Been busy having fun with an advertising network called Project Wonderful, the first time I came across an auction-based network where you bid for advertising space on websites.

What I really liked about it was the fact that you can bid to place your ad on a site for as little as a few hours to however long you wish. It’s a great way to test participating websites to see which ones bring you the most traffic without having to spend a lot of money to do so. Usually you’d have to pay for an ad on a monthly basis, but even if an ad typically cost say, $250 a month, that only comes out to about $8 a day. Suddenly it’s not so obscenely expensive anymore to get your ad on a high traffic website, even if it’s just for a day. In fact I was able to successfully bid for space on such a site (which typically drew over 5000 unique visitors a day), all for just 70 cents. Sure it’ll only show for 24 hours, but that’s over 10,000 eyeballs that will see the banner ad to my blog, something that never would have happened otherwise. For 70 cents too, you can’t beat it.

Since I’ve become a publisher as well, you can also bid to have a 125×125 banner ad displayed here (located near the top left sidebar). Currently the price is 30 cents a day (or $9 a month). Go ahead and place a bid! You know you want to…

The only few things I didn’t like about Project Wonderful was that the interface was a little cumbersome to use, and there’s a somewhat steep learning curve to figure out how the system works. Another thing to consider is that if you’re currently running an ad and somebody outbids you, your ad gets slapped away and the new top bidder’s ad takes your place. You can of course try to outbid the bastard who took your spot though, if you’re so inclined.

Once you get the hang of it all, it’s actually pretty fun to use. Hopefully it’ll bring me a nice and steady chunk of change, money I can use to continue promoting my blog.