UPDATE: Please read the comments, Justin of Adgator has answered a lot of our questions and given some good news about the future! We’ve been trying to work out the difference between a great day on AdGator and a terrible one to work out whether its worth our time at all, and stumbled across some [...]

Adgator In Full Swing

So after a bit of a shakey start, Adgator is now serving ads in full swing. I’ve seen ads for Times Mobile and IBM and believe there was an insurance company campaign (maybe Entropy didn’t fall into that Vertical) It’s great to see companies coming to the party and using a South African ad service [...]

Adgator Terms and Conditions

I’m sure all of you using the service just got the same e-mail we just did from Afrigator MD, Justin Hartman. I’ve just read through it and have a suggestion for the guys over there. The clause I am specifically referring to is Adgator may, at its sole discretion, display non-paid advertising on all unsold [...]

Adgator, when will it turn on?

Adgator is a unique blog advertising network tailored specifically for South Africa. This network of blogs, while small in individual reach, is extremely powerful as a combined force and Adgator helps monetise your blog in a way that simply was not possible before. Sounds great right? The first South African advertising network for bloggers. No [...]

Engaging Users On Your Blog

A big part of building a successful blog is user engagement – having loyal readers who comment and return to your site. These readers will help to keep your site active, create discussions and the more you appeal to them so too will your user base grow. There are several tips to increasing the feedback [...]

Optimize Your AdSense Blog

Blogs have a specific type of reader, a specific layout and specific content more often than not – and with those specifications they have specific needs when it comes to optimizing AdSense/YPN ads on the blog. We’ve been experimenting across a couple of blogs lately with various AdSense strategies and these are some of the [...]