In Malaysia we have Nuffnang (Nuffnang.com) and Advertlets (advertlets.com), two blog aggregators that act as a middle man between local blogs and local advertisers. For now however any maybe for the near future, I won’t be using them.
They use our sites to sell advertising space to local advertisers and fyi, some international equivilants are Foodbuzz.com, Adbrite.com (to an extent) and of course there’s Google Adsense. They are encourage us to use their services to make money from our sites. But it doesn’t always work out that way.
The main problem I have with Nuffnang and Advertlets are the way the adverts work and the amounts they pay to you. Personally I have nothing against the owners of the 2 companies, heck, if I stay in this line of business long enough, I’ll probably meet them one day.
It’s just that a) their adverts take up prime real estate on your blog, b) their rates are quite low compared to even Google Adsense (which you must admit have random rates at times) and c) their ads, as of yet, are loosely targeted at best.
Have a look at the Google ads on my site, I’m guessing you’ll have about 30%-40% adverts on making money online or something similar.
For Nuffnang/ Advertlets you’d be lucky to get an advert based on the finance or the Internet, although you may get Nike Ads, or even maybe a Heineken (will Google slap you for having an advert on alcohol on your site? You have to check) advert. But is that what your site is about?
I’m guessing more often than not it’s not and that it might adversely effect how you brand yourself.
You might as well save that space, put a nice auto responder box or a nice affiliate banner.
I’ll pick up more on this subject in a future post.
Good morrow,
-William Lee
p/s: Some people DO make money using Nuffnang or Advertlets. So don’t say I didn’t mention at least that in my post. Thx!
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Lebih and nothing related. siennnn ~
Lim: yeah too many adverts, all unrelated… oh well hopefully they can server some good related adverts sometime in the future.
Then maybe I’ll consider using them (maybe)
Advertlets owe many people $$$.. and never pay…
read…
http://fireopal82.blogspot.com/2009/03/advertlets-exposed.html
vangardx.net/blog/advertlets-payment-issue
vangardx.net/blog/advertlets-payment-issue
well good thing I don’t have to experience that with any of my sites. Besides, there are plenty of other advertising companies which pay in USD, so why not use them instead?
We’ve use most of the services but Google AdSense is really good at this moment, for both high clicks, more ads and of course the USD rate. If you’re looking for some part-time income from Net, AdSense is really a solid platform.
i don’t clearly understand how to use Google AdSense…can you tell me more about it..i mean in simple word…
thank you..
Hi William,
I’m currently looking into which is the best way to monetise my website so appreciate this article.
I’ve been turned down for adsense even though I have over 200 pages of content rich original musings penned by myself. Many people are speculating that Asian websites need to have been around for longer than 6 months before they are accepted for Adsense, I’m unsure if this is true but for now I am looking for an alternative.
I see you have a links section on this page, would you be interested in a link exchange between our sites? I can place your link on any of the business section pages on my site for any Malaysian state.
Regards
Michael
p.s……..If you like a long read about Malaysian business go see my articles on the Kelantan & Perak business pages, I kind of got carried away:-)