CategoryAdvertising

12th of February 2008 Darren Rowse

Shopzilla Publisher Program – First Impression Review

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been experimenting with a couple of new advertising networks and am really excited by the initial results that I’m seeing. The first one that I want to introduce readers to is the Shopzilla Publisher Program. You won’t learn a lot about this program ...more
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9th of February 2008 Darren Rowse

How do You Find Private Advertisers for Your Blog?

Daniel Scocco from Daily Blog Tips has kindly agreed to help tackle some of the questions in the ProBlogger Question Box over the coming weeks. Here’s his first reply: Dustin Brewer asks: How do you work advertising on your site when it comes to the 125×125 banners? Do most of ...more
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26th of January 2008 Darren Rowse

How to Make CPC Ads Convert

Wendy at eMoms at Home posted an interview with me today which focuses upon getting advertising to convert into revenue on a blog – particularly CPC ads (cost per click) like AdSense or Chitika. I give a variety of tips in the 3 question interview but here’s the crux of ...more
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10th of January 2008 Darren Rowse

ShoppingAds and AuctionAds Merge and Combine CPC and CPA ads

Overnight I had an email from the team at MediaWhiz who have just announced that they have merged two of their ad networks together (AuctionAds and ShoppingAds) under the one name of ShoppingAds. What I like about the new look ShoppingAds is that it combines both CPA (cost per action) ...more
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2nd of January 2008 Darren Rowse

Bidvertiser Add RSS Advertising

One of the areas that many bloggers want to see improvement in when it comes to making more money from their blogs is in the area of RSS Advertising. Today Bidvertiser started experimenting with just this. I’m yet to try it for myself and there’s a distinct lack of information ...more
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30th of December 2007 Darren Rowse

Increase Your Direct Ad Sales Revenue with a Clear Advertising Page

In This post Jeremy Schoemaker from Shoemoney answers – ‘What did You Do On Your Blog in 2007 that Improved it the most’ I did several improvements to my blog but by far the one that improved it the most was implemented a VERY clear advertising page which decreased our ...more
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20th of December 2007 Darren Rowse

WidgetBucks Announce New Widget Creatives

WidgetBucks have announced new widget designs. Each of the different ad unit sizes now have two options (now when setting them up you’ll be able to choose a ‘B Series’ ad unit). One ad size (medium rectangles) even has three options (see below). Also now you can change the rotation ...more
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1st of December 2007 Darren Rowse

WidgetBucks to Serve CPM Ads to Non North American Traffic

WidgetBucks have announced that they will begin to serve CPM based ads to traffic that isn’t from the US or Canada (starting early in December). This comes in the wake of them previously stopping international traffic from seeing their ads – something that caused many publishers to stop using them. ...more
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15th of November 2007 Darren Rowse

WidgetBucks to Stop Monetizing Non North American Traffic – Interview with Matt Hulett from WidgetBucks

Over the last couple of months there’s been a lot written about new ad network – WidgetBucks. As with any new player in this market there has a lot of varied opinions shared about them with some publishers reporting quite amazing conversion and others finding the system frustrating as the ...more
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