J.C.’s Money Blog

I found an interesting site today while playing around: adgridwork.com. When you sign up for the site, it allows you to place ads on your page, much like Google’s adsense, but the difference is that you don’t get paid with revenue, but rather with traffic back to your site.

If you look at the bottom of my main page, you will see ads like this:

Any time such an ad is clicked on, my “karma” to the service goes up, and the service is more likely to display one of my ads on some other participant’s site.

Since I am working solely on web pages now, I am always interested in unique / cheap ways to generate traffic, and the price is about right with this one.

Upsides

1. The service is free. Well, sort of - You have to figure that advertising space could be used for ads that pay you in real money; so any clicks there would be lost revenue from ad services that actually pay you for clicks.
2. The interface on the adgridwork.com is really easy to use, and the stats update almost immediately.
3. Ad-Click-Happy traffic sent your way? I almost never click on ads while viewing web pages, so I always envision a small minority of people that just click on everything they see, which make up for the majority of people who don’t click on ads. If people come to your site because they clicked on ad, aren’t they more likely to click on an ad on your site?

Downsides

1. I have only been using the service for a few hours, but the quality of sites I am advertising on my page is pretty low. Mostly site’s for Foreign Exchange stuff or pretty unrelated pages. Their algorithm doesn’t seem as good as Google’s for figuring out the topic of your web page.

I’ll try this out for a while and see how it turns out…