125Exchange Promotes Your Blog For Free
Written by diane on March 31, 2008 – 11:13 pm -One of the great advantages of being a member to some remarkable sites, like Entrecard, is the ease at which you find out about really cool “other sites” going live on the net. Websites designed to help you promote your blog and your business.
Tonight I found one such website while approving an advertiser for our blog in Entrecard. Yes, it was that easy 
The website is 125 Exchange.
When you click through you’ll notice the “affiliate looking” url (ours), but at the moment there is no indication that we get anything other than the great satisfaction of helping you find yet another spot to promote your blog.
Before I tell you about the set up, I did want to make mention of the look and load of this service. Wow! We like green, and the animation is super easy on the eyes. You’ll like it, too.
Okay, you sign up in two seconds, check your inbox and confirm, and then head inside where the inner workings are really easy to follow. Start by listing your own ad, you’ll need a 125 x 125 banner (just like Entrecard) and a tiny bit more information including the average daily amount of visitors your blog gets (check your cpanel stats). You will also be able to pick what categories you would like your banner to show up on, as well as indicate what types of sites should be allowed on yours.
To the right, in our Highly Recommended sidebar box, you’ll notice the current 125Exchange card showing. Go ahead, click on it! It will open in a new window and you won’t lose your place here at OIMS.
Well that’s it for tonight, we thought you’d enjoy finding another spot to do more free advertising for yourself and your blog.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Hi,
I’m a bit confused.
“Every three times people click on a member ad on your blog you get 2 clicks from someone else’s blog. HINT: this is an incentive to display the 125 ad in a great location on your site.”
That sounds very similar like Spottt, in my opinion..
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Hi Michael! Haven’t heard of Spottt…?? Also thanks for the reminder to go back and see how our stats are doing with this new program. Could be a great thing, might be something we remove. Never know until you test
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
I know about 125exchange, but I got a bad experience with them. They are to strict to your banner ad looks, I try to upload an easy and fast banner and put the code in my site and got a reject letter for two days and try to change it with a better one, then no more letter from them looks ok, so the code running for 2 weeks, only I found out that my banner was never been approved, never displayed to other site. so I already take it out of my site.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Hi Pinoyconsole! Thanks for telling us your experience. You got me wondering so I logged into our account. Ours is showing - almost 3000 impressions with 5 clicks. Only a 0.18% click thru (sort of dismal) but I also only uploaded one 125×125 button. I think when I get the chance I’ll make two more and put them to the test against each other. Could just be a billion things that aren’t putting people’s attention.
The one thing inside though is confusing at 125exchange. The “outside” stats made it look like nothing was happening - and had me freaking. Then I clicked on stats “details” and found out a whole bunch more for relevant information.
We’ll leave ours run for longer. A day or two isn’t a very useful test period.
All the best,
Diane & Scott
April 11th, 2008 at 3:16 am
I just came across this post and hope it is OK to respond to some of the items. I represent 125Exchange.com. The system wide click-thru rate averages 1.0%. We have users lower than 0.1% and as high as 4.75%. We analyze this data constantly. Since everyone gets virtually the same variety of ad impressions, the reason for the variance is always the ad. Some ads are magnetic and attract clicks, and some are not. It is what it is, so if one ad is not performing you just have to get a different ad. It makes no difference if you use our service or some other service. The system is just a free vehicle to place the ads on a vast variety of blogs, but then the ad has to do its job because the exchange software can’t make people click. We just experienced this with our own ad. Previously we were getting 0.8% click-thru and we got a new ad, the red apple, and instantly, in one day, are over 4.0%. I was just reading about this very same topic at Entrecard forum concerning their generic ads. I believe their thought was to limit new users displaying the generic ads to two weeks, then they have to get a better ad. Pinoyconsole, I am truly sorry you feel that you had a bad experience. I still have your account paused hoping your will come back and try. But, your ads do look homemade and I know they won’t perform for you. Please take my advice because I only want to help you get results. Typically, if you make your own ad and you are not a graphics specialist, the ad probably isn’t going to perform well. Professional 125 x 125 ads can be purchased between $10.00 to $30.00. We always suggest that bloggers view their blog as a business and make this small investment. A good ad brings traffic, and traffic brings advertisers and revenue. Finally, we are highly respective of the blogs where our member ads are displayed. Our philosophy is when we display an ad one someone else’s blog we are essentially being invited into their home, and we have to be on our best behavior. If someone has a quality designed blog they really don’t want an ad taking away from their total image. All we have to do is think about the ads that you click. Something intrigues you to make that click. Good advertising requires experiment. At 125 exchange you can upload three different ads and keep removing the lesser performing ad and replacing it with a different to keep improving your click-thru ratio. Thanks. I know that I have to learn to make shorter comments.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Granny, thank you! First for finding our blog and then taking the time to clear a few issues up for all of us (and point everyone in the right direction to using the system at the same time).
We are thrilled you have taken the time to respond in such detail. Again thank you!
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