help on PPC

[wish71]

Hi

I would like to insert AD on my website in order to get some money with PPC, regretfully can't use AD sense.
My website is basically about photography but I'm also promoting some Investment Program.

Anyone know a real good PPC program that pay more then peanuts?

As far as I'm now I'm going to use bidvertizer probably...  any experience and comments on that?

Regards and thank you for any comment.

[SensoVision]

what about trying to sell you space to sponsors interested in your site?  It seems to be most profitable way of supporting for many sites including mine. Although it could be tricky if your site covering general topics.
Maybe Andy could give you some advices on choosing advertiser based on his experience with such companies.

[Andy]

PPC income is an earner for me but I have some high traffic pages i.e. 100's of visitors per day. So the peanuts add up to 1kg bags. So, the bottom line is that you are not going to make much money from ppc hosting unless you have 1000's of targeted visitors every month.

The revenue share can be quite generous but remember that advertisers have to pay cold hard cash for every click so they don't want to waste their money. This is why the payout per click is low unless the ads are for very expensive products/services in a competitive market such as surgery or law.

Senso has a good idea about selling advertising space, then you can use your marketing skills to negotiate worthwhile pay.

The best way to make money online is to sell your own products. This brings you to the top of the food chain. PPC advertising hosting is the lowest end of the food chain i.e like bacteria rather than a lion 

I hope this makes some sense.

[SensoVision]

The best way to make money online is to sell your own products. This brings you to the top of the food chain. PPC advertising hosting is the lowest end of the food chain i.e like bacteria rather than a lion 

Have to agree with what Andy is saying, actually you don't have guarantee that even with traffic higher than 100 visitors per day you'll get good revenue as PPC seems not to be a universal solution for every site, for some it simply wouldn't work...

Andy have remind me thing I'm actually planning for my own photo gallery, as although I had published only old low resolution photos which I don't really like, I'm keep getting requests for royalty free rights for some of them. So since you had a lot of photos maybe you should realize a way to sell high resolution pictures from your site? You're living in exotic country and although I didn't have time to explore all your galleries I already saw some nice photos, so IMHO there is high chance that someone would like to use one of your photograph for advertising campaign, logo design or other purposes. So just make a button which will offer a way to contact you and get permission for using particular photo.

[Manu]

Simply I have not seen any contextual ad company without any negative reviews that includes bidvertiser as well. While adsense is most reliable, you be still be interested to check these contextual ad companies.

http://publisher.yahoo.com/
http://www.bidclix.com/
http://www.clicksor.com/
http://www.quigo.com/
http://www.adknowledge.com/
http://www.mirago.com/
http://www.nixxie.com/
http://www.oxado.com/
http://www.targetpoint.com/
http://www.miva.com
http://www.vibrantmedia.com/
http://www.kontera.com
http://www.adbrite.com/
http://www.bclick.com/
http://www.advertising.com/
http://www.burstmedia.com
http://www.trafficmp.com/
http://www.bravenetmedianetwork.com
http://revenuepilot.com/

You can also sell text ads from your site using
http://www.linkworth.com/
http://www.textlinkbrokers.com/
http://www.linkadage.com/
http://www.text-link-ads.com/

[Andy]

Darren over at http://problogger.net/ makes annual posts about his best contextual ad earning streams. Since he makes 6 figures a year, his tips are worth a read. But he has high traffic pages. I think his favorite is "Chitika eMiniMalls" and his most profitable site is a blog that posts reviews of digital cameras.

Photos are a good product since many webmasters need graphics for their sites. Photos of jungle, nature and creatures are useful for logos or backgrounds in margins. We talked about this in the digital photo area and the feeling was that the photos need to be very high quality to be considered as "stock" quality but if you sell them yourself, you will be the judge of what makes it into your catalogue. And photos for use on sites don't need to be anywhere near as good as for glossy magazines.

The script I was checking out for photo blogging (pixel post) incorporated some ecommerce features.