Kanoodle : Waste of Time

I have sites that deal in sexuality. When I started getting more PSAs than I liked with AdSense I looked around for another service to use.

On the sites of a couple of well-know – e.g., published authors – sites focused on sexuality I saw ads served by Kanoodle.

So to Kanoodle I applied. They accepted me but noted that my site was classified as “Adult.” Adult? I don’t put dirty pictures on my sites, generally I don’t put images of any sort. It is just text. And the topics are apt to be about evolutionary psychology and female sexual desire or laws governing sexual behavior. You’d have to be mighty weird to feel aroused by the stuff.

I wrote to my Kanoodle rep questioning their decision. No reply.

I put up the Kanoodle code anyway.

Bah!

There were only two advertisers for the site. It dropped to one. They were just porn sites. Well, my visitors may be looking for porn but it wasn’t why they were visiting my pages.

The CTR rate was the worst I’ve ever had on any site ever.

Eventually I my earnings equaled Kanoodle’s minimum payout and I took the ads off. For that little money I’d rather keep the pages ad free (not that I have).

As an alternative to AdSense Kanoodle is a bust. AdBrite crushes them into the dirt (BlogAds may as well but I don’t know anyone I can ask to sponsor me.)

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