I have been messing around a little bit for about a month with BidVertiser and Advolcano on my blog. Actually I have messed around with both programs on many of my blogs.

With the type of blog I have here on Garry Conn dot Com, running Bidvertiser really isn’t optimal. It takes up a lot of valuable real estate and it conflicts with many of the other successful programs I have running such as the newly updated ReviewMe.com, Text-Link-Ads, Google Adsense (displayed below the posts) and my very own highly successful Top Page Ads program.

Don’t get me wrong, I think BidVertiser is a great program and an excellent alternative to those who choose to not run Google Adsense or other pay per click programs. But I don’t think that it is right for Garry Conn dot Com. It does, however, perform well on other sites of mine, but with Garry Conn dot Com, it takes up too much valuable real estate for the amount it compensates me for.

Having that said… say, “Bye Bye, BidVertiser!”

Poor, poor, poor AdVolcano. I just don’t think they are doing well. I have tried many times to make contact with them and I have never had any responses back. I can not do business with anyone who doesn’t return my emails or phone calls. It’s sad too, because I have many sites that offer up some really great campaigns for their advertisers. AdVolcano is failing to deliver business. I am more than doing my part and lead in many top result listings by reporting the highest traffic stats.

I rank #2 for their entire business category and haven’t received a single sale. I have freely advertised their business by giving them over a countless number of free page impressions. I have done more than most people would be willing to do to help another business out.

I can’t help but noticed that they have shady business practices as well. For the hundreds of blogs who I am personally friends with who are also advertising AdVolcao on their blogs for free, AdVolcano chooses to make a few select blogs as “Featured Blogs” while they don’t even actively do their part and display the banner on their site. Let’s not mention any names:

Because of their shady business practices, because they don’t return my emails or phone calls and because hundreds of my own personal blogging friends have worked hard to give them free advertising and free traffic without giving us anything in return…

… Garry Conn says, “Bye Bye AdVolcano, and I hope your volcano goes bank ‘erupt‘.

Within the next week I will be completely removing all my campaigns and deleting my AdVolcano account.

The removal of BidVertiser and AdVolcano will free up a lot of wasted space on my sidebar and also allow me to more closely study traffic trends and study which areas of my blog are hot and which are not.

All in all, I went well beyond the average effort taken to help these two companies. I even created a custom campaign and designed custom graphics to match and compliment my current theme. As far as Advolcano is concerned, if that doesn’t deserve a phone call back, then I don’t know what does. Again, with BidVertiser, the poor performance is accepted and expected. BidVertiser works fine on other blogs of mine.