- Entrecard - This site allows you to display your 125 x 125 on other sites either by paying for advertising or earning credits. To earn credits you have to drop on others displaying their widget. That sounds nice and easy. The maximum you can drop is 300 per day per blog or in other words you click on 300 sites within their system per day. I participated in this program of almost 2 years and near the end was consistently at the 300 mark for my cooking blog and most days 50 to 75 for my other blogs. Entrecard has got to be the biggest and I do mean biggest time waster as far as blogging. Despite claims that credits would eventually be able to be cashed out for real money, I never saw it. Dropping on 300 blogs alone was extremely time consuming and the worst part was all I saw was my bounce rate go through the roof. I seriously doubt whether I retained anymore that at best 1% readership from participating in Entrecard. So in terms of advertising the program only worked when actively participating. Now in perspective if I were making $10 per hour which is rather low but lets just say to do 300 drops cost me on average $40 per day! There there's the irritation of dropping causing browser crashers and a higher incidence of picking up trojans and viruses from their site. In my opinion Entrecard is a huge loser in the blogosphere, one not worth wasting time or effort on.
- Adgitize - This site offers paid advertising and a credit system that is converted to cash. When done properly as an advertiser paying $14 per month which works out to 47¢ per day. Minimal active participation will give you $14.57 in return so you are 57¢ ahead. Oh sure that isn't a lot of money but your advertising ends up being free and what I've noticed is those using Adgitize like to comment on your blogs. If you are a publisher you can still make money by displaying the widget and clicking on 100 blogs in the system daily. If you are an advertiser the number of blogs to click on goes down to 50. I have had very good results with Adgitize as an advertiser. I don't always get 50 clicks in a day and I don't worry if I don't. Clicking on other blogs is not really the primary focus of this site. At the moment this is one of my favourite blog advertising sites and I try to actively participate as I have time.
- CMF Ads - This site originally was straight low cost 125 x 125 advertising. Then they added CMF Spikes. You earn actual money for running ads on their widget and clicking on spikes. You set the price you want for someone to advertise on your blog. A spike is paid advertising that guarantees you a minimal number of hits depending on the number of spikes you buy. Twenty cents buys 50 guaranteed hits but more importantly those participating in CMF Ads love to leave comments so you end up will some rather quality traffic using this site will more than likely gain a few subscribers. This really is good use of your advertising dollar. You can buy a fair number of ads at 1¢ for 30 days or buy a spike. Either way it takes very little money or time and it costs only pennies a day. It seriously is a no muse, no fuse way to advertise your blog without clicking on any sites. If you want to earn a bit of extra money then by all means click on a few spikes. CMF Ads is my other favourite site. I don't make money off the site but I guess I could. Basically what I do is any money I make is reinvesting into blog advertising so it ends up being a break even type of advertising.
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