A few months ago, I got eager to try Project Wonderful. For those who don’t know it yet, it is an advertising network where advertisers bid to advertise on a certain website or blog. On the other side, publishers like me earns money. The highest bidders gets to win an advertising space.

I first enrolled my older blogs to try the potential of this program and luckily, got approved the next day.

Bids and Earnings

At first, I am very much impressed with how bids are going. I had my advertising blocks priced at $1.00/block per day and got bidders immediately. But… of course, not everytime is a winning streak. I had more times when there were no bids at all.

It took me almost a month to earn the minimum payout of $10. To my excitement, I requested for it immediately and thankfully, got paid via PayPal.

When Prices Gets Lowered

Few more days or so, I am noticing bidding prices from other blogs are getting lower and lower. To compete with the competition, I was forced to lower also my price until it got to as low as $0.02 per ad block.

$0.02 per ad block? Imagine earning just a few cents from an ad space that is eating up the precious spaces in your blog. That’s like earning from a single click to your Adsense or Bidvertiser ads. And if your blog doesn’t get that much attention, you might probably end up earning below $2 per month because only few advertisers will buy in.

Before Project Wonderful, I am also accepting private advertising deals. My earnings from these advertisements ranges from $6 to $12 per single 125×125 ad space per month. That’s with a single ad block only. What if you have 6 or more ad blocks… See the difference?

A Good Suggestion

Yes, I know Project Wonderful is better than nothing. It’s true that not everytime, someone will buy a private advertising at your blog but those people from Project Wonderful should have not allowed the prices to get that low. They should have set a limit to it for publishers interests.

Can you imagine someone pricing their 125 x 125 ad block to $0.01/per day? That’s like voluntarily cutting short the true value of your precious blog…