Afrigator

South African based advertising platform, Afrigator, opened their doors to new South African blogs. If you own a blog you can use Afrigator to earn an income with your blog.

But is it worth using it?

All you have to do after you registered (and if you were approved) is to place some code in your blog which will enable your blog to serve some ads from Afrigator. When I registered for this service a year ago it was free, but I see they now charge a activation fee of R250.00 . To give you an idea whether it is worth your while, on this blog I earn about R180 per month from Adgator. Depending on who you believe this blog gets about 20,000 page impressions per month (according to Google Analytics) or 74,000 page impressions per month (according to the Webstat stats on the server).

On my blog it worked fine for a while but then it stopped paying and I removed Adgator from my site and replaced it with Adsense again. The scripts was serving thousands of ads without me being paid a cent for it (see screen shots below). Their policy is that if there are no ads to be served they will serve their own ad and you do not earn something when your own ad is served. But I regularly pop into my site and especially on the second time I tested it there was relevant ads served on my site, yet the system did not record any payment for it.

Adgator stats

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If you are running your company’s online marketing campaigns you should read this.

I know a lot of media companies charge hefty fees for running your banner ad campaigns.

Is it really worth the money you pay for it?

In my opinion Banner Ads SUCKS and if you have to pay to put your banner ad on a web site you must be very careful.

Here are my reasons for above comment:

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