Adbrite VS. Adsense
Ok, so I started out Vital Pixel using adsense, and of course when there was no revenue. Days after the opening of vitalpixel, the site started to get tremendous traffic. The blog was getting thousands of hits/pageviews per day thanks to social networking, and some other methods. Tremendous in relative terms… since it was days later that it started to receive thousands of hits, I deem it tremendous. Despite the tremendous amount of traffic, the money stayed near the same. The highest point using google adsense, was a remarkable $5 on one day, with a not so remarkable twist. The $5 was split between a large sum of 297 clicks.
So, after wondering whether or not I had been click bombed, in which case google probably wouldn’t have counted a large amount of those 297 clicks. I decided that maybe, google was really only paying me an average of 1.5 cents a click. Which totally sucks if you know what I’m saying. In my dream world, that many clicks would’ve made me at least $100 dollars. So, feeling that I had been royally jipped, I decided to venture out into the world of ad network limbo. Reading guides on blogs other than my own, trying to decide which pay per click network I would use.
I came to the decision that I would try adbrite, which I had used before on my arcade website a couple years back. I’m so impatient that I only managed to force myself into leaving the ads on Vital Pixel for a couple of days. There were so many things I could say about adbrite that were good, it’s might be hard for some to realize why I took their ads down.
- First, adbrite counted ad impressions much faster than adsense, and it seemed a lot more accurate. I’m not sure if me saying that really has any meaning, since I can hardly read the statistics in my cpanel.
- They offered page ads, so I could make money with a popup like advertising, that wasn’t really a popup. (yay?)
- They included inline ads, so I didn’t need to use any other company like kontera.
- I could make extra money from people that payed specifically to advertise on my website.
Oh, but then… every one of these positive features of adbrite had a downside. Each downside greatly outweighing the positive.
- They counted ad impressions accurately, I guess, but when do i get even a single cent?
- Page ads, oh pl0x (leet speak for please). My browser froze 3 times when I came to my site because it was having a problem loading one of these page ads. Plus, if every visitor that came to my site got one of these page ads, then I probably should’ve made more than 3 cents. Since there were over 900 pageviews by that time.
- The inline ads fail compared to kontera, they’re all stuck bunched up at the top of the blog content. Where as, kontera spreads the links throughout the page, and allows you to blend them in a bit more with regular links. Plus, google allows you to use the context links of kontera since they can’t get confused with the look of their own ads.
- I doubt anyone would pay to advertise on my website at this point in time, with all of the negative posts about how the site was doing financially. Though I should probably be happy with the profits I’m making. Which means I’m perfectly fitting the role of the spoiled american, that always wants more. Who shouldn’t always want more though, and isn’t it the instinct of any human being to want what they can’t have? Especially if that thing you can’t have, seems to be just barely beyond your reach.
So no, I did not prefer adbrite over adsense, and this has happened to me before. All the other sites that I decided to use other advertising networks on, I was severely disappointed. Being to stupid to learn from my mistakes in the past, I’m hoping this will be the last time. who knows how many $.001 I could’ve made when I removed google as my advertiser?
As you can see, adsense has been reinstated, and adbrite has been shunned by me forever, or until I forget what’s wrong with it again.
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