spottt

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been trying the Spottt “banner exchange” service on a few of my blogs. Having given it the benefit of the doubt for a few weeks, it’s now time to say goodbye. Here’s why:

• Site 1: 73,369 times on other sitesand got 110 clicks
• Site 2: 4,052 times on other sites and got 10 clicks
• Site 3: 6,271 times on other sites and got 12 clicks

People just aren’t clicking on the banners. Yes, it might be down to the design of my banners, but I don’t think so. I think people have already become “ad blind” to this type of ad. It’s for this reason that I’ve also dropped Entrecard from the one blog I’ve been trying it on.

Well, that’s freed up some more space in my sidebars. Off to look for some more widgets!

You may have noticed a new addition in my sidebar that goes by the name of Spottt. Spottt is, by any other word, a banner exchange. You upload your 125 x 125 ad - which seems to be the format of choice at the moment - then add a bit of code to your site. For every 2 every impressions of the Spottt ad on your own site, you gain a credit which will show your own ad on another site carrying the Spottt code.

I’m still in two minds about it. It takes up a fair bit of site space and it’s not bringing in much traffic on this site. Having said that, it’s bringing in a reasonable number on one of my other blogs, so I guess, like most of these things, it’ll have a different impact on different sites.

If you want to give it a go, they’re offering 1,000 free credits, but only for today. There’s nothing in this for me, as they’ve already given me my 1,000 extra credits

To get your free credits, head over to Spottt and enter the promotional code SHAMROCK when signing up.

Let me me know how you get on!