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| Brian Cryer 2007-11-19, 6:19 pm |
| "KarlCore" <karl@karlcore.com> wrote in message
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> I've been playing around with Adsense a lot lately, just placing some
> text ads in a few sites to see how it goes. Unfortunately, none of
> the sites I'm displaying the ads on have a lot of traffic at the
> moment, so of course the income is a little low (we're talking about
> $1 a day, lol).
>
> I'm going to be getting more serious about generating traffic to a few
> of them and I want to know if anyone here has any experience with
> these other ad networks (as a publisher, not advertiser).
>
> TIA
>
> http://kontera.com
> http://adsense.google.com
> http://publisher.yahoo.com/
> http://www.bidvertiser.com/
> http://www.vibrantmedia.com/
> http://www.contextweb.com/
> http://www.clicksor.com/
> http://www.adbrite.com
> http://textlinkads.com
> http://www.kanoodle.com/
I've played around with Kontera and bidvertiser. I'm sure that on the right
sites both of these can do well, but I found that bidvertiser was a big
disappointment (complete waste of space) and kontera didn't do any better
than adsense for revenue but added annoying links to the page. No experience
of the rest. So at the moment I'm using adsense and selected ads from CJ and
AffiliateWindow.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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| Mark Goodge 2007-11-19, 6:19 pm |
| On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:11:48 -0800 (PST), KarlCore put finger to
keyboard and typed:
>I've been playing around with Adsense a lot lately, just placing some
>text ads in a few sites to see how it goes. Unfortunately, none of
>the sites I'm displaying the ads on have a lot of traffic at the
>moment, so of course the income is a little low (we're talking about
>$1 a day, lol).
>
>I'm going to be getting more serious about generating traffic to a few
>of them and I want to know if anyone here has any experience with
>these other ad networks (as a publisher, not advertiser).
>
>TIA
>
>http://kontera.com
>http://adsense.google.com
>http://publisher.yahoo.com/
>http://www.bidvertiser.com/
>http://www.vibrantmedia.com/
>http://www.contextweb.com/
>http://www.clicksor.com/
>http://www.adbrite.com
>http://textlinkads.com
>http://www.kanoodle.com/
I haven't found any other contextual ad system that comes anywhere
near Google Adsense in terms of revenue. For the non-contextuals,
there are several options which can work reasonably well. TextLinkAds
is good if you have a high PR page and want to leverage some extra
revenue out of it, as it doesn't cut so much into your Adsense
earnings (which most other ad systems do, to some extent, because
they're competing for the same clicks). If you've got a site where
"traditional" banner ads will fit OK into the design, then
Valueclickmedia gives a decent return (though watch it carefully to
ensure it's not taking too much click traffic away from Adsense).
Affiliate schemes can be very much hit-and-miss; a lot depends on what
your site is about and whether people who view it are really likely to
want to buy things (as opposed to clicking on ads to look at things),
but it's usually worth having a Commission Junction account anyway
just in case you do find a program that works for you. The same goes
for Amazon, you may not sell a lot via their affiliate scheme but,
provided it's not competing for clicks with Adsense, it's "bonus"
money that you wouldn't otherwise have got. One big advantage of an
affiliate scheme with Amazon (or anyone else for that matter) is that
you can encourage your friends and relatives to use it, unlike
pay-per-click programs where it's almost always against the rules to
encourage people you know to click the ads.
Mark
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| KarlCore wrote:
: I've been playing around with Adsense a lot lately, just placing some
: text ads in a few sites to see how it goes. Unfortunately, none of
: the sites I'm displaying the ads on have a lot of traffic at the
: moment, so of course the income is a little low (we're talking about
: $1 a day, lol).
:
: I'm going to be getting more serious about generating traffic to a few
: of them and I want to know if anyone here has any experience with
: these other ad networks (as a publisher, not advertiser).
Enjoy it while it lasts.... some jerk will come along and click a bunch of
ads and
then you get booted for click fraud though you had no idea what was going
on.
When that happened to me I started my own contextual ad service :p
So if you get bored email me for the link LOL. Don't count on getting rich
because of
course most people are sticking with google. Also if I remember right google
might boot
you out if you put other context ads on the same pages as theirs. I have no
such restrictions.
I mostly started it because I was mad, because if you can't beat 'em join
'em
and because I still wanted to serve contextual ads on my sites.
I have picked up a few publishers and a couple advertisers though which is
very cool. =)
Heidi
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