Pay Per View Advertising

Some days ago I came across a fairly unknown advertising method called Pay Per View advertising or PPV in short. I stumbled across it through a WSO published on the Warriorforum. The sales letter looked quite interesting and I bought that short report about how to use PPV traffic to generate affiliate sales and leads. A nice read, but fairly expensive for the amount of information that was provided. But that’s another story.

Anyway, you may finally want to know what Pay Per View advertising? It’s Adware traffic. Simply as that. But wait, before I hear you say that Mr. Querblogger has gone wild and is now on the Blackhat side or something like that, be assured that PPV advertising has nothing to do with any illegal stuff! On the contrary, PPV is probably the most targeted and cheap advertising method out there.

PPV traffic is provided by big advertising networks like Media Traffic, Traffic Vance, Adonnetwork or Zango. These networks usually have huge databases of user who have WILLINGLY installed adware on their PCs, most times by installing a toolbar, free games or software for example. Such ad networks will publish your ads as Popups or Pop-unders to all these users whenever a certain search keyword or even URL is triggered.

Basically a PPV network works much like a PPC ad network like Google Adwords for example. Advertisers are able to bid on certain keywords and URLs. Whenever a user who has installed Adware on his PC does a search on a search engine or even directly types in a URL in his browser, a Popup or Pop-Under with your choosen ad will automatically appear. Each time this happens you get charged a certain fee, just like with PPC ads. The big difference is the cost of a single ad view.

Typically bidding on major search terms like “weight loss” or “credit cards” for example can easily cost you several Dollars per single click. PPV traffic, which is nearly as much targeted as PPC traffic, will cost only a small portion of that. Usually you’ll find click prices in the range of 2 or 3 Cents and that’s a BIG difference in my opinion. With PPV traffic you’ll get the benefits of targeted advertising to a much lower cost than other advertising methods. Another big plus is the option to advertise your referral links and CPA offers directly, you don’t need to mess around with Quality Scores and have to build a landing page for example! There’s just one question left, what about conversion rates?

And that’s probably(I don’t know yet) a major downside of Pay Per View advertising. Because the ads are provided in the form of a Popup or Pop-Under and the traffic has therefore less “quality” than PPC for example, many people will simply just click away your ad and forget about it. But since you can advertise for such cheap prices, it’s still a valuable method of promoting your products, CPA offers or whatever you feel like promoting.

During the next days I will start a case study (actually I’ve already started a first test) and give you a real example on how PPV advertsing works and what you might expect from it. It will be interesting to see how my ads will convert and if I’m able to make some profits or not.

Feel free to check back soon, you’ll save some good money while letting me test the whole PPV thing for you first (I’ve already spend nearly $300 for getting the rigth infos and funding my PPV account).

See you soon,
Querblogger

Kontera provides a full-featured advertising network that offers in-text advertising, another attractive method for making money from your blog (and also your regular website’s) content. It’s really simple, you place a short code snippet in your blog’s template (they even offer an automatic tool for Blogger.com blogs) where you want those ads to appear. Whenever a page of your blog gets loaded, the code parses your content for particular keywords that different advertisers bid on and it highlights them just like a regular hyperlink. When your site visitors click on one of those links, you’ll make money. You may see such links while looking at my posts here on this blog, they are double underlined.

I’ve implemented Kontera’s ContentLink technology some days ago after I got accepted in their publisher network. I use their very own WordPress plugin to make my life a little easier with integrating Kontera on my blog. So far I made $1.77 in four days with an average CTR (Click-Through Rate) of around 2.50%. The average click price is at $0.30, but I must admit that I only have stats for those four days!

It seems that this ad publishing solution does work real good for content sites, so far that’s the highest CTR I’ve ever seen from all those advertising networks that I tested here on my blog. To give you an example, my CTR on Speedyads is at 0.20%!

Kontera pays at a Net 30 basis, meaning they pay you 30 days after a month’s end. In order to get paid you have to reach $100 as the minimum payout limit. Payments are made via Paypal, Check and even international bank transfer.

Kontera’s ContentLink looks very promising and I’ll leave it on my blog for some more weeks to get some better and more realistic statistics. Right now I’m very happy with their network, earnings are quite good so far and I’m really surprised to see such a high click-through rate, which is a good sign for making good money. As always, revenues also highly depend on your blog’s or website’s traffic, the more the better.

