How Not to Monetize Blog
How Not to Monetize Blog: Project Wonderful Makes No Money
I tried another internet advertising program to compliment Google Adsense. It is called Project Wonderful and it does not make webmasters a fair amount of money.
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Wade from Vagabond Journey.com
in Brooklyn, New York City- November 20, 2008
Travelogue -- Travel Photos
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For the past month and a half there has been those silly graphic ads in the side bars of my sites. Maybe you noticed the cartoon of the hairy guy in bed with the girl? These are Project Wonderful ads, and they have failed to make me more than 4 cents a day. In the time that I have had these ads on this travelogue, Song of the Open Road, and Traveler Photographs.com I have only made a measely $3.50.
This is not enough money for thousands and thousands of page views.
So I removed the ads and have moved on.
It was worth a try.
Links to previous travelogue entries:
Obama Hope or Delusion
Studying to be an English Teacher
Tourist Guilt and Helping the Poor
How Not to Monetize Blog: Project Wonderful Makes No Money
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I tried another internet advertising program to compliment Google Adsense. It is called Project Wonderful and it does not make webmasters a fair amount of money.
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Wade from Vagabond Journey.com
in Brooklyn, New York City- November 20, 2008
Travelogue -- Travel Photos
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For the past month and a half there has been those silly graphic ads in the side bars of my sites. Maybe you noticed the cartoon of the hairy guy in bed with the girl? These are Project Wonderful ads, and they have failed to make me more than 4 cents a day. In the time that I have had these ads on this travelogue, Song of the Open Road, and Traveler Photographs.com I have only made a measely $3.50.
This is not enough money for thousands and thousands of page views.
So I removed the ads and have moved on.
It was worth a try.
Links to previous travelogue entries:
Obama Hope or Delusion
Studying to be an English Teacher
Tourist Guilt and Helping the Poor
* Travel Blog Directory * Traveler Photographs.com * Travel Questions and Answers
Labels: americas, new-york-city, usa
posted by Wade Vagabond Journey.com at
7:48 PM
4 Comments:
What is the reason for this though? Did people not click on the ads, or do they pay very little per click?
I thought the ads looked quite interesting. Thus surprised they don't work.
Enjoy your day!
David
Hello David,
Yeah, I liked the looks of the ads as well. With that ad program the advertisers bid on how much they want to pay for each ad, and, as it worked out, they were only paying a few cents a day for each large graphic ad. After the company took a good percentage of this pocket change I was only making 4 cents a day off of five large graphic ads on three sites. So it really was not worth it.
Thanks for the good words!
Walk Slow,
Wade
Just to let you know Wade, over here at HoboTraveler.com we are assigning a PHP coder to a Monetization project.
What is will do is allow small advertisers to buy one ad spot on a page, they will pay X amount of money per click.
Adsense is good, therefore the ads must pay more than Adsense to your pocket to be feasible.
It is a pay per click system, I believe there are others out there to be used, but I am not sure how they work.
To sell advertisement yourself, the system needs to be automated where a person just pays with a credit card, chooses the pages and there are ads showing. Otherwise both the Advertisers and you put in too much work trying to arrange the advertisment.
This way they could test and see if they like advertising on your page.
Andy,
This sounds great. If you want to try your ad system on other sites, I would like to try it.
The pay per click method is the best, as advertisers only pay for what they get.
Thanks,
Wade
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