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Reaching prospective web hosting customers in a highly saturated market is often challenging. However, AdToll has helped us market our product through selective targeting and high quality traffic.

AdToll’s flexible options have provided us unique opportunities to display our ads on sites which will increase our Click-through-Rates.

We’ve been extremely impressed with the service provided to us by AdToll. We’d recommend them to any company looking for targeted advertising opportunities.

Note: This Advertiser Spotlight was provided by Chris from ProService Hosting.

Not even 24 hours ago we released our new Peel Away Ad format and the take up has been huge with already over 60 Publishers using them. Advertisers have also been quick off the mark booking a range of Sponsored Ads on their favorite sites.

One common theme we did notice with ads is that the ad media is actually quite poor - some even going outside of the viewable area within the Peel Away. The viewable area is actually the top right hand corner of the 500×500 banner image. When the Peel Away folds down it stops about half way through the banner to only reveal that top right hand corner.

In the office we have been experimenting and Tara has actually come up with some great ads for a few of our Advertisers. Three of them are below:

These ads are actually currently being used by the Advertisers and they look incredible embedded in the Peel Away Ad. Notice the ad only occupies the top right hand corner of the image!

Tara’s success with these ads has sparked the creative bug in her and she would love to do more!

So for a limited time, for our Advertisers, she is willing to make them for $10 each.

Due to overwhelming demand we have had to raise the price on these to $15 each!

Yet again we have had to raise the price as we are just flooded with these and finding it hard to keep up. A peel away ad now costs $25 but is worth every cent!

If you are interested please get in contact with us at https://www.adtoll.com/contact_us.php

We are proud to present out latest available ad format, the Peel Away Ad.

Peel Away Ads are a new technology that provide a different and innovative method to advertising. A “peel” appears on the top right hand side of a web site and when the mouse moves over it, the “peel” opens smoothly to reveal the advert within.

Peel Away Ad as seen on ModYourCar.com

We already have Publishers adding the new format to their site and it looks fantastic! On top of that it’s very easy for Advertisers to book an ad; all they need is a 500×500 banner image.

For more information on our Peel Away ad format visit http://www.adtoll.com/peel_away_ads_faq

We released the new changes to our Affiliate Program late last year and to this point we are very happy with how it has helped grow our company and given our Affiliates more earning opportunity.

I myself have managed to get some referrals under me and to show exactly the power of our Affiliate Program including the reporting we provide I thought I would blog abut some of my results.

OK I will admit my results are not all that exciting but I am not a real active affiliate trying to get referrals under me. Anyone actually putting in some effort could get some huge returns! Nevertheless below are my stats as they currently stand and I hope it hi-lights some of the powerful reporting we provide.

Statistics (last 30 days)

Our Affiliate Program area provides some nicely presented graphs (as above) that allow you to get a picture of your results from the last 30 days. Graphs include ‘Number of Referrals’, ‘Referrals by Country’ and ‘Referrals by Domain’.

From my results you can see most of my referrals have come from the United States and from forums.digitalpoint.com, which is due to my high level of activity on the forum there - my signature contains my referral link.

Referrals

Under the statistics we show you a list of all the referrals under you and information such as the date they joined, the country of origin, the referring URL (if known) and details of the Site / Ad Group they came from if they were directed from one of your Ad groups. You can see from here that I currently have 21 active referrals.

Affiliate Earnings to date (1-Feb - 9-Feb)

What you are most interested in is really how much these referrals have made me. Above is the section of the Earnings Report showing my Affiliate Earnings for the month of Feb up until now (9-Feb). We provide you a summary of your Affiliate Earnings broken down by day. We also show you whether the commission came from an Advertiser or Publisher referral.

Overall like I said I am not an active affiliate looking to earn from our Affiliate Program. Even still I have managed to drum up some referrals and have commissions rolling in! If you were committed to really pushing AdToll and working on signing customers you should be able to really get some great results. We do have a number of affiliates with over 100 referrals under them and performing quite well.