Bye,
Querblogger

You may know that advertising your blog or website is a crucial task in order to succeed with your online business. Sure, it would also work without any advertising, but it would also take a much longer time to make your blog/website more popular. So, it should be one of your first goals to drive traffic to your site, the more the better. More traffic will bring you more revenue, be it from affiliate marketing, contextual ads or referral programs. But the traffic is even better if it´s free!

So, recently I came across Entrecard, a nice site that offers free advertising for your site. I´ve seen it on many blogs lately, even on those from famous bloggers like Darren Rowse or John Chow.

Entrecard lets you exchange 125×125 banner ads for free. The whole story is based on dropping your entrecards on blogs you like, think about it as giving your own business card to other people. In order to drop a card, the blog you´re about to visit must have a widget installed. There you can click to drop your own card. You then get one Entrecard credit for each drop which you could use for advertising your own blog or website.

Advertising your own site is easy. The first thing you´ll need is a 125×125 image banner representing your blog or website, you could also use only a simple text link ad, but that isn´t too effective I think. If you have earned enough credits from dropping your Entrecards on different blogs out there on the web, you can use that balance to advertise on other sites. After an advertising request is approved, your banner ad will show up in a widget (have a look at the left side bar to see what I mean) for the period of one day.

Other people can also advertise on your blog. The cost for advertising is based on the average Entrecard drops your site gets, multiplied by two. For example, if an average of 100 cards were dropped at your site each day, it would cost 200 credits to advertise on your site for one day.

You can even spend your earned Entrecard credits in a shop. There are many offers from many Entrecard users. You can find many things to choose from. For example you could let digg or stumble your blog from other people after paying them some Entrecard credits. Or you could hire someone to design your own Entrecard. There are many possibilities, check it out by yourself!

So far Entrecard is bringing me an extra 30 unique visitors to my blog each day and it´s growing from day to day. Really awesome in my opinion (hey it´s FREE advertising I really like the service, it´s relative easy to understand (look at their site to get a better understanding) and offers you great possibilities like advertising on John Chows blog for example!

I´ll soon start a little contest where you can win some good Entrecard credits. More info will follow by the weekend!

Bye,
Querblogger

PayPerPlay has promised to start serving audio ads on February 1st and in fact they did it, but most people didn´t recognize it because the statistics system was down. It seems they had faced some database problems and bugs in the counting algorithms, but now most of these problems are gone. So today, PayPerPlay started to serve the first 100,000 audio ads randomly distributed around all member´s websites. They try to start in phases to test the stability of their servers, this may take some weeks now before they go full throttle (consider the huge amount of daily ads they are trying to play, it´s millions over millions each day).

I was lucky and my blog received 3 of those 100,000 audio ads. Also my referrals websites (I´ve refered two people) got some ads. Now for your excitement, I made $0.02 (don´t stop reading now, they are still in beta!). Not much I know, but considering that only 15 ads were played, this looks very promising. At the moment I´ve generated 3,339 pageviews, if everytime an ad had been played, I would now have $4.45 (for around one month). Easy money if you ask me, you don´t have to do very much to earn this, only generate pageviews to your website and blog.

I hope the statistics system stabilizes within the next days and weeks and the NetAudioAds team starts serving more daily ads. For now I can only say it looks promising as a nice extra money maker with very low effort. Feel free to join NetAudioAds and start serving audio ads today (if you are within those lucke 100,000 each day).

Bye bye,
Querblogger

Some days ago I´ve written about Ucash.in, a new online service to monetize your links. Only one day after that post I got my first two referrals. The last days I´ve done some free advertising for getting some more referrals to this really nice service. Now I have already 5 people referred to Ucash.in and I hope there will come some more.

So let me tell you in short what I´ve done to advertise my Ucash.in referral link. The first service I used is a really good traffic exchange program called MagnifyTraffic.com. You surf other peoples websites and get a bonus, starting by 0.34 credits, for each site you visit. The credits you´ve earned can be used to promote your own site. The good thing about MagnifyTraffic (and the name suggests it already) is, that you can magnify your traffic rate. The more you click on others sites, the more bonuses you´ll get and therefore the more credits. Yesterday I was in a rush and clicked 500 links (yes I know I´m crazy). I started with 0.34 credits for each click, after some bonuses I got nearly one credit for each of my clicks.

