Written on February 9th, 2008 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse

How do You Find Private Advertisers for Your Blog?

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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 the advertisers just come to you and […]

Written on January 26th, 2008 at 07:01 am by Darren Rowse

How to Make CPC Ads Convert

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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 it for me with 3 main […]

Written on January 10th, 2008 at 08:01 pm by Darren Rowse

ShoppingAds and AuctionAds Merge and Combine CPC and CPA ads

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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) ads AND CPC (cost per click) […]

Written on January 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 pm by Darren Rowse

Bidvertiser Add RSS Advertising

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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 on the Bidvertiser site about this new […]

Written on December 30th, 2007 at 06:12 am by Darren Rowse

Increase Your Direct Ad Sales Revenue with a Clear Advertising Page

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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 email back and fourth to hardly […]

Written on December 20th, 2007 at 02:12 pm by Darren Rowse

WidgetBucks Announce New Widget Creatives

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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 time for the product rotations in […]

Written on December 1st, 2007 at 05:12 am by Darren Rowse

WidgetBucks to Serve CPM Ads to Non North American Traffic

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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. The announcement on their blog doesn’t […]

Written on November 15th, 2007 at 11:11 am by Darren Rowse

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

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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 team at WidgetBucks hones their […]

Written on November 12th, 2007 at 03:11 pm by Darren Rowse

WidgetBucks Release Earnings Reports

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New advertising network WidgetBucks has just updated publishers accounts with their earnings figures from the previous month of earnings.

This includes three amounts. A $25 signup bonus, the earnings that their Widgets earned for October plus earnings from their referrals (10% of the earnings of those that they referred).

While it’s only been about 6 weeks since […]