World Class Advertising on a Blogger’s Budget

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So goes the tagline of the popular advertising network for bloggers, Adgitize.

I’ve been part of this network for quite a while now, over a year really. My member profile doesn’t say when I signed up, but it must have been no later than March last year, 2009. I’ve received payouts consistently since I started advertising too and that’s always an email I look forward to getting each month 🙂

How does Adgitize work?

Bloggers can sign up as a Publisher to display ads on their websites. To be a ‘Publisher’ means to have at least one Adgitize group posted on your blog, and to have it viewed at least once a day. You accumulate points in this network, and publishing a post per day guarantees a regular accumulation of points. Visiting other blogs in the network by clicking on ads on your site plus the sites you visit also gets you points.

The more points you earn, the more equivalent moolah you get. 🙂

But things get more interesting when you sign up as an Advertiser too. You just need a 125×125 badge (I can make you one if you sign up through this link), pay the advertising fee, and  your badge/ad will be displayed across the network of blogs. Because the Adgitize culture encourages visiting bloggers by clicking through the ads, this guarantees you more traffic, and more points. 🙂

I personally go for the monthly ads that cost $14. That’s a considerable amount, but I have proven time and again that as long as I blog regularly, it is money that I get back. Sometimes, I even place two ads in a month to promote traffic for my other blogs as well. Each month, I’d typically get anywhere between 11 to 14 dollars from Adgitize payout. I use that same money to place the ad for the following month. If I only get 11 dollars that month, that just means I paid 3 dollars for advertising that would have cost more from other ad providers.

Another awesome thing about Adgitize is how the founder/owner of the network interacts with the publishers and advertisers. Ken Brown personally emails the members and responds to our queries. I understand that he’s had to hire some staff as the network has grown, but he’s still pretty hands on.

In fact, I just exchanged emails with him tonight. I received this happy news from him, you see:

Hi Vera,

Congratulations. You have sponsored the most new member advertisers for the week of October 3 through October 9th. You are the winner and you win the $15 winning prize for the week. Plus, since we didn’t have any winners from last week you win an additional $15 from last week. You will receive an email shortly from PayPal with your winning amount of $30.00 USD.

Thank you for being an Adgitize Member affiliate and sponsoring new advertisers into the Adgitize Ad Network.

For more information about the promotion check out this article on the Adgitize Blog, http://www.adgitize.com/blog/default.aspx/28/Adgitize-Affiliate-Promotion-for-October-2010.

Sincerely,

Ken Brown
Adgitize

How’s that for good news, huh? 🙂

Thank you so much to Zoan for deciding to sign up with Adgitize last week by using my affiliate link! Without you, this winning would not have been possible. So I will gladly share the blessing with you (but not so much okay? lol) 🙂

If you’re a blogger and you haven’t advertised with Adgitize yet, well what are you waiting for?

Adgitize your web site.