Google 300×250 Ad Spot For Sale

$1000 sounds fairly cheap John :) I remember one guy(who should remain unnamed) sold one link each for $100/week on his myspace site claiming it gets 80k visitors per week. I think you have intentionally kept it only $1k to get traction ? Right ? ;)

Was the Adsense under the Save to del.icio.us • Stumble It! • Digg This! always there?

$1000 is a little too steep for me.

Did anyone notice this 300x250 ad appears in every RSS feed?

Wish I could have this much money, right away I would have chosen to advertise with you. Atleast, I would have received lots of bids in my link bid directory. Right now dealing with 5-10 everyday.

it is USD1500 now?

I see that the person that bought the ad, is now reselling it for $1500! Very interesting, I wonder if it will sell! :D

Great idea !

I can't wait for the earnings to rise in the fall. SUMMER SUCKS!

Considering the speed with which the Adsense spot went for I think it's safe to say you could have got more.

Before selling the next one I think you should post some more about the value of the ad spot, the potential revenue it could make and then finish up by having an auction each month for the rights to the next months ad spot.

If you hosted the auction on this site it would be another way of promoting this blog and driving EVEN more traffic to the site - which in turn would make that ad spot EVEN more valuable! :twisted:

Will the PPC increase after the summer? I think I remember John saying something on how AdSense is normally slow during the summer.

It really wasn´t an expensive price. If my main selling site was a little more "professinal" I would have paid the $1000 without thinking about it. Also, I hope this sets a trend, and I hope Google gets screwed. They have long lost the "do no evil" charm...

Hey John... I'm surprised you didn't put this on ebay to boost the some more.

Guess you're not THAT evil :-p

I also think selling it on ebay would have brought in way more than 1000 but I guess John knows best.

It would be interesting to know how much Google's cut of all the G ads on this site are. Perhaps they are bringing in well over $1000 a month for themselves and only sharing a small chunk for JC.

Good move, John, but you sold way too cheap. And an indication to all that Google is really stealing the space they are getting on most blogs.

Since the relatively recent rise of the "problogger" phenom many guys are now in the game who weren't around just 3 or 4 years ago when almost all sites (very few ever called them blogs) that made money sold theor banners and buttons either directly or via ad brokers individually.

AdSense got big by making the process autmeted and dirt simple for lazy folks .. like me ... but their payback has really dropped in recent months. Like many other "latest things" which have come and gone AdSense may well lose their prominence soon.

So I'm not the only one seeing this summer slowdown - painful! :-/

I am not sure someone can issue a chargeback (well he can try) with paypal for non tangible services. Anyway it is a good idea to double the profits and remove the G ads, it will show to many users that it is possible to be done. Actually in many cases lately i do see people rent the corners where they previously had adsense ads and the price depends on how much the user was making from that spot with adsense.

Another compliment to the fast sale (which i had no doubt), while i was reading the first lines of the post i was already thinking, ok...lets see how much time will pass before he updates and claims that the spot has been sold...well it did not took a lot, just till i reached the last line :P now, i am curious to see who did this investment ;).

Cheers and best luck John.

John Chow, I think you can set a like Techcrunch's sponsors ads at your right sitebar. If you offer $400 per ad,and can sell 6 or 8, the whole charge will be a lot of money.

And you also can sell an ad unit behind your each article, above your TTZ Media. If the ad size is like "serch engine guide", you can charge for $700 a month maybe.

If the two ways goes well, if will add $3000-4000 per month to your pocket. :)

but surely you can put 468x60 banners above each post OR below each post?

Maybe a wide sky scraper in your sidebar?

Google Adsense doesn't have to leave this webpage for sure. Also, if you kill adsense, might that just trigger off another google response to you...Page Rank decrease or simply No PR what-so-ever?

I wonder who will pay for that ad position though...certainly wont be me as I cant afford 100 yet alone 1000!

This is a great chance. Whoever buy the ad spot will get more traffic to his site.

hmmm dat was pretty fast

John.. You are famous and you know that..
I suggest you once you finished ur promised deal till sept 10th
Put it for bid on ebay or on your own blog itself. That would fetch you more money.. :twisted:

That didn't take long at all. The spot has been sold. If you wish to take the spot from September 11 to October 11, better get your order in now.

Interesting, lets see how advertisers react. Hope you get that $1000

I'm interested to see who will take the spot.

1000 is very cheap.....for a month.......

By i don't have Paypal and No enough money to buy the ad :wink:

Once i have 1000 sure i will buy the ad

So John, $1000 for the rest of October like 20 days?