David Pitlyuk

I got an e-mail this morning that I had a new message on my MyBlogLog (feel free to add me as a contact and/or join my community) from a guy that happened to come to my blog via StumbleUpon. He was asking me to test drive his new free advertising co-op called AdGridWork. It’s essentially a free ad network which works through contextual link exchanges.

You sign up, make an ad, and place the ad code on your site. As you generate impressions and clicks, the ad you create advertising your own site will get displayed on other network members pages. You get free advertising for your site (at the cost of giving up some ad space on your own). This may be especially good for newer and low-mid trafficked blogs where it’s not worth much money to give up space where a paid advertisement can go.

The concept seems good to me, I’m really just surprised the AdGridWork isn’t somehow monetizing it. I would have thought they would do something like a certain percentage of ads would be theirs and paid to them…or at the very least ads promoting other websites which they own.

Does it work though? The good part about answering this question is that it’s absolutely free to try out and see for yourself. If you do decide to sign-up, let me know how it has been working out for you. Either by posting a comment or writing a review (and then let me know and I’ll link to you).

I’m going to do a compilation of reviews that I find here which I’ll keep updated:

• Success Online
• KCLau’s Money Tips

Another interesting service that the same guys provide is called ReviewBack. It’s simply a marketplace to find other similar blogs out there that you can review for free, and they will review you back for free. A nice, free, easy way to build some traffic.