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CMF Ads: A Credit Based Advertising Network that Rocks

CMF Ads is a credit based advertising network slash social networking site started by three bloggers namely Turnip from Turnip of Power: Social Networking, Stan of Razzball (Fantasy Baseball) and Ben of Top Ten Blog Tips. They aim to provide a low cost advertising for bloggers while helping them sort out blogging problems.

The concept is very simple. Place the CMF ad widget on your blog and others will advertise. The widget features an ad sharing system which rotates adverts each time it is loaded. This is done to keep the ad costs down. For example, if a blog has a daily traffic of 5000 and five ads are running on the widget, each ad will receive a page impression of 1000 per day. If the ad cost for that site is 10 credits ($2.50) per month, then I must say it’s an awesome deal, even if the publisher accepts a few more ads.

You are allowed to place multiple ad spaces if he/she chooses to, for better ad performance. There is also an option for you to accept ads from non blog sites. You can set the ad price (minimum or 1 credit per month or $ 0.25) and use those credits to advertise on other blogs or sell them back to CMF for half the purchase price.

CMF has a great advertising concept (well, it’s not yet perfect but I have high hopes for the startup). They have very reputable standards, which other networks have been neglecting, in accepting publishers and advertisers. This means spam blogs has NO place in the CMF Network.

Features Breakdown

• Ad space sharing to keep the costs down – a typical ad costs 5 credits, or just $1.25, for 30 days.
• Set your own ad price for each of your sites – it must be at least 1 credit ($0.25).
• Advertising history – view the ads you placed on a site in the past, and how they performed (we display views, unique views and clicks for all ads).
• Publishers earn 100% of the credits for ads placed on their site – these credits can be used to advertise, or the credits can be sold back to us at 50% of the purchase price.
• Every credit in the system is paid for – we don’t artificially create credits based on blog activity – which means our economy is stable.
• If you have multiple sites, you can easily manage them without having to maintain multiple accounts or switch between the sites. Your balance is shared across all of your sites, and you can easily choose which site to advertise with via a drop down.
• Our blogging forums provide a central location for bloggers to exchange tips and get help.

If you’re looking for an advertising network and a great community of bloggers who are more than willing to help in expanding your reach, better check out CMF Ads.

Tags: Advertising Network, Blog, blog advertising, CMF Ads, Social Networking

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Entrecard is one way of advertising your site and increasing traffic. What is so great about this advertising scheme is that it’s FREE! I came across Entrecard while browsing one of my Mixx buddies’ website I-Make-Money-On-Facebook. In her blog, she was talking about the famous John Chow who just bought an advertising spot in her website through Entrecard. When I checked out the site, it got me interested. Who wouldn’t be interested in free advertising? So I decided that I would give it a shot.

How it works:

Credits are the currency of the Entrecard network. If you have credits you can buy advertising spots from other blog sites. The Entrecard spot looks like the one on this site’s sidebar.

How do you get credits?

One credit is given to you when you drop your Entrecard on one of the sites using it, and the same amount of credit will be given to you if others drop their card on your site through the Entrecard widget. Remember that Everytime you drop someone a card on his/her widget you visit their site an that will account to one visit in their site. It will have the same effect on your site when someone gives you an Entrecard. You also get credits when someone buys an ad space from your Entrecard account. You can then use those credits to buy an adspace from other sites. Once you’ve bought an ad space, your ad button will be posted on his/her entrecard widget for a whole day.

How much does one ad space cost?

In the beginning your adspace for your site will cost only 2 credits, but as you receive more drops of entrecard in your widget it will increase in value. Top sites like John Chow’s will cost you 90 credits for a full day of your ad in his widget.

Entrecard: To advertise your card on someone else’s widget, it costs the number of credits equal to twice the number of cards dropped on that widget each day. So if a widget receives an average of 50 cards dropped into it each day, advertising on that widget will cost 100 credits per day. This helps insure that for every two credits you pay, a unique user will see your ad and be clicking in the general vicinity. It also ensures the economy balances, because every time you drop your card, it creates two credits. That surplus must be balanced via advertising costs.

You also have the power to approve and reject cards that will be posted in your Entrecard widget. If you don’t feel right about a particular ad appearing on your site then you can reject the Ad.

If you are looking for a way to increase traffic in your website or blog and maybe earn some new blogger friends then Entrecard might just do it.

Tags: blog advertising, Entrecard, free advertising, increase traffic