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Nuffnang vs. Adverlets What’s It All About?

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

For those of you who have just started blogging or maybe you’ve been blogging for a while now, I’m sure you’ve heard of Nuffnang and Adverlets right?

If not, basically they represent Malaysia’s version of Izea, or a middle man between advertisers and you, the blogger.

Nuffnang or Advertlets will on behalf of their community of bloggers, approach companies to do large scale, online advertising campaigns. The two companies will take a cut of the money that they charge to the advertisers (to cover their costs and profit margins) and the remainder will be distributed out to the bloggers in their network (based on performance – i.e. how many clicks or impressions the advert got on your site.).

Nuffnang

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The first time I’d ever encountered the founders of Nuffnang was at a seminar organized by Joel Neoh of Youth Asia where they were part of a ‘under 30s’ speaking panel or relatively successful business people.

The 2 founders, Timothy Tiah Ewe Tiam and Cheo Ming Shen, gave a short speech about how they started, what they did and how they came up with the idea in the first place.

I remember that the 2 founders carried themselves very well, were well spoken and seemed quite humble in their accomplishments, which is something I liked about them.

Apparently, Nuffnang is the slang that Ali G uses to speak.

How They Work

The Nuffnang network now includes thousands upon thousands of bloggers, across 4 countries – Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Australia.

Their clients include MAS, Nike, Astro and Air Asia amongst many others.

They allow you to sign up and join their network at http://nuffnang.com.my as long as you have more than 20 unique visitors a day and after your site has been reviewed for non-permitted content.

If I’m not mistaken, they don’t allow blogs that contain pornography, MLM, drugs, firearms and other such subject matters.

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Once your website has been approved, they will give you some code to place on your site (don’t worry, they’ll tell you how to add it) and as you can see in the images above, these are the locations they’d prefer you place the adverts.

Based on your profile (which you filled in upon joining the network), they will display adverts that they think will suit your audience and your blogging subjects.

For every click on the advert, you’ll get paid. For every 1000 impressions of an advert, you may also get paid – depending on how the campaign works.

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Why I Don’t Use Nuffnang Or Adverlets

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

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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