by psionmark on August 31, 2008
I’ve noticed over the past couple of days that the Performancing Ads Exchange ads have stopped displaying. As you can see from my slot on the right, the generic “Advertise Here” slot is showing, but none of the other five. I’ve checked a number of other sites in their Marketplace and all of the ones I’ve looked at seem to have the same issue.
I can’t see any kind of Status check on the site, which would be useful. I’ve contacted them to see if there’s any particular issue causing it and will report back.
Anyone else experiencing a similar problem?
Update: It looks like no ads are showing at all - not just the Exchange ads. I’ve just booked 2 of my own ads to show in my region on this site and neither of them are showing either.
Update 02/09/2008: Looks like the ads are at least partially back up. I’ve got 5 out of my 6 slots showing now.
by psionmark on August 8, 2008
I’ve been trying out Performancing Ads on a couple of my sites. One thing they point out as being a great feature is their Exchange system. The idea is that, when you show ads from their network, you get credits, which are then applied by showing your own ads on other sites.
The problem is, there are no stats whatsoever related to the Exchange. How many times have my ads been shown on other sites? Click-throughs?
In truth, I have absolutely no way of knowing whether it’s worth using the Exchange system at all.
Don’t get me wrong - I think Performancing is a great idea and I intend to stick with it - for a while at least. But, it would be nice to know a little something about how my Performancing Ads are performing in the Exchange!
Note: links above are affiliate links for Performancing
by psionmark on August 6, 2008
You may recall from one of my earlier posts (here, if you’d like to refresh your memory) that I was struggling with the balance of having a good looking site and earning revenue from it.
In that post, I decided to go back to embedding AdSense within the post. Well, I’ve had a change of heart. In fact, I’ve gone one step further and have decided to remove AdSense completely from my main blog - FlightSimX - as an experiment.
I’m going to leave it that way for at least 2 weeks and see if people stay on the site any longer and come back more frequently. This might not sound like much of a big deal, but AdSense is my biggest revenue source on the site, so I will be losing out financially, at least in the short term.
What I’m hoping to see is more page views (not necessarily more unique visitors, as the removal of the ads shouldn’t really affect that). Perhaps I’ll also see an increase in ad revenue from the other, more appropriate ads on the site.
I’ll report back as the experiment continues.
by psionmark on April 3, 2008
I see that Google are now showing the scrolling AdSense ads on all their text ad blocks now. I’m not a great fan of the arrows - they stand out like a sore thumb. Worse still, you don’t even get paid if a visitor clicks on anything other than the initially loaded ads! Seems like a win-win for Google and a loss for web site owners!
What do you reckon? I think they’re plain ugly.
Following on from my post about Wordpress 2.5, I’m loving it more and more as I get to know it. There are some teething problems, as you’d expect of anything this size. The latest gotcha is that the WP-ContactForm breaks the image uploader. Instead of the nice new whizzy uploader, you now get:
Which is not terribly useful. The workaround is to disable WP-ContactForm if you need to upload an image, then re-enable it once you’re done. I’m using cformII here on Psionmark, so will look at integrating that into my other blogs.
