I am running two sites at the moment, both of them are giving me roughly 3k ad impressions per day. Going back some time now, I was using AdSense, and their rates were brilliant for me, however, I have been banned from AdSense after being accused of something to do with an unwanted application, which I found rather ludicrous considering that I had all the right terms and conditions, privacy policy, and earned honest impressions and clicks. With absolutely no way that I can get my account reinstated at AdSense, I have been left in a spot of bother. Groups that I have been using since this time: Kitara Media: Extremely low pay out, and a lot of ads coming through that were triggering virus scanners, with their customer support not responding to my reports of these ads. Bidvertiser: Consistently sending untargetted ads to my site, and paying no more than 1c per click at the absolute most. Very poor. AdBrite: Occasionally pays something, however after 80k impressions, have earned no more than 5$ with the average CPM being no more than 5c, with countless untargetted ads, and non family friendly ads coming through when I specify that I want Family Friendly ads only. Now, I am still fairly new to this, out of both of my sites, which are dedicated to WordPress and PHP resources, one has an Alexa rank of just over 2 million, and the other has quite a good Alexa Rank since being online only a month, currently at 643,891. I am looking for a CPM advertising network that will deliver properly targetted ads that are clean, and will offer me a decent CPM with if possibly, anywhere up to a 100% fill rate of course. I have looked into several other groups such as CPX, AdsDaq, just to name a few, but am getting very mixed messages. The other question that I have is, with AdBrite, are there any ways that people would recommend (legal of course!) that will help me boost my CPM on graphic ads? I tried the old trick with text link ads for about 3 weeks, where I start the bidding very low for people to buy time slots, but the cost kept decreasing until it hit 1c per day, and this wasnt very affective. If anyone can help me with any of the above, this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Thanks for the offer, but 10c CPM, this is what I am trying to overcome at the moment. I have started using Burst Media, I can say that I am extremely impressed so far. My fill rate is extremely low, but at a 25% average fill rate, I have already quadrupled my daily earnings that I used to receive from AdBrite on 100% fill.
Have you tried Smowtion & Adsdaq? AdsDaq - http://exchange.contextweb.com/ Smowtion - http://smowtion.com
I am currently running AdsDaq and Burst, burst in particular is proving to be very worth while, but still very early to see. Will be interesting to see what the weekend pulls in, that is always a peak time for me. Its hard to really see anything with AdsDaq from here, a large portion of my users are USA based, so they get to see the kind of ads that are being shown, but I can not from here being in Australia, we are not targeted by AdsDaq, so I will need to look at another network to fill for the rest of the world there. I might have a better look at Snowtion for that, do some reading up, etc etc
If you're looking for the set it and leave it approach, you should just use Adbrite. You can't expect 100% fill with the "good" networks. Definitely try ADSDAQ. They're a great network for US traffic, but not without faults. Like for example, they've got some rogue advertisers that pop up from time to time. And support is slow to respond on weekends. Broke 7k with them recently with just 40% fill, burst second at 20% fill is $1200 ..rest of my traffic is spread out between networks that target the country traffic. Morning Falls does well for international traffic.
Adbrite is a definite no for me at this point, mainly for the reason that their ads are consistently un targeted for me, and at the same time, they mjay have very close to a 100% fill rate for all of my users, their CPM is absolutely terrible for me. I have heard about AdsDaq and the occasional rogue advertisers. I am currently testing them for the ads on the lower half of my page and keeping an eye on any feedback I receive, and with one night with 20% fill, the results are actually quite amazing. I am looking to use a combination of Burst Media for my primary ads (top of page), with AdsDaq for the lower half of the page, and as backup tags for both, I will be investigating more with either Smowtion, or Affinity (which I have heard good stories about). I mean, at this point, my one day earnings so far have matched a weeks earnings on AdBrite, and my CTR has become quite good with ads actually being quite well targeted and people actually clicking on them.
Don't do that. You'll hurt yourself in the long run. Set a Ask Price of at least $2 on adsdaq. Put the ADSDAQ code at the top of page. (Use 160x600 and 300x250 for sure) Remove all other CPM code from your pages. Then go to ADSDAQ and put the Burst code as backup. If you have another network, then you go to Burst and put your third network as backup.
From my understanding, it is part of Burst's Terms and Conditions that their ads get preference over other ads that you may display, so in the case of doing what you recommend, putting AdsDaq first for the US users, wouldnt they see that as being in breach of the advertising agreement? Prove me wrong otherwise, I'm willing to learn and all that. Also, with an Alexa Rank that is still relatively low, and unique visits still reasonably low, I don't see how a 2$ set price could pay off for me just yet, or do anything but give me a 0$ fill rate at least. I mean, there are a lot of people out there who could guide me in the right direction with this and all, if I am wrong, then let me know because I am here to learn.
Ok. $2 at ADSDAQ gives me 40-60% fill rate, everyday. I've been with them for a while and I suspect I have advertisers targeting my sites. They don't fill all US impressions; by putting Burst second behind them the remaining US and Canada impressions are taken care of. You don't know until you try. Even if only get like 25% fill, the rest of the 75% doesn't go wasted since you have backup networks setup. You are right about Burst's agreement, however for the years I've been with them they have only enforce having the ads above the fold. If you check Burst's forums, you'll see everybody doing the same thing. So it's not an issue as long as the ads are above the fold.
It definitely does sound promising, and I am giving the AdsDaq ads a shot on the lower half of my page at the moment, with 2$ asking prices. I am waiting for another ad code to become active, then will trial it on some of my more prominent ads, and remove the lower page ads and proceed to toy with prices. I mean, at the moment, with some 40c earnings per day max, anything is a good thing! Great tip, will be nice if it works well for me! Thanks again!
Sorry about the bump, I cant edit the message above for some reason. I have tried the 2$ CPM on AdsDaq since after I wrote that last message, with my daily reports refreshing some time after setting the new CPM, and I can say it is looking extremely promising. My ad count in Burst Media has dropped significantly, but is filling extremely well with campaigns paying anywhere up t 1$ CPM, and I am seeing alot of contextweb ads showing as well. And that is with the 2$ CPM at AdsDaq. I mean, I wont truly know until this has been going for a few weeks, but so far, it is looking like it might work well for me, especially if I can boost some traffic!
Here's a bit ...ADSDAQ has something similar to Adsense's Smart Pricing. They call it auto passback or something like that. To avoid it you have make sure ads are being clicked on ..ie they should be above the fold.
So, here's what I am doing at the moment. And it is working brilliantly. I have for the ads above the fold, I have AdsDaq set at 2$ CPM, with backup tags set to Burst Media. The Burst Media ads have backup tags for Smowtion. For the bottom half of the page, in spots that are visible through navigation, I have AdsDaq ads with Smotion ads as backup. This is pretty much making sure that all impressions are being filled, well, as much as possible. At the moment, Burst is receiving a large amount of views, and my CPM is increasing very quickly as well. My fill rate is some 70% at the moment with them as well, which is great. The only gripe that I have is that Smowtion is currently delivering an absolutely massive amount of ads that are being flagged as Malware, so much so that I am already considering terminating my account if I do not hear from them within another 24 hours. It is that bad that in 3 page turns on site, I was able to pull about 9 ad codes that were being flagged as Malware, which in my opinion is completely and utterly unacceptable, but also a part of life. Apart from that, it is working very well, and my earnings have gone up, I kid you not, but at least 1000%