Traffic From AdEngage
Ok, I cheated a little bit with my rule about not paying for traffic for my MTB site. I was reading about AdEngage the other day and decided to try it out as I had $8 in a paypal account and it was hardly worth cashing it out. So, I bought 2 text links on two sites, just for a week, for $1 each. And I’m glad I did. By the end of the first day I had already made my back my $2 investment! I’ve recieved nearly 150 clicks from my text links in a couple of days - by the end my weeks advert I’ll have paid less than half a cent for each click if that continues!
Unfortunately though, the money earned will more than likely all be from adsense as I’m running affiliate links for a UK bike shop and as the traffic was from US sites it’s unlikely I’ll make any sales from them. This is actually one of the reasons I started up Text Ads Directory to find UK only websites to advertise on.
The US traffic and UK affiliates (and vice versa) is part the reason I haven’t really bothered with affiliates. But you could maybe find some US bike shop affiliates and try geo targetting? Then US readers would have US affiliates etc.
Interesting idea…putting the money you make back into the site. Invest with what you make.
I’ve recently updated Bryan-Baker Dot Com by reducing the advertisements drastically…
Readers want content…not ads.
Any clicks on my ads that make me money will invested back into the site…it’s the readers that make me money anyway!
Thanks readers! Thanks to this post too.
I sent my blog in for the Text ad directory. Hope it gets in. Though my blog is not UK based, I have a large audience from UK, from Mauritian Bloggers there and any new person that stumbled upon my blog.