I think you’ve been a bit hard on Todd.

Your quote:
“Why would I want to do either of the above if I already have enough traffic to be able to “catch” an advertiser directly…”

BuySellAds does make sense for some bloggers but if you are one of those publishers that can catch advertisers directly then you really should be looking at rolling out a self-service system on your site that will allow advertisers to buy directly from you.

It is a win-win because you can still sign up with BSA and get your self-service system to automatically show their ads (or Google AdSense) if you’ve not sold any self-service ads.

Disclaimer: I’m work with a company that provides freemium self-service ad platforms.

Niyi
Trafficspaces.com

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?

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

#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