Comments on: Contextual Advertising Experiment – I’m Switching to AdBrite

By: Jackie Ford @ Cpxclick

Jackie Ford @ Cpxclick — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:52:13 +0000

Contextual ads operate much like traditional pay-per-click search engine ads. You bid for placement and pay a fee each time someone clicks on your ad, but instead of your ads appearing in search engine results, they appear on web pages on other sites.

I like to compare contextual ads to ads you might find in a magazine. Pick up any special niche magazine and you’ll see ads for products or services related to the subject matter of the magazine as well as ads on subjects that might be of interest to readers in the magazine’s subscriber demographics.

Want a good reason to try contextual advertising? Think volume and exposure. Consider all the sites you visit each day on the Web. Most of these are candidates for contextual advertising. Cpxclick.com claims to have partnerships with over 500 search engine sites in the system already. For a company wanting widespread exposure on the web, I can’t think of another medium that has the potential reach of contextual advertising.

By: Bellic

Bellic — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:38:07 +0000

Adbrite is quite bad, I used to like them but they’re horrible in responding to errors in payment. They’ve yet to send me a cheque due for Febuary and I’ve contacted them about it and they at first agreed to their error and now they’re ignoring me. I’m currently in the works of getting legal representation

By: The AdBrite Experiment: Part 3 at fo.unta.in !

The AdBrite Experiment: Part 3 at fo.unta.in ! — Fri, 18 May 2007 01:14:02 +0000

[...] BTW, I found a Publisher’s perspective on AdBrite here. [...]

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:59:12 +0000

Ah – it’s my favorite Bloke!

No, Steve isn’t paying for that banner – at least, not yet! It’s a bet we have going on. It was a fun way to get competitive, but still let the altruistic side of myself get a fix.

By: Blog Bloke

Blog Bloke — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:52:22 +0000

So how’s my favorite eMummy today? I’ve often wondered what’s with the Steve Olsen MyBlogLog ad at the top. Is that a paid ad? Just wondering ’cause I’m a nosy Bloke.

By: Tired but happy

Tired but happy — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:24:28 +0000

Hey there–
I also got fed up with Adsense a while back. I kept it, but added Adbrite to my family finance blog. I found that Adbrite was great at first and I earned more money, but the number of advertisers (and the amount they paid me) has steadily declined. Because I can see my Adbrite referrals’ earnings, it looks like they’re having the same experience.

My new love is Linkworth. No referral program except for advertisers, but I’ve made more money with them in a few months than I have with Adsense in over a year and Adbrite in six months or so.

Thanks for the useful experiment. I’ll be back to see how it’s going.

TBH

By: Gayla McCord

Gayla McCord — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:34:29 +0000

Hi Wendy ~
I found your little experiment to be worthy of sharing and invited readers who happen on my WAHM Blog to pay you a visit. In the meantime, I’ll offer up my own opinion -

I use both, I like both – I use Adbrite on the sites where my Adsense might be skewed a bit toward the lower paying ads and set my adbrite to be approved ads only and set my own price.

For example – I have a website that I have affiliate links on to sell specific products – however, the adense ads that show up are for those same products. It’s either I earn cents per click or as much as $30 per sale. When I’m making over $1,000 per month EACH on two different products, it makes more sense to control my ads with Abrite.

With this blog being rich in keywords related to blogging, I think Adbrite might be the way to go. If not BlogAds if you can get in with them.

Good luck
Gayla