This post is for bloggers who wish to increase their site traffic, earn more money, or looking for more information about Entrecard, Adgitize blogger, and CMF. However, if be aware, they might against Google Adsense TOS and policy.
According to my knowledge that all of them should not against Google Adsense Term and Conditions for publishers. If somebody here has updated information, it will be very nice to share here via comment box below. Some comparison between these services are shown below.
Service | Entrecard | Adgitize Me | CMF Ads |
Monetize | - No | - Yes | - Yes |
What you need to do | - Need to visit members's site to earn drop credits | - concentrate to post new things in your blog - visit community ads | - Set your price to suit advertisers' budget |
Traffic increasing | - High - Because members need to drop other members' site to earn credits | - High | - Depend on where you advertise and the design of your banner - using spikes program to bring 50 unique traffic via $0.20 |
Advantage | - Not need any cost - Immediately traffic for active members - User friendly environment | - Automatically bring advertisement to blog - Good reputation so far in internal - $10 for PayPal transactions(can be considered low) - many features which are provided - no need to take care, just concentrate on your blog development - You are rewarded points: - every time you write an article on your blog - when you click on ads for other members within the community. - for any visits to your web site or blog. - any time someone clicks a member ad on your blog. - No fault click | - Can set your own price - You can earn as many as you can with one or more slots - $1 minimum cashout - forum is available for members to share experiences - User friendly environment |
Disadvatage | - No earning - only one slot can put in your sites - increase site bounce rate | - Not very user friendly environment(due to many features which are provided) - $50 for payment by check transactions | - You many - Only can play all slots in one place - Need to adjust your price from time to time if necessary |
After a brief comparison as above, now, let's talk about Google Adsense. Due to the policy of Google Adsense which I have gone through it again this morning...
Therefore, I have decided to cancel my entrecard because:
1. Entrecard is considered as traffic exchange program and against Google Adsense policy.
2. Entrecard make me so hard to determine my visitors in the long run. The traffic, of course, is increasing. But if you really treat your blog seriously, you should think about future.
3. Entrecard make my website slow down.
Next, both Adgitize Me and CMF Ads are quite similar, so far. Personally, I believe they still comply Google Adsense policy, if and only if, you do not participate what they call pay-per-click program, which is definitely violate Google Adsense TOS. Again, time is needed for me to do more investigation about those providers. I will update it in xaivierchia.blogspot.com soon.
To recap, be aware to what you have been participated and what you want to participate to avoid any unhappy thing happens.
Good luck and have a nice day^^
Written by: Xaivier Chia
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Source: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182