My site gets around 30,000 unqiue hits a day (RapidLinks) and when I put Adbrite's banner advert on my sites header, I was only earning just over $1 a day? People here seem to recommend adbrite but I dont understand why when its paying me hardly anything? Am I doing something wrong here :S
AdBrite ads are geotargeted, meaning some visitors will see high paying ads and some maybe no ads at all. I'd be expecting you to make maybe 20-40 cents CPM with AdBrite's display ads, so something's definitely going wrong somewhere (30k traffic should get you at least $3-4 for impressions alone). If you're new to the program (like less than a week) then wait a while longer because it can take their ads a few days to settle down.
Text links are a good idea to integrate and so are full page ads, if you don't mind annoying your visitors a little.
With 30,000 unique hits a day a recommend looking into cpm (cost per thousand) ad networks. You will most likely earn more revenue with cpm ad network than with ppc (pay per click) ad network. Here are some of my suggestions for cpm and ppc. Cpm TribalFusion - http://tribalfusion.com/ Snoork Ads - http://ads.snoork.com/ CpxInteractive - http://cpxinteractive.com/ Ppc Google AdSense - http://adsense.com/ AdBrite - http://adbrite.com/ BidVertiser - http://bidvertiser.com/
I used to earn quite a lot back in July last year when I used to get 10,000 unqiues a day. Then I stopped using adbrite for 6 months. Ever since then, I earn like $1 a day :S I might try looking more into it. I might be making some kind of mistake in the options.