The past few years I have tried out Adbrite on some of my fanfiction community sites. Why? Because their rates on paying were a little more attractive and getting payout was a little faster than Google Adsense. Sometimes it still is depending on placement of the ad, or if a site own is using a full page ad. However no matter if it is a text link, banner or full page, Adbrite has not been monitoring their advertisers as closely as they should.
Case in point – Fanfiction.net, the largest collection of fanfiction online uses Adbrite. They are infamous for using an occasional full page loading advertisement. For those who are a little confused on what a full page advertisement is, it is where you click to go on a page, and instead of it going there, the advertisement loads. You have the option of clicking to go back to the original page.
The problem is that more often than not the page loads to a site that alerts you that you may be visiting and untrusted or harmful site. Sometimes it is malware. This is also possible in some of the text links as I had this issue with my own fanfiction community. Some of the regular members were kind enough to send me word that the text link they clicked on put malware.
This is not a most recent development. This has happened for the past few years and has not been corrected. Is Adbrite not monitoring their advertisers as closely as they should?
While the site owner can set their settings to manually approve advertisements, I would think Adbrite would at least be a little more pro-active about making sure malware sites are not in their system.
Though the pay is good, I am hesitant to even put Adbrite on Blondish.net. This would not look good if someone clicks on an ad and it goes to a malware site. I am sure Adbrite has been informed many times throughout the years about this issue. Why is it not being caught?
Have you used Adbrite? How has that worked for you?
I can think of a couple of issues that this raises though. Many times, sites host malware only after they've been hacked, so an advertiser might be perfectly legit, and then suddenly they are hacked. Adbrite would have to be continually monitoring all the sites to notice. And if they are checking manually, they may be using a browser that doesn't detect it as well as Chrome does. I'm not sure an ad network should be responsible for catching this. Maybe…I'm not saying definitely not…but it's just a responsibility that I'm not sure should be placed upon them.
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I tried using Adbrite on past projects and usually removed the codes within a few days. Slightly higher payout definitely isn't worth the trashy look/unsafe content of the advertisements. It's interesting though, as I've seen the company post seeking contractors to moderate advertisements, but it doesn't look like the project was ever started.
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I was thinking to put AdBrite on two of my sites but now i'm not so sure. If they know about this issues and not corrected i think they know about it.
I do not use Adbrite but i think for this kind of advertising , Adsense is the king.
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This is my own theme I built myself. Thank you. I do not have any downloads of a clone of it. Not sure if I would want an exact clone of my site out there… maybe variations of it.
I'm using Adbrite and so far two of my visitors have claimed they've been warned by their antivirus that my forum has spyware.
Never has that happened before, so I'll be removing Adbrite.
I ‘m using Adbrite in one of my sites.. And earning more then adsense… Its a best option of small sites like my blog. Thanks for write this post…
The issue in this article was not praising Adbrite, but warning people that they do not monitor their system well and there are some malicious advertisers in the system. I use to have adbrite on a couple of my sites and I did make good money, but the downside was my visitors occasionally encountering full page ads that redirected to the advertiser instead of giving them the normal option to skip the ad. And then some of the text links went to malicious sites.