In Text Ads on your Site are Not merely a Money Machine After a few months with in text ads on your website, you will probably get used to the monthly payments and accumulated revenues. At this stage, many publishers tend to think of in text ads as a simple money machine. The integration was easy and after some optimization they require no maintenance. But then, sometimes the average earnings change – either up or down – and publishers hurry to ask: What happened? Before rushing into conclusions, it’s better to understand the industry in which in text ads networks operate. This can shed some...

The Payment Threshold and the Waiting Period Once a visitor to your website hovered over a double underline link and clicked on the ad within the bubble, you’ve already earned advertising revenues – it can be as low as a few cents, but money is money, right? So why don’t you get paid immediately? Well, handling payments takes efforts and costs, and if we’ll create a transaction for every cent earned, the costs will be higher than the earnings. Also, the online advertising cycle requires several offline procedures to ensure the validity of the ads served and visitors clicking, so some patience...