Nov 30th 08
Posted by vinson in Affiliates
All of the bloggers out there knew that Google Adsense is the current leader in content-sensitive web-based marketing. Webmasters can place Google Adsense JavaScript code on their web pages in order to allow Google’s servers to show context sensitive advertisements which are called Google Adwords.
But Google’s terms and conditions are very strict such that many web publishers cannot use Google adsense ads on their sites. Most of the time many people has been denied by their program. While other adsense accounts are being disabled for reasons that are completely beyond their control. The problem is that most of the alternatives to Google’s Adsense are not that good like itself . Some affiliates are only interested in very large amount of incoming traffic to your site so are not interested in the new websites that been want to earn a small money. Here are 2 alternatives you might want to try that is ideal for small time publishers
Adbrite, is currently one of the best alternatives there is to Google’s adsense. In the fact that they accept smaller publishers including bloggers and their terms and conditions is not strict as Google Adsense. Even they do not offer the same large selection of ad Google Adsense they provide offers that are one of the most commonly used. In addition they offer inline page links with have some great click through ratios as well as interstitial full page ads which offer an excellent way to monetize all traffic to your site not just traffic that clicks on your ads. Their payouts are also very competitive.
If you’re a publisher, use Adbrite to set your own ad rates, and approve or reject every ad that’s purchased for your site or just have AdBrite auto accept ever ad. AdBrite enables you to instantly sell ads to your visitors via a “Your Ad Here” link, in addition to selling through AdBrite’s marketplace and sales team.
Revenue is typically split 75/25 in your favor. Through a small snippet of HTML placed on your site, they handle serving, scheduling, billing, customer service, and sales. About half of AdBrite‘s sales are generated from the marketplace and sales team, while the other half are generated from users clicking “Your Ad Here” on your website.
Adbrite also work as a way for you to generate additional ad revenue by selling ads directly to your visitors something the other ad systems don’t do. Ad Brite also lets you select your own minimum bid prices and give you the option of showing an alternative ad service when bid prices fall below your minimum.
Chitika (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) The Leader in Impulse Merchandising was founded in 2003 and is the industry’s leading impulse merchandising company. Chitika was founded in May 2003 and is based in Massachusetts. Chitika helps web publishers generate revenue using innovative publisher-side advertising and merchandising solutions and services.
Chitika doesn’t really stand alone as a single advertising solution but instead provides you with a way to compliment your existing advertising / publishing program with some additional Ad Units which are altogether different from the standard ad boxes, pop-unders etc that everybody else provides. Instead of displaying these ‘industry standard’ advert boxes with text and image ads that all look the same they instead provide active boxes that show targeted products from different manufacturers. If you run a blog for example and discuss a product you may find the chitika box showing links for this product and competitors products. If people purchase these products you get a paid a commission. This is referred to as impulse marketing in the form of Premium Ad Units (eMinimalls).
For advertisers and media buyers, chitika is a proven channel for targeting on-line consumers and qualified buyers. For all publishers, Chitika is an easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad revenue. If you visit a site showing Chitika’s ads from a search engine then the Chitika premium ad unit kicks in showing you ads that are specific to your searching – otherwise you can have it show an alternative ad provider, such as adsense, or you can just have it collapse away to show nothing.
Chitika allows you to display targeted products based on what people searched for to get to your page and you get paid for clicks. It provides a robust comparative shopping experience for your visitors. Visitors will love the interactive search code — and it makes you money
Visit Chitika’s website and sign up today.
Nov 29th 08
Posted by vinson in SEO
Here are a few link building methods that you must avoid or else you may get your site banned/penalized/filtered from major search engines like Google, yahoo and others.
Directories
Never submit your site in several cheap paid directories that send zero traffic and sell off topic run-of-site links.
Forum Spam
Do not often use your website URL as a signature in different forum sites you have joined. And never exclusively post when you can add links to your sites in the post area. And also never ask questions about who provides the best widget where widget is an item that you sell. From the same IP address create another forum account and answer your own question raving about how great your own site is. Posting also on forum threads that are years outdated exclusively to link to your semi-related website are not good in link building .
79. Sign up for profiles on forums you never intend on commenting on.
Blog Spam
Never reply spammy keywords in blogs comment. And don’t ever discuss topics on the same time every now and then . It’s better to write a new one instead of repeating the same topics. And importantly avoid posting none related things into a particular topic. Also sending pings to everyone talking about a subject must be avoided.
Garbage Link Exchanges
Don’t ever send link exchange requests mentioning your PageRank and avoid sending link exchange emails which look like an automated bot email. And you wouldn’t get links from nearly-hidden sections of websites listing hundreds or thousands of off topic sites.
Spam People in Person
Don’t go to webmaster conferences telling them how rich you are, and how your affiliates make millions doing nothing. Also avoid asking people if they have linked to your site but most people do this kind of link building strategy.
