Cash The Checks

There’s some sites where you simply can’t get anybody to buy what you offer. So you place pay-per-click ads on them, like Adsense. Then you realize your click-through-rate is low, so they’re not even clicking. Either that or the clicks are only paying a couple of cents per click. Now you’re left with a site that’s hard to make money from. What you can do is just use that site to feed traffic to your other sites. Another option are pay-per-impression sponsors, which are hard to find. You can also sell advertising spots on your site, as some want the opportunity to brand their site, get some pagerank, a backlink, and some traffic of course. Today I found another alternative, a sort of “pay per ad placement” site.
It’s called Bucks 4 Banners. This is a program I learned about from someones blog (I forgot who’s it was). The way it works is you place a 468×60 banner on any 3 pages in your site and they’ll pay you a monthly fee as long as you keep it there. You can see what the ad looks like in this example on my Law Information Blog. There’s a “£10″ signup bonus, which is just under $20.00 and the monthly payment is £5 per month, which is $9.89/month in US currency.
I was hesitant to join because I know nothing of foreign currency, and I don’t like joining non-US companies since if they don’t pay, it’s not like I can ever sue them to get my money. Since I did get to read an unbiased recommendation, I gave it a shot. It certainly won’t make you rich, but any little bit of extra money for very little work won’t hurt. They pay with Amazon gift certificates (they call them payment vouchers) or through paypal monthly so I’ll wait and see how it goes.
Take a look at the Bucks 4 Banners program.