How Can You Afford To Provide All This Content for Free?

Without going into too much detail about spooky stuff like Laws of Attraction, The Universe, God (of whichever faith) or Karma, we've always believed that generous acts pay off in the long run.

So even though we've invested a small personal fortune up front to provide this resource we're happy to do it.

Now, while our aim is to always provide this content for free we do need to make a living somehow. Here are a few of the ways that we get paid...

• Advertising - subtly placed banner advertisements for people who value your business can be found throughout the site. By doing this we believe we're providing visitors with useful information about services they might like while earning a small income and also providing our advertisers with access to a targeted audience of people who love Spain.

• Sponsorship - certain towns and guides are sponsored giving advertisers the most prominent spot on the page where the content relates strongly to their business offering. This again provides visitors with targeted information and advertisers with targeted customers they would love to do business with.

• Donations - we provide all of this information, bandwidth, fucntionality and promotional opportunities freely because we live in Spain and know how valuable a site like this would have been when we were researching our move to Murcia. So, if you feel you've received good value from our efforts to bring you this website then feel free to make a donation (which are all very gratefully received) that reflects the value you've got out. You could see it as buying us a drink for doing you a good turn!

• Book Sales - we will be creating a new edition of "NativeSpain" for each area on this site every year - taking the best information this site has to offer to create the most comprehensive guide in print. If you have contributed then you will get a credit and exclusive discounts on the book (bigger if you buy in bulk), so you can give copies with your name on away or sell them direct to make a profit of your own.

• Google Adsense - Contextually sensitive ads are also placed on this website which are powered by Google. Revenue generated from these ads is shared with contributors - so if you have written a particularly popular page on the site and have a Google Adsense account you can earn hard cash as a Travel Writer!