In a strange turn of events, Mr. Fantasy Baseball of Razzball.com fame convinced me to drop Project Wonderful.com and give Showyouradhere.com a chance. Profits from P.W had really dropped lately, so now was a great time to check it out. After looking at what this company offers, I’m glad I did. Although I’ve only been using them for 2 days, they have some very powerful features to take advantage of.
Company Overview: Showyouradhere.com allows you to sell image ads on your blog. You pick the size of the ad, choose how much to sell the space for, and insert their code into your site. Simple! No more emails to respond and keep track of. But that’s not all…
Showyouradhere.com also functions as a free ad server. Most of you probably have no idea what an adserver is. What an adserver does is allow you to insert code once into your website. Then when you want to change the ad or rotate ads, the adserver does all the work. You don’t have to edit your site at all. I already made my own, but their’s is better. Their adserver features geo-targeting. That means only people from America will see my Newegg.com ad, because Newegg only ships to the U.S.. Everyone else will randomly see another ad. The 3 ads surrounding my Entrecard widget are ads hosted using the adserver. If someone buys them, then they are replaced by the advertiser’s ad and I don’t have to change anything.
The only negative I found was that I couldn’t create a 250×250 ad. I added the code to my site, but nothing displayed. No big deal, since most people prefer 125×125 these days. Another important tip is you have to display the “Show Your Ad Here” text on at least one ad in order for your site to appear in the marketplace. Though I couldn’t find the following info anywhere on the site, I’ve verified it with current users of the system. Showyouradhere.com takes a 25% cut of your ad revenue. When you sell an ad, funds are immediately sent to your account. Use of their adserver is free, and worth using even if you don’t want to sell ad space.
In my case, I’m so happy with the adserver, I don’t care if I sell an ad or not. For those determined to sell adspace, determining the proper rate will be the hardest part. Look at the marketplace for similar sites to use as a guide, or go to http://www.dnscoop.com/. It will anayze your site and tell you what a monthly ad should cost.
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18 users commented in " Showyouradhere.com Review "
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My official signature, “PW sucks.”
I’ll check it out. Thanks for the info.
Thanks for the link. I’m going to check this out!
I’m checking it out, it looks interesting so far. Are you happy with the ad content you have seen so far?
I looked at the 2 ads purchased from Razzball.com and they were ok. You do not get a chance to approve ads ahead of time, so it’s important to state in the description of your ad what is acceptable.
Will definitely check them out, although I may not have enough traffic. We shall see
I must have missed a step somewhere because I have no ad appearing in my spot.
That being said, I also think $5 per week is too much for my blog, but that was the minimum.
One day, hopefully I see something in that spot, but if it doesn’t happen soon, I’m going to have to remove it. Nothing screams “loser” more than an empty ad spot begging for an advertiser.
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Margaret, go to your adzone. Click where is says “ads” and choose banner. Now paste the code of anything in there. Google adsense, an Amazon Ad, Anything the proper size will work. Email me a turnip@turnipofpower.com if you need more detailed instructions. The idea is you make use of their adserver, and don’t even worry about selling the adspace. If you do, it’s a pleasant surprise.
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Great review. And I completely agree with the dnscoop.com site. It does an excellent job.
I’ve signed up with them, but have yet to include any ads. I’ll try it out and see how it goes.
Great review. I’m looking for an advertising opportunity, and this might just be what I was looking for.
I’ll check them out. I never got into the project wonderful thing, after scratchback seemed so short lived I wanted to wait for a while and see what happened with the next big “thing”…
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I’m checking it out right now. I think I’ll give this a try.
Thanks for the info Turnip
I got it installed on my site- hope your links were your affiliate links so you get credit!
I had no luck with PW either. Removed them quite quickly.
Thanks Cindy: I always put my affilate links in my articles. Putting in someone else’s would be counter-productive
I did quite well with PW. The problem is that the money seems to have left their system lately and nobody is bidding more than .01.
I signed up and have sinced ditched PW … much better service.
Put SYAH and PW head to head on PLAYTHERE.com for 2 months. Made ~.21 a day with PW, made 0.00 its entire existence on PLAYTHERE.com. Its sole usefulness would be as an adserver and PLAYTHERE.com has its own ad server.
SYAH has been dropped in favor of PW. PW may bring mere pennies but SYAH brought nothing at all.
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