It has only been four days since joining it, and I’m already dropping BlogRush. It isn’t the low CTR that has me mad, it is the absolutely astounding amount of spam.
Every single time I loaded up Nusuni.com some link for Free Viagra and Free AdAware popped up in the box. No amount of traffic would be enough to make me leave it.
I know that it is early and they “might” fix the spam problem, but that never happens. The spam will take it over, and inevitably it will go the way of every other co-op ad network.
So, that’s it.
However, if they were to fix it they should do the following:
- Manually approve every site for it. Or at least go through and manually review them at some point.
- Add a few extra lines of code so it only loads on sites that it was intended to be on. (maybe they have this already?)
- Make it easier to report spam.
- Add a “hide from IP” option so it doesn’t load for certain IPs (like your home one).
- Add customization options.
If they do all of that I might consider posting the code on here again.
Please subscribe, or else I will cry. Do you really want to make a programmer cry?
September 19th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I never used it in the first place as I guessed the real uses. Check the link with my opinion on BlogRush.
Regards.
September 19th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
I didn’t have high hopes for it from the beginning. Not every co-op ad network can be as good as Digital Point’s.
September 19th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
I actually don’t trust these schemes as it’s so easy for one to end up working for free for the already rich.
It’s completely out of one’s control and free is … well … free.
I posted another link here if you feel like reading a ‘kind of’ paranoid article
Regards.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
I was having high hopes, it’s not a bootstrap project so there are some requirements, right? Dropped, too.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Yeah, there is always the point of “is this helping or hurting my blogging reputation?”. Maybe if they fix up some of the issues I’ll post the code back on here, but I doubt they will.
Actually I have been thinking about starting up a co-op ad network (like BlogRush and Digital Point’s network) for a while now. I’ve been chatting with a few businessy people lately, and maybe one of these days it will pop up. Problem is doing a thing like that requires a lot of startup capital. Maybe when this blog hits it big I’ll have a bit more leverage.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:41 am
I don’t know about capital.
You need a coder and serious hosting. You can start with some cheap hosting just to see how it goes.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:02 am
Actually you need a ton of money to start a good co-op. I am a coder so that’s covered, but you need web designers, businessy people to handle all the financial crap, lawyers, server administrators (which I could also do at least in the beginning), copywriters, etc. Not to mention the fact you actually have to get a dedicated server for it (and if I did get one I’d go all out and just buy a server and get a spot at a data center), you’d be pretty nuts to run an ad network on cheap hosting, even when just starting.
The extra money would be padding for buying extra servers if needed, and things like that. Much easier to get some good investment up front instead of going back to the investors later on and begging for more cash.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:05 am
And what if it fails? I’d say try first to see how cold the water is before you dive in.
And you are talking about the real deal, commercial maybe.
I was thinking BlogRush free kind of stuff. With some benefits for you
September 20th, 2007 at 1:28 am
“And what if it fails?”
That’s the risk you take. Plus that is what beta testing is for, get people to help work out the kinks and make it perfect.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:31 am
I never meant failuer from the functionality point of view.
What if there will be no ‘demand’? This is the failure I’m talking about.
The BlogRush example shows me people will use it but place it so badly that it will only end up in consuming your resources but not generating the clicks. They just don’t play fair.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:45 am
I know how to code in technology that would prevent people from not participating correctly pretty fast, with a lot of human involvement as well (there would be very strict guidelines, don’t follow them and you get the boot). There’s also a lot of things missing from each ad network that may exist in another, I’d put all of those things in my network.
If you fill in the cracks in the market, people will flock to it. Plus having good PR people wouldn’t hurt either.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:58 am
I should probably also add in (just in case someone reads these comments) none of this is definitive and I have maybe 10% of an ad network written up (the easy 10%). The rest of the stuff would still take months to do even if I had a whole team of PHP and C coders and an infinite amount of potato chips and money. So don’t be expecting anything tomorrow. Plus there’s beta testing, making sure no software patents are infringed, etc.