For those that do not know about our Affiliate Program or who don’t even know what one is I have included below the 3 questions contained within our Publisher FAQ:

What is the AdToll affiliate program?
The affiliate program allows you to make money by referring on customers to AdToll.

How can I earn as an affiliate?
As a publisher you automatically earn commissions as an affiliate through the links provided on your Ad Groups. You can also use your affiliate link to refer customers to AdToll (see Affiliate Program in your account area).

What commission can I earn?
We allow you to earn commission for Advertisers and Publishers you refer to AdToll.

• For each Advertiser you refer, you will earn a 20% commission on profit for each Ad Booking they make for the first 90 days of their membership.
• For each Publisher you refer, you will earn a 10% commission on profit for each Ad Booking they receive for the first 365 days of their membership.

We are running a promotion whereby we are offering a 25% discount on click prices for various ad formats, which are:

120×600
160×600
120×60
120×90
200×200
Video Ad - 300×250

This special is only available to campaigns with no targeting, ie Tier 1 and no vertical targeting.

Here are the prices we will provide as part of this promotion (based on a $50 budget):

120×600: Normally 5.70c/click, promotion price 4.30c/click
160×600: Normally 6.95c/click, promotion price 5.21c/click
120×60: Normally 2.36c/click, promotion price 1.77c/click
120×90: Normally 2.56/click, promotion price 1.92c/click
200×200: Normally 3.15c/click, promotion price 2.36c/click
Video Ad - 300×250: Normally 11.99c/click, promotion price 8.99c/click

How do you apply for this promotion?

1) Sign up to AdToll if you are not already a member - http://www.adtoll.com/create_account.php
2) Book a RON campaign from http://www.adtoll.com/book-ron-ad
3) Get in contact with us with the details of your booking at https://www.adtoll.com/contact_us.php

From there we will change the pricing on your campaign, effectively giving you 25% more clicks for the normal price.

CONDITIONS:

1) Only available to RON campaigns.
2) Only available to non targeted campaigns, ie Tier 1 with no vertical targeting
3) This is only available to the listed ad formats above.
4) Promotion only valid until Friday the 15th of February (Australian WST).
5) Only valid for new bookings.

Tonight we hit a major milestone in our companies growth approving the 1,000th active site in our network. To some that might seem small but in the scheme of things, considering we are a young network in a tough competitive market it is a big goal to reach.

This milestone took us 7 months, 18 days and 20 hours to achieve and we are very happy to have finally hit that magical four figure mark.

We would like to use the opportunity to thank everyone that has supported us, endorsed us, told their friends about us and just gave us a go. An extra special thanks goes to our customers who have put their faith in us and for standing by us. We promise to continue delivering not only outstanding service and customer support but innovative, exciting and effective solutions in this ever changing market.

In saying this I am also proud to announce that we are now currently working on enhancing our current video ad offering, of which the exact details will be released in the coming month or two.

On top of that keep a look out for new and exciting ad formats from us in the near future - “The future is now for AdToll customers”.

Everyone and anyone knows Jeremy Schoemaker aka ShoeMoney, and if not then you really need to check out his blog! Why? His well known blog ShoeMoney.com is the ultimate authority on making money on the internet!

A few days ago Jeremy endorsed AdToll on his very popular blog and even started using our service. No surprise either that within one day his ad space was completely booked out and within a few days his ad space was booked out 4 weeks in advance. Have a look at the rate card at http://www.adtoll.com/rate-card-for-shoemoney-3424/

This publicity on ShoeMoney.com has created “buzz” for us in the industry and has had an overall huge impact. The endorsement has helped us increase our Publisher and Advertiser-base lifting the quality of our network overnight.

On the day of the publicity we had a daily Alexa Rank of 8,079 when normally we would be around the 12-15k mark.

