Thread: Beware of Adbrite

I had been using adbrite on a lot of my websites and was getting good amount of clicks per day, and then suddenly the clicks stopped and there were no clicks for weeks. At first I thought maybe this was just the way it was and people were not clicking for whatever reason, but then I decided to conduct a little experiment, which would likely get you banned but as I was not going to stick wit adbrite that did not matter to me.

I got various friends and colleagues from all different IP's and parts of the world to click an ad each and then confirm what ad they clicked. In total about 20 people took part in this over a period of a 2 weeks which ended yesterday. I did not bother to look at adbrite until this morning to see what the results were. And guess what? Not one click has been registered through adbrite. Upon further investigation, the CPM (Per impression) was totally way out with the stats from Analytics and Awstats. I'm not talking about a few thousand out, I'm talking hundreds of thousand of impressions out.

I dread to think of the amount of revenue that has been lost through this complete balls up from Adbrite, but just a warning to everyone, keep an eye on your activity and stats with adbrite... and if your stats have gone way down this may well have happened to you too.

I am thinking of using adsense everywhere on all sites now, but just one question? Adsense and Adbrite aside, which is the next best PPC for publishers to use?

I've always been pretty happy with AdBrite actually. They seem to always count my clicks, although I haven't tried the experiment you mentioned (and wouldn't).

If it was me I'd probably look at Kontera and Bidvertiser next.

I've heard good things about Widgetbucks but they seem to be very elitist. I signed up but my account was never set up by them. Right now I only use AdSense and I also offer free services which advertise my own paid versions of those services. Sometimes creating my own services and advertising my own stuff has worked better than the uncertainty of affiliate marketing.

Originally Posted by vectro

I've heard good things about Widgetbucks but they seem to be very elitist. I signed up but my account was never set up by them. Right now I only use AdSense and I also offer free services which advertise my own paid versions of those services. Sometimes creating my own services and advertising my own stuff has worked better than the uncertainty of affiliate marketing.

WidgetBucks still pay reasonably well at about 15-20 cents per click. The trouble is getting those clicks in the first place - in the 2 or 3 seconds it takes the widget to load properly a lot of people have already scrolled away.

I also took a hell of a knock from them when they cut their affiliate earnings rate from 10% to 5% - that has cost me hundreds of dollars.

On the up side they are fairly reliable, receptive to customer feedback and they do pay.

I have always used Adsense although have been on Adbrite many times. They seemed ok.

Have you tired contacting them? maybe they have enough details to restore the click to your account.

Cheers
Sean

Take a look at Chitika, if I remember correctly they pay via Paypal and their minimum payment is pretty low too.

I've had nothing but bad experiences with them.

I have a site that targets younger teen girls and I was getting adult advertisements on my site even after opting out of that feature, which caused a whole heap of trouble! Not to mention when time came around for me to get paid, they took their sweet time and payed me when they wanted to.

Though I've never used Adbrite but I've always heard good things about them. This is something very unusual.

i wanted to ad with them

Actually, I haven't tried yet to use Adbrite. I just stick on using Adsense and get no problems with it.

Originally Posted by Arleigh

Actually, I haven't tried yet to use Adbrite. I just stick on using Adsense and get no problems with it.

But don't you get crazy fluctuations in your AdSense earnings day-to-day? I wonder if AdBrite is less unpredictable. I'm about to start using it more to find out.

I had been using adbrite since years and I have been pretty happy with them.

Originally Posted by princessa

I've had nothing but bad experiences with them.

I have a site that targets younger teen girls and I was getting adult advertisements on my site even after opting out of that feature, which caused a whole heap of trouble! Not to mention when time came around for me to get paid, they took their sweet time and payed me when they wanted to.

I've been using adbrite on a new site and was getting about $5 a month until recently.

Then a couple of weeks ago adbrite started showing 'the faceboook of sex' ads and pretty much all the ads are adult. Even though I opted out of adult ads.

