Unfortunately a few things have made me remove the adverts from the three blogs that I placed as participation.

1. When applying, I seem to remember a question as to how many adverts I wanted. I left it at the default five. Now I cannot find an option to change it.

2. The adverts are simply too .. too .. too. Animation for my blogs is out. I am not an affiliate blog, nor do I want five adverts winging at eyeballs. MHO, get ride of the animation or at least offer with and without.

3. Please do not just place adverts up. Some people may want this. This is not good for my blog. If advertisers can choose which Blog to publish to, so should the publishers be able to choose what adverts they want to show up.

4. I know this whole thing in its infancy. But sorry to say, until you get the “kinks” worked out, and until I can choose at least, the number and what is going up in each of my blogs, the way it stands now – it just does not work with my blogs.

I really wish you guys all the success in the world. And hope I get an email soon that the “kinks” are worked out.

Teddy

The opt-out for network ads ONLY affects CPA advertising, doesn’t affect anything else – you still can get regular advertisers

“I think it would, and unless im missing something it wouldnt be that hard to try out…”

Nick,

Perhaps this is a bit, well, old-skool – but wouldn’t an on/ off button for the CPA advertising, or an ability to ‘toggle’ which CPA ads are acceptable, per user, be a far simpler and more elegant option?

I know – it’s not using the Zen art of tags and complex code to handle them – but surely it has some merit?

Just a thought,

Brendan.

Can we get some control over them now, since it’s pretty evident the whole thing works? I’m sure they’re converting well – I appear to have alternating advertising for singles and dating services.

That’s great – again it’s good to see the system works as intended and obviously they’ll do well, as they tie in to an online growth market. But not everyone wants singles and dating advertising plastered on their website – I sure as heck don’t.

I’d just prefer to be able to revert to the original default advertising (i.e. for performancing) as an opt-out option, rather than having to opt-out entirely (which stops any potential future genuine advertising come along).

i dun think i will opting out but to wait until the target advertising is up. how ever this morning i realized that the Network Ads is gone, probably the tagging system is working?

Is there an expected date for more targeted ads. I’ll have to opt-out until then… Sorry.

I think the tagging system would probably work best since it would allow members to better tailor the ads to the subject matter of their blog.

Keep up the good work.

I think it would, and unless im missing something it wouldnt be that hard to try out…

thoughts?

Thanks anyways for letting me know about the mail.

Partners ads are not contextual.

That’s a shame.

@zrlana

Yes, that’s the plan. We’re hoping to not only get more creatives into the system, but to more specifically target them, as well as ‘weight’ the best performing ones…

It’s early days yet, but the feedback is great, and much appreciated!

Funny that the singlesnet ad that some here really don’t like is the best converting ad so far

I have changed it’s categories a little though..

As I understand it my only options now are “all or nothing”. If that’s the case, I will opt out. This type of flashing ad really doesn’t do the advertiser service.

I was confused at first to see ads on my sites this morning (since I haven’t see any interest in the past two months since I’ve signed up) .. but after re-reading that email sent the other day, and this site .. the idea seemed okay. People don’t have to commit to my sites, but if they get referrals .. I could earn money from the referral.

But – I find it hard to believe that my readers are looking for Singles and Dates. If these are just temporary ads in the network rotation, then it is fine and I would hope that I get some ‘winner network ads’ as well as these type of ‘loser network ads’ being displayed. Having something there at least shows it is possible that someone might want to come and advertise on my site exclusively.

The fact of the matter is that someone advertising in these network ads are benefiting from all the free advertising, and publishers should get at least some CPC benefits too .. Who’s to say that my readers only read 5 blogs, all who have the same network ad on it .. sees my ad and clicks and looks around.. then goes and read the next 3 sites with ads .. and on the 5th site clicks and buys a membership. The 5th guy gets the goose?