Peel Away Ads, A New Type Of Advert

Posted by Paul B | November 22, 2007 .

It doesn’t take too long when looking at this blog to realise the due to the narrow template I went with I’m a bit limited when it comes to advertising. Other than a small banner at the top, a bit of Adsense and Kontera content links I’m pretty much stuffed. I don’t think there is anyway that I could fit in any direct ad sales on here as it stands without everything looking very cluttered. It’s a shame because direct ad sales are where it’s at right now, cutting out the middle man and keeping 100% of the revenue for you. I decided to have a look and see what other options were open to me.

Peel Away Ads

Not for one moment did I think of using pop-under or pop-up ads here, they are a giant pain in the ass as far as I’m concerned and would be disastrous for a blog style website. How many minutes after getting the first pop-up before you never came back here? Whilst looking to see what options were open to me I just came across something that I’d never seen before, now it might just be me but I think Peel Away Ads are cool. What it does is create a little lip in any corner of your page when then “peels away” to reveal an advert when the visitor hovers over it (You can see a demo over at Peel Away Ads top left corner). I actually don’t think that this is intrusive at all and the graphical affect is very clever. Before using them here I was wondering if anybody had any experience with this type of ad and how well they performed? Chances are am going to buy Peel Away Ads anyway because I’ve got a couple of content sites I think they’d go down a storm on but it’s always good to find out what you guys think?

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