Don’t be afraid to try new publisher programs

• Chris Guthrie
• Make Money, My Sites
• December 28, 2007
• 7 comments!

I've been working with an account manager over at Vibrant Media, (the folks behind intellitxt ads) because I haven't been amazed with my Kontera earnings. I believe that anytime you put more advertisements on a website it's important to make sure that the money you make will compensate for some disgruntled members that may stop coming to the site because of the extra ads. Because in many circumstances you may be doing more harm than good if you put extra ads on a site to make a few extra bucks and end up not even making enough money to justify their use. Let's be honest, in text advertising is fairly intrusive. Do I believe it's so intrusive that it's simply not worth using it on your website? Of course not. But if you're going to run in text advertising it better payout well don't you think?

So one of the things that I recently decided to change with my forum was to make the switch from Kontera's content link to Vibrant Media's intellitxt ads. At first I was denied access into their program because GV did not meet the minumum page views requirement of 500,000 monthly. The traffic for the site has been dropping off for a few months and I've been working on improving the things that members are complaining about. Anyway, after I got his email I immediately called him back because I don't take no for an answer. Long time readers of my blog have probably noticed this trend by my earlier posts about being denied by Text Link Ads at first and jumping through hoops for Kontera months ago . So on the phone I told him about the qualities of GV, how it's different than other websites, the time we've been on the net and after talking some business he agreed to offer me a trial period. I'll report back my results after I've got the ad code installed for a month and compare it to what I've made with Kontera in the previous month. Obviously I want Vibrant Media's intellitxt ads to do much better than Kontera's and will provide detailed stats whether that proves to be the case or not.

I think it's hilarious that I'm 3 for 3 when it comes to being denied entry into a publisher program at first and then following up with the person that denied me and trying to get in. I'll let you know when I'm denied and can't convince someone to let me in if it ever happens but so far I'm at a 100% average

I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you're at first denied entrance into a publisher program follow up and find out why you were denied. Sometimes it's something obvious like not meeting a minimum page view requirement, but tell them to look at your site's content and explain why your site is different and why not meeting the minimum shouldn't stop them from letting you in. Just combat any objections they have and they might get burned out and let you in to get you to shut up. You can thank me later when you're making an extra hundred bucks a month off one of your websites because of a program you were accepted into that you were at first denied.

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