Kicked Out from Project Wonderful

This blog is earning additional income through the Project Wonderful network. The 728×90 ad spot at the header, a 125×125 ad spot at the sidebar and another 728×90 ad spot at the bottom of this blog were made available for bidding through the Project Wonderful system.

I was enjoying the money that this blog got from the advertisers brought by the Project Wonderful for more than a year already. And I thought that I will be earning more money from it especially that I noticed that from time to time, advertisers were bidding for those spots on higher price per day.

But yesterday, I discovered that the Project Wonderful management disabled all the ad spots that I mentioned above because according to them, this blog violated the terms of the Project Wonderful.

Project Wonderful Terms and Policies

Before joining the Project Wonderful, I read first the terms and conditions of the program. I also checked the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) in using the system. And from there I knew that my blog violated one the terms or the policies like:

1. This one mainly applies to blogs. There are blogs which have accepted money in order to link certain products. This can take a few forms: “review posts” (usually with affiliate links), links to other sites through click-tracking relays, double-underlined links on keywords, and so on. We have found that such tactics are very anti-reader and cause any additional advertisements (i.e., ours) to perform very poorly. If you have such posts on your site, it’s unlikely we’ll be able to have you as a publisher.
2. Obviously beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but a site that is too difficult to navigate - or already is so plastered with ads that it’s hard to tell where the actual content is - is hard for both readers and advertisers, and is unlikely to be accepted. Furthermore, if your site already has pop-up ads, or ads that take up over the browser window (”pop-over ads”), we cannot accept your site. Such ads are very anti-reader and furthermore, obscure our own ads from being seen. It just wouldn’t work out!

You already know that this blog is publishing Kontera intext ads. And the keywords used by the Kontera system can be recognized by the double underline. I even applied the so-called “click-tracking relays”. And the most obvious thing is, the design of this blog is not really designed well and the blog is cluttered by different ads.

In other words, I knew from the beginning that this blog might be denied from the Project Wonderful sytem.

However, when I tried to add this blog into their system, they approved it and allowed me to publish ads of the Project Wonderful advertisers. And I was very much thankful for that.

But, the people behind the Project Wonderful have changed their mind. This blog is now banned from the Project Wonderful system.