total sale. That way, we’ll receive a small referral fee on anything you buy. You can also shop our Amazon aStore, thru the link below; we’ve collected a few horse-related items we thought you might enjoy. It won’t cost you anything extra and you’ll be helping a website you like!
CentralOregonTrailCourse.com’s Cafepress Store
Wear a CentralOregonTrailCourse.com t-shirt, hoodie or carry our reusable shopping bag.
These are just a few of the items available at our Cafepress store!
Advertise on CentralOregonTrailCourse.com
Purchase Advertising Space
Would our customers love your site? If so, advertising on CentralOregonTrailCourse.com has the potential to open up your business to a whole new audience. We have opportunities available for display advertising as well as sponsor text links. Visit our Get Noticed! Advertise page to find more information.
Banner Ad Swap
A nice way to help each other. You advertise with us and we advertise with you!
Link Exchange
E-mail your text link to link@CentralOregonTrailCourse.com and let’s swap!
Spread the word
Tell all your friends about us and recommend the site to them! Have friends from 4H, horse club, trail riding partners, or stable friends? Let them know about our site – they might find it useful! Whether you realize it or not, this is indirect financial support. Hopefully someone else who is sent by your efforts will buy something advertised here or donate.
Write about us.
If you own a website, or know a colleague, friend or family member that have a website or blog, please try to place a link on it to CentralOregonTrailCourse.com or write about us. We’d be honored if you or your friends told your audience about CentralOregonTrailCourse.com, whether on your web site, newspaper, magazine, or newsletter. If you do manage to get a link to us from somewhere, please let us know.
Go to the Events
On our Calendar of Events page, we post information about events in our area. Go to these events and tell them you saw their event information on CentralOregonTrailCourse.com
Forum Signatures
If you are a member of another forum, please consider putting a link to this site in your forum signature. This helps build new links to us and at the same time attracts all the forum members who read your posts to click through and explore CentralOregonTrailCourse.com
Link to our site
We have a cool logo you could put on your site and link back to us, even just a text link would be helpful.
Our cool logo for your website:
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Help Improve Our Site
Article Writers Wanted
If you are especially knowledgeable about a field or topic related to horses and would like to write an article to be published on CentralOregonTrailCourse.com, please email us. Related topics may be anything about horse health, horse nutrition, training, care and ownership, trail and travel tips, etc… We will link to your website or blog from any accepted articles you write.
Graphic Designer
If you would like to volunteer your time and skills designing graphics for CentralOregonTrailCourse.com, please email us.
Donate to us
I really hate that term. And I want to be perfectly clear – we’re not a charity – this is not a tax deductible donation. But every dollar donated goes a long way towards supporting our web site and keeping our content free (paying for hosting, upgrading equipment, giveaways, etc.). All amounts are appreciated very much and accepted securely through PayPal. If you found something of use on this site, maybe that is worth something to you. We would REALLY appreciate it. If you are so inclined, please click the button below to send us some cash 
