Comments on: Bye Bye Google Ads

By: Caricature Shop

Caricature Shop — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:49:59 +0000

I’m with you, Tom. I bugged out of this model some time ago, leaving only my links page as a pick-up. Still…not a dime.

By: bonni

bonni — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:39:34 +0000

The advertisers choose the keywords they want their ad to respond to, and they pay for it. Common or popular keywords can be quite pricey for the advertiser, so many choose somewhat more obscure words and hope for the best.

The people who choose “tom” or “hand” for their products probably would be surprised to see that their ads show up on the blogs of “random men named Tom” and “tutorials about how to draw hands”. (Actually, they can see the sites where their ads appear, but most won’t bother to refine it.)

Google Adwords is a flawed system, indeed. If it were just Google choosing what appeared, it would probably be a lot better, but when you let the advertiser have a say, you automatically introduce an “idiot factor” that’s hard to get around.

By: Wittygraphy

Wittygraphy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:54:29 +0000

Using Amazon is easier because you can handpick products to show. But it takes much more work. With so much of content on this site, I am surprised Adsense couldn’t do a good job.

Wittygraphy is a community dedicated to caricature, thus we are also looking for ads that are relevant to this topic. Please let me know if you know a good network.

It seems Project Wonderful is build on the same concept of “ads marketplace”. There are many larger marketplaces such as Adbrite. From what I heard, it works better for sites w/ a lot of traffic. Nobody wants ads on low traffic sites because they will need to manage hundreds of those to meet their marketing needs. That’s why smaller publishers all flock to Adsense.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:06:01 +0000

I have the same problem on my site, but since they cost me nothing and generate a little something each month, I just leave ‘em there.

By: Garrett Williams

Garrett Williams — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:05:35 +0000

Project Wonderful does seem like a good match, and I most certainly would buy advertising on this blog if you used it. I might even be your first PW advertiser. It’ll mostly show ads for webcomics. Not sure if you’d get more than a dollar a day, but I get 30 visitors a day and still get a continuous stream of pennies.

Also, the idea of promoting certain art supplies is excellent. If you do that, make SURE you have at least one big-dollar item like a Cintiq, just to not limit yourself.