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CPM Ads: Underrated MoneyMaker

by Melvin · Aug 11, 2008

I often hear questions in forums that say “I have the traffic but little income from my blog”. Well as what I have observed people saying it, are people who are putting their earnings largely on Adsense. Though Adsense has had been a great money maker for some, almost 85% of people in this world are still not successful from using it… So getting back from the statement, I always answer “try CPM ads”. CPM stands for Cost per Millie, meaning you are gonna paid per 1000 impression. Take note, impression is not unique visitors, its pageviews!

So why do I think it’s an underrated moneymaker? Well just look. If you’re blog is getting about the normal 5000 uniques a month and say 12000 pageviews, then you’re on your way to $30 per month. People oftentimes think of selling direct ad sales but sometimes you cannot find anyone who will buy it. Especially if you’re blog is something very unrelated to internet marketing, then chances are people will notcare about your ad space. With CPM ads you can make money easily. And the sky is the limit. On my basketball blog, I had a large leaderboard CPM banner at the top that really pays me well. What I have done is I have ordered a cheap 100,000 US traffic. And with some advertisers paying up to $4 per cpm (US based), thats a really great deal for me. And that’s just the prelude. You can do more, “read more buttons” hot or not, voting scripts, and etc) Just do note that some CPM networks are very strict with some shady techniques and you’re account can be terminated, do it at your own risk!

Well one thing famous bloggers don’t like CPM is that it gives user a bad experience. Oftentimes ads are not good to user experience because they are unrelated. ANother is that sometimes they show flash ads that slows down your site! They also take a huge chunk of your income, 30-40%. Sites like Chow and Problogger could have had tripled their earnings that easy. But well it’s really bad to branding so I guess theirs no way they would try putting CPM ads on their sites…

How about you how do you find CPM ads? Have you considered trying and using them?

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  1. herman herman says

    August 11, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    thanks for information

  2. Ganesh says

    August 11, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    I had the same problem with my old problem with my old blog – I was not making revenue with it although I had the traffic and subscribers. By the way, nice post.

  3. Hugo Santos says

    August 11, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    you had a large leaderboard? If it paid well why don’t you have it anymore?

    I agree that cpm ads are underrated, they are a nice source of income. but off course, you must have US traffic to enjoy better ecpm rates. I use CPM ads and i can’t get rates better than 0.4 per thousand, and that is in a really good day… normally it is 0.1…

  4. Melvin says

    August 11, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    @hugo, well its in my basketball blog… i checked and its still there…

  5. Blog Tips for Beginners says

    August 12, 2008 at 5:39 am

    I have very little experience when it comes to CPM Ads. So being the ignorant me, where do you find this kind of ads, may I just ask?

    Yan

  6. Keyword Anchor Do-Follow Blog says

    August 12, 2008 at 5:48 am

    Wow, I did not even know about this, but I am going to check it out, thanks!
    JR

  7. Stefan says

    August 12, 2008 at 9:25 am

    i agree with you.  cpm ads are good.

  8. Melvin says

    August 12, 2008 at 9:42 am

    @yan, well they are sites like valueclickmedia.com, casalemedia.com and etc… they can be searched easily via google… 😉

  9. kidfingers says

    August 12, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    ValueClickMedia didn’t approve me :(.  What do these CPM sites usually require from a website?  Thanks for the post, I’ll look more into CPM.

  10. Melvin says

    August 12, 2008 at 10:31 pm

    ah, what they require is huge traffic.. maybe 10,000 a month?

  11. Blog Tips for Beginners says

    August 13, 2008 at 9:42 am

    @Melvin: Thanks for the referral. I guess I should be qualified as I’m clicking about 30K per month.

    Yan

  12. IronBlogger says

    August 14, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    I have yet to really try CPM ads out on yet. I have heard about them and really so some potential in using them.

    Oh and BTW congrats on 100 RSS readers mate.

  13. Melvin says

    August 15, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    @ironblogger… oh thanks man!

  14. Jay - sound4beat.blogspot.com says

    September 6, 2008 at 3:19 am

    Great Post,

    I guess I need to get my traffic up then..

  15. Tom - StandOutBlogger.com says

    September 20, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    I have always wanted to use CPM but never found a good company. Care to share the one you use and how difficult it was to get accepted?

  16. Shaan says

    November 20, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Thanks a lot for the info. . . I would like to try them

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