Comments on: Performancing Ads – New Way to Sell Your 125×125 Ads?

By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:01:34 +0000

I’ve heard a few blogs mention Performance Ads, it seems like a good thing to check out.

By: Elijah

Elijah — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:15:18 +0000

Hey T Edwards! It’s great to see you on here. You have come to the right spot for inspiration and learning.

@Paul – I’m kind of in between with regards to putting ads up right away, or waiting until a traffic goal has been met. I’ve started up several blogs over the last year or so – all in very different ways. Some were started with Adsense ready to go, some without. Some were preloaded with 125′s while others like http://www.theathomecouple.com have no advertising at all – at least not until my traffic, backlinks, and subscribers hit a goal which I’ve set.

Paul is right though T, it really doesn’t matter at the end of the day. If you intention is to put ads on the site eventually, why not put them on right away and filter out the “non-clickers” from the jump off?

My only qualm with services like Performance Ads is that they take a cut from your ad sales as a “finders fee”, which is absolutely fine, and they have the right to, but I would rather keep 100% of the income for myself and go through the hustle and experience finding advertisers for my ad spots and maybe turn my experience into and eBook or email series.

Great post.

By: Paul Piotrowski

Paul Piotrowski — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:36:13 +0000

@T Edwards: If your intention is to put ads on your site eventually, why not put them on there right away. Who cares how much traffic you’re getting? Even if you put AdSense ads on your site to start with and only earn $0.11 in the first month from that, at least your Blog made a positive income your first month, which is always better than $0.00.

If you’re worried about turning people off due to the fact that you have advertising on your site, ask yourself what your “perfect visitor profile” is, and decide whether you want to attract people who get offended by Ads on your site, or if you’d rather attract people who are OK with ads because they know that there’s nothing wrong with making money by doing what you love.

Short answer, I didn’t wait to put advertising on my site. From day one I didn’t care if having ads or affiliate links offended people, because those types of people that get offended are not the type of people I can help with my Blog anyways.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:37:23 +0000

I’ll be interested to hear how well it goes for you.

By: T Edwards

T Edwards — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:12:35 +0000

Hi Paul
I am a new blogger and your blog is the first one I subscribed to. I continue to learn and be inspired. Thanks for the insight on this adveritising option. My blog doesn’t have any traffic yet so I don’t think I’m ready for ads but how many subscribers or page views were you getting before you started going after ad revenue?

Thanks again for an EXCELLENT blog!