BuySellAds.com Online Advertising Blog

8 of 14 isn’t bad, but…

toddynho — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:31:39 +0000

Henry, over at DesignReviver.com wrote a post today titled 14 of the Most Useful Web Design Blogs. Although he forgot to include his own blog in that list, BuySellAds.com has 8 of those 14 blogs in our inventory. If we were to look at how useful these blogs are by virtue of the number of ads sold in relation to how long they have been BSA publishers you would also find that these are definitely high quality blogs. Ads sold = good pricing + demand + good click-through rate + publishers putting quality content out there.

Featured: Killer Startups

toddynho — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:26:15 +0000

Over the weekend we were featured on KillerStartups.com. It was cool to be included without actually submitting the site ourselves. You can check out the review here.

Twittering: Be in the know, now

toddynho — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:49:50 +0000

You can now get the latest and greatest BSA news and announcements on twitter. We’ll use our twitter channel to comunicate great deals for advertisers and to communicate product updates/info for publishers. I’m sure we’ll also use it to link to some nice resources for buying/selling ads online too.

Here we are: http://twitter.com/buysellads

Welcome: Elliot Haughin!

toddynho — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:50:01 +0000

It’s my pleasure to announce our newest team member: Elliot Haughin. As you may (or may not) know, we’ve been transitioning BSA over to the CodeIgniter framework while we gear up for the official launch. As a CodeIgniter Ninja (nope, not a real Ninja, but he almost was one) Elliot has been spearheading this effort. He’s an awesome developer, especially when it comes to CI. If you’d like to get to know him better, check out Elliot’s Blog.

So, without further delay, Welcome Aboard Elliot, glad to have you!

Welcome Miingle!

toddynho — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:08:27 +0000

Well, this blog has become quit stale! Too much work to do around these parts lately and not enough time for bantering on the blog. We have been busy signing up publishers lately, and, it is my pleasure to welcome Collis & the Miingle network to the party. The Miingle network includes PSDTuts, FreelanceSwitch, and FaveUp.

However, it seems as though this blog post it a little late… we have already sold 3 ads on FreelanceSwitch and two on PSDTuts. This is yet another great example of pricing ads just right (like GetClick did) to fill up your inventory fast.

GetClicky: Is BuySellAds.com our savior?

toddynho — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:41:09 +0000

Sean @ GetClicky installed our ad code on his site late Monday night. By the time he woke up the next morning he had already sold 4 ads. Wow. And, at the time of this post he’s now sold 5. You can read his full review of BSA. Here are the highlights:

He was previously using Rubicon Project and then tried out Project Wonderful
Rubicon Project still owes him money
Project Wonderful was OK, but probably not the best fit for his site. 24 hours later, he’s going to make four times as much with BuySellAds.com (one month) as he did with PW.
He likes the fact that we let publishers cash out whenever they want
The fact that we’re built on top of Amazon Web Services gives him a good vibe and sense of security (i.e. his ads have an extremely low chance of being down).

It’s great to have a nice review like this from one of our biggest publishers. If you’re not already using GetClicky, you should. It’s free web analytics tool way better than Google Analytics.

Private Beta: Live

toddynho — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:25:09 +0000

Well, we launched the site in private beta last week. I didn’t have enough time to post about it then as I was busy making sure that everything was working OK

Everything is going great, we’ve got some great publishers signed up and things are working (for the most part ;)). There are still a bunch of things we need to finish up before launching to the public… but we’re in good shape, and we’re psyched at the reaction from our publishers and advertisers this far.

If you would like to sign up for the private beta, head on over to the register page. We’re approving sites here and there.

Updating your sites statistics

toddynho — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:22:59 +0000

On your site detail page in the BuySellAds directory there are several stats (Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, Technorati Rank, etc.). It is important that you login to update these stats. We’ll update them for you every now and then, but we currently do not update these more often than once a month. If your ranking for any of these stats improves during the month, you can force an update by logging into your account and going to Sell Ads > My Sites > Edit Detail > Statistics. Click the update button and we will refresh your stats immediately.

New Feature: JavaScript Install

toddynho — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:20:26 +0000

Previously, in order to be a BuySellAds publisher, you needed to install our server-side code to run ads. We’re still the only ad marketplace who does this (and it’s cool for several reasons), but running our server-side code and displaying ads as pure HTML is no longer required. Now, if you don’t want to (or can’t) run our server-side code, you can simply install a couple lines of JavaScript. You can be up and running within minutes. You can find this code in your account under “My Sites > Get Ad Code”. Enjoy!

Welcome to the blog!

toddynho — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:16:59 +0000

We’ll be using the blog to keep you up to date on what’s going on @ BuySellAds.com. Starting out, you will be able to use BuySellAds.com to sell banner ads; however, we will soon be launching short text ads. Please stay tuned for the launch, thanks for your interest in our site!