If you’re like me, you are constantly looking for new traffic sources to promote your sites. We all know the obvious choices such as AdWords and Facebook which offer self-serve advertising options, but there are plenty of alternatives out there.
I’ve compiled a list of ad networks which offer self-serve advertising options that you can use to buy a lot of traffic.
Search Engines
1. 7 Search – Mixed reviews with 7Search. Not a lot of traffic unless you are targeting high traffic keywords.
2. ABCSearch
3. eClickz
4. FindItQuick – Haven’t heard much from this PPC engine.
5. Google AdWords – Works great if they allow you to keep your account.
6. Kanoodle
7. LookSmart
8. MIVA – Not a ton of traffic, but it seems fairly quality.
9. MSN AdCenter – Includes Yahoo search as of 10/10.
Social Networks
10. Facebook – Great place to find traffic all over the world.
11. MyAds – Advertise on Myspace.
13. PlentyOfFish – Great to place to target singles. A huge dating site.
Ad Networks
14. AdBlade – Text ads with images.
15. AdBrite
16. AdCause – Advertising money goes to help support different charities.
17. AdEngage
18. Adknowledge
19. Ad.ly – In-Stream advertising platform.
20. AdMarketplace
21. AdReady
22. AdRoll
23. ADSDAQ
24. AOL Advertising
25. BeTweeted – Paid Twitter advertising.
26. Bidvertiser – I’ve had limited success with Bidvertiser.
27. BuySellAds.com
28. CBS Interactive
29. Chitika
30. Click Share
31. FetchBack – Ad re-targeting to advertise to people who have already been to your site.
32. NY Times – Way overpriced advertising.
33. Pulse 360
34. Sponsored Tweets – Advertise via people’s tweets.
35. Twittad – Similar to Sponsored Tweets.
I’m sure there are a lot more that I’ve missed. Are they any favorite places not on the list you would recommend?
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love the list. even better. seeing your results with the platforms. keep up posting results and I post up mine too.
One I DID NOT have success with was Ezango NOT zango. Ezango.
Thanks for the compliments. I haven’t heard of Ezango (even after a Google search).
http://ezanga.com/ not Ezango Would never use again..
What a nice list of awesome resources for us. Thanks dude! I’ll be sure to check them out soon.
This is a pretty neat list…
Thanks…
Hey Logan – great list. It’s been interesting to watch POF step into this space. A lot of publishers have had great success on that site.
great list, thanks !
i’ve done fetchback for some clietns in the past; its an interesting concept. You could also do re targeting within adwords as well
For mobile advertising I’ve used inmobi.com, buzzcity.com and admob.com. Amazing amounts of traffic in very short time frame. If you use them you have to watch very closely or you’ll spend money faster than you can imagine.
I had one ad that I blew through $50 at 0.17 a click in 10 minutes. It was stunning.
We’ve used adbuyer.com. An ad network that allows you to advertise with various sized banners. Decent amount of traffic, reasonably priced. Might be worth a few tests.
I would ad 2 more. MegaClick.com and I forgot the name of this huge game network??? Anyone remembers the name of this adnetwork??
What about Ask? I heard they have lots of traffic? Did you ever try it??
I had them on the list and took them off. Apparently last month they shut down their ppc program and all their ads are now being served by AdWords.
I recently used AdBlade with no results at all.
I’ve used AdBlade with decent results in the past. With the, optimization is key.
The ezanga folks called me on the phone maybe 16 months ago. Got my number from whois information. Never worked with them though.
if we have no money for investing, how do i do?
If you don’t have money, you could focus on SEO which takes a long time. Or you could get a business loan. If your serious about running a business, you need to invest some capital.
Anyone tried cpv? TrafficVance is one I heard of. But haven’t tried.
Yeah, I didn’t list any CPV networks but there is TrafficVance, Media Traffic, DirectCPV, Lead Impact, Addon, Clicksor (off the top of my head). I’ve done very little with CPV though.
You missed out Trafficspaces.com – a white label self-service ad platform.
double click, google and mono ads, work very well once u figure out what keywords to use.