I’ve recently become impressed with the potential for making money from a website by selling text link ads. During May I generated over $250 USD from selling text links on my blogs just from the brokerage service provided by Text-Link-Ads.com. It’s not a huge amount of money but it’s cash I didn’t have before. If you are aiming to become a full time blogger then any extra sources of income helps, so you may want to try selling text links yourself.
John Webster from AdBrite Guide contacted me about his new website aimed at helping publishers and advertisers maximize their return from another text link broker, AdBrite.com. AdBrite offers a similar service to Text-Link-Ads.com, brokering deals between website publishers and advertisers. As a blog publisher this means you can leave the selling of your advertising inventory to companies like AdBrite while you just work on making the best blog you can. All you have to do is add your site to their system, place some code on your site, then watch the money roll in (theoritically at least!).
Of course factors such as how much traffic you have, what industry your site is in, your site’s PageRank (What is PageRank?) and where you place the add code will determine how much you make, but as I said, anything is better than nothing, so it’s worth a try.
John kindly offered a list of tips for me to publish to help you get the most out of AdBrite as a publisher and an advertiser. I’m posting the tips for AdBrite publishers (those wanting to make money from text links) here. The AdBrite advertiser tips (those wanting to generate traffic from buying links) are posted on my other blog, Small Business Branding.
Tips To Maximize Your AdBrite Income
- Never start your pricing too high. It is better to error on the low side and get advertisers hooked, because then they will be willing to pay higher prices for your inventory when the pricing increases.
- Make sure your placement is worth buying, the popular sellers in the marketplace tend to be sites with the most premium inventory.
- Spend some time tagging your site and giving proper demographic information.
- In your site description provide ideas of advertisers that you think might convert well. You know your audience best.
- AdBrite is more successful if you sell a FEW premium placements as opposed to just MANY backfill placements.
- Hard code all placements because of the concreteness of “your ad hereâ€Â. Putting AdBrite in rotation doesn’t perform as well.
- Allow a ramping period. AdBrite is a tool to help sell your own inventory, and think of it as a virtual salesperson for you. Any salesperson needs some time to gain traction. Just like an auction, the beginning price is never the final price.
- Entice advertisers with specials. You have full control to set pricing so make occasional specials to entice advertisers.
- Enable AdBrite’s auto pricing which will raise automatically as inventory sells, and lower itself as vacant inventory sits unsold.
You can find more AdBrite publishers tips and AdBrite advertisers tips at AdBriteGuide.com
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[…] John kindly offered a list of tips for me to publish to help you get the most out of AdBrite as a publisher and an advertiser. I’m posting the tips for AdBrite advertisers (those wanting to generate traffic from buying links) here. Tips for AdBrite publishers (those wanting to make money from selling text links) are posted on my other blog, Entrepreneur’s Journey. […]
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Interesting points. I’ve never had a lot of success with Adbrite personally, but like you am having a lot of success with TLA.
I’ve been a TextLink affiliate for awhile, however have never joined their publisher program. I’m about to dive into it though, cheers for the info Yaro.
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Yaro… just a quick comment to let people know that there is another, even more full-featured alternative to either text-link-ads or adbrite. It’s called SponsorWorks.net.
I’ll admit I am a principle with the company (just in case anyone’s wondering), but I can truly say we offer more ways to make money with a site via text links (and in many more forms) than any other service.
The Basic service plan is free to use, there’s also a 2-tier affiliate program, and visitors to entrepreneurs-journey.com can use promotion code “ejourney” to receive a substantial discount for a Professional subscription plan.
Check us out and see for yourself.
Jim - Thanks for dropping by and letting us know about your service. I must admit I have never heard of your website before.
Perhaps some of my readers may try it out and report back a comparison of Text Link Ads vs AdBrite vs SponsorWorks - would make for a good pillar article.
Hi Jim,
Just letting you know I was unable to signup at the sponsorworks website for the publisher program. Strange errors occured when I hit submit .. something about not being able to write to a file ??
James
Apologies, apologies, apologies !!!
Our host (1and1) decided to swap out servers on us (without warning) which caused the site to act completely crazy for most of May 29th and June 1st.
They’re done now and it’s back up.
Again, sorry for any inconvenience and please don’t judge us by this unfortunate incident.
Fo you think it’s worth putting a site with low traffic on adbrite?
I haven’t had much success with AdBrite, but I that’s probably more due to poor placement than the service. Thanks for the tips.
If you haven’t got much traffic on your site you can still test services like adbrite and text-link-ads, just don’t expect much, if anything. Afterall you are not providing much value to those buying the links so you shouldn’t expect much in return.
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You inspired me to had adbrite on my site.
I will give them a try.
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i have also use abrite to promote links on my website. I have generate about 500 plus amount selling links.
I have my site up and running but can’t seem to get any traffic going. Suggestions?
This is a useful article. Thanks.
So are services such as AdBrite and TLA CPC models?
Or one gets paid just displaying the ads, i.e. flat rate payments?
You can have some success with AdBrite even if you have low traffic but if your audience is very trageted.
Very good article! I”ll look into Adbrite later but right now i need to start making money with the current affliates i have, mainly CJ
Any suggestion to grow up my website traffic ?
Please tell me, thanks
While AdBrite may bring you lots of “traffic” do not expect conversions or any ROI. Their manner of listings is borderline fraudulent… Yes, they will show you a huge very detailed report tracking each any every site you paid for but you’ll find no customer revenue or site sales from any of them. Lack of customer support and service only compound the issues. If you are looking to actually generate revenue for your business (as opposed to just paying lots of money for NOTHING) save your money and avoid AdBrite.
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