Friendster Ads - FAds Launched

The long wait is over! Claimed Friendster.

Friendster Ads (FAds) Beta was launched last June 9 and I was given a free e-pin (FAds system of payment) to try and do posting. Was able to post and was given 600 or so impressions. Only 600 because it's free. But if you will run an ad campaign at Friendster, 1000 impressions is not enough. You need gazillions before Friendster users start noticing your campaign. I for one, rarely look at the ads. I look for other things when I'm in there.

The positive: The ads will be displayed at the top of the page. The ad is highly visible. No need to scroll all the way down for the advertisement to be seen. Also, anybody with a spare (P50) can start placing ads.

The not so positive: The ads has a link going to a more detailed write up page of what you sell or what you offer. The drawback, they do not provide direct hyperlink going to your site. If you have an URL posted, interested people need to copy and paste the URL on to the address bar of the browser. Another thing, you will be given access to your ad stats bearing the class and type of visitors who saw your ad, number of impressions, etc. But it does not give away details as far as click-thru is concerned. This is important because you can have you ad loaded every single time but you'll never know if at all, people are clicking on it. Quite a half bake stats rendition.

Anyway, the service is in Beta and I was given free posting so I'll stop whining and see how the service develops.

Just go to http://fads.friendster.com/ to check em out. (I will not provide hyperlink, this is FAds way of doing things. Copy and paste it too.)