The new owners of CrispAds are just so unresponsive, I think I have to give up on them. I was earning a decent little chunk of change that I thought might turn into some actual money down the line, but over the holidays they changed their interface so I can no longer see my earnings.  [...]

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I bought an ad a couple of days ago to promote Project Mai Tai. So far, the click through rate is almost 3%. But the blog I ran the ad on has only had about 1200+ impressions in 36 hours, which means I’ve gotten 36 clicks in 36 hours, which means (if that rate holds [...]

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It’s funny. I was going to log in this morning and announce that CrispAds is beating AdBrite for me hands down. Then… the page where I normally log into CrispAds is gone, replace by some other page that doesn’t have my correct stats. And my ads are MIA on my sites.
Was there an email about [...]

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Please note the response from BlogHer’s rep in the comments. 
Recently, one of my sites experienced something like the Digg effect when a single link on a popular site sent hoards of traffic. Unfortunately the hoards were mostly trolls, not genuine new visitors. But this should have been a good thing all the same, thanks [...]

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I sold two 125×125 ads within just a few days of announcing they were available. There’s one spot left; we’ll see how long it takes to sell. I didn’t actually get around to rustling up clients on my own, which is still something I believe I need to learn to do. But I’m quite pleased [...]

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I’ve created some advertising options on this site that do not pass pagerank. This post is both an announcement to potential advertisers and, for my usual readers, a log of what I’m doing so we can see if it works.
Basically, I’ve set up four 125 x 125 banner zones, all no-followed in the [...]

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I was mistaken when I reported my monthly earnings had dropped from $424 in September to $401 in October, and that the drop was caused by BlogHer. It turns out the chart where you read your BlogHer earnings had just gotten more confusing, and I was reading them wrong. My October earnings were $419, and [...]

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I said in a comment on Mark’s Blog that I imagined the recent pagerank slap had been achieved in part by Googlebots somehow detecting the use of big text link agencies like text link ads. Yesterday, I got an email from TLA asking me to update my Wordpress plugins.
The new plugin forces you to make [...]

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WP Text Ads lets you sell ads with no broker commissions and - get this - no-follow tags if you want ‘em. I’m wondering if this could be a solution to the paid text ads issue.
This service is a ways away from being able to compete with /* , LinkWorth and other biggies, but it [...]

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I’m venturing into the world of selling text links directly and cutting out the commission. You can buy a text link ad for considerably less this way than by going through /* or LinkWorth. The catch? They’re no-follow.
You can check out the Marketplace for all sorts of info about advertising here, but be aware [...]

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