Comments on: BuySellAds.com - This is Why You Would Not Want To Sell Ads Through them http://www.toptut.com/2008/06/15/buyselladscom-this-is-why-you-would-not-want-to-sell-ads-through-them/ Bloggers and Designers tips, Wordpress themes, Free downloads Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:06:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: The Ad Mad http://www.toptut.com/2008/06/15/buyselladscom-this-is-why-you-would-not-want-to-sell-ads-through-them/comment-page-1/#comment-31226 The Ad Mad Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:40:03 +0000 http://www.toptut.com/?p=1214#comment-31226 I still didn't sell any :( And I'm selling text links for the same money I sell a 125x125 banner, so I got no idea what's wrong. Ideas? I still didn’t sell any :(

And I’m selling text links for the same money I sell a 125×125 banner, so I got no idea what’s wrong. Ideas?

]]> By: Aidyn Bean http://www.toptut.com/2008/06/15/buyselladscom-this-is-why-you-would-not-want-to-sell-ads-through-them/comment-page-1/#comment-24720 Aidyn Bean Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:37:56 +0000 http://www.toptut.com/?p=1214#comment-24720 my partner would thought it's brilliant my partner would thought it’s brilliant

]]> By: admin http://www.toptut.com/2008/06/15/buyselladscom-this-is-why-you-would-not-want-to-sell-ads-through-them/comment-page-1/#comment-23676 admin Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:09:17 +0000 http://www.toptut.com/?p=1214#comment-23676 Hi Todd, Thanks for taking the time to comment! I do hope you didn't take my review as offensive, personal or unjust in any way, I mostly have only negative things to say so please don't think I was just trying to devastate you or your new project. If you read my reviews of Kontera, Text-Link-Ads and even Adsense, you will see that I am always nasty, but hey, bad commercial is still a *commercial* ;) Regarding toptut.com, as you can see, I only decided to openly offer banner slots for sale yesterday, hence 2 banners are available but as we speak, one has been sold :) I know YOU guys can potentially catch more advertisers, but your chances to do so are much bigger only if one displays the "advertise here" banner, so again, buyers come from seller's site to You. dynamicdrive doesn't do it, hence no ads are sold for them despite having the heaviest traffic. Cssmania do have the "advertise here" banner, so they sold a few spots. I am convinced your site will be VERY successful, you have some of the most popular blogs / sites listed already and many will follow. Naturally, I sincerely wish you good luck!! Well... Don't worry, when I'll sign up to your affiliate program, I am sure I will have more positive things to say :D Hi Todd,

Thanks for taking the time to comment! I do hope you didn’t take my review as offensive, personal or unjust in any way, I mostly have only negative things to say so please don’t think I was just trying to devastate you or your new project. If you read my reviews of Kontera, Text-Link-Ads and even Adsense, you will see that I am always nasty, but hey, bad commercial is still a *commercial* ;)

Regarding toptut.com, as you can see, I only decided to openly offer banner slots for sale yesterday, hence 2 banners are available but as we speak, one has been sold :) I know YOU guys can potentially catch more advertisers, but your chances to do so are much bigger only if one displays the “advertise here” banner, so again, buyers come from seller’s site to You. dynamicdrive doesn’t do it, hence no ads are sold for them despite having the heaviest traffic. Cssmania do have the “advertise here” banner, so they sold a few spots.

I am convinced your site will be VERY successful, you have some of the most popular blogs / sites listed already and many will follow. Naturally, I sincerely wish you good luck!!

Well… Don’t worry, when I’ll sign up to your affiliate program, I am sure I will have more positive things to say :D

]]> By: todd g http://www.toptut.com/2008/06/15/buyselladscom-this-is-why-you-would-not-want-to-sell-ads-through-them/comment-page-1/#comment-23616 todd g Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:05:39 +0000 http://www.toptut.com/?p=1214#comment-23616 Hi there, thanks for the review and thanks for signing up at BuySellAds.com. I just want to add a few points about this article ;) #1 - Yes, you may have enough traffic to "catch" an advertiser directly; however, chances are, we can catch more ;) At the time of this comment it looks like you have 1 advertiser on this site, the other looks like an affiliate banner. I guarantee that if you give us a shot we will sell more spots for you than you will sell on your own. #2 - Our homepage is outdated, the whole banner ads for SEO thing didn't work because all of the publishers preferred to install the JavaScript code vs. the server-side SEO friendly code ;( Had they all installed the server-side SEO friendly code, it would still be OK because the links have the option to be nofollowed on an advertiser-by-advertiser basis. What's important here is that this leaves the nofollow tag under editorial control. #3 - BuySellAds.com is very VERY different from Text-Link-Ads, we're selling banner ads, not text links ;) Please trust me, we thought this concept out in great detail before putting publishers at risk of loosing rankings in Google. Let us know if you need a hand installing the ad code, cheers! - Todd Hi there, thanks for the review and thanks for signing up at BuySellAds.com. I just want to add a few points about this article ;)

#1 - Yes, you may have enough traffic to “catch” an advertiser directly; however, chances are, we can catch more ;) At the time of this comment it looks like you have 1 advertiser on this site, the other looks like an affiliate banner. I guarantee that if you give us a shot we will sell more spots for you than you will sell on your own.

#2 - Our homepage is outdated, the whole banner ads for SEO thing didn’t work because all of the publishers preferred to install the JavaScript code vs. the server-side SEO friendly code ;( Had they all installed the server-side SEO friendly code, it would still be OK because the links have the option to be nofollowed on an advertiser-by-advertiser basis. What’s important here is that this leaves the nofollow tag under editorial control.

#3 - BuySellAds.com is very VERY different from Text-Link-Ads, we’re selling banner ads, not text links ;)

Please trust me, we thought this concept out in great detail before putting publishers at risk of loosing rankings in Google. Let us know if you need a hand installing the ad code, cheers!

- Todd

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