CMF Ads – Make Money Promote Your Site
January 31st, 2009
Move over Entrecard, make way for CMF Ads (Changing Marketing Forever) and make money at the same time as promoting your blog. Not only can you earn credits on CMF Ads by advertising on your blog, and use these credits to advertise on other blogs, you can buy and sell credits from CMF too: a credit costs $0.25. Member blogs are manually checked to ensure quality.
How does CMF Ads work?
You can see the CMF Ad slots in my sidebar – there are various combinations to choose from, ranging from one Ad spot to a 4 in one block. The Ad widget runs in iframes so as not to slow your page load time.
You set your own price for the cost of advertising on your own site; so there is no being priced out of the market, as with Entrecard. You can change your price to suit your current situation. Ads, which last for a month, are rotating so you can accept multiple ads at a time. I currently have 5 ads running between the two ad spots, at a cost of 3 credits each. If you have more than one blog then you can manage these all from the one account.
Dropping in on other sites is not necessary as you get to know other members through the CMF forums. These have proved to be very friendly and helpful. although I am not surprised considering the bloggers who have spent a great deal of time to set the service up: coming up with the idea to begin with, coding the site, refining and testing it. I was fortunate to have been accepted as a beta tester, although, to my knowledge, everything was running smoothly even at that stage.
The forums, as well as providing help and support on CMF, allow you to join groups to promote your other social networking profiles (Stumbleupon and Twitter so far). A post of the week competition, decided on by a poll of members, allows you to submit your posts to gain some extra recognition. A blog critique forum will give you feedback on your site. The Marketplace section allows you to offer services in exchange for buying an ad on someone’s site or to offer/request guest posts, site design or paid blogging jobs.
CMF Ads Control Panel:
| CP Home | Find Ads | Manage Ads | Ad Stats | Balance | Buy Credits |
Statistics show you the number of page views and how many clicks have been made on the ads on your own site and how many have been produced by your ad on other sites. Individual profile pages show a rank and the number of unique visitors to a site over time. These tools help you to place your ads to the best effect and a categorization system allow you to target your ads to a selected audience.
Who created CMF Ads?
So who are the people behind CMF Ads? – Three bloggers who were heavily involved with Entrecard..
Firstly, Ben Barden, a banana loving, Dr Evil look alike with diabolical vision, who has been an honorary Aussie for the last year or so. We will be sorry to lose you back to England, Ben. He is the author of Ben Barden (not surprisingly), Top Ten Blog Tips, Zen Working and the developer of Injader. If you are not familiar with Injader, it is a CMS system, which provides blogging features like WordPress with the extra CMS features of a Joomla/Drupal type system (without the steep learning curve}.
Joining Ben is turnip and Stan. Turnip of Turnip of Power is a wonderful source of knowledge with tutorials and balanced reviews on blogging, advertising networks and the best social networking practices (he puts the latter into practice well himself too). I did not know Stan until I joined CMF, where is he very helpful in the forums- nothing to do with his blogging ability rather his blog topic Fantasy Baseball – I am not a baseball fan.
Joining Up
If you join up (by registering with the forums) please let me know here – I have some credits available for advertising and if I advertise on your site then you will gain credits yourself.
