Adbirite and CPM

[John84]

I started putting adbrite on one of my sites to see how it works out. I decided to try out publishing CPM banners. I just checked and I have registered 200 'ad zone views' yet only made $.02 from an advertiser that would have payed $1.00 CPM. Doing the math, shouldnt I have gotten $.20?

Thanks

 

[zk0]

Give AdBrite one week and they will give you more and better targeted ads.

Also, I didn't know you can only choose cpm ads. I thought AdBrite used both CPC and CPM mixed.

 

[John84]

its not the ads themselves i have a problem with... its the pay. yesterday i got a penny for 715 pageviews.

 

[shockie]

which ad it is makes a difference. if only 1 out of the 715 pageviews was a CPM AD, then it's $10cpm. so, how many of those were cpc, and how many were cpm is something you should look into. if you're getting a low ctr, then try repositioning the ads. you could also try interstitials but those are very intrusive, and depending on your website, could really turn off a lot of visitors.

 

[John84]

I only approve CPM banners so no CPC banners are showing up

 

[shockie]

have you tried contacting adbrite

 

[John84]

yes i have. its been 3 days and no response =(

 

[shockie]

hm i just checked my adbrite account, and i cant seem to find a way to display cpm ONLY. looks like it has to be cpm + cpc text ads. do you ever see text ads on your website?

 

[John84]

i manually approve ads to my site and only accept cpm. plus i dont have network ads.

 

[mybestsong.com]

Adbrite really is very bad. very very bad

 

[Ronald Regging]

Yeah i think if you turn off the network ads, this will eliminate your problem, as I believe this is where the CPC ads come in. Also you may want to set it up with a minimum eCPM and have it use alternate ad network code if it can't deliver adequate paying ads. You can actually customize it greatly. I've been wanting to give them a serious try, but after a day my payouts were really low compared to Google, so I decided not to bother.

 

[John84]

Adbrite really is very bad. very very bad

...can you elaborate a little bit?

 

[john238]

its not the ads themselves i have a problem with... its the pay. yesterday i got a penny for 715 pageviews.

That is really bad. I have always been in programs that pay higher than that. The lowest was something like $0.05 CPM.