Blogging Experiment

Our First Advertiser!

Published October 3rd by Ben in Blogging, Site News 16

Neil DuckettLadies and gentlemen, bloggers of all ages, I’d like to introduce you to BloggingExperiment’s first advertiser, Neil Duckett! As you’ve probably noticed, though, this add doesn’t look like most of the other 125 x 125 ads that are so popular these days. It’s actually just a picture of Neil that he’s using to promote his personal site (talk about a personal touch right?). Maybe it’s the fact that he’s a fellow cueball, but I was really pleased with the way the ad looks and I’m willing to bet he get’s quite a few extra clicks out of it. Well done Neil!

If you’d like to claim one of the three remaining 125 x 125 ad spots, let me know. I’ll prorate the $60 fee for every day missed (for example, Neil only had to pay $58.00) and I’ll put the ad up as soon as payment is received.

Also, don’t forget to check out our other advertising options. I was just accepted into ReviewMe and they set the price of a review at $250! That’s more than twice what I’m charging privately. I’ve since upped my price through ReviewMe (I’ll explain that in a post later) but needless to say, I think the $100 price for a full review is well worth it and it appears ReviewMe thinks so as well.

And last but not least, be on the look out towards the end of the week for a new and innovative advertising option to become available. I’m putting the finishing touches on the details but I think it’s going to be something that will not only be of great value to the advertisers but also something that isn’t being offered on any of the other popular make money online sites!

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  1. Blogging Tips October 3rd, 2007

    60 seems like a little much, can you provide any info on the clicks your banners get?

  2. Tim October 3rd, 2007

    Blogger Tips,
    Check the advertisement page….. it’s well covered

  3. Ben Cook October 3rd, 2007

    @ Blogging Tips, I haven’t tracked clicks because up to this point they’ve all been to affiliate offers that I market other places on the site as well. Besides, the number of clicks an ad gets will depend on the look of your ad and what you’re advertising. I can tell you that at our current traffic levels it works out to $2.40 per thousand impressions.

    @ Tim, actually I cover the cost per impression, not the number of clicks for the reasons mentioned above.

  4. Tim October 3rd, 2007

    @ Ben,
    I wasn’t taking the question as a whole literally, I was more killing off the discussion with a vague, go look at the advertisement page, we’ve already talked about this with others who thought you were too expensive.

    I was being dismissive. :) I apologize. Sort of.

  5. Ben Cook October 3rd, 2007

    @ Tim, I don’t mind the questions much.

    @ Blogging Tips, after checking out your site (blogaboutyourblog.com) I noticed you’re offering the same 125 x 125 ads for $35 but according to the stats you reported for September that works out to almost $3.20 cpm, making my price 25% cheaper than yours.

    If my prices sound a bit high are you planning on dropping yours? ;)

  6. HMTKSteve October 3rd, 2007

    Wait a minute. How are you guys making $300+ a month on only 16K page views? My page view data is 4x or more on some of my sites and I can’t seem to sel lany advertising spots! What the heck am I doing wrong?

  7. HMTKSteve October 3rd, 2007

    The jump in your reviewme price is based on RSS. I’m set at $60 for reviewme with no RSS stars but I do have 2 “ranking” stars.

  8. Caroline Middlebrook October 3rd, 2007

    Congrats on selling the ad spot, it’s certainly an original ad, I’ve not seen it anywhere else. On a related note, I’m seeing just about every blogging blogger under the sun do reviews of other blogs now, are these for the value of the review itself, or are they mainly to drive traffic? I fail to see what the fuss is about.

  9. Neil Duckett October 3rd, 2007

    Well thanks Ben, i wasn`t expecting to see my head looking back at me when i logged on this morning.

    $60 for an add on this site is great value. I didn`t look at page views versus rss subscribers blah blah blah when i took Ben up on the offer for a little advertising. I looked at the quality of the site and it`s content and the readers it attracts. There are thousands of sites out there that can boast more stats etc but they don`t have the same visual appeal or quality of article, that`s just my opinion of course.

    The to get a bonus `article` on being the first advertiser, well that`s another bonus again isn`t it.

  10. Blogging Tips October 3rd, 2007

    thanks and no thanks to you tim ;) lol

    No my prices are going to stay like that for now, I’m going to redo my sidebar and see what works and what doesn’t.

    thanks for the response

  11. Ben Cook October 3rd, 2007

    Lol, any time, and again, I don’t mind people disagreeing with me, but I do believe that $60 per month is a fair price.

  12. Blogging Tips October 3rd, 2007

    i wasnt necessarily disagreeing with you but i thought it was a little high. Good CPM, so i was wondering about clicks as well :)

  13. Neil Duckett October 3rd, 2007

    Just quickly, Cost to me wasn’t an issue or deciding factor, just because someone has an add for 1/2 the price with twice the readers doesn’t mean that’s better value. I’m stating the obvious in saying that but i think people still overlook it regularly.

  14. Chris Jacobson October 3rd, 2007

    I clicked on Neil’s face before I read this post. His ad certainly worked.

  15. Neil Duckett October 4th, 2007

    @ Chris … and it didnt hurt me one bit either ! I’ve had some good traffic so far and will report the full stats at the end of the month.

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