There are many options when it comes to selling ad space on your blog. Most of the time the manual basic advertising page may work, or may not and take a lot of time and manually keeping up with advertisers and dates may be something you do not have time to keep up with. The good news is there are a few places to make this services simple and easy for you and advertisers. While each of these services vary in what they offer one may suit your needs. A few of these Direct selling ad services focus mainly on banner ads but a few offer other options.
Project Wonderful
This service is one I see used a lot though the blogsphere. Project Wonderful offers an auction style widget to sell ads on your site. Advertisers bid on spots and the highest bidders ad will be shows in the spot. The service offers variable ad sizes that you can choose from to place on your site along with options for multiple ads with in the same unit. Bids on ads can start as low as $0.
Payments are though Paypal at the minimum of $10.
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Adtoll
AdToll is a ad network that lets you sell ads on your site and market your site as well. AdToll allows you to earn money by setting your own ad price, along with Run of Network ad that are PPC, with a 75% revenue share. They have many ad options to choose from to place on your site like banners, peel away ads, video, text and more. You have four options for payout including; Cheque, PayPal, Wire/Bank Transfer or Account Credit. With a minimum payment of $20 for PayPal, $40 for check and $1,000 for wire transfers.You can see the full review I did of Adtoll here.
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Blaged
Blaged kinda reminds me of Adtoll. You have a lot of different ad types and sizes you can add and sell on your site along with Banners, Text ads, Flash ads, and video. Your Earnings are 80% and you are payed though Paypal.
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125box
125box is a fully automated advertising system. The system allows you to set the details, rates and advertising length for your 125×125 ads. Your ads and placements must be approved before your can add it to your blog. When an advertiser clicks on an ad spot a window will pop-up that will allow them to add there email, upload there image, add URL and show them the price of the Ad spot. Your earnings are only 50% of the revenue.
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Showyouradhere
Coming from you from 45n5 the Showyouradhere is another widget to sell your 125×125 ads and a few other ad size options along with rotating your ads and geo-targeting. From what I have seen this is a great service. I hope to do a full review in the future once I test it out. Showyouradhere only takes 25% of your earnings and leaves you with 75%, not to bad. Payments are done through PayPal. The also offer an affiliate program where you can get 10% of all the spending of the advertisers you referred.
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OIOPublisher
The OIOpublisher similar to a few of the other options and allows you to sell 125×125 ads, text ads, videos, and paid reviews on your blog. They offer a hosting plan or a Wordpress plugin for you to choose from. The service and plugin is simple to use and setup. The service comes with a price of $37 but the nice part is your are paid 100% o your earnings, No other service fees or cuts from your revenue. All of your payments can be done though Paypal straight to your account. This is another great service that maybe worth a full review in the future.
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All of these methods have there ups and downs. It all depends you what you are looking for and what you are wanting to so. So if your looking for a way to cut down on the time it takes to handle new advertisers and other marketing aspects then one of these may work for you. If you would rather leave the middle man out then a good ol’ advertising page is all you need, but if that’s not working out try another options and see if one of these can bring in more revenue for your blog.
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By Acadia on Mar 19, 2008
which one is the best?
By ideasandmoney on Mar 19, 2008
I really like the selection of services. Out of all of them i prefer project wonderful. It is easy to use, the it costs to advertise fluctuates based on the bids and you can directly use that money to advertise or just to cash out. Thanks great post
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By Jason on Mar 20, 2008
Acadia I guess it depends on what you are looking for. I use Adtoll primarily, but im seeing a decline in sales.
By newacx on Mar 23, 2008
Owh, I dont know that there are so many programs that I can used to earn the most benefits from my blog. Nice post!
By Melo on Mar 23, 2008
Oooh! I’ll try some of them! Thanks!
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By issa on Apr 8, 2008
nice list! =) im using adtoll as well.. guess id try the other services. thanks jason!
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