Impressions of Christian Ad Network

Christian bloggers are often choosier about the ads that get displayed around their content so monetizing a Christian blog can be challenging.

This year I converted one of my oldest websites into a WordPress blog. Women By Grace has long been a resource for Christian women and is now growing as a community blog. I looked around hoping to find some new revenue sources and was pleased to discover a Christian Ad Network and quick to sign up and give them a try.

First Impressions

Getting set up wasn’t hard.  I added my site, grabbed the ad code and installed it on my site.

For some reason the ads were nevere visible to me on my PC, not in Firefox or in Internet Explorer.  But when I viewed the site on my Mac, I could see them fine.  Never could figure out why.

I ended up being confused about ad sales as I started to see tiny profits right away.  Six cents here, three cents there.  I had set up ads for higher values than that.  I wrote the support address to ask about it and was told that it was PPC and because I hadn’t declared a PPC price, it was defaulting at a penny.  Still confused because I hadn’t signed up for the PPC option at all from what I could tell from their system.

I did get one bulk ad buy, earning me $35.00.  That seemed promising – but it was an isolated instance.  In the next two months, no other ads were bought.

Last Impressions

For the last two weeks my site has been loading slow – agonizingly slow.  I could see that it was the ad network slowing things down but hoped it would clear up soon.  It didn’t.  I finally decided to drop out and removed the ad units from the site.

I would have loved for it to work out and I’m sad that it hasn’t.

Hopefully another option will show up one of these days.