ProjectWonderful - The cheapest advertisement program for your blog
Though I had signed up with ProjectWonderful a few months back, I had not quite used it to make money. Basically, I did not believe in the bidding model for ad sales. Also, I haven’t quite started organized private ad sales out of this blog as I am mostly relying on non-intrusive ad methods such as Google AdSense to make money out of this blog.
What I did not realize until now is the power of advertising with Project Wonderful. For the last couple of days I have been playing around with it and I was amazed to see that advertising comes for rates as low as a couple of cents per day - and sometimes even absolutely FREE! Wonder how?
It’s really wonderful!
Remember, ProjectWonderful can be used to monetize your blog by becoming a publisher. But we are talking about how to advertise using it and the following are the simple steps involved.
- Sign up with ProjectWonderful - It does not cost you a penny to create an account
- Using Buying Advertising and ‘My Ads‘ options, set up your blog’s advertisement in text or graphics form. Upload your ad or banner image
- Allocate $5 to My Funds using PayPal. Please note that the money is not spent unless you bid for ads greater than 0 cents
- Using My Campaigns search for sites that matches your criteria (tags, page views per day, minimum bid, current bid etc). Choose minimum bid or current bid as zero. You will still get a plenty of advertisers.
- Place your bids one by one and there you go! You will start receiving traffic and subscribers soon!!
You can really get your FREE ads placed on a number of blogs with decent traffic. In fact, my ads are running on five or six blogs right now with bids ranging from 0 cents to 7 cents per day!
How is it better than ad exchange programs?
Very simple! For ad exchange programs such as ViralBlogAds or PerformancingAds, you need to actually place ad regions on your blog to get exchange credits. In the case of Project Wonderful, this is not a requirement as you can still find 0 cent per day ads that come without any credit or cash. And needless to say, it will get you some traffic just like any ad program!
So what’s stopping you now?
…go ahead and place your ads all around blogosphere! As you may have already noticed I am running a ProjectWonderful ad block on this blog, above the fold on the sidebar. This is available for anybody absolutely FREE right now! So go ahead and place your ads there while I am busy wondering what took me so long to write about it…
(PS:- ProjectWonderful is yet to collect my traffic details as I placed the ad region only today!)
October 20th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Finally you have also decided to go with ProjectWonderful. Though, it may not give us some heavy bucks, it will at least help us to recover our hosting charges.
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October 20th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
I’ll register for it right now.. Spending few $$$(Should I say cents? ;)) a day is OK if we can expect some traffic..
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October 21st, 2008 at 8:20 am
I have been using Project Wonderful for a while now. I have found it to be a great way to advertise yourself and bring in the traffic and like you mentioned without having the Project Wonderful ads/sidebar on your blog should you desire so. It is an effective, simple method that works without any hassles. Must be checked out for its ease of use and efficiency.
October 21st, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I joined projectwonderful 3 months back i guess. Till now i have made 18$. Every day some cents
It takes up only 100X100 space on our site. so, i think it is good.
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October 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Its great for blogs. I mean its just that you have to keep findinh whats the cheapest that as well give quality traffic… But well in affiliate marketing, project wonderful never generates anything for me…
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October 21st, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Such direct advertisements is always beneficial for bloggers
Soon i will try this.
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October 21st, 2008 at 11:12 pm
@Pras, my idea is more to advertise with it than making money out of it. I have not started private ad sales here and do not plan to do so until I hit 1000 uniques per day
I plan to rotate ProjectWonderful or PerformancingAds kind of products until then… When are you coming back in full-steam? I don’t see you blogging much of late 
@Samrat, why not? You may try advertising right here… Second day into the usage my bids are still only 2 cents…
@Rajiv, definitely it looks like a good ad mechanism than exchange programs or heavily paid PPC advertisement. The only problem I see is that you need to monitor when your ads are outbid by others. Also for $0.00 ads, they don’t allow more than 2 days in a row
@Nihar, Yup… I saw that you have bids like 20 or 30 cents per day on each ad spot. Good to know that you have made some money as well. As I mentioned, I am using it as ad mechanism to begin with and if bidding increases why not use it for making money as well?
Btw, did you get paid by them yet??
@Melvin, I did not quite understand your point. Did you mean to say that PW’s affiliate scheme is not yielding anything? (I thought they don’t have a referral scheme)
@Chetan, definitely it is useful for all of us.
Thank you very much folks! Let the comments keep pouring!!
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:15 am
I think I will have to try this out, sounds fun. The only thing I find a little frustrating is making my own ads.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:26 am
@Sherri, yes it is fun… If you find creating your own banners difficult, you could also try the text ads. They support that as well. However, many blog advertisers prefer image banners alone!
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Sounds interesting. i m goin to signup now.. lets see what happens next..
really man ur blog have a lot of good information.. i visit it almost everyday..
thanks for shairing the great info :o)
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October 23rd, 2008 at 12:10 am
@Atul, thanks for your compliments buddy
It is definitely looking good for advertisement and may be good for making money as well once advertisers start noticing you and your traffic pattern.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 am
@Ajith, Good. 1000 uniques/day is a major milestone for every blogger. I wish you reach that figure very soon. I will be back in Action within next few weeks. BTW, are you working full time on blogging ?
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October 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 am
@Pras… well, that is the wish
Let’s see how long it is going to take…
No man, I am not a full time blogger. If I were, I would have written a couple of posts a day. I am a full time software ‘labourer’ and blog/moderate/comment for 3-4 hrs a day!
But if the blogging fetches say 5-6 thousand dollars a month, I may think of retiring
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
@Ajith, Dont worry, you are not alone. Almost same case with me. I am also fed up of the bloody Software Industry. I love to be a full time blogger. But, don’t know what destiny has in store for me.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
@Pras, let us hope that we will become accomplished bloggers down the lane…
October 25th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Project Wonderful is already an old advertising program. I have used it with my blogs almost a year ago. Can say that they are good but Adsense and private advertising still works better.
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October 25th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
@Hussein, it is not a new product for sure… I was more experimenting with it to understand how cheap it can get with respect to blog advertisement. And there’s no doubt that private ad sales is the best option and I am yet to go for it
October 27th, 2008 at 4:14 am
As an advertiser, I haven’t found Project Wonderful to be of huge value. I used the campaign option which targets your ad across hundreds of sites and I found it was being displayed on mainly proxy and spam websites.
October 27th, 2008 at 8:37 am
@Anthony, running a campaign may not be the right thing to do. I individually pick good quality (and niche sites searched by tags) sites and bid. This seems to work
Cheers,
Ajith
November 21st, 2008 at 10:39 pm
We can only received few cents a day, but you have nothing to do to get tht money, so it’s quite good. I have also running my ads in several site for fre
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November 21st, 2008 at 11:55 pm
@TheKode, that’s the idea… Brand building and some traffic (not too much still) for FREE…