Adbrite Review - Best Blogs Asia
I’ve been using Adbrite for years and previously earnt $1000 per month from selling adverts, so I share my tips.
Adbrite has been a steady stream of income for me in the past and Asian affiliates can use it too. It’s also used by sites like eBay, Yahoo and Digg.
About Adbrite
Adbrite has been around for a while now, developed by Pud who is a serial entrepreneur. It came about as an alternative to Google Adsense, but very different in that a price is given for a set period of time and for a set price. There’s no ppc (pay per click), which is favoured by Adsense and it’s copycats. The point of Adbrite is to get as many clicks possible to your advert in the alotted time.
There are a few options to promote your product:
- Text Links – Standard Text link adverts, with a title and description and link to your site
- Banners – These can be graphic banners of any size, although you may be restricted by kb size
- Inline Ads – Adverts on special text keywords.
- Full Page Ads – It would link to your custom landing page
- Britepic – Used in Videos and Images
Advert Tips
The point is to drive as much traffic possible to your advert, so as an Advertiser I’d suggest the following:
- Use Text Links and Banners, you can find cheaper ads this way
- Try to keep adverts relevant to the site
- I’d prefer to use Text Links, so make the wording clear and exciting
- In the Site Directory, use the category filters and sort by Uniques.
Adbrite Publisher Tips
As a publisher (which may be the best option), you can display potential advertiser’s adverts on your site. The pricing structure is allocated by the number of uniques, pagerank and impressions your site has! I’d also suggest the following:
- Manage your Ad Zones, experiment with Text Ads, Full Page and Inline – although Text Ads are best
- Keep initial startup prices low and DO NOT use the recommended price adjuster
- When increasing ad prices, they need to be justified..if you’ve got a backlog of advertisers, then that’s the time to do it!
- Make sure the ads are on all pages, even 404′d ones..there’s no restriction compared to Adsense
- Limit the number of adverts. I use a vertical section of 4 ads only
Join Adbrite
They also have a publisher program, which offers:
- 50% of AdBrite’s profits for the first 3 months
- 10% of AdBrite’s profit for the next 9 months
Conclusion
Adbrite isn’t so great, I always feel I could of got a better return somewhere else and think is designed for sites with huge amount of traffic and unique visitors. I also felt that a few years back when they sold off part of the business to BLA, I lost a lot of revenue so it takes time to establish yourself as an advert seller.
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You may want to check out my blog for some more information about Adbrite. They disqualified a site of mine with no good cause. I strongly suggest that people find a different ad server, as Adbrite has proven to be vague about their own terms of service, has been shown to alter their terms of service to suit their own personal agendas, and has been shown to employ prejudiced support staff.
I think they must of disqualified yours during the transistion/sale. It wasn’t a nice thing for them to do and I was effected by it also, but they still bring me a steady form of income per month (abeit less than before) so I’d still recommend them…
They disqualified me for “discussing” PTC sites. Not because I am a PTC site. They seek to control what you can and cannot discuss on your own blog. I will not support any company that does not respect my freedom of speech.
I understand that some people do earn money from them, and I am glad for them. However, to me, this is not about whether or not they pay, but, rather, about the fact that they could come up with some reason, which is non existant in their posted terms of service, and disqualify any site, at any time.
I prefer Bidvertiser. Not because they are paying more, etc., but because they actually list a phone number and are quite happy to discuss issues with you. They looked at my site and approved it. I do not believe Adbrite has done anything more than glance at my site, despite talking to 4 different service persons.
can i put adbrite at my blogspot. Will google ban my blog?
Nope Google won’t Ban you
I will give it a try I currently use Adwords, YSM and Adcenter. I am also considering Tribal Fussion