Fri 16 Nov 2007
Can CPC Make Money?
Posted by tel under Promotion & Marketing
I’m not a great lover of CPC advertising, or at least I haven’t been since my rather unfortunate brush with the law (the Google law, I mean) at the end of 2006, when my fledgling adsense account came to an abrupt and untimely demise. The less said about that the better!
So I drifted towards the side of using the space that would normally be filled with CPC ads to promote affiliate products and the odd book that I put together myself. Oh, you didn’t know? That’s mine in the sidebar you see to your right – yes, the one entitled, “The Secrets of SEO Revealed”. I’ve been having some intermittent success with this, so became rather anti-CPC and said so in many of my earlier posts.
But now I’ve come full circle and I don’t hate CPC any more. I still haven’t got back into the adsense program, which is a shame now that I know many better ways to make money from it, so I’ve had to look at alternatives. The best of the bunch so far seems to be Bidvertiser (see their banner in my sidebar), so I’m currently giving that a trial run to see how it fares not just with this blog but with my others too.
I’ll let you know in due course how I get on with it.







November 17th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
And what is this CPC?
November 17th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Sorry Liudmila, I should have explained that bit.
CPC is Cost Per Click. The best known is Adsense, but there are programs that are similar.
Bidvertiser is one of those.
They allow you to configure a banner with text ads of whichever size you choose and place it on your blog. When a visitor clicks one of the ads, they get taken to the advertiser’s website and you get paid a small amount for the “click”.
Over time (and many blogs) this can add up to a decent amount of money when it’s done properly.
Grizzly is the one to see about that!
Terry