CMF Ads has been a great way to obtain visibility for your blog logo for the past year or so. They are a stable advertising venue, with high standards, guaranteeing that your blog will not be sandwiched between gambling, soft porn, and get rich quick sites. But it has always been plagued by the fact that there was no incentive for people to click on the ads, so the actual visits to a blog were usually under 5 a month.
Spikes is the solution to that shortcoming. Just introduced, any member blog of CMF can buy a "spike" for $0.20. This will place your banner on the Spikes page where other members can click on it. The 20 cents will buy you 50 unique pages views. Once another member clicks on a banner, it will not be visible to that person again until the 50 views have been reached. (It will become visible again if the person purchases another spike.)
For the people who click on a banner, there is a compensation of $0.002, which means that for 50 clicks you can earn a dime. So you can earn back half of what you spend on a spike for yourself.
This is a great addition to the CMF options!
CMF Ads
| web ad income Dec 21 (6 blogs, 2 web sites, writing): Adsense $.16 Adgitize $.98 Project Wonderful $.006 Chitika $.02 Clixsense $.01 Neobux $.07 ______________________ Total: $1.25 |
| web ad income Dec 22 (6 blogs, 2 web sites, writing): Adsense $1.39 Adgitize $1.01 Project Wonderful $.002 Chitika $.10 Clixsense $.05 Neobux $.13 ______________________ Total: $2.68 |
| web ad income Dec 23 (6 blogs, 2 web sites, writing): Adsense $.11 Adgitize $.99 Project Wonderful $.006 Clixsense $.11 Neobux $.08 ______________________ Total: $1.30 |
| web ad income Dec 24 (6 blogs, 2 web sites, writing): Adsense $.09 Adgitize $1.10 Project Wonderful $.007 Clixsense $.05 Neobux $.04 ______________________ Total: $1.29 |
7 comments:
Hi Sharkbytes,
My Spikes results are out (link)... for the first Spikes it looked promising. but after i bought a few hours ago my second Spikes, i would say it get's really bad.
From 12 visits just now, Google Analytics only recorded 3 visitors - Average time from these 3 visitors - ZERO seconds.
Incentive seems to make it worse and they just click now and don't read at all (only the first time seems to be interesting to advertise).
By the way, i have some blogs who get 20 or even 30 clicks on my blogs but the average is around 7-10 clicks.
I haven't got the internet at home for another couple of weeks so I missed the announcement of spikes. I think I'll give it a try, even though it's likely to have 100% bounce rate.
By the way, I just posted a couple of close up photos if you fancy trying to guess what they are :-)
Yes, the bounce rate is too high. Maybe they can add a timer that makes you stay for 20 seconds. That wouldn't be too bad.
The Spike bounce rate is 10-20% lower than my search engine bounce rate. There was an issue with IE8 not visiting the blogs properly. Fixing this lowered my Spike bounce rate down to 68.75%, from the previously reported 78.67%. Each Spike purchaser was given an additional 10 clicks as compensation.
Thanks, Turnip. Sounds good. I use FF, but haven't looked at Analytics closely enough to really study the issue. Thanks for the extra clicks!
I'm pretty happy with spikes. I've received at least two comments from spike visitors (spikies?)
I'm planning to buy a spike every time I write a new post :-)
John- That might be a great idea for people who don't post every day. I seem to be becoming one of those on a couple of blogs!
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