Second, the holding account’s earnings drop-off towards the end, so I am left with €96.94 month-in month-out. I realise there’s a recession, but another scheme – Adbrite – is increasing its revenue on from the same sites.

The fact that your ad engine displays ads based on the location of the visitor is something I would consider a plus. The problem is that it was showing mainly German ads on my site and something that was mentioned to me by other Italian visitors. I didn’t ask anyone in the US what language the ads were in, but I no reason to believe that they were in any language other than English.

Regarding the last two points, I can’t find the exact statements that I was referring to on your website, so I’ve struck those lines. If I was mistaken, I apologize for providing incorrect information.

The main problem with your service is the quality of ads that are displayed. If they are in the wrong language, not relative to the content of the site, or don’t even show up, no one’s going to click on them and publishers have no incentive to leave them up — no matter how popular the site. After replacing Oxado ads with Google AdSense, I’ve made more in one day than I made all week at Oxado. As a side point, the majority of my visitors come from the US.

I really wanted your service to work because it pays in Euros, but in the end it just didn’t work for me. Perhaps it’s the low selection of targeted ads or your ad engine doesn’t contextualize the site correctly. Perhaps your service works best for US users or MFA sites, I honestly don’t know. But as a European publisher, Oxado ads’ CTR was dismally low in a spot where ads average a CTR of 3% per 1,000 customers. That speaks more towards the type of advertisements displayed than anything.

Thanks again for your comments.

Just to correct a few factual errors:

- the ads shown are selected based on each visitors country and language. That means each visitor might see different ads, and that the ads the owner of the website will see are not necessarily the same ones visitors will see if they are in different countries or use different languages.

- Oxado does not just use Tradedoubler ads, but ads from a variety of sources, including Yahoo! Search Marketing, Miva, Genieknows, Searchfeed, Tradedoubler and others. The ads available vary based on the country and language of each visitor, and the keywords found of course. For some markets you might indeed only have Tradedoubler ads, but visitors in other markets may see other ads. We give you access to an ad inventory of several million ads this way. Note also that we provide automatic contextualization of ads from all these sources, which you generally can’t get directly.

- I don’t know where you have seen that you would have to resubmit your site if you change its color scheme, that’s quite untrue. As long as the site still matches the original submission criteria (in terms of acceptable content, etc.), we certainly don’t require re-submission.

- Likewise, you can use the banner code on any page of the site you submitted, and you certainly don’t have to submit each and every page.

This being said, results can vary widely depending on the topic of a website and on the targeted markets, so some people might not get good results, while others will. We do pay lots of affiliates each and every month, so surely it is not impossible to reach the 100 euro payout limit.

Hope this clarifies a few things.