I’ve been using Adgator for about 3 months now, since their inception in December 2008, in a strive to monetize from my blog and pay a chunk of the monthly hosting costs.
My experience so far with the Adgator team has only been positive and community interaction of the guys are very appreciated.
I’ve allocated quite a lot of real estate on my blog for the Adgator ads, but the results has not been so good for the last 3 weeks. I’ve even started to think someone is discriminating against me 😉
At work we have a couple of bloggers using the Adgator network, and all of them are making money or some money, except me, and my blog traffic is in most cases 400% to 500% more than their blogs do. As I understand ads are delivered based on Geographical location as well, and currently will display banners to local South African users and not International. I do have a lot of international traffic, but also a fair share of local traffic.
As you can see for the last week I’ve had no income whatsoever, although the Cricket and IBM campaigns are running, and I’m just unlucky that it does not fall under my vertical, or could that be the reason ?
As a result of this, I’ve decided to only place a smaller banner on the site that takes up less of the real estate, and have replaced the original Adgator banner with a new banner where I’m seeing what type of feedback one will get with Offerforge’s campaigns.
Again, I’m not putting down Adgator, it is still a very good program, and I’m keeping space for their ads, but somehow I’m just unlucky being classified in the wrong categories and not see an advantage dedicating bigger space on my blog at this point, until new advertisers join which I hopefully fall under.
If Adgator do come out with an Affiliate or Referal program I’ll definitely promote that to maybe make money from other people 😉 .