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Clicking On Blog Ads

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Recently, there has been a blog ad that has been appearing on my blog. I am pretty interested in it and would like to learn more about it BUT I could not click my own ad, right?

So I went to the blog ad company’s website hoping that they have an updated page of advertiser with their current advertising campaigns sop that I could click on the ad from there but then they do not have such a page. Sure they also have a couple of blog ads on their blog but no matter how many times I did, the ads that appeared are of something else that I have no interest in.

So I went to a friend’s blog and voila, there’s the ad because basically, this friend’s blog has way too many ads on his site and the load time was horrendous. I waited till everything loaded and clicked on that ad but then was returned a BLANK PAGE. Hhmm I don’t know if this problem is blog specific or ad problem. This also makes me wonder if my own ads are clickable, directing us to the advertiser’s website and not a blank page.

Having said this, till now, I am unable to visit the website of the advertiser and that means that the advertiser’s campaign is ineffective.

Also, this makes me recall the incident that I read a long time ago where a blogger clicked on ads on her own blog because she wanted the coupon codes herself. Well, that certainly makes sense. If one gets an advertisement on her one blog, surely the first person the ad is sold to is the blog owner herself? However, as I understand it, she was banned from the network.

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I am in the midst of helping a friend beef up his database of publishers for his new advertising company which helps publishers sell their web or blog spaces to really niche advertisers.

His target publishers are Australians or publishers living in Australia and the kind of quality websites or blogs that he is looking for include chef websites, wine websites, gourmet sites, recipe blogs, cooking blogs, restaurant review blogs, eating out, home cooking blogs and any other along this “food” theme.

I know I wrote about this before but it’s getting pretty exciting now that we are closer to the launch date which is the 1st of July. I rather enjoy myself surfing to all the food blogs and look at those appetizing photos of food, food and more food. I just started a recipe collection blog and going to all these more established foodie blogs have given me a pretty solid idea on how to beef up traffic for my new recipe collection blog.

Now I just need to find time to implement them!