125 Ad Exchange – No Clicking Involved
As you may have read in an earlier post, Entrecard and I didn’t get along much. They still owe me $50, too.
I didn’t have time to endlessly click on other blogs so they would, in return, endlessly click on mine. Traffic increased in a big way during my clicking days, but so did my bounce rate. All in all, Entrecard was a bust for me.
Now I’m checking into 125 Exchange, a new, free banner advertising program for blogs. It’s simple enough to use – create a 125 x 125 banner ad for your blog, upload it to their site, place their code on your blog and smile. You can choose categories, countries, and times to advertise. You can also test up to 3 ads.
Here’s the deal:
125 Exchange does only one thing. Places your 125 x 125 banner ad on other blogs, and places other blogger’s ads on your blog. It is all free for blog publishers, and the fresh traffic for your blog can be noticeable.
When you register, your account is automatically credited with 5,000 banner ad impressions. While you are working-off your initial 5,000 banner impressions, you also start replenishing the supply of free advertising available to you. Every three times someone clicks on a member ad on your blog, you get two visitors from clicks coming from someone else’s blog (3:2).
They have some strict rules, which I like – you don’t end up with junky looking ads for weird or useless blogs on your site. The rules include the following:
* Your ad must look professional.
* Blogs only. Your blog must have at least 20 posts and be recognized by Compete.com.
* You can only promote your blog or your services.
* All banner ads must be displayed above the fold on your blog.
* Your blog must not contain adult or other inappropriate content.
No risk, no expense, no clicking until you grow a blister on your finger…sounds good to me, so I’m giving it a try.
If you don’t have significant revenue from advertising with the125px banners, then it’s a great variation of an old idea.
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so it rotates 3 banners?
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This is totally cool. I always wanted to have good traffic. I will apply what you have just posted. Thanks a lot!
@Dan – I’m looking forward to seeing what it does for my site.
@Jordan – yes, you can rotate 3 banners.
@Frewareking – good luck with it.
Any rules against it being placed next to an EC banner?
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The problem is that banners always have such low click-through rates so I can’t see it generating much traffic. I’d be interested to hear how you get along with the service though…
I found 125 Ad exchange through Entrecard but haven’t had time to really dig and and explore it.
Would LOVE it if you’d share whether it’s worth digging into or not.
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Sounds great!! Too good to be true actually…
What’s the catch? I’m waiting to know how useful you found it…
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@Dennis – I didn’t see any rule against it.
@Advertising Ideas – I know they do – we’ll see how it works for me.
@Virtual Impax – I’ll write another post about it after a couple of weeks of stats.
I’d like to hear of your experience with them.
Most important, are you getting quality visitors? I suspect that really has a lot to do with the ad that you create.
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You didnt mention if the banner is dofollow or nofollow and if it is seo friendly. i would also know if it is w3c compliant…thanks
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@Tertius – I suspect you’re right!
@Web Talk – it’s in an iframe. They explain the program at the 125 Exchange site.
I opted out of Entrecard a long time ago. I’ll be back to see how this works out for you.
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I was looking for such information regarding banners, I wanted to know
How do banners work for generating traffic?
I’ll try for it.
I have never been a big believer in traffic exchange sites, because they can easily be manipulated. I look forward to seeing how this work for you.
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This sounds like a really interesting idea. I’ve been trying to think of ways of increasing my traffic lately (and decreasing my bounce rate). Thanks for the tip!
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thats great idea i can try this
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wow, what an idea????
absolutely nice one…..Thanks
I am looking for a good comparison of performancing and other add networks and linkXL which has it’s own WP widget. There has to be a good one out there.
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no clicks? I don’t really get the idea
Looks like a decent alternative. I guess I’ll wait for your comments on how good it is before I start trying it! Hope it’s a good experience for you! =D
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I don’t get this idea either
Too good to be true actually…
What’s the catch? I’m waiting to know how useful you found it…
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@Everyone – as it turns out, I couldn’t see that I got any benefit out of this, so I dumped it after 3 weeks.
Sorry to hear that the experiment didn’t work out so well. Thanks for letting us know!
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@George – You’re welcome…I didn’t want to leave people hanging.
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I found 125 exchange worth to consider to my traffic arsenal. Hope this would keep working to me long. Thank you for sharing this good stuff of yours found.
Is this method really effective?
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@Free Banner Maker – As it turns out, no.
I would like to thank you for this method. It is really works!
Regards,
Naomi