Today my Blogotition competitor Nico started a new website project:

43ads.com

No, not just another 43/web 2.0 website, but a nice advertising idea with payback guaranty if the banner is our of the game.

How does it work?
There are 43 slots where the ads are placed, the ad with the highest bis gets a central spot for a 200*200px banner. If there are more then 43 bids the one with the lowest price is removed and the advertiser gets his money back or more if the new bid is higher than the bid for place 42 (check the information at 43ads.com to learn how it works).

There was last week a website with a similar offer, with the result a Alexa rank less then 3.000 (today)

While checking the Blogs of my blogotition “opponents” I came along this blog about some code I wrote before to gave an Adsense ad random colors…
Actually this code is not always needed Adsense users from other countries then the Netherlands and also Germany (???) are having the possibility to select more than one color schemes. While selecting more than one color schemes at the same tim, Adsense will show up an ad in random colors.

But for sure putting the color values into a php variable or better isolate the whole adsense code in one central file, makes it easier to change the adsense code on a later moment (maybe in one step for the whole site…)

Some weeks before I was looking for some advertisement programs to promote my new website project a shopping Cart template affiliate website. After starting a campaign with Adsense and some other CPM banner campaigns I re-visited the AdBrite website.

Text links
There is a moderate collection of websites where you can place your link for a limited time period. In their publisher list are also big names like Opera or Friendster, but they are too expensive according my budget. I selected for my campaign some websites for only a few USD a month. Currently there are running four link campaigns for the template website and I receive several visits a day, but there are zero conversions until now…Conclusion: there are link campaigns from websites with a lot of impressions and that for only a few USD, but I don’t think that these will help you with sales (at least not in my case)

Interstitial Ads (kind of popunders)
I started also a campaign of this ad type, I got a total of 40.000 page views in only a few hours and that for 10USD. It happens while I was driving home from my work with the result that I didn’t noticed this traffic live, but another CPC program has returned a part of my advertising costs.

Publishing
I started a publishing campaign at finalwebsites.com to show some text ads in a regular banner format (468*60). While you’re waiting for advertiser it’s possible to show network. This campaign was very short because I saw max. three different ads and only one was related to my selected categories . I removed the ads to use my spare advertising space (again) for Adsense. Within these few days it was not possible to start a link campaign with some third party advertisers.

Bad unrelated visits
While running a AdBrite CPC network campaign (webmaster related), I noticed several XXX referrals inside my website statistics. My complain by AdBrite was answered within a few days with some USD rebate to my account (it seems to me that AdBrite thinks that this is not so bad…)

I will finish my current link advertising campaigns, but I don’t think that AdBrite is an alternative for Adwords / Adsense or self selected banner CPM/CPC campaigns.