In case you haven’t noticed, I removed ProjectWonderful from my sidebar today. I have had no luck with it after using it for over one month. Moveover, I think that the revenue generated given the space and position it occupied was not worth it.

For 1 month, the three ProjectWonderful 125X125 banners only earned over $25. That’s a little over the price of one 125X125 banner advertisement on my blog. I also noticed that the highest bid price I got so far was only $0.80 and the lowest was $0.02. The huge range and price deviation occur because the price paid by advertisers depend on the number of bid (demand) and how much bidders are willing to pay. So even if you have a high traffic site when there are no advertisers bidding, your earnings will remain low.

Another reason why ProjectWonderful isn’t wonderful at all and why I took it off my blog today is because of the off-topic advertisements frequently shown on my blog. I know that Project Wonderful allows you to filter advertisements and approve only those that fit your blog’s topic but this means additional work to the blogger and lesser opportunity to monetize your blog. The earnings are just too meager that when you consider the time and efforts you put to keep advertisements relevant to your content, it’s not just worth it.

Other than the meager earning and the irrelevant advertisements, another reason why I took off ProjectWonderful from my blog is because it slowed the load time of my sidebar. This caused the advertisements and links below it to load very slow as well. As a result, my click through rate (Google Adsense) and page view (Links to other posts) are also adversely affected.

Lastly, since Project Wonderful requires you to install a script, it does not only slows your blog’s load time but it makes your blog not search engine friendly. If you’re considering optimizing your blog for search engines to get more of pages indexed in their seach result and increase your traffic, then you should minimize using scripts. By removing the long script of Project Wonderful, I am able to optimize my blog for search engines and give their crawlers an easier job.

To be fair, there are other websites like Entrecard.com that are making some decent revenue from Project Wonderful. Entrecard.com receives over $300 every month from Project Wonderful. I personally believe though that Entrecard.com can make more money from the space and position occupied by Project Wonderful.

What about your experience? Any luck so far? I’d love to know why you are keeping Project Wonderful despite the meager income you generate from it.

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As the number of entrepreneurs venturing online increases, branding becomes an important element to become successful. What better way can you build your own brand and identity than by having your own distinct web design including your logo, banner and template. You can choose to pay a hefty amount of money to design firms or run your own design contest and pick the best design from various entries at an affordable price. This is where GFXContests comes into the picture.

What is GFXContests.com?

GFXContests.com is a useful service that helps connect designers to those in need of freelance design work. Utilizing a contest format you can get a logo, website, forum skin, or just about any other graphic design project done quickly and professionally at a lower cost compared to traditional design firms. The contest approach will better ensure that you get the best design considering that several talented graphic designers will compete to win. When you decide to pay for a design company, you don’t only pay their expensive prices but you are also left with fewer design options.

How Does GFXContests Works?

For people looking for designs, you need to create a contest at GFXContests.com to start receiving entries from different graphic designers. To do so, you will have to register an account and buy either a one month subscription for $10 or a six month subscription for $30. Other similar services will require you to pay everytime you start a new contest but with GFXContests, you can create unlimited contest within the duration of your subscription.

The six month subscription option is most cost effective for members who plan to host multiple contests over a long period of time while the one month subscription option is most cost effective for members who might only host a few contests over a one month period.

Read the Guidelines For Contest Holders for a complete detail on running your contest at GFXContests.com. The policies on the contest guidelines were designed to help contest holders successfully conduct contests and to protect the interests of all parties involved. You must abide by the following rules or risk having your contest or user account removed.

Why Choose GFXContests.com?

1. Cheaper cost. No commission charges.
2. Great number of competent, experienced and talented graphic designers.
3. Wide variety of design to choose from. Different concepts and ideas from different designers.
4. Host unlimited design contests.
5. Active and helpful community of graphic designers. You will certainly get entries from members.

Take a look at these threads for examples of design contests.

• LOGO - Corporate Logo For A New Software Company
• PRINT - Brochure Redesign For An Equipment Leasing Company
• TEMPLATE - Uncoded Website Design and Logo Revamp

You can find more examples at GFXContests.com. 
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