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I have three sites that generate around 60,000 to 70,000 unique visitors a month and serves quite a few pages. I have been running these sites for about half of a year working on promotion and building a user base. I finally have a large enough user base that I am comfortable putting up ads, but I have run into a problem. No one will accept me as a publisher because of content.
My sites are parody type sites that sometimes have nudity and most of the time have foul language. They are really funny though. I have been turned down by Goggle and fastclick and a couple of others as well. What am I to do?
Does anyone know of any advertising providers that will accept this kind of content from a site? I would like graphical ads. I will keep digging around here but I am hoping that someone can steer me in the right direction.
Thank you all!
On the down side, I use it on one of my sites where Adsense won't approve me, and it is a long haul to profits with them. But, over time with your traffic, you could build a nice low level income with them. Just don't expect to pay the monthly mortgage within the first year.
In fact, don't expect a check for a minimum of six months, unless you can serve a ton of ads and have a really high cpm, with their minimum payout and net90 payment policy, you are looking at a minimum 5 months to get a check. Pud, the owner, indicated in a forum thread here somewhere, they have changed that policy to net60. That was about a month ago, and there is still no indication at all of that fact on their website.
The other thing is the online help system sucks during after hours. The seller faq is anemic and the buyer faq doesn't exist. During business hours, they have great live support, just recently launched. I have used it and it was quick. Unfortunately, the response given was unhelpful, didn't address the real problem, and didn't resolve the problem in the end.
That problem discussed in live support, was a problem we were having when we tried to display two ad blocks on the same page, as we do with some of our sites/pages using Adsense and Fastclix (which works perfectly with multiple ad blocks). The custom font face and colors do not work when more than one ad block is placed on the pages.
Not at all the instant ATM machine that adsense is. But, if you have no options, it is better than nothing.
There is a large user base of junior achiever sites in their publisher base who have off the edge ad content. They will likely approve you. The personal site of the owner fits that model, similar to yours. (raw frat level humor)
On the flip side, as an advertiser, the billing system is very poor. Cancelled ads two weeks before the ad ending date, are repeatedly rebilled to the credit card for numerous days after the ad ends. That pretty much explains why they are worried about charge backs and have a net90 policy for payments. They have an overbilling problem there.
It was reason enough for me to cancel all renewing ads, and not start any new ones. Apparently the boys at Adbrite don't understand that no means no.
