Comments on: Cool Monetization: Project Wonderful

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:01:21 +0000

Hi Vern,

I supposed it depends on what kind of classified ads you’re referring to. These PW ads tend to be very colorful and make me a lot more interested in clicking on them to find out more.

I think you can test both at the same time and get a feel for them. But if you are trying for some serious level of testing, you may want to do them one at a time.

By: imprinted promotional products

imprinted promotional products — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:13:45 +0000

Looks like a new option for monetization. I will check out. But I prefer paid blogging sites instead of these types. My best earner is payperpost.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:55:44 +0000

I frequently find myself outbid, PD. In fact…I get way too many emails from them on the subject (update: this is now fixed. isn’t it amazing what you can do when you invest 30 seconds to solve one of those niggling little irritations! ). But, what I’m doing with it now is just as Wendy suggested. I threw a few bucks in to get started…and now, I just reinvest whatever I make from ads on my site to advertise on other sites. I haven’t aggressively worked at making money with it. But I do love some of the sites that use it, and even if the money isn’t big enough to make it worth my time, it still makes for a fun advertising option. Right now, I have ads running on a number of ads, including the Project Wonderful home page…sometimes. Other times, I’m outbid…but that’s fine. I don’t take it all too seriously. I still think it’s a terrific idea.

By: Promotional Dude

Promotional Dude — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:02:20 +0000

It looks like Blogpico outbid you at .60 now. I really like this model, I signed up and am going to try it myself. Thanks for the great post!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:33:24 +0000

Matt, I suspect that, as long as there are systems, there will be abusers. For now, the amounts are not large enough to inspire that kind of thing, I don’t think. Could happen. But I must admit, I’m enjoying having advertisers on my sites that want to be there…and making some pennies here and there.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:14:13 +0000

Thanks for this. I’m always looking for more and better monetization streams – looks like this one could be good – we’ll see.

By: Zhu

Zhu — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:09:29 +0000

Thanks for the info — I think I’ll give it a shot. I’m starting to monetize my blog and it might worth it for me, considering I have a personal blog.

That sounds like a good idea. I’ll give you feedback !

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:08:05 +0000

Josh,

I suspect that it’s because they are sites that are difficult to monetize thru other means. My clean humor site, MadeMeLaugh.com, has a fair amount of traffic and a lot of good quality content. It’s not uncommong for someone to spend 20 minutes or more on that site enjoying the content. However, the CTR is so small that it kills my AdSense stats…so I go with other options.

I can’t vouch for the stats one way or the other. Not yet, at least.

Hey Wendy,

Great to hear from you again!

Glad to hear it’s working for you. I just put up some blocks on that humor site today, and we’ll see whether anyone takes the bait and starts advertising there.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:18:11 +0000

I’m so in love with Project Wonderful. For a $5 deposit in my account I was able to start advertising my blogs, and still earn enough money to make keeping their ads on two of my sites.

It’s not a perfect system, I agree that the stats may be skewed but there’s more control for both advertisers and publishers.

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:13:16 +0000

This certainly looks interesting. I just did a little browsing on their site. One thing that’s questionable is the stats they provide. I’d be interested to know how the claimed traffic is calculated. Of coarse Alexa is never an extremely accurate tool, but if you look at many of the sites in their network which claim to have thousands and thousands of visitors a day, their Alexa rankings are in the millions.

Like I said Alexa is of coarse not always accurate, but I believe in many cases it’s somewhat accurate. I’d just want to look into those stats a bit more before going much further with them.

Definitely a nice find though. I wonder why there are so many comic/humor related sites in the network?