CategoryAdvertising

Jamsi has a nice interview with the chief of Text Link Ads (aff), Patrick Gavin. In it Patrick answers some FAQs about TLA and hints at a new product launch in the coming weeks (keep an eye on ProBlogger for more details on that one). A few of the highlights ...more

Robyn writes a thought provoking post with the title of Why Use Affiliate Ads Rather Than AdSense or YPN? In it she points out the benefits of going with affiliate programs that pay larger amounts when people purchase a product in comparison to CPC (cost per click) ad programs like ...more

Jennifer has posted that Microsoft have just sent out invitations to selected advertisers for adCenter – their contextual advertising program’s pilot program in the coming months. She notes that the invitation indicates that ads will be primarily places upon MSN sites but that in using that word there is a ...more

If you go by the story from SEOMoz, there’s too much fraud in the advertising arena and the only format that makes sense for advertisers is flat-rate models such as Text Link Ads (aff). The post writer, Michael Martinez, cites a staggering fact that 14% of clicks in the click-through ...more

I’ve had quite a few people asking me for my opinion on eBay announcing it’s intention to enter the contextual text link market. here are the basics of it as reported this week by Reuters… “The world’s largest e-commerce site said it plans to provide hundreds of thousands of eBay ...more

In an update to the Adbrite loading problems that I mentioned a couple of days back I today had an email from Adbrite apologizing for the problems and giving an update on their server upgrade. They pointed to a graph showing the outages in the lead up to the upgrade ...more

I want to apologize to those readers who have been complaining of loading problems with ProBlogger of late. I’ve had a number of issues to deal with and think that I’m slowly identifying the problems. One of the issues was that i was running Google Analytics on my blog which ...more

A number of readers have asked the above question in the past few weeks and so I thought it was time I shared my own approach to the decision of when to start running ads on a blog when launching. There are two dominant camps of opinion on this question ...more

AdBrite announced that they are accepting beta users for three new formats of ads. It was announced last week but escaped my attention for some reason. Mobile Ads – an Ad system for mobile content sites (WAP) Banner Ads – fairly standard banner ad options by the looks of things ...more