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Generating Revenue with On-Line Ads?
ratajik asks: "In my continuing quest to generate revenue from my open source project,
I've been attempting to use on-line ads. What are other Slashdot users' experiences with on-line ads? Which are the best methods (presentation,
click-through, purchase, etc.), and which are the best companies that you've deal with?"
"I've tried several at this point, and have had the best result from Google's AdSense - but even that hasn't been great. I've gone the user-most-purchase route with
Connection Junction, but with 498,000 impressions in 1 month, have had zero sales. AdSense has worked a lot better (as users just need to click through), but I'd like to see a higher Clickthrough
rate. What other companies have you dealt with and what has your experience been? What have you found to be the best type of Ad and Ad placement on your
site? What management and tracking tools have you found that work best? If you've rolled your own web ads (e.g., not using an aggregator), what did you use to do it and how did you find advertisers?I've personally tried staying away from ads on my web sites, but some of the AdSense-type ads are minimally annoying, and seem like a good way to generate a bit of revenue off of free software, especially considering Internet
advertising revenue was at a
record 2.3 billion in the first quarter of 2004."
especially considering Internet advertising revenue was at a record 2.3 billion
;)
How much you wanna bet that $2.2 billion of that was pr0n?
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
They want their business model back.
There are 10 kinds of people: ones who understand ternary, ones who don't, and ones who think this joke is about binary
I just went to your site and clicked on an ad.
Unknown host pong.