Blog & Website Ad Network Experiment

by Sapphire (May 20, 2005)

The other day, I signed two sites up for 7 different ad networks. Remember, I warned you they might not even accept me, but hopefully we’d all learn something from that anyway.

Here’s an update on how that’s going:

AdBrite accepted me immediately and gave me code to use, which you’ll see here on the site. No offers on the ad space yet, but my sites are still low-traffic compared to many. Those are just network ads, for which I am paid per click.

BlogKits gave me their Overstock code within a couple of days, and the guy who runs the program has been tremendously helpful. Can’t tell how well the ads are doing until I get a stats report, but they look great.

Pheedo accepted me immediately, and let me set up ad zones for my feeds. Then, a few days later, I suddenly had more buttons in my control panel, and was able to set up zones for the actual sites, and set my own pricing. Still no offers to buy the ad space yet.

Fast Click and Burst!Media both rejected my “B-2″ site. I didn’t even submit this one, because I think I need more traffic. From what I’m hearing, even though they don’t require high traffic, they don’t accept lower traffic sites unless they have something really ideal going on for advertisers. It makes sense.

CrispAds, I just plum forgot to start using their ad code. They did accept me immediately, but evidently there’s some kind of an approval period - for individual zones or the whole account, I’m not sure. Their ads look like this:

or you can do the old AdSense-esque vertical skyscraper guy. To be honest, I’m kind of not sure I should run them and AdBrite at the same time. Feels like too much to me. So I may have to experiment with them over time to figure it all out.

Posted in Ad Networks, Development & Design
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