Alexa Daily Traffic Rank Trend

FireFox Alexa Extension

Above you can see the daily traffic trend graph which shows you the peak that was a cause of the publicity. The FireFox Alexa extension also shows our latest 3 month Alexa Rank average and the 4 month trend graph.

Like the JohnChow.com review we had done last November we are now experiencing a domino effect of other bloggers using AdToll and talking about it on their blogs! That’s great added value and we do appreciate the extra promotion from these bloggers.

Even now we are experiencing the buzz and growth brought about by the publicity. I attribute some of this to the use of our very rewarding affiliate program. The influx of new customers using the affiliate program has helped in turn increase our growth.

To conclude I’d just like to thank Jeremy for the endorsement on his site. Jeremy only blogs about products he actually thinks add value to the industry so the recommendation from him means a lot in itself. Thanks also to the many new customers that have signed up and for using our service.

Our blog is the hub of communication to our customers and interested parties. It serves as a tool we can use to communicate anything and everything from latest news to publisher spotlights and case studies.

Over the last 6 weeks we have had some good success with our blog subscribers and as you can see from the graph below we have a relatively constant subscriber increase rate.

If you are not subscribed to our blog we encourage you to do so - top left hand corner of this page, enter your e-mail address and click “Subscribe”.

For over 4 years our company has used the services provided by Superb.net for our dedicated server requirements, of which we have many. In that time we have experienced very little downtime - the Superb.net SLA promises a 100% network and server uptime.

Over the last week Superb.net have been having some power outage issues, which has affected a lot of dedicated server clients, including us.

Outages that have occurred in the two weeks are:

22-Jan-2008: 2am-6am (4 hours)

30-Jan-2008: 10pm-12am (2 hours)

03-Feb-2008: 1:30pm-3:30pm (2 hours)

Below is the service announcement Superb.net support put out to their clients during the time of the outage today:

DCA2 Servers located in rooms G &H

The McLean, VA area is currently experiencing a power outage. While approximately 80% of DCA2 clients are unaffected, clients on Liebert UPS #2 protected by generator #2 (dual-engine 750KW) - the install of which is pending to be completed by February 20th - are currently without power, due to the affected UPS batteries being drained and the new generator connection not yet being completed due to building landlord, county, and US Dep’t of Justice, caused delays for the said install.

A roll-up generator is currently under way, and if at all so permissible by the landlord and the county, the roll-up generator will be kept on site until February 20th, by when generator #2 connection is to be completed.

We understand this is a huge inconvenience to our customers but unfortunately these sorts of issues are out of our control. We do endeavor however to minimize these interruptions and will do all we can to ensure they do not continue to happen.

Using an IFRAME to stop sites loading slow

During times of downtime we realise ad serving can be slowed on Publisher sites affecting their entire site load time. It is this reason we do recommend the use of an IFRAME. Using an IFRAME to serve your ads will stop your site loading being dependent on ad serving - meaning your site won’t load slow if ad serving is slow or unavailable.

For more information on IFRAMEs and how to use them read http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp

Most bloggers look to monetise there sites. Many of them try any ad network they come across in the hope of finding that one program that will make all their dreams come true.

A lot of these bloggers tell their readers of their experiences and we love reading them!

Every so often I get onto Google and like any owner search my own site name; AdToll. Most of the results I am familiar with but sometimes there are those that catch my attention, I always check them out.

I actually just did this and thought I would share some of the reviews and blogs I found talking about AdToll:

Automatic pricing from AdToll - http://www.charmoc.com/?p=4

Top 3 Blog Advertisers After Google AdSense - http://blog.teqedge.com/2007/11/12/top-3-blog-advertisers-after-google-adsense/

Making Money With AdToll - http://www.twentysteps.com/making-money-with-adtoll/

AdToll Review - http://www.blogonexpo.com/2007/12/29/adtoll-review/

Adtoll Ad Network - http://www.netpaths.net/blog/adtoll-ad-network/

I hope you enjoy those and thanks to these particular bloggers for the mentions, we really do appreciate it!