CMF ADS: Infected by a superbug!

One month ago i started again to buy for several dollars campaign ads in CMF Ads Network instead of buying one of their low-cost Network ads (which by the way exploit just the CMF ADS publishers!).

As there are not many campaign ads running anymore in CMF Ads because they missed out that low-cost Network ads will harm their monetary system and as we can see leads to a severe recession with deflationary tendencies in their CMF ADS economy (a blog post about the devastating economical situation in the CMF ADS Network is prepared for Monday. There i will bring some light into their newly announced changes and "improvements").

When Network Ads (NA) got introduced, they've been running equally side by side with Campaign ads (CA).

This meant when you had SINGLE Ad widget and 2 CA, each CA got 50% of the available page views.

From end of January 2010 on around 8 - 12 NA have been running additionally each month which reduced the visibility for CA, especially on single ad widgets.

ONE CA would get now only -> 100% page views/(10-14 Ads) = 7 - 10 % of the available page views.

For a blog with 10.000 page views, your ad views would have been reduced from 5.000 to just 700 - 1.000 ad views. Most likely you paid up to 1 $ for that ad spot! Now the return in ad views would have been just like a low traffic blog on which you could advertise for 0.25 $ or less!

One week after the introduction of their Network Ads CMF ADS announced that the equal sharing will be changed and NA will show up only 30% of the time when they are running. This should mean CA could get 70% of the available page views - theoretically!

In the last weeks i had some extreme examples in which this was and still is completely NOT THE CASE. There have been some high-traffic blogs which get several thousand page views and my Campaign ad should get at least 1.000 page views after 10 days but instead of getting 100 ad views/day, the ad showed up just 35 - 45 times daily (in other cases up to 75% less views).

The behavior of the Campaign ad is just like before their announced change to a 30% reservation for Network ads. It had to share the page views EQUALLY with the Network Ads and didn't get 70% of the available page views!

Taking as example Ben Barden's Blog (CMF Ads Admin). This blog gets roughly 1.400 page views/month.

30% would be around 400 page views reserved for all running Network Ads, so a Campaign Ad should be exposed 1.000 times/month.

In my case i got just 170 ad views within 20 days instead of 500 ad views (excluding the surge in the first 5 days)!

In an email conversation in which i told Ben about this matter with the two "high-traffic" blogs, he replied me as if there is NO WEIGHTING and that the page views i received are the correct numbers even when Network ads should just get 30% of the available page views.

For a better view of the e-mail click on the screenshot!

Hopefully this superbug in their code could be changed to an algorithm in which Campaign ads are favored with 70% as they give paying advertisers a bigger portion of exposure when you want to buy an ad individually and publishers can earn again more money because they deliver the ad views an advertiser deserves!

I'm sorry for the members which ads got cancelled in the last days and weeks as their CPM was -due to this superbug - much higher than the 10 cents which i'm usually calculating to pay for my ad views.

Build a popular blog with these three types of posts!

There are a lot of questions how to grow your blog and generate traffic which is what keeps your blog alive!

Are you a blogger who writes for yourself or do you write your blog posts for your readers? How can you attract your readers to read your posts? Which posts attract which readers?

What are the ingredients for a successful blog?

Like in the real life, we can not live without some sugar, spice and vitamins.

Why vitamins?

As everyone needs vitamins in the daily life, these posts are one of the essentials for the regular readers in your blog.

They represent your blog or your niche like in my case it would be the guides of myLot, Adgitize and EntreCard or the Scam posts.

These posts help you grow and build up the blog!


The purpose of sugar posts!

What do you think about your important blog posts? Do they always keep the attention of your readers or will it get after a while too serious?
I think you know what will come next. They wait for some sweeties from you! Why?
Sugar posts catch the attention of new readers and of your loyal reader much easier. The sole purpose of these posts is to make your blog easier to consume.

Sugar posts are usually blog lists where other readers can find additional information about a specific topic like the Scam List , paid survey list or freebies like the Suze Orman ebook

Like in the real life, try to keep your sugar posts in little dosages otherwise your blog will turn into a candy shop. The sugar posts shall attract new readers to keep on reading your vitamin posts and make them to one of your regular readers!

Why you should use some spicy posts!

The purpose of spice in your blog is to keep the whole blog interesting as every meal gets less tasty without some spicy herbs or chilli!
Sugar and vitamin posts will give you the opportunity to gain and hold your readers, they help you to grow substantially.

Within spicy posts you present your flavor and your own personality (opinion). This will, can and should cause some heated debates on your blog.
One of my spicy posts included EntreCard: The Wipe Out has already started.

Is it dangerous for your loyal readership to use this kind of spice?
Of course you can say, "Hey, they won't like my opinion about this topic."
Yes, that's might be true but first of all not everyone will flee and stop coming back. They may hate this particular post, ok. You won't like their comments on this post.
You have to bare it like they have to. But in the end your reader will no where else get this specific spicy flavor of your post!


Let's summarize the recipe...

Take a little bit of sugar to attract new readers, keep your readers and yourself healthy with the vitamins and make your blog more interesting with some spices!


What do you think about it and which kind of post might this be?

New Search option in Google - Blogsearch Beta

Hello my dear readers,

in the last days i got some visits from the Google search engine. But it was not the usual search engine method which is automatically selected by Google (web).

It's the new Blogsearch option which is at the moment a Beta version. There you can look for actual postings on the Blogs or blog related sites all over the world.

How to get to Google's Blogsearch Beta version

1. Use my search engine (in grey color) at the end of the Postings
2. Type in what you are looking for, for example "myLot Payment proof" then Enter
   
3. Click on the "more"-Link, there you'll see "Blogs", click on it
   
4. Now Google will show only results linked to Blog related sites
   

You can select how old the postings should be by clicking on the publishing dates. You can select by yourself (using the option "Choose dates") or you can use the available options (last hour, last 12 hours, last day, past week, past month or anytime).

Another reason why this is a cool invention from Google

You can subscribe to an e-mail alert for your searching terms. As soon as there is a new posting, you'll get an e-mail from Google Blogsearch.

You could also use the blog search gadget for the search term on your Google homepage or subscribe to a search feed for it and receive new items automatically by Google Reader.

I will use these options now more often!
You can have a look by using one of the two search buttons on my blog (upper right side and below the last posting!)

What is your opinion about it?
Did you use it already or will you use it, too?
What would be the reason for not using this search method?