To make it short, within the next few days several money making programs will launch their services or introduce brand new features. It seems like April and May are very popular months for a fresh start.

Ok, the first service in the list is the Fair Ads Network. I’ve already reported about this advertising company that tries to compete with major players like Google Adsense for example. Until now FAN was in beta phase and will officially start at April 29th. Although I don’t use FAN on my blog at the moment, I’m looking forward to implement their advertising codes on my site again. I had removed them because the ad blocks didn’t show any ads at all for me (hence the beta phase). You can use FAN just like Google Adsense or Adwords for monetizing your blog/website or creating your own PPC campaigns.

The second site, that will open its doors on April 30th, is NeoBux, a brand new PTC site with some innopvative new features like instant payments for example. I’ve reported about them some days ago, you can find the post about NeoBux here (or have a look at my Squidoo lens I’ve just created).

The third site worth to mention is Adbux. Although this PTC is around for a long time, the Adbux staff is about to introduce exciting new features. Adbux will (re)launch on May 1st, so stay tuned and watch for some nice new features to make even more money online.

The fourth and last site in my list of (re)launches is Bux.to. The staff is working hard on implementing the new script, which should solve the statistics update problems and (hopefully) make payments faster. Unfortunately I can’t say the excact date when “Bux Reload”, like they call it now, will start. But most members (including the forum admins) bet on May 1st. Well, let’s hope the best!

Ok, that should be all for now. Feel free to check those sites by yourself!

Cheers,
Querblogger

Today I want to talk about Fair Ads Network, a new contextual advertising program you can use to monetize your blog, make it more popular or even both!

Fair Ads Network, from now on I´ll just call it FAN (not only because I´m a fan too;), is a fairly new company trying to compete with big ad publisher programs like Google Adsense or the Yahoo Publishing Network. It was founded by Kevin Lam and Konstantin Boyandin, two guys with big online marketing experience and an iron will to reach their personal goals (I really like that).

Basically FAN is just like all the other publishing networks, you can use it to advertise your blog or to publish ads on your blog to make some money online. But there are some big differences to all the big advertising companies. First thing (the probably best in my opinion) is that you won´t get banned from their program, even if you click on your own ads. I won´t encourage anybody clicking their own ads, but from time to time it may happen that you accidentally click them. In this case you can feel lucky, because your click got tracked by FAN, they actually see who clicked the ad, if it was you, you won´t get paid (and you won´t get banned!).

Another big advantage is that the whole systems will “learn” the behavior of your blog or website visitors. This will help you as a publisher, because the system shows only those advertisings that fit best with your content and what your readers are looking for. It will also help advertisers, because they can feel save that their ad campaigns run only on those sites that actually have similar content and readers likely to click on those ads.

FAN is still in beta development now, but this doesn´t mean it isn´t working yet. I´ve integrated a single ad block in my blog and I can say that it works. I haven´t received too much money (only some cents), but as I said, I´ve only one ad block integrated so far. But you´ll be able to embed many more ad blocks in the future, ranging from text ads, link ads, banners and even rich media like videos. So far the team is still working on new features and optimizing the whole system.

You can also create different tracking channels (300 at the moment) for all your ad blocks, so you can see what performs good and where to make some modifications to the ad blocks size or color combinations. A really nice feature if you want to get the best revenues!

In general, FAN pays you 60% of what advertisers choose to pay for a single click. So if an advertisers chooses to pay $1.00 per click, you´ll get $0.60 (it´s only an example, you can earn even more if advertisers pay higher fees). You´ll receive your payments after reaching a $50 payout limit (they want to lower it to $25 if all works good) via Paypal, business check, e-Gold, e-Bullion or wire transfer. You can even use your balance to start your own ad campaign.

All in all, Fair Ads Network sounds like a really good program to monetize your blog (or website). I think the guys behind it take it really serious to make the best out of it, they really want to compete with the big names in this branch! I´ll keep you updated whenever new forms of advertising or new features are available. So far I can only recommend you to check it out, build your own opinion about FAN and gave it a try.

With best regards,
Querblogger