ads on your website

[MiroslavGlavic]

Do you have ads on your site?

What kind of ads are they (text or graphics)?

Do you use some network like Google Adsense, linkshare, bidvertiser, CJ, etc...or do they go directly to you?

Do you have those annoying double underlined in-line ads where you hover over them and a preview window showing you an ad?

Do you even bother putting ads since many people (like me) have NOSCRIPT or other add-ons that can block advertisement?

One of the sites that I help run, I review books, I include an amazon links. The reviews are of books I actually read.

So how does your site deal with the ads issue?

[Jeffro]

The only ads I sell on WPTavern.com are display ads and one text read ad on the podcast. I don't go through a network. Instead, I do direct sales with a particular WordPress plugin. Of course I bother with ads because that's what gives me money for WordCamps and most of the ads are relevant in some form to WordPress.

If you want to call them ads, which I don't. I have also started writing review posts with affiliate links.

[MiroslavGlavic]

The only ads I sell on WPTavern.com are display ads and one text read ad on the podcast. I don't go through a network. Instead, I do direct sales with a particular WordPress plugin. Of course I bother with ads because that's what gives me money for WordCamps and most of the ads are relevant in some form to WordPress.

If you want to call them ads, which I don't. I have also started writing review posts with affiliate links.

NOSCRIPT blocks wptavern, I undid that, I see studiopress above and the 125 x 125 ads on the main page.

Why do you do direct sales? Don't you have to do more than if you were using linkshare or other networks? I am debating this myself.

I like the 125 x 125 ads, not too big. I noticed you mention AIOSEO pro on your podcast.

[Jeffro]

Not really. WPTavern has a good reach in the consultant community as well as the commercial theme/plugin community. Those guys have been awesome at purchasing ads on the Tavern. I'm also in the lucky situation in that despite the display ads possibly not converting well, the purchasers just want to support me along with the site. Brian Gardner has been a strong support of WPTavern and so have a number of others. The exposure is just icing on the cake for them.

Yes because Michael Torbert paid for the ad. He has something else that he'll be advertising soon but it's not ready yet.

[andrea_r]

Yep, I have ads. Some I do through a service, some I take on myself, manually.

Do you have those annoying double underlined in-line ads where you hover over them and a preview window showing you an ad?

Heck no, those are annoying :D Not a fan of google ads either.

[Ryan]

I've had no luck with "double underlined ads" via Kontera. Google Ads has paid the best for me in the past.

I currently don't have any ads on any of my sites, but I will be adding in-page AJAX Edit Comments and Gravity Forms affilate links to http://pixopoint.com/ soon.

I used to post heavily in the SitePoint.com forums and had many requests for in-page links from the users there. Most of them weren't worth bothering about, but a few them paid over US$300 for a single link on an obscure PR0 page on my site. I don't post there much these days though and so the number of requests for that sort of thing has plummeted. You need to be careful about these sorts of ads too as Google doesn't tend to like them unless they're nofollow'd and if they aren't phrased correctly can be annoying for actual site visitors. I'd say I've turned down about 50% of requests for these types of ads due to them not gelling well with the page content and about 45% due to them not being willing to pay enough for the privledge.

[curtismchale]

Adds really depend on the purpose of your site. My site/blog is to generate business for my business so I have no adds on it. I know a friend that had adds on their site and saw a pretty tidy revenue. When we looked further it was to their competitors. When she changed the adds around she got more work which negated the loss of add revenue.

I'm looking at adds on another site I run about whitewater kayaking. The purpose there is to write about the cool stuff we've done. All we want financially is to not have to pay for hosting or to front the $$ when we want hats or t-shirts. That site is a prime candidate for adds.

So all I'm saying is think about the purpose of your adds. If you add sends one client away to a competitor's service you shouldn't have them. I know for myself one client easily pays for my hosting for a few years.

[andrea_r]

Oh yeah, I don't have ads on our consultancy sites, but I DO have ads where they are related to the blog's topic.

I have a few blogs, but answered from the perspective of the ones that carry ads.

[MiroslavGlavic]

Oh yeah, I don't have ads on our consultancy sites, but I DO have ads where they are related to the blog's topic.

I have a few blogs, but answered from the perspective of the ones that carry ads.

Would you have issues with ads on posts. Like if you are reviewing a book, but you link to it through let's say Amazon's associates linking? Would that be an ad? I am 50%-50%.

[andrea_r]

I don't see those strictly as ads. If you're reviewing a book, and you liked it, it's pretty much a given these days that the link to it contains an affiliate.

Also, in terms of things like Amazon, that's really the only way you'll make any money from it at all. If you relay on sidebar ads for Amazon, you won't make anything.