Well, my adgitize experiment is over, as in totally over. lol.
I did mention here a couple of posts ago that I experimented with Adgitize by purchasing an ad spot with them for a month at a cost of $14. I’ve heard good things about Adgitize so I thought, why not try it out, it’s not gonna burn me anyway. At least not by much. So I did.
Unfortunately I couldn’t do all the things necessary to at least break-even with my advertising expense. Maintaining a slew of blogs is pretty intense I tell ay. So intense that I couldn’t even click on the adgitize ads that would have earned me points and bring at least a few steps closer to regaining my ‘investment’.
I thought that even without that added step I would still be able to earn enough points to at least shave a couple of bucks off what I paid. I was wrong. Fine, fine, it’s not adgitize’s fault. I was preoccupied with other things, blogs mostly that I couldn’t do all those stuff as I mentioned.
I was also betting on the unbelievable number of views that my ads had been getting to at least convert so I can get traffic to my site. However the clickthrough rate was really appalling. A 0.9% clickthrough rate is not something that you bring home to mommy, although at $.007/click (based on $14 payment) it’s cheap.
Putting it into context, majority of those clicks were probably a result of the incentive when clicking adgitize ads. There may be a smattering of clicks brought about by eyeballs from my placed ads but I seriously doubt that it would amount to anything significant. Getting hits through the latter would have been really great especially if you have anything to sell, at least then you could say that those were targeted clickers but if they’re not and I seriously think that they’re not, advertising further with adgitize ads, at least for me, really defeats my purpose. And this is why I’m discontinuing my experiment with Adgitize.
However, if you intend to earn a little extra cash for some effort, Adgitize is still viable based on the testimonials I’ve read. If you fit in this mold, then by all means continue, and good luck.
