We will need to give support. As far as I know, Nuffnang is starting to have ads from US and Canada which are quite a good improvement. Advertlets and Nuffnang still have many room to grow.

If there is a lot of publishers, not just Malaysia and Singapore bloggers using Nuffnang and Advertlets, I am sure the advertisers will be impressed by the network that both these platforms cover.

For the ads, I can agree that there is a lack of it but as I said, the coverage of a advertising company needs to huge. They need our support and we need them as well but as always, it’s not the “human-relation” that matters when there is money involved.

Another point to note is that, any sites with huge traffics have users mostly outside of Malaysia compared to small blogs. This makes both networks to be less profitable for popular sites like liewcf.com but we all know traffics = money. So, unless both networks started counting users outside of Malaysia and Singapore, they won’t be attractive to popular sites. Beside, I’ve also heard many complaining about the lack of ads…

Just my 2 cents.

I think something is wrong with my broadband or firewall connection then. My page hanged at where Nuffnang panel is the day before I typed this. That is why I am writing this. After that day, everything seems to be fine.

It is a good solution but by the time the ads appear, visitors might had scrolled down or move to another page because some blogs have lots of scripts.

The best will be giving the panels priority to load and they load themselves fast.

@ Clare
Timothy is just right above you. It’s just that his comment is awaiting moderation.

As a publisher, we always want third party scripts added to load faster and faster but it’s all up to them. The last thing we want is that they see our comments as whinings which I don’t think Timothy will do this…

I like your writings in some way. If your writing style can attract visitors, I don’t get it if advertisers shy away. Maybe wait till I have enough funds for my advertising needs, I will not forget about you.

I am not a fan of Timothy, to be frank. Just that I happen to know him personally. I still don’t earn that much because I don’t get a lot of CPM ads, maybe advertisers don’t like my controversial writings(?) LOL

Actually our ads don’t load slow, they’re just designed to load only after the rest of your blog content has loaded so it does not hold up your blog from loading.

(Refer to the announcement we made on 9th July 2007).
http://nuffnang.com.my/blog/?p=91

That’s why I’m rather surprised when you say that our ad slows down your blog… it used to before we rebuilt our ad syndication system before 9th July 2007, but now everything loads quickly.

Also, some of our ads are rich media ads, like the Cornetto ads you might see around where the user may no only just click on the ad but can also play an in-built game, interactiing with the ad. So these ads typically take a little longer to load up especially when we want to give priority to the blog’s content in terms of loading sequence.

Either ways, thank you very much for your kind words of encouragement and also for pointing out our cons. We’re forever on the road to improve.

Thanks.

-Timothy Tiah of Nuffnang

@ conancat
Yes, they do provide me with some little income and this is why they are still shown in my blog. Advertlets uses flash as well but maybe Nuffnang really needs to improve the loading time of their ad (I mean shorten them)

and yeah, agree that nuffnang had to work on the ads, sometimes they load kinda slow. maybe it’s because they’re flash/moving images thats why they’re slow… i guess i just have to compromise with that