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And The Award Goes To… » derrich.com - crude, yet refined — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:57:09 +0000

[...] out of gas at the end, and Gizmodo proved too powerful. (I guess that’s fair since I lost his stock picking contest.) Congrats to Gizmodo who joins Career Ramblings as 2007 Bloggers Tournament [...]

By: derrich

derrich — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:46:16 +0000

I’m actually swapping my Amazon ads for Auction Ads this month. [Totally] coincidentally, so has John Chow. I’ve made like $15 since mid-Feb with Amazon ads. Not bad. I’ve made $0.80 to date with AuctionAds, but they aren’t really visible. I’m going to make them visible and see what happens.

By: Blain

Blain — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:42:03 +0000

I’ve only had mine up some 24 hours, but nothing yet. I have never found them annoying on other sites, which helped in my decision to implement them myself.

I like Derrich’s comment on being content related, most of mine have been for stocks, stock trading, investing, etc. which is exactly what I wanted. I don’t mind viewing content related ads, and I really do not believe the user experience will lack because of it. Try it out for a month and see, if not content then just remove um

Hey Derrich btw, have you had decent luck with your auction ads? Mine have been a flop, and I think I am going to swap them out for affiliate links, what have you found?

By: derrich

derrich — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:28:32 +0000

I haven’t received any complaints. The only complaints I’ve gotten were for the banner graphic ads, which I’ve taken down. Advertising needs to be relative to your content. I’ve replaced my random ads with Google AdSense, Text-Link-Ads, and AgLoco…instead of Carlton Sheets, WalMart, and some others.

By: MillionDollarJourney.com

MillionDollarJourney.com — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:17:02 +0000

Have you guys gotten any response from your readers? Do they find it takes away from the site with all the popups? I’m considering using it for my site, but I don’t want it to take away from the user experience.

By: Blain

Blain — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:11:10 +0000

Ya, I agree man, I think curiosity is helping bring in money right now. But, what excites me is that it hasn’t taken away from adsense, and thus it is really creating revenue out of thin air.

Regarding the Aff link, since you hooked me up, then I support it Derrich!

By: derrich

derrich — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:05:25 +0000

I’m glad you’re getting some results too, Blain. At first, my Kontera ads were kicking AdSense butt. But now it’s leveled off somewhat. I think people were just curious. Who knows. Either way it hasn’t taken away from my AdSense…that’s for sure.

Here is my affiliate link. I hope you don’t if I post it here, Blain. If you do, I won’t be offended if you delete it. =)
http://www.kontera.com/mainform.aspx?type=1&aff_ID=11576

By: Blain

Blain — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:51:43 +0000

I had a 3.45% CTR yesterday (1st day), and it made about 50% of what adsense did, but I also only had kontera up for half the day. If this can match my adsense revenue overall, I will be one happy camper!