Experiencing With Different Advertisements
May 22, 2008 Blogging, Make Money
I’ve been experimenting with advertisements on my site, starting from Google adsense to Project Wonderful and soon to self-hosted ads. Google adsense, contrary to what people say, didn’t work at all for me. I had it for about a month and I got 0 clicks. I’m not saying that it’s hence ineffective, because many people still consider it their main source of advertisement income, but it simply didn’t cut it. The fact that ads are ugly and I don’t like Google is besides the point :P
I tried advertisements similar to Google like Bidvertiser and Adbrite, but they produced similar results. It’s not like I actually tried them out for more than a week, but since the system is more or less the same, I figured there wasn’t the need to. If the grand daddy of CPC advertisements wasn’t going to get me anywhere, I doubt the other would either. I guess my visitors just don’t like ads, or they have the AdBlock Plus for Firefox so they don’t even see the ads. Eh, I’m not too fond of them either.
I also tried some other programs like Chitika and Text Link Ads, and though TLA seemed to be working well at first, fear of being rank slapped by Google persuaded me to stop using them. Now that I’m thinking about it, since I’ve already been slapped into Google hell, I might as well try them again. There are a couple other programs similar to TLA like Linksworth and TNX. I will try them out and let you know the results.
I’m currently trying out Project Wonderful, which allows me to sell advertisement spaces through their auction system. I’m not too sure how this will work out as I have only had it up for a day, but from what I’ve seen, selling the ads by yourself seemed to work quite well, especially for the blogs I usually visit and associate myself with. I might add that soon, depending on how Project Wonderful works out for me.
This concludes my 1 month experience with ads, which really isn’t much if you think about the short time period. However, I will keep updating as I find new methods to generate $$$. If any of you use any sort of ads on your blogs, please share with me your experiences! Look forward to hearing them :D
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:45 pm
The difference about PW from the other ones is that no clicking is required. It’s only good if you site has hundreds of thousands of views a day (like Entrecard) because advertisers bid higher for your spot. I’ve had it on for about two months now and it still hasn’t reached five bucks =(
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Crystal: I like the no clicking require part, but I don’t like the 10000000000000000000000 views per day part, since I’m nowhere close. Poo =(
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:33 am
Adsense is only good if your site receives thousands of pageviews and hits a day. I used Bidvertiser, what a waste of space. I’m using TLA on my other sites, I love them. =P I don’t mind the page rank problems to be honest. It’s my only way of earning money and buying content for my site(s).
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Regina: Indeed. Maybe one day when my site is that popular (lol), I’ll switch back. I’m still waiting for TLA to approve my site even though they’ve approved it before
May 24th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
You mentioned about self hosted ads. How is that?
May 26th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Jam: I haven’t tried that yet, but basically I’ll just have whoever wants to advertise on my site pay me directly, and I’ll have their ads up for however long they paid for.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Check this page out for the same emoticons on my site:
http://www.pandapassport.com/wordpress/asian-emoticons-wordpress-comments-plugin/
BTW, I am interested in self hosted ads too, but dun know how and where to start. Is there any plugin that can help?
May 27th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Jam: Thanks for the link!![:]](http://ever-after.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/pleased.gif)
I don’t know of any scripts/plugins for self hosted ads at the moment, so chances are I’m just going to make page in wordpress with the price listings and a paypal link, and I’ll put the ads up manually for however long the people paid for. I’m not too sure of the details, but that’s the gist of it.