Many of those that write blogs usually end up monetizing them in some way. Whether it is through pay-pre-click ads, using one of the many banner selling networks, or directly selling ads, many try to make a few dollars with their blog. The problem with many of those blogs is that they lack one thing: visitors.
While they may have several hundred visitors a day, or just over a thousand, it may not be enough to sell advertising at a decent price. This is where CMF Ads comes into play – by combining the visitors from several blogs to provide much more pageviews for an advertiser than a single blog could obtain. Its companion site, CMF Direct, will help those who have monetized their blog by providing an easy way for a protential advertiser to see what advertising is available on their blog.
CMF Ads – Changing Marketing Forever
CMF Ads is a collection of about 20 blogs, which are all hand picked by the creators of the network. Each individual blog may not provide the number of readers an advertiser is willing to buy an ad on, but together, the 20 blogs provide an advertiser with more than 150,000 readers each month.
The service allows for displaying an ad for a specific category, and geotargetting that allows advertisers to target specific readers with their ads. As for the placement of the ads themselves, they are usually located above the fold on each blog. This means that any advertisement purchased will not be hidden from view on any blog.
As for bloggers, I’m not sure when the two founders will be accepting more blogs into the network. Each blog is manually reviewed and added to avoid any junk or spam blogs. The huge benefit in this is that the advertisers are displaying their ads on quality blogs. If you have a blog, and would like to tell advertisers about what types of advertising you have available, then you may want to look at CMF Direct.
CMF Direct
One of the founders of CMF Ads started another site called CMF Direct that is geared towards those bloggers that are selling advertising on their blog. It is free and easy to join, but like CMF Ads, all submissions are manually reviewed before they are added to the system.
Once you sign up, you can then add your blog’s listing. The listing allows you to provide a description, keywords and a 125×125 banner image for your blog. You also have the ability to add several URLs. Each URL corresponds to a different method of advertising available on your blog: Entrecard, direct selling, Performancing Ads, OIOpublisher, Project Wonderful, and CMF Ads (provided your are a member).
You provide a separate URL for each type of advertisement that you offer on your blog. For example, if you offer Project Wonderful, you would enter the URL to your Project Wonderful ad units.
This site is in public beta, so there may still be work done in the future, but it is nice to have a place where you can provide information about all your ads in one place.
While there are many forms of advertising networks out there, these two are unique in what they offer and how they offer it. One of the best things I like about these two networks is that all blogs are manually reviewed before they are accepted. Most advertising networks have failed once spam blogs enter their system and dilute the quality of blogs offered.