Comments on: Blogads 3.0 Beta

By: doge

doge — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:55:07 +0000

Guys, you’re just not real.. You talk about this sponsorship thing again and again but none of you comes to the obvious idea that some people who read all this stuff may JUST NEED ONE OF THOSE RARE SPONSOR IDs of yours in order to finally be able to join this supernetwork and see how the heck it looks from inside..

I am one of those people who NEED A SPONSOR!

I do marketing on the Internet since 10 years and I have NEVER seen someone talking about anything without adding his own referral URL or ID# related to that thing or program, not as long as COMMISSIONS are involved.. You’re just not real, guys.. and this while talking about “making money” with your blogs.. What’s wrong with you guys, don’t you want 5% of the money I may be making? If yes, then gimme that bloody sponsor ID# of yours .. you marketing noobs :)

Thanks in advance

Doge – doge@doge.biz
http://doge.biz
http://doge.blogspot.com

By: William Trung

William Trung — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:36:39 +0000

I was excited by the fact of using Blogads, but after I heard they wanted 30% of my revenue I was turned completely turned off by them. It just seems more of a MLM enterprise now. Blogads was such a great idea at first, I really thought they had something. But now they made the process of joining such a MAJOR hassle it just takes the fun out of it. This idea of using mini-networks is so limited that it only allows “certain” websites in and excludes a large majority that have good websites that could be valuable to advertisers. They have to change thier policy and allow some diversity, if not… they will become a dinosaur, because as a successful blogger I will not even give them a second look. There is an air of elitism that I think stinks..

By: Eoghann Irving

Eoghann Irving — Sun, 08 May 2005 17:38:16 +0000

I’m not really objecting to the 30% itself, just pointing out that having increased what they charge, they’ve added nothing to justify that increase. If it wasn’t a good deal for me at 20%, simply making it 30% doesn’t make it a good deal.

The reason it’s not a good deal isn’t the % itself, it’s the nature of the advertisers they have which won’t work well with most of my sites.

I would have expected something to sweeten the pill a little, yes we’re charging 30% now, but this is how we’re going to help you…

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 07 May 2005 23:42:59 +0000

I actually think BlogAds is a great option for many blogs. Whilst 30% sounds high – I think its pretty normal.

I’m almost certain Google takes at least that much of a cut with Adsense ads. When I’ve worked with media buyers to sell me ads they generally charge something in the 25 – 35% region.

Of course you can sell your own ads and get 100% – but that means having to find your own advertisers, approaching them, negotiating a deal, providing them with statistics on how well the ad is going, helping them to design ads (sometimes), manually placing the ads on your site, remembering to take the ads off at the end, renegotiating new deals etc….

All of this takes time and expertise. I personally find BlogAds great because you can set it up and leave it – tweaking it along the way. Its very automated – yet gives you complete control over which ads do and don’t appear.

As I wrote previously its a system that many of the top bloggers are using incredibly successfully – but also one that helps the smaller blog to find an income stream.

Just my opinion

By: John

John — Sat, 07 May 2005 17:42:36 +0000

Yeah, off the top of my head, this is the second post of yours I can think of talking about Blogads. The other was when they were going off on Volvo for buying ads on the sites of people so much less sophisticated and important and influential than they are.

So now they want to “sponsor” just the right new people into their little club and create tiers of membership and teach all the folks they’ve decided should be up and comers how to always be one level below them. I don’t know, maybe it’s my long experience of peripheral SF fandom talking, but I’m pretty sick of this whole concept. Once you’ve seen losers trying to lord it over other losers because they speak Klingon, or they’ve got a bigger collection of more obscure anime bootlegs, it’s hard to take this kind of thing seriously.

I mean if you want to get into an MLM cult and be “downline” for some guy working furiously to shore up his own artificial status faster than it decays, just join Amway. There you can be given your place in the pecking order by _real_ assholes. You don’t need to settle for this bush-league variety.

By: Eoghann Irving

Eoghann Irving — Sat, 07 May 2005 13:31:08 +0000

Just sounds like an additional reason not to join BlogAds to me. They can dress it up however they like, but new members are charged 30%. If they didn’t seem interesting enough for me to join when I would be charged 20%, they aren’t likely to seem better now it’s 30%.

Passing the marketing of the business on to their customers is a clever move, but it’s not an incentive for me to participate.