Ad service recommendations

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 4:32 pm

Anyone here who hosts a website that uses ads have any recommendations? Per exposure ads would be nice, to me that would seem to generate the most revenue, but I'd like to hear what people's experiences have been and what's recommended.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:02 pm

Pay-per-exposure? What sucker is going to pay for THAT? And what would you get paid? $1.00 per 10,000 exposures? Hell, the bandwidth is worth more than that.

AFAIK, the only way you'll get revenue is for click-throughs.

Instig8 · Post by **Instig8** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:40 pm

I will be trying out Google's AdSense on a couple of web sites. With AdSense, you get paid when a user clicks on the advert on your site.

In the past (and still am), I did some performance-based advertising. So, when a person spends money on a site, I get paid. Still waiting for some 'real' money. But, it pays the bills.

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:51 pm

Yah I noticed that exposures wasn't really an option, I just figured it would be.

I will try AdSense, the only problem is that it can't spawn in it's own window, which normally wouldn't be a problem, but some of the pages would appear on a user's active desktop, which means for me to use AdSense, the desktop would have to browse to the link, which would be a tad inconvienient. I think fastclick offers a picture ad which I can use for my purpose.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:28 am

I always figured that ad revenues would be minimal compared to hosting costs, so why bother? I wouldn't want to deface my site for that ridiculous amount of money.

Instig8 · Post by **Instig8** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:09 am

Let's see... hosting costs: $1000 US per year... ad revenue: more than $30,000 per year... you do the math.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:00 am

$30,000 per year? In internet ad revenues? On a single website? Get real man. Or back your statement.

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:38 pm

how many hits does your site get a day?

Instig8 · Post by **Instig8** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:02 pm

Topher, I have many sites. The one making the revenue mentioned above receives a couple thousand hits (around one thousand uniques) per day. It fluctuates a lot.

Tricord, what I do is so easy that it would benefit me not to tell you. However, I have a standing offer to anyone: I tell you my concept for $10,000 plus 10% of all revenue (you still need to know how to implement it... write code, operate servers, etc.). Fyi, it's not spam, poop-ups, adware or multi-level.

You say 'get real?'... I say you're right. I should be making more.