Sometimes, I'll find a potential revenue source, set it up and activate it, then forget all about it. I mean completely forget about it.
That's what I did with bidvertiser.com. What is Bidvertiser? BidVertiser is an online advertising network offering site-targeted pay-per-click (PPC) text ads and image ads.
So, apparently I set up an account with them in October 2011 and added their code to some of my pages on both my Interactive Lunacy site and my Hooked on Droid site. Then, I pushed their existence from my mind.
While updating Interactive Lunacy, I ran across a page that had Bidvertiser code. So I went to my email, searched for a username and password, found it and logged in. That's when I discovered that I added their code to some pages. The problem is, I don't know which pages have the code (except the one I ran across) and I have lots of pages. Somehow, though, the code that was on the page that I found didn't seem to be active. So, I'm not sure if it's been displaying properly anyway.
But, forget about all that, I just want to go to my reports for the last year and see if I made any money. I knew it couldn't be much because I don't recall getting any money from them, but because of my master plan (10,000 websites each making $8.00 per year will bring in $80,000), I had to check. And Woo Hoo! from October 2011 until October 2012 I made $8.87. That's almost up to their payment threshold of $10 to actually give me my money.
So, is it worth it, considering that $8 is just a mediocre Google AdSense day on some individual pages on that same site? Maybe. But now I have to do more work to see whether Bidvertiser plays nice with my other revenue generators.
According to some, Google doesn't allow Bidvertiser ads on the same pages as AdSense ads. That doesn't seem to be the case. However, most users who display both ads are reporting that Bidvertiser does not give nearly the return of AdSense ads, and sometimes the ad relevance is a bit askew on Bidvertiser.
From what I recall, I probably only had Bidvertiser code on two of my pages over two domains. And I made $8.87. So, had I put the code on 100 pages it COULD have generated over $800. Again, that's not good at all when compared to my better AdSense pages.
So, what I'm going to do in the relatively near future (too many projects...not a bad thing), is pick a couple of my moderately trafficked pages and remove (gulp) the AdSense ads (or not) and insert Bidvertiser ads.
Stay tuned. I'll let you know.
Oh, and if you wish to give Bidvertiser a try, here is the email referral request they gave me. Use it.
Hi,
I have just signed with a company that allows me to run text-ads on my website and they pay me each time someone clicks on the ad. The best thing is that they pay me via PayPal with a minimum of only $10.
I have just signed with a company that allows me to run text-ads on my website and they pay me each time someone clicks on the ad. The best thing is that they pay me via PayPal with a minimum of only $10.
The company is called BidVertiser, here is the link to use:
http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/bidvertiser/bdv_ref.dbm?Affiliate_ID=25&Ref_Option=pub&Ref_PID=421774
http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/bidvertiser/bdv_ref.dbm?Affiliate_ID=25&Ref_Option=pub&Ref_PID=421774
