Done and Over It
I removed the Project Wonderful ad boxes from all three sites that I had them on, and I deleted the ad boxes. I made exactly $1.51 in the just over 4 months I had them, and all the bids on them were for $0.01 but paying me $0.00. That’s a bunch of bull. If they bid $0.01 they should at least be paying it. They weren’t. They were paying nothing. And to me, that’s a complete bunch of crap. I’m not getting anything out of it, and I finally decided it wasn’t worth it. I did the same with Shopping Ads and I did the same with Ad Sense. I have a couple of blogs floating around with Ad Sense on them still, and I have a couple of blogs with Shopping Ads on them still, but for the most part, I’m done with those kinds of things. My posts make me more money than those ads ever will.
To me, it’s pointless to allow people to “bid” on your ad space, allow them to place a bid of $0.01 and then clearly post that the ad is live on your ad space but is making you $0.00. Yeah. Tell me THAT is fair to ME. It’s NOT.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Unless you're a big-cheese multi-million-visiters-a-day website owner, you're really not going to get the kind of money it's worth losing space to ads.
I tried Adsense briefly, but it took me maybe all of one month to take it back down and scrap that piece of s**t! I'll just make money the old fashioned way!
August 28th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I'm actually glad that you blogged about this. I'd been debating on this project wonderful thing cause tons of people use it. But if it doesn't make money then forget it. I would be furious if I were you. You run the ads you should be getting paid.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Thats a good idea. The blog layout always looks clean without those ads. I should do it soon.