Fri 23 Nov 2007
Bidvertiser Update
Posted by tel under Promotion & Marketing
It’s been a week since I started rolling out the PPC ads from Bidvertiser on some, (but not all) of my blogs and websites. In my earlier post introducing my change of heart with this type of advertising, I did mention that I’d keep readers updated as to how things are progressing with this.
Well, I won’t be retiring on the proceeds just yet!
That said, I can actually see some potential here. Ok, I’ve only made $2.06 (I’ll wait until you’ve finished laughing and picked yourself up off the floor…), but the promise is there as I hit a couple of 50 cent clicks in there. That tells me that the particular niche that caught that kind of click needs to be promoted a little better as the site it came from isn’t even optimized for PPC!
That said, other sites that should be attracting more clicks haven’t …yet.
Which means some more work is needed to a) attract more traffic to them and b) resite the ads for better effect. What I’m trying to achieve has already been amply described by my friend Grizzly in his blog, How to Make Money Online for Beginners, so I won’t go into the nuts and bolts here.
Suffice it to say, for sites and blogs that are properly optimized for generating adsense revenue may do reasonably well with Bidvertiser should adsense cease to be an option for whatever reason. But I don’t believe for one minute that Bidvertiser will outperform adsense simply because of the massive difference in the two companies’ inventory and choice of advertisers in each niche.
I’ll let this run for a while and let you know how it pans out
November 23rd, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Thanks for the nod Terry.
How accurate do the ads match your sites? Can you tweak the site in order to tweak the ads? Just a couple of questions I had and now I have someone to ask!
Cheers
Griz
November 24th, 2007 at 8:14 am
That’s the rub with these guys. They don’t have the same keyword matching feature as adsense. You have to pre-select a category for your site and then take what they give you - although you can filter out any ads you don’t want.
I tried this and found it incredibly time consuming as you literally have to block every single individual ad you don’t want to see.
I bit the bullet and did that for ads on this site, mainly to stop all the online casino ads from showing but when I set the code, I found that more online casinos had joined the program and were displaying ads.
Maybe not a bad thing - they could be high earning clicks! I’m not sure how to check for which ad created which amount, although I think you can.
I didn’t bother blocking any ads for other sites and that’s where the small initial revenue came from, plus one of my free blogs that seems to be peaking the interest of some “hot blooded males” from a certain social networking site…
Ha! That idea certainly has its uses…
Anyway, I digress with a very wide grin on my face… back to Bidvertiser:-
This is a complicated system to use as you have to set up individual code for each site you want to display the ads on and only show those ads on that site. If you mix them up and put the worng code on a site you won’t get paid for clicks so you have to be very careful.
I think that’s what puts a lot of people off Bidvertiser - it is not so easy to use and people are lazy! All the better for a serial tinkerer like me who doesn’t mind complicated!
Also it could account for people bemoaning they don’t earn anything with it - the lazy ones will probably create one piece of code and put it on all their sites - and be missing out on a lot of income without realizing why!
I will spend more time on this as I can see a potential that I’m sure a lot of people are missing.
Terry
November 24th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
I cancelled all adds today from my blogs. I have them for more then 2 years and had never earned something intersting. One of the companies, to say the truth, sends me checks for 1,5 DOLLARS and the bank to accept these checks makes me pay 5 EURO every check.
Sometimes I read somebody earns great money with adds, but I don’t understand them. Personally I never click them. Why somebody else has do it?
November 26th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Its a nice conversation, as liudmila said there are some people gain their profits in this form too, but its worthless or useless from my point of view. Anyway, there are few pupils who publish there sites in a real sense also get good results too….