To make matters worse I'm showing 20 clicks yesterday with $.01 earnings.

The site has already disappeared out of my control panel a couple of times?

I've always been pretty happy with AdBrite actually.

thanks for the warning. I will keep this in my mind.

Sorry to hear that from you. Although I haven't tried to use Adbrite, this sounds like a good warning.

I've never used adbrite, adsense has always worked for me

Never tried to use the adbrite but its good caution to us...
Yes your right, we should monitor our activity and stat of our website so we don't waste out money and time..
I rather used the adsense if this adbrite offers this kinda poor service...

Originally Posted by loco

I've never used adbrite, adsense has always worked for me

I have a photo of eva mendes butt naked on my site. The photo is tasteful. Do you think adsense would allow it?

http://evamendes.info/imagem.php?id=...ndes%20011.jpg

Originally Posted by Bogart

I have a photo of eva mendes butt naked on my site. The photo is tasteful. Do you think adsense would allow it?

http://evamendes.info/imagem.php?id=...ndes%20011.jpg

I don't think so if adsense will allow on your site... :sneaky:
Take a peek on the guidelines on adsense.. :devlish:

Originally Posted by Bogart

I have a photo of eva mendes butt naked on my site. The photo is tasteful. Do you think adsense would allow it?

http://evamendes.info/imagem.php?id=...ndes%20011.jpg

I approve of that pic. :cheerful:
She has been in some family movies even if they were rubbish and there is more nudity in the Sistine chapel.

Whether adSense will approve, who knows? Only way to know for sure is to ask them.

Not sure if even Miss Mendes would approve of one the adbrite ads on your front page however.

Originally Posted by Halobitt

I approve of that pic. :cheerful:
She has been in some family movies even if they were rubbish and there is more nudity in the Sistine chapel.

Whether adSense will approve, who knows? Only way to know for sure is to ask them.

Not sure if even Miss Mendes would approve of one the adbrite ads on your front page however.

I'm hesistant to use adsense on the site. I bought the site a few months ago on DP to play around with and with minimal effort I was making $5 a month with adbrite until the "face book of sex" ads started. I have no way to turn them off. I tried check off 'no adult ads' with no lick. The site has also disappeared from my adbrite control panel.

I'm going to replace the adbrite with Chitika Ads. Adsense on my cleb sites isn't paying well. It's almost crimminal. I have sites getting 87 cents per 1000 impressions.

Originally Posted by Halobitt

I approve of that pic. :cheerful:
She has been in some family movies even if they were rubbish and there is more nudity in the Sistine chapel.

Whether adSense will approve, who knows? Only way to know for sure is to ask them.

Not sure if even Miss Mendes would approve of one the adbrite ads on your front page however.

I don't think adsense will approve on that site..as i sees this is an adult site..
"but who know" maybe..adesense will reconsider.. :devlish:

Originally Posted by glbrtsoms

I don't think adsense will approve on that site..as i sees this is an adult site..
"but who know" maybe..adesense will reconsider.. :devlish:

Actually the site isn't adult :embarassed-f:

In any case with Eva showing all the skin ... I put up the adbrite and adultfriendfinder. The two together were working well until adbrite starting showing the "face book of sex" ads. The ctr has dropped to almost zero. From time to time adbrite also show gay sex ads.

A move to Chitika Ads might get the ball rolling for you. There is no harm in trying your luck with them.

Originally Posted by Bogart

Actually the site isn't adult :embarassed-f:

In any case with Eva showing all the skin ... I put up the adbrite and adultfriendfinder. The two together were working well until adbrite starting showing the "face book of sex" ads. The ctr has dropped to almost zero. From time to time adbrite also show gay sex ads.

Oh i sorry thought it was an adult site...because of the pop.up in your site with like in porn site..:shy-f: .. its not a problem if you will try to other..its good to try others so you can compare there services and can choose which can give what you want..
:energetic: