Project Wonderful Advertising Campaigns
February 4, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: SEO and Marketing
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I’m totally obsessed with Project Wonderful. The program is exceeding what I thought it could and I’m advertising all over the blogosphere.
Currently I have 50 bids on different boxes ranging from a dime to $15 a day. The highest one is EntreCard because there are so many bloggers using the system already I think it’s worth it for now. In the next few days I’ll visit the bounce rate / average time on site etc to see if that particular stream is worth it as well it’s expensive at ~250-450$ a month.
Now to the main reason I’m writing this instead of posting another post I worked on this weekend. Using campaigns at project wonderful is a great idea because literally there are so many blogs and websites to advertise on you’ll get carpal tunnel syndrome and a vitamin e deficiency from lack of sunlight if you tried to do it all manually.
Late last night at around midnight when your average person would be in bed for the work week I was up toiling with my forum and different advertising opportunities as always. It’s always bet to invest in yourself and build the site better but external investment of advertising is fun as well. Just make sure if you do advertise you have your ducks lined up already or it could be a waste of money and if you waste money early on any project it kind of kills the momentum so be cautious. Also since this businesses makes micro payment web advertising easy to do it’s growing virally with I’m sure thousands of new advertising joining daily.
That being said I put a limit of 5$ and bid up to $0.30 on any square 125X125 it could find and every 468×60 it could find. You can also weigh your ads so each one is from 10 if you have 3 ads and 1 is more popular give it a weight of say 4 and then the other 2 ads a weight of 3 to make up 10. This way your most popular ad gets shown more often. Makes sense? You can also choose daily maximum’s, maximum number of high bids to have a swell as stipulations to allow or disallow a particular advertiser. I advice only taking 1 box per member when doing automatic campaigns because if not you may find yourself occupying 3 different boxes all on the same fold!
I woke up this morning and most of my $5 was eaten away! I was however the high bid on ~ 200 blogs. I have since change my high bid from $.3 to $.1 because I’m trying to target tiny blogs that get a few hundreds page views a day at a cost of well $0.01-$0.1 a piece. I changed it because I noticed a lot of small blogs had min bid of $0.30 so effectively I was paying 30 cents a day for a blog which I could get the same for 3 cents a day. Another reason to go LOW is that you have NO CLUE where your ad will be displayed as you didn’t do it manually so sometimes it’s in a very unflattering spot; at $0.2 cents a day …alright; at $.3 I’m getting ripped off!
To conclude I highly recommend making a campaign as it saves you enormous time; just be very diligent on the options you choose and monitor it closely or it will quickly become an expensive affair. A good recommendation would be to start at a LOW bid and increase as you need to opposed to a high bid realizing you’re over spending and drop to lower ones like I did through trial and error! You live; you learn but project wonderful is a great opportunity to get your blog out there.
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I have never heard of project wonderful, but I am going to try it out on my blogs. Thank you for the information and hope you do well!
Interesting… I haven’t heard of this project either. I’ll definitely take a closer look. Thanks for sharing Rob! Looks like with the current trend of new blogs and small private web sites that appear on the net, this kind of advertisement will be very popular and great alternative to the current contextual mediums. Good find!
I heard of it once but I didn’t investigate; then became aware of it when I wanted to bid somewhere and since then got into the campaigns. I’m going to modify it tonight to cover a much larger spectrum super cheap. Check it out and signup; I wrote a post a few days back on this blog you may want to visit as well.
Best of luck!
Rob
Stumbling, great advice!
I wrote my own review as well, its more publisher advice than advertising.
http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2008/01/30/project-wonderful-review-and-tips/
Ours is set to about 50 cents per day, feel free to bid
We get quite a fluctuating traffic level, but its worth the $ 
Thanks for stumbling and the comment Matt. You have some good tips and from the other side of the coin; thanks for sharing.
Yeah thank you.
That article has inspired several of my readers to sign up.
Maybe you could guest blog a post about advertising with project wonderful…
Maybe increase traffic and spending limits… etc?
Think about it
Thanks Matt! Send me a PM on Bloggeries and we can definitely do something; how did I inspire readers to sign up?
Either way I think EVERYONE should if I haven’t made that clear already.
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