Advertise on OzBargain Blog from 20 Cents a Week
AdToll is a relatively new ad brokering/ad serving company, where website publishers can rent out advertising spaces, and advertisers can rent them for a fixed weekly price. I was interested in them because (1) I run websites with advertisement space that I would like to rent out (2) they are Australian based start up, based in Perth Western Australia (go Aussies!). So earlier this week I swapped out a Google AdSense banner for an AdToll banner, and see how it goes…
I have to say that I am very disappointed with AdToll so far. First of all, I let them to decide on the pricing, and AdToll’s auto-pricing engine thinks advertising on OzBargain Blog, with a full graphical 468×60 banner at top right hand corner and all that, should cost advertisers merely 20 cents per week! One single click from AdSense will cost more than that to an advertiser! AdToll will take 25% cut, which means I cannot even afford a Maccas soft serve after renting out the above space for 3 weeks!! Bloody cheap for any Australian business to advertise on OzBargain.
Secondly, after placing the banner for the last 5 days there is still no one signing up. Are we so much into recession that advertisers can’t afford Maccas’ soft serves?
So here we go, here is a chance for you to advertise on OzBargain for even less than 20 cents a week. How about for free?! Dan from AdToll is now giving all new advertisers $20 free credit, so assuming (1) you only advertise on OzBargain and no where else (2) the pricing stays at 20 cents/week (3) I am willing to put up with that price, you could have put your banner ads here for 100 weeks!!
Note — all ads subjected to approval. No dodgy ads, spammy ads, competing ads, etc.
Let’s see how it goes.
UPDATE: To WHOEVER PLACED THE ORDER on the banner — you are a SMART BOY (or GIRL?)!! Happy arbitrage while it last :)
Hey Scott. I saw yo joined up earlier and I personally approved your site.
I feel your frustration! 20c a week is damn cheap… why wouldn’t someone advertise?!!!???
What it comes down to is marketing… let people know about your available advertising. Let your users know, let your friends know, let your business contacts know etc…
We find that once Publishers start getting bookings they continue to do so. It largely depends on a few factors such as traffic, performance and price. Of which you can’t complain with yours as your price is great and the site allows for very targeted ads.
Good luck with it and if you want any more help/suggestions please get in contact with us.
Dan
Managing Director
AdToll.com
… yes that was me in the promo vid!
Thanks Dan for dropping by! Right after I posted the message I’ve got 4 bookings! I check the banner — wow! dStore, OO.com.au, Deals Direct — they are all coming to advertise on this blog!
HOWEVER, after close inspection they are all clixGalore affiliate links, trying to use arbitrage to get cheap traffic (via OzBargain blog) to higher payout in affiliation network…
Well, I have 24 hours to make up my mind whether I want to kick the arbitragers out.
My pleasure! Lots of people do that type of thing… your restrictions don’t say anything about those types of ads and they are targeted to your users.
I think $0.20 is their autoprice starting strategy. I got $0.20 per week too, and my blog is way newer than OZBARGAIN.
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