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It is always sad when a company closes their doors, I have been part of quite a few of them over the past two years and I can safely say that pretty much all of them I have not really missed (apart from the ones that owed me money!).

That was until I found out today that TweetROI has closed down.

TweetROI were one of the many companies who offered to pay you money to post sponsored tweets on your Twitter account from advertisers. I personally did not earn a terrific amount from them but I found them to be a very friendly and somewhat efficient company.

Apparently the writing was on the wall for the company when Twitter threw their dummy out of the pram several months ago and tried to block people from posting sponsored tweets on their accounts.

A lot of the companies tried to find ways around this (some of them were successful and some were forced into resorting to manually inserting tweets) but for some reason TweetROI decided instead to just shut down the operation and walk away.

They have promised to payout to anyone who has met the $20 payout requirement. If, like me, you have not hit the payout requirement then I’m afraid to report that you will not see a penny of it. The owner even confesses this on the video on their home page.

It is sad to see because it is one less company in the market, which means less opportunities to earn money by posting sponsored tweets. But on the plus side maybe I’ll be able to attract some private advertisers to take advantage of my sponsored tweet advertising rates.

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While there is no doubt about the fact that Google Adsense is the king of ad networks, their downside is that they only pay if someone clicks on one of your ad links. For most of us, who receive a low amount of clicks, this means we will be lucky to earn a Dollar every month.

What if you have quite a bit of traffic but not many of your visitors are willing to click on your ads? The answer comes in the form of an ad network like AdsDaq.

AdsDaq is a network that specialises in the CPM market. What this means is that that they will pay you for every 1,000 impressions that your site receives. This is so much better for blogs amongst us who receive good amounts of traffic but low clicks.

The control panel can be a rather daunting prospect at first glance but after a while it will become quite clear. The fact that they use words like “tag code” instead of ad code can also be confusing if you have not come across this meaning before.

I personally like this network because, unlike others, I have yet to see any suspicious ads that distribute malware or redirect to dodgy web sites. Well if there have been any I have not seem them and neither has any of my readers on the three blogs that run these ads.

The pay per 1,000 impressions can be quite low but I think that may be due to my specific blogs rather than the company. Other sites are having a lot more success with this network than I am.

Another feature I like is if you see an ad running that you don’t like then you can block that ad, and ads like that, from running again. You can pretty much filter what ads do and don’t show on your web site.

The advantage AdsDaq has over Adsense is that they offer a payout option via PayPal, this kind of thing can be very enticing to people like myself who don’t want to wait up to six weeks for a check to arrive.

They are certainly one of the more reliable companies on the market. I’d suggestion a two month trial will be the correct length to establish if they are right for you and your web site or not.

Pro

- Pays per 1,000 impressions.
- An option to block certain types of ads from showing
- They pay via PayPal, check and electric bank transfer

Con

- The layout of the control panel can be confusing at first
- Payment can be low for quite a few categories
- Ads are not related to your site content.

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I joined Sky CPM about two months ago and I must admit that when I first joined this network I was feeling very pleased at the kind of results I was getting. OK, they were not making huge sums of money for me but they were easily out performing Adsdaq, Smowtion and Underdog combined.

Sadly, as with many such networks, this did not last.

I soon noticed that my income was not going up at all, not even a cent.

I did not worry about it and continued to serve their ads but then I was checking one day and saw the following announcement on the control panel:

IMPORTANT: BANNERS ARE CURRENTLY NOT MAKING REVENUE DUE TO THE ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY PROBLEMS. PLEASE REMOVE OUR ADVERTISEMENTS.
We are not sure, If SkyCPM will even return back, payments will be paid as soon as possible. We will try to solve the situation and choose the best way.

There was no email informing any members of this, which I found very unprofessional.

That message has been there for the past month or so and nobody’s income is going up so I think we can petty much come the conclusion that SkyCPM is dead and buried.

Their tag line is : SkyCPM.com – Welcome in CPM heaven.

The people who created this have no idea how fitting that tag line really would be.