When it comes to making money from advertisements, direct advertisement plays an important role. For me, direct advertisement pays more than Adsense or any other ads. The toughest job is to finding direct advertisers. Here I’m going to add a review of BuySellAds, which is an advertisement buy-sell marketplace. I’m using BuySellAds from last one and half-year, and it’s always been one of the highest paying Ad networks for me.
BuySellads is an advertisement marketplace where publishers can list their sites and advertisers can come and check the stats and directly buy your advertisement spots. Once, the advertisement is sold; you have the option to accept or reject the ad. I will always suggest accepting ads that are relevant to your niche and most important should not be spammy like “free smiley downloads” and similar stuff. The moment, you accept the ads, it will start showing on your site and money will be credited into your BuySelll account.
This is a nice concept and a useful website for Bloggers and marketers to find the marketplace for buying advertisements.
Direct advertisement can be acquired by sending personal advertisement email or by using any third party advertisement program to sell advertisement. Such third-party advertisement program create a marketplace to buy sell advertisement.
Unlike other ad networks, getting approved BuySellAds account is not easy. You need to have a quality website with nice design. If you miss out any of these, your application will be rejected.
Is BuySellAds a free service?
BuySellads works as a middleman to process this Automatic ad buying and selling and for this, they charge 25% of the transaction. Which is fair as many other ad networks charge 30-40%. You don’t have to pay anything to use their service but when an advertiser buys an ad from your site, Buysellads will take 25% as a commission. So, if you are setting up your ad price as $100/30 days, you will be getting $75 into your account. So, you can set the price accordingly. I suggest to start with minimum limit and once one ad slot is sold, increase the price by 10%.
Buysellads keeps a percentage of the money you made from selling ad as a part of their commission, which is fair enough as instead of keeping your ad spots empty you are making money out of it.
How to use BuySellAds?
Go to Buysellads website and sign up for an account. Add your website and add proper tags and details and submit it. It usually takes 4-5 working days for them to reply to your application. Once your BuySellads application is approved, you can login to buysellads account. Add a Zone: Zone is basically ad slot that you are offering. For example, if you are selling 125*125 ad in the sidebar, you can make a zone like: “125Sidebar-Top”.
How to add BuySellads code to your Website?
Once you have created a Zone, click on Action> Install ad codes. You will find two different codes there. Header code should go in the header of your blog. This code you have to add only one time. Now add the zone code to your sidebar using your WordPress text-widget. You can always use CSS to style your ad zone. If not, you can also use BuySellAds WordPress plugin to add quickly ads into your WordPress site.
You can see also see the stats for BuySellads click that will give you an idea how good and how bad your ad spots are performing and you can play with the placement to increase the CTR and thus increase the price of your ads. Always remember, above the fold ads perform better than below the fold ads.
Ad options under BuySellAds:
BuySellad offers different kind of ad options apart from the normal banner. You can offer ad placement for Text ads, Text+image ads, RSS ads and Tweet ad. Tweet ad and RSS feed are recent addition by them. BuySellAds Twitter ad program is similar as Sponsored Tweets program & you can learn more about BuySellAds sponsored tweet program here.
Personally, I recommend you to use Image only ads as they keep your blog design neat and clean. Sponsored tweet program is again highly recommended as most of the time when an advertiser buys an ad space; he also buy a sponsored tweets.
BuySellads offer you payout via PayPal and in a month you can make two checkouts. You can use the same funds to buy ads on another site. I would highly recommend you to try this program as after using this program for one year, I’m still using it and recommending to others. Sadly, they don’t have any affiliate program for publishers or advertisers.
If you are looking for AdSense alternative programs, I would suggest you try Media.net on your blog. Meanwhile, if you don’t like the idea of giving 25% commission to BuySellAds, you can also look into OIO Publisher WordPress Plugin but you need to have a popular website, else BuySellads is a nice choice as its marketplace might not keep your website out of ads.
