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Originally Posted by Mihx

AdBrite/AVNAds is another option if you want to run a pay-per-click campaign (though I'll refrain from speculating on whether it has as much potential as an AdWords campaign) - I've been using them for a few months now. Etology.com is good as well, although they use pay-per-campaign or bulk traffic packages, rather than pay-per-click.

Mihx, are you doing run of network ads with AVNAds or selecting specific sites to run ads on? I've tried a couple of campaigns there and so far it's been a complete waste of money for me. I didn't even get a decent ration sending the traffic to a landing page for free email sign-ups (although maybe CECash is just way over-saturated)


I agree with everyone else about landing pages vs sending direct to sponsor. I usually throw up a straight to sponsor link at the start of an adwords campaign just to test out the keywords and CTR while I build the landing page and it never converts before I start sending it to a landing page for the exact same sponsor. Surfers really need to be led by the hand. I've also had good success putting at least 2 and up to 4 sponsors on the one page --- I set mine up like a mini-review site. Additional tip: the uglier the better. I once swapped one of my landing pages for a much prettier page, thinking that might increase conversions. They tanked. I immediately switched back to my ugly ass funky page. LOL

The words teens, boys and girls will get you declined -- and not just in the landing page text. If those words are in your domain or in the domain you are sending traffic to, they'll get declined. So, say you want to promote a site called "amatuer girls porn"? Don't bother.

Also, if you promote gay -- the word "twink" will get you declined.

And yes, you will see sites with these words in them already being advertised. I have some myself, but virtually identical new campaigns have been declined. SoI don't touch those running campaigns at all for fear of gettign a new decline on campaigns that have run for months. So if you have old campaigns that have now banned words in them, don't make any changes that will force another review!

All that said, if you find the right niche you can make bank with adwords for very little effort once the campaign is up and running and you've spent some time doing whatever tweaking needs to be done.