BlogAds Vs Other Income Streams

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by Affers, Jan 11, 2007.

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    Anyone use them? If so, any luck making money?

    I have a decent slot above my main content and Google Adsense never seems to do the goods there. Take a look - suggestions are welcome with what to do with the space that is currently a slide-bar page thingy. I obviously can't use BlogAds there but anything else?
     
    Affers, Jan 11, 2007 IP
  2. autorave

    autorave Peon

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    Since you have a decent PR .. selling text links would be more profitable than Adsense. If you get more than 10,000 hits a day, CPM networks like Casale Media would be ideal..
     
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  3. Affers

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    I get around 1,000 uniques per day so that's not really useful :( Thanks anyway. I currently use Text Link Ads and they work great. But at the moment I'm really looking to get rid of Adsense and utilize those two slots somehow else.
     
    Affers, Jan 13, 2007 IP
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    I've read good things about Azoogle but they are not really CPC/CPM ..
     
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    CountryBoy Prominent Member

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    BlogAds? As that the same as InBlogAds? If it is then I would like to use them to find out but unfortunately they're only available to WordPress users. If you're a small-scale blogger you'll probably find that AdSense ads work best, but paid posts bring in more cash more quickly (perhaps compromising the quality of your content). It's a fine line to tread...
     
    CountryBoy, Jan 14, 2007 IP
  6. Affers

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    Nah, not the same mate :)

    As for Azoogle, I'll have a look. Thanks Autorave.
     
    Affers, Jan 14, 2007 IP
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    azoogle hasn't really worked out for me as yet i have to say. maybe a thousand uniques sent with what i would call targetted traffic, and only one action. at least your guaranteed a bit of income with those per click things.
     
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  8. timworstall

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    Adsense: You've got the skyscraper in the wrong place. There's a tool inside Adsense that shows you where the "hot spots" are. I moved my skyscraper from right sidebar to top left sidebar and my click through rate went from 0.1 % or so to 1.0% or so.
    Change your design to do that. It's still not a fortune of course, on 1,000 a day you might get $2 a day in revenue.
    BlogAds? They work too, you've got sufficient traffic (over 4,000 page views a week) but again, at these levels of traffic you won't make all that much. I'm about three times your traffic and make maybe $200 a month from them.

    Hope that helps.
     
    timworstall, Jan 18, 2007 IP
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    I do much better with Blogads than Adsense or any other advertising, even banner ads.
     
    largeheartedboy, Jan 23, 2007 IP
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    blogads - nothing yet from them
    selling links has made me some money
    adbrite - squat
    adsense - $2-$5 a day -- so i still focus on that
     
    john_nyc, Jan 24, 2007 IP
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    John, have you contacted Blogads to be added to their gossip "hive"? It sees like a lot of advertisers buy across the "hives" which are collections of blogs gathered by topic.
     
    largeheartedboy, Jan 27, 2007 IP