So far as performance goes they are at least getting clicks, but no actual conversions yet.

I’ve always heard that ads greater than 250×250 performed better, even when not directly integrated into content, so it’s time to put them to the test.

One of my goals with OpTempo was to experiment with monetization, something that I didn’t like doing that much on my programming blog.

Thanks for the click on the ad. Checks Unlimited has a 180 day cookie, which is nice. Most ads have a shorter click-thru duration while some have none at all.

I think that after the question “what should I write about?”, the next question most bloggers have is “how much and what type of advertising should I display?”. Please let us know how your experiment works out. p.s. my wife made me click on the Check ad to see if they have Tinkerbell … she doesn’t need any more just yet, but I bookmarked the site for when she runs out.

I’ll be posting the results sometime around the first week in January.

Share-a-sale, Copeac and Azoogle track this on an ad-by-ad basis for me. By viewing my stats when I login to my accounts there I can tell which ads get views, clicks and, most importantly, money making actions.

If I was running my own custom ads I would probably write my own PHP redirect page that would save a count to a MySQL table.

I would be interested to learn how you get around it? Separate tracking site? so you could add a unique link to each ad that you could track and see how many clicks it generates?

Please do share ..

Alex