January 5th, 2008
I first mentioned Peel Away Ads a little while ago when I was looking for a new form of advertising for this blog. I was first attracted to them because they look good, and yes a little bit flash! I figured if I liked the look of them enough to click then I’m sure other people would. You can see the full Peel Away Ads affect here (top left corner). Because all you bloggers are far too clever to click on ads I decided to not put it here, webmasters are quite adverse to flashy ads and Flash slowing down the page loading time!
The script on that page (that I bought by the way) cost $37, so far I’ve used it on 2 websites (away from blogging) and it’s had some success. On one of my sports websites the CTR has been just under 3% which has translated to nearly $100 of profit in just over a month. Not huge figures but still about the same as it makes in Adsense so double the money for very little work, very cool.
I was a bit sick though when I just checked my inbox and found out that I could have saved myself $37 and got the script for free.
In the past I’ve used TrialPay for making money, turns out it can also save you money.
November 22nd, 2007
It doesn’t take too long when looking at this blog to realise the due to the narrow template I went with I’m a bit limited when it comes to advertising. Other than a small banner at the top, a bit of Adsense and Kontera content links I’m pretty much stuffed. I don’t think there is anyway that I could fit in any direct ad sales on here as it stands without everything looking very cluttered. It’s a shame because direct ad sales are where it’s at right now, cutting out the middle man and keeping 100% of the revenue for you. I decided to have a look and see what other options were open to me.
Peel Away Ads
Not for one moment did I think of using pop-under or pop-up ads here, they are a giant pain in the ass as far as I’m concerned and would be disastrous for a blog style website. How many minutes after getting the first pop-up before you never came back here? Whilst looking to see what options were open to me I just came across something that I’d never seen before, now it might just be me but I think Peel Away Ads are cool. What it does is create a little lip in any corner of your page when then “peels away” to reveal an advert when the visitor hovers over it (You can see a demo over at Peel Away Ads top left corner). I actually don’t think that this is intrusive at all and the graphical affect is very clever. Before using them here I was wondering if anybody had any experience with this type of ad and how well they performed? Chances are am going to buy Peel Away Ads anyway because I’ve got a couple of content sites I think they’d go down a storm on but it’s always good to find out what you guys think?
