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Advertise or monetize your blog on Project Wonderful!

Project Wonderful is an advertising broker with a unique "Infinite Auction" system. The advertiser that is willing to pay the most for a spot at that exact moment gets it, and only pays for the time to the nearest second that the ad remains in view before another advertiser outbids the first. The unique ad bidding system rules out impression and click fraud that is prevalent with so many other online advertising brokers, as the bidder can weigh results and cancel at any time. Plus, it allows each publishing site to set $0 minimum bids if they wish - which means you can even get free advertising!

It's also a great way to start monetizing your blog because they don't require high traffic. PW just asks that its publishers have at least 30 posts with quality content. Obviously the more traffic you get, the more advertisers will be willing to bid - but you can start out with low traffic like I did (less than 15 visits a day) and just use the few pennies you make at first to advertise your own blog and get more traffic. I'm 16 months in and have just reached my first $100.

AND PW just introduced an affiliate program, so if someone wants to advertise on your blog and they sign up as a new member through your link - you'll earn 3% of whatever they spend to use on advertising your own site. Here's my referral link ~ http://www.projectwonderful.com/?tag=48844

Visit my blog for more details and my personal experience ~

http://blog.aquariann.com/2010/05/its-project-wonderful-life.html

I'd love to hear anyone's experiences, as well, whether they use it to advertise their sites or monetize their blogs.
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Thanks for sharing - I've been debating with myself about whether to go this route or not.
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You're welcome, AsteropeBC! I'd be happy to try to answer any questions you have ...
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I just began offering Project Wonderful ad space on my blog today, hopefully I'll get some people to place some ads.

You can view my blog here: http://lillyqueenbath.blogspot.com/
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Sara - I recommend starting your ad spots at the minimum bid of $0 until you build up your traffic. Plus, no one wants to pay to bid if there's a bunch of empty spaces. Also, reduce the ad spots within each ad box - that way, bidders will outbid each other faster. Right now you have 8 spots - that means NINE people would have to bid $.01 in each region before the bid gets raised to $.02. That doesn't mean you can't still have several spots spread around your blog - they allow 5 ad boxes per site. I have a premium ad box with 1 spot, a medium one with 3 spots and 1 at the very bottom. Make sense?
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Re: Advertise or monetize your blog on Project Wonderful!

Anyone else try PW?
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No, but I am still trying to figure out how to drive more people to my blog to that our feature shops get more views and sales. Any tips??

www.DailyDoseofhandmade.blogspot.com
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I use PW on my blog. I get decent traffic and tried setting a minimum on bids, but didn't get bids. Set no minimum and get bids. Right now my spots are at 60 cents each. Towards the holidays they go up to $1.20 a spot. I think PW works great, but most people run campaigns and look for no minimum bids. But that doesn't mean they are necessarily bidding low. Just what I've found.

You can bid on spots on my blog if you like at http://www.soapdelinews.com I generally get around 4K unique visitors daily.
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Have you tried submitting any posts to http://craftgawker.com, Julie? That place sends out lots of traffic to handmade blogs.
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Re: Advertise or monetize your blog on Project Wonderful!

Thanks for sharing your experience, Rebecca! I think that's great that you get so much traffic and still use PW. Have you tried AdSense? The newspaper I work at gets about 4K visitors daily and makes almost $1,000 a month.
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Re: Advertise or monetize your blog on Project Wonderful!

I have PW, but it doesn't do much. It doesn't do much because A) I don't pay as much attention to it as I should and B) I don't have much traffic on my blog. My traffic stats are around the 25 mark for 5-day average.

I try to post weekly and that's the best I can do.
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I don't use adsense. Interesting they make so much. I have considered using it but did not want to have competing ads.
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Re: Advertise or monetize your blog on Project Wonderful!

Hi!
Just popping in to say that I have ad space on my blog:

pruitthandcrafts.blogspot.com

Thanks for all the info kristin!
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Re: Advertise or monetize your blog on Project Wonderful!

Oops, sorry I missed your reply, Linda! I went to check out your ad space and it says it's not yet active. :(
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