The second service I used was AdsFlip. Some days ago I got a mail from iWebTool, they advertised this new advertising platform and offered me 1,000 advertising credits for joining them. So, I joined them and used my credits for advertising my referral link. The good thing is, everyday I´ll earn some new credits while showing an advertising banner on my blog (you may have seen it in my “sponsors” section). Btw, a nice service with targeted advertising possibilities, maybe I´ll write about them in more detail later on.

I hope I can refer some more people. At the moment I make only $0.01 per day from all the clicks generated on the monetized links. To get even more exposure to my referral links I created a new wiki about Ucash.in, you can find it at the OneEuroWiki!

Ciao,
Querblogger

Unlike other ad networks like Google Adsense, the Fair Ads Network or Bidvertiser, where you place some pay-per-click ad blocks on your site, WidgetBucks goes a step further by providing you not only simple text links, but nice product pictures with prices, price trends and product ratings. If someone click on of those ads (or products) you´ll get paid, simple isn´t it?

You have the choice of what is shown within such a widget. You can either choose a product type by yourself (e.g. funny gadgets) or you can use their MerchSense technology which only shows products related to your site or blog content (e.g. it shows digital cameras if you write about them). If you want to see the widget in action, have a look at my blogs right side bar!

The integration into your blog is very easy. First you have to choose the widget´s layout, they offer different sizes and color schemes that fit best with your blog design. After that, you have to choose the products shown within the widget (or you can use their MerchSense technology). You can also set the time a single product is shown before the next one will appear (usually there are 10 products in each widget). After completing this, you get a piece of html code that you have to paste in your blog or website template (for Blogger.com users it´s even easier, all you have to do is clicking the “Blogger” button which places the widget directly in your blog template).

So, what will you earn from those widgets? Actually there isn´t a fixed price for a single click on one of the ads shown within the widget, but different WidgetBucks user report a CPM from around $3 to $6, which means for every thousand visitors you get, you´ll generate that amount of money. But notice, this is only an average value, if you write a detailed blog about a product, it´s likely that you can generate even more, because your visitors are more likely to click on one of the shown ads.

You can join WidgetBucks for free and you´ll even get a $25 signup bonus. Payouts are sent out via check or Paypal 45 days after reaching the $50 payout limit. They also offer a referral program where you´ll get 10% of your referral earnings for a 12 month period after they join under you.

For now I haven´t generated any money with WidgetBucks because my blog traffic is fairly low. But I think there´s a huge potential for blogs or website with higher visitor counts, especially for those sites that deal about different products that aslo show up in the widget.

See you!
Querblogger

The last days I was looking for more ways to monetize my blog or, in other words, to make a direct little income from my writings here. So far, the most time I´m involved with Get-Paid-To sites that make me some cents by clicking some ads or taking a free offer. But I thought it would be nice if I can generate some money directly from my blog content, so I´ve recently integrated an ad block from Bidvertiser in my left sidebar (I´m sure you´ll find it .

Bidvertiser is an advertising system on a pay-per-click basis just like Google Adsense or the before mentioned Fair Ads Network. So basically, as an ad publisher you´ll place an ad block on your site and if any of your visitors clicks on of those ads, you´ll get paid.

What distinguishs Bidvertiser from the other ad networks is their bidding system (hence the name). Advertisers can bid on ad placements within ad blocks shown on different blogs or websites. The more they bid, the more popular those ads will be shown and the more likely it is that somebody clicks on it.

The bidding system brings many advantages for both advertisers and ad publishers. Advertisers have a great influence on their ad placement and the success of their ad campaigns. Publishers will benefit from the highest paying ads that will show up on their sites. The Bidvertiser system is constantly optimizing your ad blocks, so that you´ll generate the most money from a single click (ranging from a single cent to many dollars). You can also choose from a huge number of different ad layouts ranging from banners and buttons to text links. You can even customize the color and style to blend those layouts into your blogor website design.

Bidvertiser will pay its publisher either via check or Paypal after reaching a $10 payout limit. They pay you each month. They also have a really nice referral system, you´ll make money from referring new advertisers AND new publishers to the Bidvertiser service as long as they spend money for advertising or generate it as a publisher.

So far I´ve generated no money with Bidvertiser, which doesn´t mean that it won´t work! It´s more the fact that I only have a small number of daily visitors and only a small percentage will even click on one of those ads . But I think after some time when my blog gets at least a bit more popular (and it really does, it only takes very long , I´ll get some money from Bidvertiser.

There will be yet another article that deals about monetizing your blog in one of my next posts, so keep coming back!

Bye bye!
Querblogger