At $10 A Month, CMF Ads Network Ads Provides Low-Cost, High Value Advertising For Bloggers
Posted by
eli
on 1/25/10• Categorized as Consulting
CMF Ads will be launching soon its new Network Ads. 
As announced by Ben Barden, one of CMF Ads owners and admins on the CMF Ads Forums, for $ 10.00 a month, a blogger can advertise his/her blog across the whole CMF Ads, with the ad appearing on hundreds of publisher blogs for one month.
Basics of the New Network Ads:
The ad will cost $10.00 for one month, regardless of how many sites there are in the network (which fluctuates when new sites join or people remove the widget), how many sites accept any network ads, and how many of the remaining sites would actually approve the ad.
CMF Ads member-publishers can choose to approve or deny each ad individually, unlike in Entrecard where the member-users could not reject or decline all sponsor ads.
However, since payment for publishers is based on page views of their blogs, they won’t earn anything if they decline the ad.
Stats of Ad Performance
An advertiser for the network ad will have all the stats as to how his/her ad performs, especially page views.
A Boon To CMF Ads publishers: Extra Income
The new network ads is beneficial to all publishers who accept the ad to run on their widgets. Once the last ad ends, publishers will be paid.
For example, of the $ 10.00 for one network ad, $ 9 is shared among those who approved the ad, while the $ 1 will go to CMF Ads as network tax, to pay for servers, webhosting, administrative expenses, etc.
Furthermore, unlike in Adgitize where a publisher gets paid for clicking the ads of the advertisers, CMF Ads does not pay its publishers for the clicks. Instead, publishers get paid from the ad based on page views.
Low Cost, High Value Advertising
Having advertised and still advertising in Entrecard, Adgitize and Project Wonderful, I can say that the new CMF Ads network ads is low cost, but high value, considering that for only $ 10, the ad runs on a full network for 30 days.
In comparison, my $ 25 sponsor ad in Entrecard last month lasted only for 4.5 days as EC charges on per impression basis. When I bought the next sponsor ad, it runs for 25 hours, my money burning fast at $ 1 / hour.
As such, for bloggers who are looking for low cost, high value ad network to promote and advertise their blogs, and for those who like to monetize their sites, CMF Ads is one ad network worth trying and joining.
Sites like Entrecard and Adgitize will surely find CMF Ads too difficult to compete with. I don’t even remember the number of times I have logged in my CMF Ads account today.
This sounds ideal. I’m looking forward to seeing the final details.
Eli,
would you let a Network Ad run on your CMF widget which robs your other 8 advertisers their page views who paid 50 cents for it?
The return for yourself would be 4 – 7 cents for the Network ad… but with a “real” ad you earn 50 cents.
I think it messes up with my advertisers when i would run a Network ad. That’s why i deny these ads now and in the future.
It might be a good investment from the view of an advertiser but not from the view of a publisher (with an ad price of more than 5 cents and page views of more than 2.000).
Hi Martin,
I understand CMF Ads has given any publisher the option to either decline or accept any network ad. Therefore, it depends on the publishers to decide.
Network ads is great for some publishers who have empty ad slots, as they don’t have to wait for advertisers to put ads on their widgets. It is also good for other publishers who charge $ 0.01-$ 0.05 per month.
As for me, I will keep my options open.
I had a terrible experience with CMF so no matter how cheap they are, I would never go back there again and avail of their service. They’re worse than Entrecard. Their support staff is not supportive and the most arrogant people in the whole planet. And besides I don’t get clicks from advertising with them. And most of all, their system is very , very confusing and when I asked for support and help, all I ever got was a snide remark confirming that it’s really difficult but their other members do not have a hard time with it, and that I’m the only one who had trouble with it—-insinuating to me that I’m so stupid not to understand their system.
I WARN BLOGGERS NOT TO ADVERTISE ON CMP ….DO NOT ADVERTISE ON CMF. IT’S INEFFECTIVE, THE STAFF ARE RUDE AND UNSYSTEMATIC.
Glad I stopped and read this. CMF has been doing so many changes I don’t keep up to date on them all. I was wondering why this morning I had 8 ads to approve and thought they were the regular ads, I charge .50 cents. I changed my widget about two weeks ago back to showing I believe three ads instead of a single. But I have to agree with Martin in the respect of these new network ads are cutting into ad views of the higher paying advertisers.
I am glad we have more control over them then EC, but really what are you talking about as far as revenues for the publisher at the end of the month. Maybe 10 cents. The reason I went back to the three widget is to make sure enough ad views were being shown for each advertiser. But now I have to think about this and decide whether to accept the network ads or not. I would if I had only a few advertisers who paid, but before the network ads hit I had I believe 13 paid advertisers.
I think I just answered my own question. I need to take down the network ads. In my belief the people who paid the going rate deserve every ad view I can give them.
Glenn (Man Over Board), give first priority to your paid advertisers. You can either decline or approve network ads. If you have no paid advertisers and your widget is empty, it is wise to approve network ads.
However, if you have many paid advertisers already, then declining the network ads is a good thing to do, since it is important to give maximum ad exposure to paid advertisers who paid $ 0.50/ month to place ads on your widget.
The nice thing about CMF Ads is that you are given the choice, unlike in Entrecard where you cannot reject or decline all sponsor ads. CMF Ads pays you for running the network ads, while Entrecard does not. And worse, if you don’t want sponsor ads to run on your EC widget, then you have to pay Entrecard $ 5.00/ month or $ 48.00 a year.
thanks…..i was getting confused about these network ads i approved…….but don’t you think because of this ………ppl who bought space on through CMF on my blog will suffer…??????
and i have ….some 10 network….ads running on my page….do you think as a publisher……the chances of making bit more money is better than the earlier strategy’s ??
Thank you for explaining this…I think CMF owes you for doing what they failed in and really clarifying their program
Good stuff, and I’m now considering it!
Cheers!