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Free Website Advertising with Coop Advertising Network
by Bill Holder
I've decided to register for Coop Advertising Network couple of months ago. It's a free service offered by Digitalpoint. Since joining the Coop Advertising Network , I've seen dramatic increases with my search engine results. I'd highly recommend using Coop Advertising Network to any website owners. Below is an FAQ from Digitalpoint website.
What is this?
The ad network is a network of site owners that offer ad space to the network. In return, the ads they define are displayed across the entire network. You can learn more about the goals and history over here.
How much does this cost? 100% free.
Why did you make this? Because there is a ton of unused advertising space out there on the Internet, and I have not seen anyone else doing anything like this. It's easy to put 50,000 of your own ads on your own site, but there is much more value if you put your ad 50 times on 1,000 sites.
What types of sites do you currently support? vBulletin 2.x and vBulletin 3.x forums, phpBB 2.x forums, Movable Type blogs, Blogger based blogs and any site that supports PHP (there are how-to instructions for each).
Blogger Note: Blogger blogs have some special requirements at this point. They must be published via FTP/SFTP (rather than xxxx.blogspot.com) and must be running on an Apache web server that allows mod_rewrite with PHP installed.
I can't seem to get the ads to work on my site, can you help me? Please visit the forum for assistance.
What types of ads can be served? Currently the system can serve 468x60 graphic banners, 468x60 text based banners or a simple text based ad. For the text banners, you can control the background color of the banner.
Are there any unacceptable ads? Gambling, adult, political and pharmaceutical related ads will not be accepted for the ad network. All ads are reviewed before they become live on the network. There are also detailed ad guidelines.
What Character Set Is Used For Ads? Ads are served as Unicode (UTF-8), so ads in any languages are supported. If your site's charset is not UTF-8, you may want to consider changing it so unicode ads show properly.
How exactly does it work?
Ads are served in realtime on the backend from a dedicated ad server.
First an active coop ad user is selected randomly based on weight (the more value/ad space you bring to the network, the more impressions/weight you will get across the network).
Once the user has been selected, it pulls a random ad that they created to display.
The ad server serves that advertisement for that ad request.
You can see a sample of a raw text link integration by Webmaster Forums. (text links in the footer).
How do you prevent sites from joining the network and then removing the ads from their site?
Site are automatically revalidated daily, and accounts will be deactivated automatically if the ad network ads are missing from their site.
If I offer more ad space to the network do I get my ads displayed more on the network?
Yes, users are assigned a weight factor that determines the chances one of their ads will be served. The weighting system is a formula based on a variety of things, including popularity of the site, how many pages you offer to the ad network for space, how many other ads you run on your pages, etc.
Is there any incentive to refer people to the ad network?
Yes, there is a referral system where you receive a 10% weight bonus when you refer someone (the weight being based on the new user). In simple terms, the more people you refer, the more your ads are displayed across the network.
Can I buy my way into the network if I don't have any ad space to offer?
Sorry, no (this is not a money making venture on our end).
Why is there no cost if you run a dedicated server to serve ads? Doesn't it take server resources and bandwidth?
Yes it does, but at this point it's not much. If the ad network grows very large, there may be real costs incurred on our end to run it. If that ever becomes the case, we may sell a very small portion of the ad space to companies outside the ad network. There are no plans to do it at this point, and only enough ad space would be sold to break even on the bandwidth costs. But again, at this point there are no plans to do so, but it is left as an option to make it viable if it grows large.
Become a Coop Advertising Network member for free.
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