Along with Adgitize and Entrecard, I also have a couple of CMFads spots on my blogs. I’ve had them for a while, but not really used them as much as Adgitize and Entrecard.
This isn’t because they’re bad, but thus far they’ve been less ‘dynamic’ than the other two. That’s not to say they aren’t worth using though. I’ve used them to advertise and also earned about $20 over the time I’ve been with them. They are more of a pure advert company than the semi-click exchange that EC and AD are.
Until now at least. To boost things a bit, they’ve introduced a new ‘quick hit’, called ‘Spikes’. It takes a little bit of the Adgitize model in the sense that you can also earn a little bit (back) by clicking on others ads.
If you put up an ad (20cents) you are put in the Spikes section and remain there until you have 50clicks. To encourage clicking they pay .002 cents per Spike blog clicked on. (So you’ll earn 10cents for 50clicks). Not a massive amount, but it’s still an incentive!
You can learn more by visiting www.CMFads.com or www.TurnipofPower.com blog! They also have single blog and campaign advertising options. Worth checking out!
NB: This is not a sponsored post!
NB2: This blog post closed to comments due to spam. 17th Feb 10.
I started using the CMF Spikes yesterday across all of my blogs. So far I’m quite happy with this new opportunity. The nice thing is 50 visits is not enough to increase the bounce rate if no one stays on your blog. What I’m finding is visitors from the spikes are stopping to leave comments so that is excellent. I hope it continues that way. Good luck using the spikes and Happy Holidays!
Thanks for the tip, I’ll check it out.
Dorothy from grammology
grammology.com
Have you bought Spikes, Chinaren? How’s it?
My issue with CMF Ads is that it is a poor performer in terms of bringing in click through traffic to my blog, even though I have 60-100 adverts on many publishers’ blogs at any one time.
But I still use CMF Ads for blog promotion. I consider my adverts there as my outgoing links on other blogs, to establish my blog’s presence in the blogosphere.
I think the 3 CMF Ads owners have changed their minds now and conceived Spikes, to address the burning issue of poor ads traffic.
@Eli:
I think you’re right. It’s rather a quick traffic boost (took 3 days over the Christmas weekend until my 50 “unique” visitors have been credited).
34% have been Drop & Run visitors who got not recorded by Google Analytics, from the 32 recorded Spike visitors i have 43% new visitors (should be CMF Ads only member with no connection to EntreCard/Adgitize).
I believe if you advertise there more frequently (let’s say from the third – fifth time) the first number of Drop & Run visitors will continue to rise and the number of new visitors will decline. Comments have been mostly the same Christmas wishes which i left on several Spikes blogs, other comments are from the CMF Admin.
At the moment the time staying on my blog from Spike visitors was around 1:30 Minutes. Double amount than from EntreCard/Adgitize member but it has been the same as i started advertising with Adgitize in the first week
Hi Martin,
With the kind indulgence of Chinaren. . .
Thank you for your valuable inputs on the Spikes. I think you are right, as you also posted in your blog post. It will further increase the bounce rate, considering that some ACTIVE members of CMF Ads who do the Spikes are also doing the Adgitize 100 clicks and Entrecard drops.
I also concur with your analysis that, as tracked by Google Analytics, your first time visitors are high as they are considered “unique” in Google algorithm. But when you buy Spikes the 2nd and 3rd times, and the same people doing the clicks are no longer unique visitors.
This afternoon I happen to read the blog post of Turnip (one of the 3 CMF Ads owners/admins) that some of his Spikes visitors were not also recorded by Google analytics. Seems they were of the same click and run types.
And i hate the bounce rate of adgitize, cmf and entrecard. But still im using it hahaha
As far as I understand they’re not paying all countries the same.
I don’t like regional discrimination.
Laane – No member is paying (or earning) any more for Spikes than any other member. You pay $0.20 for a spike, you earn $0.002 for a click. It doesn’t matter where you come from, those are the prices for everyone. I’d be interested to know where you got that information from, because I can’t find a record of your blog (laaneworld.com) anywhere in our system…