Be Persistant
Avoid sending webmaster an alert to every post you make on your website.And also sending a webmaster an email every single day asking for them to link to your website is not good.Also stay away from sending references to your site to the same webmaster from dozens of different email accounts.
Getting Links
Stealing is a crime so never steal content published by well known names also by stripping out any attribution.
Nov 26th 08
Posted by vinson in Affiliates
As I was searching the net on how to monetize my site with paid ads I found an article about Google adsense on how to get a high click rate by just the arrangement or proper placement of you site. Well if you were ask “Is there really any truth to the rumors that where you place those Google AdSense ads can actually improve response?” According to the best information, the answer to that question is: Yes.
Google’s own AdSense experts say that that there is a direct correlation between the placement of the AdSense ads and the resulting clickthrough.
When ads are placed in “content zones”, meaning inside the text of you articles, news and topics and your blog rather than in “advertising zones”, most of the time on the right side, upper portion and to the bottom of your page. A response rate on Google AdWords goes up. There are also indications showing that ads appearing on the right side of the page get clicked more than ads appearing on the left side.
Advertising analysts with degrees in human behavior and psychology have spent thousands of years studying how people read printed and Internet content and what it takes to get them to respond to ads. While some of these studies are proprietary, or are only available to anyone with $10,000 or more to spend on a copy, other studies have been made public and can be read by anyone who is interested.
That’s why it is important to test a lot and experiment with your Google AdSense placement and track the results over a period of time. Google provides response tracking tools in your AdSense control panel. Learn how to use them. As you begin to see what may be only subtle differences in response, you’ll be able to determine what works best for your particular site. But don’t get complacent. What’s working for you now might not work next month if you change your site design or content.
One of the most important factors in determining placement of your ads is the type of content that your site delivers. If you are primarily an e-commerce site, and you have a lot of pictures and ad copy for your own products competing for attention against AdSense ads, then it is going to be a particularly tough challenge getting any kind of decent Google AdSense clickthrough. It is situations like this that require very thorough testing and a lot of trial and error.
Blogs seem to have a lot of success generating high response rates to Google AdSense listings. Perhaps it’s because blog readers realize that ad revenue is the only way that their favorite blogmaster can keep the lights on, so the readers think of clicking on ads as a way to make a donation.
Regardless of what the experts say, the best thing you should do is to know where particular location of your site you would place your Google AdSense base on your own experience shows works best for you.
Nov 25th 08
Posted by vinson in SEO
Why do you think bloggers need to exchange links? Are you not aware of the benefits of linking your blog with others? well this are the important things you might discover with link exchange.
Link Exchange Brings Free Traffic – Since link exchange generates many links pointing to your website, whenever a surfer search for a particular keyword in search engines like Google whenever he clicks on one of those links, you’ve got a new visitor.
Link Exchange Increases PageRank – Google’s PageRank is an important measure of the popularity of each web page. The higher your site’s PageRank, the better your site will rank in Google’s search results. The more high quality links you have pointing to your site, the higher its PageRank will be.
Link Exchange Increases Link Popularity – The number and quality of websites that link to your website (link popularity) is one of the most important factors that help ALL search engines (not only Google) to determine your site’s relevance for a search phrase. Exchanging reciprocal links with other websites has proven to be an extremely effective solution for webmasters seeking to improve their search engine rankings.
Link Exchange Improves Your Search Engine Positioning – Because it increases your link popularity, link exchange will continue to be an essential factor in successful search engine marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns which you will see in the near future.
Link Exchange Enriches Your Website – By offering your visitors a link exchange page often they use blogroll for this, you are giving them a alternative source of ideas which are related to each other! A link exchange page is ultimately a list of websites that provide the kind of content that your visitors are looking for, and this site may be valuable to them.
Nov 25th 08
Posted by vinson in SEO
Honestly I’m not the expert on this course. Also that I never took any formal course about SEO because it is not offer in our school either, but after reading lots of articles in the web I got several things in my mind about what SEO means in Blogosphere.
First, SEO means Search Engine Optimization as the word itself optimizing by any effort to be on top of several search engine indexing of our site in which bloggers really help search engine to index their article and content to easily found when somebody wants to search your site.
Secondly, SEO is all about a proper use of keywords, key phrase, tags and necessary we must use our original words which is really better when it comes to SEO. It also means that in doing SEO we need to take some preparation in our research to find the right niche we will use in blogging. Also, then choose the proper keywords that is identical to the niches we have chosen. The more proper and identical the keywords, the more likely the search engine to index our page or content.
Besides, after choosing the right niche and keyword, we need to use the familiar key phrase people use in searching what they want in search engines. We do really feel intuitively that we will never use long key phrase while we are searching either in Google, Yahoo or MSN and any other search engines.
Lastly, SEO is all about consistency on updating the content of the blog. This is relating to pour your fresh and well-updated ideas on your blog. The more time you update your blog, the more search engine like your blog. And remember updating is not just you copy and paste from another blogs it is also relating to any original ideas which will reflect on your post or article throughout your blog.
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