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Facts / Guide about CPC, CPM, CPA, CPL Advertising networks & Ads

Frankly, You might all be very very shocked to READ this FACT!
I serve 70,000 AD Impressions per day and Yesterday I made only $2.82 by showing 28,563 AD impressions from one network (Pay per Impression or CPM ad network) called Rightmedia. ( I will tell you about this network later )

I really dont know what the hell is wrong with the AD companies (whether CPM or CPC) and why I am not able to make any good money.. Anyway, I have stopped bothering about individual ad companies. The problem is the Forums. When same persons keep on visiting a site, they soon view all the ads which can be offered by a company. Soon, The company runs out of ads to show to a particular user and hence, further AD impressions are wasted (this is what I think )

Cost per <- snipped -> are good for sites with many unique visitors but not for Forums where same people keep on visiting. Also, members seem to get immune to ads and their eyes automatically learn to ignore them. Especially TEXT PAY PER <- snipped -> So I stick with Pay Per Impression ADs which are usually bright to attract attention and also give out some better results than compared to Pay Per Click.

Since I have more number of repeating visitors, I now use 10 + diffrent ad networks and run them off an adserver so that a visitor is able to see maximum no. of diffrent ads. I NEVER used to respect the advertisers money before.. I used to ask members to <- snipped -> .. etc.. but Now I very much respect their money and try to be as faithful as possible. Hence, I have stopped worrying about high paying ads and I think about showing as many diffrent ads as possible. So that the same ads are not being repeated (even though they may be highly paid).

The next reason is, I got lots of international traffic. Everyday, I get visitors from ATLEAST 75 countries. Of which, only US, UK and CANADA are commercially important. ( No offence to people from outside US/UK/CANADA :-P ) Anyway, International traffic simply does not have much of any commerical importance and many few advertising networks seem to support it.

If you got a high performing forum, Dont go for pay-per- <- snipped -> (except google and adsonar). Also befware of IMPRESSIONS policy. There are two types in it. One is RAW and the other is based on UNIQUE CAP.

RAW : The name explains it. All the impressions are counted.
UNIQUE CAP : Only Unique members (IP) are counted that too, Once every X amount of time. Where X is the decided time (usually it is 24 hour )



The Following are the AD-Companies I have used. I have tried my best to provide max. details.



















I will keep updating this list.. Check back Later ;-)}}

Very informal posts, do you have any 234*60 ads id be happy to put one of them on my forum or maybe (Depends on type, graphical or text) 468*60

Last month:
73302 Hits
217.61 MB B-Width
439 Unique visitors

Do you want to put my Ad codes on your site...

Yeah like a banner of the size i described above. If its like my Firefox sig then i'd be more than happy to have one. Ill just include it on my forums and let it deal with everything. All profit to you/astahost.

Good and interesting post here. Might I suggest switching completely to Google text ads for the forums. I've seen the ads on a couple forums and its pretty neat, it shows the relevant ad based on the text displayed on the screeb. Its pretty interesting and fun to see which ads come up based on the posts displayed. A lot of the ads I see right now I've seen pretty much before and I usually skip over them as stated, except when I spend certain time each day <- snipped -> but I think I would be interested in <- snipped -> ads more throughout reading the forums. It would be a neat experiment if you could try for one month to switch completely to Google text ads or some other keyword related ad and see if you generate more or less revenue than before.}}

As far as I am concerned xeon, Google ads were running here (in this forum- even before the advertisement script existed). As a matter of fact the Google logo is still there..but I think "again" it was suspended. Google adwords policy are so strict...and "famed" to have that "smart cheating" detection.

To those looking for a pay per click program, (something that resembles like Google Adwords) Clicksor is a great alternative.

1. http://clicksor.com/

Clicksor will pay you up to 70% of the advertising clicks revenues generated from your website. Contextual Advertising Technology by Clicksor allows your visitors to enjoy the content of your website and bring generous earnings to you at the same time

2. http://adhearus.com/

Adhearus brings the efficency and reliability of pay-per-click advertising to "the rest of the net" by enabling advertisers to advertise their product to consumers on relevant, related web sites. Webmasters can place ads on their web site and earn revenue for every click.

I haven't tried these PPC's yet. So Im not sure how good or bad it is or if they really pay their clients or subscribers.

Just signed up for Clicksor, and my account's stiull pedning, but I've already put up ads on my site...way kewl.

ummm guys i had contacted the admin (Opaque)... they say you can't advertise on your website on astahost.

In the days of the Internet boom, pay-per-view advertisements really pay a lot. You could make a fortune by putting up such ads on a really busy website. Now, the payout has fallen significantly. I think people do not notice ads every more. The model of advertising networks has shifted to a pay-per-performance model, which provides better return on investment for advertisers.

Not according to Spacewaste in this topic....