Experimenting with ad networks
I am currently experimenting few ad networks, even EntreCard is back on the menu as they recently did some changes I wanted to check out. CMF ads visited my sidebar again, but as there still was no advertisers I took it down again. – I don’t think you should ask for advertisers on the ad networks forum to get people advertising, especially as it seems we’re supposed to buy ads of each other which makes little sense to me.
Project Wonderful has been hanging on for a while, even though the few pennies I earn doesn’t really ad up, but it has a good ad campaigning system so everything that I earn I’ll pretty much put back in.
The network I’m now going for is Adgitize. The reason for this is that the network, that seems to be in early days and quite amateurish in look still, is run by a guy who seems very dedicated to his thing and who is making eager effort to make his network flourish. The sad thing is that since the network is lacking in looks, I think it is hard to take seriously. It attracts second grade… Or shall we even say third grade blogs as publishers, often beginners and those who will add any gadget out there on their blog just because they learned the art of “copy paste”. Not only that, they are the ones who will add 3×3 -ad code to their site. In my opinion it shouldn’t even be offered. 3 ad boxes is more than enough and often that is too much on the same network (lowers the price paid for each ad box as there’s more room).
Anyway, Adgitize is good for small and medium sized blogs because you can earn in multiple ways on their system. It’s not only how many ads you show, or how many is clicked, it also has to do with you clicking on others adds, how many ads you show (this shouldn’t be rewarded imho), it even rewards you for posting content onto your own blog! There are a lot of things this network could do to improve, but it has such a flying start that I wish more serious bloggers who have more self control on advertising and understanding of quality would get into it as well.


I hope your do well with adgitize and will be interested to hear your future feedback on it.
I noticed a thread in the BC forum about the new entrecard advertising scheme. It is not at all clear when and for how much Graham Langdon is planning to actually buy back credits accumulated by long time active EC members. But these blog posts give great cause for concern:
http://afrogtokiss.net/2009/04/01/exposed-entrecardcom-is-bad-business-and-useless-to-bloggers/
http://afrogtokiss.net/2009/04/03/entrecard-exposed-monies-members-and-mayhem-part-ii/
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I’ll let you know how it works. Right now I can’t though, as I’ve been unforgivably passive blogger for the last month or so, and anything I would tell you would be warped by that fact. Thanks for the links.