CategoryAdvertising

Over the past few months I’ve been testing Text Link Ads (aff) on most of my blogs as a secondary way of adding income streams by selling text links. I’ve found TLA to be a very useful service – particularly because it’s something that once you’ve set up is incredibly ...more

I’ve noticed quite a few bloggers using BlogAds.com ads on their blogs recently so thought I’d share a simple tip that should help attract advertisers. I share this out of my experience both as a BlogAds publisher (I use their ads on a number of my blogs) but also as ...more

Photoshopblog has an interesting post that highlights (in visual form) the breakdown of different components of Engadget – specifically looking at the amount of the blog dedicated to the article itself, comments, site navigation, advertising and Weblog Inc navigation. See the full visualization here. The post under analysis is quite ...more

Adbrite (aff) have announced this week that they are moving towards giving their publishers ‘inline’ ads. Inline ads are those links you see inside of content (often green or made to look different to other links on a page) that have a little popup window that appears when your comes ...more

Speaking of RSS ads, Pheedo has been testing their ad service for the past couple of months and are launching this week according to Mark at Weblog Tools Collection. Mark writes that it’s a system for WordPress ads but I can’t see on Pheedo anywhere saying it is exclusively a ...more

FeedBurner have just announced a new automated feature for advertisers to sign up to their Ad Network. Instead of having to go through a manual process you can now do it in a much more streamlined fashion. The process is to: Select a channel that matches your target Create an ...more

I’ve just been accepted into the Feedburner Ad Network (FAN) program as a publisher. With my moving to publishing full feeds you’ll now also see an ad at the bottom of each post in my RSS feed. These are CPM ads (ie I get paid per thousand impressions) and not ...more

One of the lessons that I learned after a a year of blogging for an income was the danger of relying upon a single income source for your blog. To that point I’d heavily focussed upon AdSense as a revenue stream on my blogs and was making what I thought ...more

Today the integration of Fastclick (and impression based ad system that some bloggers use – my review of it is here) and ValueClick Media was completed. If you go to the Fastclick site you’ll now be forwarded to VC’s site instead where you can log in using the same login ...more