- Also see:
- Best CPM Ad networks to earn more
- 5+ WordPress plugins to manage Ads smartly
- Best Google AdSense WordPress plugin
Have you ever used BuySellads of using it? What’s your review on BuySellads? How would you rate it on a scale of 10?
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Hi Harsh, thanks for the write up. Worth reading for newbies.
I have a query, do infolinks.com, Media.net, VIglink etc supports blog with Indian regional languages ?
Hey Harsh first of all thankyou for this well written article. I have one doubt, u mentioned that the payment is via PayPal. How you get your money from PayPal to your bank account. Coz I heard that PayPal have some issue with Indian banks. I believe you are receiving your payment from PayPal to your bank account then I would also like to know which bank you are using. ?
Thanks
Sunil
@Sunil
There is no such issue between PayPal & Indian bank account. I’m using ICICI Bank.
Thanks buddy
AVOID – These are my results form a $350 campaign
41,357 IMPRESSIONS 34 CLICKS 0.08% CLICK THROUGH RATE
I discovered from Google Analytics that there was only 12 clicks in total and not 34, when I questioned this with them they said
“it appears that some of the clicks are from external bots hitting the site, which is out of the publisher’s control. We are currently working on improvements to our bot detection which will be able to identify and block more bot clicks from those stats results”
I should have spent $350 on Google Adwords and would have got better results
Is it possible that your campaign wasn’t good in the first place, also your experience with one advertiser does not mean ALL advertisers are the same
Does BSA have any restrictions as to visitor traffic? In other words, is the approval based on the site’s visitor demographic? I have heard that BSA gives more preference to sites that have a predominant visitor base of native English speakers. Correct me if I am wrong.
Hello,
I am Shanaya, I have many long term sports blogs, which are getting some good amount of traffic, but somehow, I am not able to get Adsense approval and also, Infolinks are not doing any good.
And recently, I asked many about BuySellAds, and most of those said, that BuySellAds will not approve my websites.
But I still want to get approved by this network as I am dying to monetize my sports blogs, so what I should I do to get approval from BuySellAds?
Looking for quick response.
BuySellAds is anabsolutely fraud company now a days. We used do great with them earlier. However, recently they are not getting enough advertisors because all the good publisher have left them alright.
We are looking for alternatives.
Can I use both google adsense & buysell simultaneously?
Yes..
I am a noob on ads, since my site only have less than 200 traffic a day.
I do like your opinion about using the money from advertiser to buy traffic, I did a Chinese Food Blog, get some recipes and culture things, may I ask your review? how can I get more traffic? should I writing 2000 words post each time?
Best Regards,
Sam
Absolutely do not use BSA. We had been using them for a few weeks and were randomly shutdown with no reason given. We lost over $8,000 we deposited into their advertiser program and lost an income of $1200 per day for our company. We got a vague response with no details 2 weeks later from their support after we had inquired. We will make sure we let everyone know to NOt use BSA. Buyer be warned!
Hey Harsh I had a poor experience with infolinks. Now I only use Adsense and I earn quite good. I have enlisted my blog for buysellads, now I want to know do they pay for impression or only click ?
I am going to start a website. I am from India. Is BSA good for Indian sites? or there are other sites that offer more rates?
Very informative review. I tried to apply for Buysellads before, but did not get approved. I think the reasons is that the design of my blog was not suitable. I’m making another blog that will suit for their requirements and hope to be approved soon.
I have tried BSA 3 times, not getting approval, can you help me buddy?
@Faraz
I have shared some tips which will help you to get BSA Approval: https://www.shoutmeloud.com/make-money-online-get-website-approved-buysellads.html
Thank you for your reply 🙂 I did a lot mistake…. Currently using media.net and it’s pretty good.
Arafath here and I would Like to consider buy sell ads for my site. I already have infolinks account approval . Is considering buy sell ads do affect my infolinks account?
@Arafath
It will not…You can use BuySellAds with infolinks.. Both are entirely different ad types..
Does buy/sell ads supports blogger blog transferred to a custom domain.