One of my friend suggested me to start using MarketGid ads on my blog to get traffic. I considered his request and sent an email to MarketGid team members to create an account for me. In about 2-3 hours I got their reply, they registered my account and gave a JavaScript to put on my blog and after putting the script the ads were live on my blog. I tried their service for 5 days and here is a truthful review of MarketGid. I have six points against MarketGid and two points in favor of it, after reading this article I’ll leave the decision on you whether you should use this service or not. Lets start:
Advantages of using MarketGid
Yield to high traffic : One of my friend Simran, who blogs at TricksDaddy is using this service and he told me that he gets 300-400 page visits daily from MarketGid, seems to be a nice figure. So, if you’ve written quality articles on your blog MG can help you to get good traffic.
Can do wonders : MarketGid is highly beneficial if you’ve a lots of top 10 list posts on your blog. Users always clicks on such type of posts.
This is what one of our readers TechPaparazzi says about benefits of MargetGid:
- It gives back 150% of traffic that you give.
- You can use Wahoha if you want to customize the ad widget.
- If the widget ads attract more, then you will get more hits back example, if you give 1000 clicks, you will get 1500 above hit for sure.
Thanks TechPaparazzi for your comments. Now lets move on to disadvantages.
Disadvantages
Effects my related posts : I placed MarketGid script just below my related posts and users commented that now they do not visit related posts as the MarketGid ads are highlighted over the whole page. This is a disadvantage, MarketGid should do something to change the design of the ads, they should decrease the size of the thumbnails and text weight should be normal rather than bold.
Decreased my bounce rate : As MarketGid ads are highlighted over the page, users gets busy on these ads rather visiting my related posts and my content. I received few emails from my readers telling me that it looks like MarketGid ad is covering the whole page. This disappointed me a lot.
Non related ads : Most of the ads does not relates to the topic of my post. I wrote a post on Backlinks and SEO and MarketGid was showing ads of Essential Photography and Future of Apple and some sort of funny ads. This is minus point, if ads on my blog are not related to the post then it decreases the chances of clicks. This is what I did not like. MarketGid team should work on improving ad relevancy.
The ads attract visitors more than my content : As told before, MarketGid ads are highlighted over the whole page which effects the visibility of my articles, MarketGid team, please do something to change the design and look.
No option to customize the ad widget manually : There is no option to customize the MarketGid ad widget manually rather we’ve to contact the team members for that. Personally, I did not like it at all.
Fails if you’ve less number of articles : MarketGid will fail to get you good traffic if you’ve less number of articles on your blog as their team manually index posts from your blog. You cannot index your articles into their database directly rather they select best articles from your blog and display it on other blogs. If your blog has limited number of posts then I think it will not give you any benefit.
What our visitors says about MGid
Raju from Tech PP
I had to remove mgid widget as I couldn’t find a valid answer for my query, as to how they can give back 150% or more traffic for “everyone” using their widget. From where they are getting that extra 50% traffic? Traffic exchange services have traditionally employed artificial traffic generation using proxies and stuff. Mgid says they don’t do that, but I am not convinced about that claim.
Google advices not to use any traffic exchange program (legal or illegal), and it becomes very tough to blindly assume mgid is within their ToS
Amit from Ampercent
The thing that concerns me is what happens when the search bots suddenly discover a large list of links on every page of your site. And all these links are external and are NOT related with the content of the post in question.
Now if Marketgrid is sending you visitors , keep in mind they are also snatching visitors because other people will also click through those thumbnails and leave your blog.
This is again another concern. It is not at all wise to use stuff which humans can see but bots can’t. And nevertheless, the widget really hurts the branding aspects of a blog which is focussed on one particular subject, since the target pages are never relevant to the context of the page.
These were few of my personal views on MarketGid, if you are using MarketGid do share your thoughts on it, I am waiting for your comments.
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1st do mention that it gives back 150% of traffic that you give.
2nd your blog is a text based site, i mean its a more of a serious niche, these type of network work for blogs which have humor,funny content, list posts, and freaking content.
3rd you can use http://wahoha.com/ if you want customize the ad widget.
4th if the widget ads attract more ,than you will get more hits back example , if you give 1000 clicks , you will get 1500 above hit for sure.
Hi,
Thanks for your suggestions, I’ve shared your thoughts in my post.
thanks gagan……
You’re welcome !!
I’m using their service – and am really glad
So much new people!
BTW, they are making redesign in the stats, so you can create your own widgets soon:) I suggest everyone to try MarketGID, it’s FREE and effective!
My friend sends them more than 10k daily and gets at least 15k for free. Sometimes 20-40k….)))
Do not try – do not know
Nice honest review.
The thing that concerns me is what happens when the search bots suddenly discover a large list of links on every page of your site. And all these links are external and are NOT related with the content of the post in question.
Now if Marketgrid is sending you visitors , keep in mind they are also snatching visitors because other people will also click through those thumbnails and leave your blog.
I want to test Margetgrid but I am very concerned about the SEO aspect. Thanks for the review.
Not a valid concern Amit. It is a javascript based widget, so there won’t be any html links going out from your page and bots cannot read them.
This is again another concern.
It is not at all wise to use stuff which humans can see but bots can’t. And nevertheless, the widget really hurts the branding aspects of a blog which is focussed on one particular subject, since the target pages are never relevant to the context of the page.
Wel,, all the ads (including adsense) we use on our blogs are not readable by bots. I personally don’t see it as a concern. As for the relevancy, mgid guys can fine-tune from their backend to increase relevancy. When I was using the widget, it was not a problem as I always used to find tech related posts(ads) there.
Any reason the font on your size is microscopic?
Site with less than 1000 visitors can’t apply for MGID
I had to remove mgid widget as I couldn’t find a valid answer for my query, as to how they can give back 150% or more traffic for “everyone” using their widget. From where they are getting that extra 50% traffic? Traffic exchange services have traditionally employed artificial traffic generation using proxies and stuff. Mgid says they don’t do that, but I am not convinced about that claim.
Google advices not to use any traffic exchange program (legal or illegal), and it becomes very tough to blindly assume mgid is within their ToS