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Saturday, May 16, 2009

OLX Free Classifieds

OLX is a classifieds website where users can advertise almost anything they wanted to sell, buy or need for free. It is new for me because I just knew the existence of this website and services eventhough it has been alive since 2006. Established in March 2006, the service has expanded to 87 countries including Austria, Brazil, Grenada, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Peru, and served in 37 languages. Links for every local homepages are available at the footer of every pages. OLX has joined social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious to integrate the advertising services with social networking.

OLX offers focused advertising to countries, states, cities, or zipcodes. By registering with olx.com, users can also use the same login and password for other country localized homepages. This will allow users to advertise on other countries as well. Classified ads are grouped nicely into categories and subcategories for better browsing. Users can also search for items or services using the search options. When posting a classified, an advertiser can specify the ads categories and targetted location to states, cities, or zipcodes. When users view a classified, they have the options to reply the listing, add comments, or add to favorite. Featured listing is also available where classifieds are displayed by impressions on any pages other than in their categories. Featured listing is a paid service but can attract more people to view the ads.

The website offers customization for every ads with Ajax “WYSIWYG” rich-text editor allowing font customization and let users to add images in every listings. It is only up to the creativity of the advertisers to customize and make the ads unique to attract viewers. There are so many ads being posted daily giving high competition for every ads. There is also a mobile version of the website for easier browsing using phones or PDAs which can be accessed at http://m.olx.com/. For more information, visit the homepage at http://www.olx.com/ or the news release at http://olx-newsrelease.com/.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Google Launched Adsense for Domain

I was surprised when I checked my adsense account to modify an ads when I found out this new thing. Google has already launched adsense for domain. The service might have been launched within the last two weeks. From this service, you can profit when you have an unused domain or when your site is under construction. AdSense for domains provides links, search results, advertisements and other content.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Want to Monetize Your Twitter Profile?

Are you using Twitter? If you're not, check my Twitter profile to find out. Twitter is a place where you can update your status to friends or whoever is following you. You can also place links to your blog post. Therefore Twitter is more popular as a micro-blogging service where you tell everybody about your blog update.

Twittad is now offering you chances to make money from your Twitter profile. After you signed up with Twittad, your Twitter profile will be analyzed for the amount of followers you have and your activities. Then your Twitter profile will be placed with a price for advertisers. The more followers you have, the higher your Twitter profile would be. If an advertiser agrees with your price and duration specified, the profile will be purchased to display ads. You'll be paid for every hour the ads is running on your profile.

Sign up with Twittad and make money from your Twitter profile.

Place Your Blog RSS Feed Here

I had removed the 'My Blog List' widget on this blog because nobody has used the links on that widget and I was also not having any traffic from that link exchanges. I am still experimenting with the free advertising and link exchange by Adgridwork.com and I will some more ads from the service and see whether the action can bring more traffic to this blog.

The 'My Blog List' column or widget will be replaced with Your Blog's RSS Feed. I am offering anybody to advertise your blog RSS feeds on this blog for $2/week or $6/month. 5 items of your RSS feeds will be displayed just like the feeds for my personal blog and artwork blog in the lower section of this blog. If anybody interested with this offer, please email me or leave a comment to let me know.

Since I joined Entrecard, traffic has increased a lot but the bounce rate is also high because most people are just visiting to drop their cards. I am still looking for other methods that can be used to increase traffic but with lower bounce rate. I don't extensively read any blog and give comments just tu put my links there. I will only place comments when I really have something to share with the author or other people. Since I'm a little busy right now, I can only manage to read a few blogs per day.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Free Advertising With AdlandPro

If you are interested in free promotion, free advertising, marketing or networking, then maybe you should try AdlandPro. The service has been offering free and paid advertising services to small businesses since 1996. AdlandPro offers either free or affordable advertising solutions for small businesses and home entrepreneurs. For free services, you can do following no cost to you:

Place your free ads in classifieds and community pages ($2.50 value)
Place your free ads in Free Traffic Exchange (120,000 users) ($2.50 value )
Free subscription to "Adland Digest" Newsletter ($5.00 per month value)
Obtain free leads for your business using community system ($5-$10 per lead value)
Earn big money with affiliate program (up to $10,000/month)
Participate in discussions to learn more about marketing and promotions through the Adland Digest ($5.00 per month value)

All those services are offered for free. If they are still not enough for you, paid services are also offered that will guarantee your ads will get the best viewers and click. With paid services, you can have the following:

Renewable ads promotion that will make sure your ads be on top of the search list and never expires
Ads submission to 680,000 search engines
Your ads to appear in every newsletter sent to every members of the service
Paid keyword service that will always make your ads on top of their search service
Free traffic exchange to your site with all the members of the service

By being an affiliates, you'll have better performance for your free ads and you will also receive commission for every traffic you refer, every referrals joined and commission from your referrals earnings. You can also display PPC ads on your blogs with statistics for your ads performances. There are more services offered that will be too much to write here. Just chek it out at http://www.adlandpro.com/.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Just Display Ads to Get Paid

You can only get something with CPC ads only if there are clicks on your ads. While only high traffic can make CPM ads more profitable than CPC. For low traffic blog, CPC is still the best choice. What if you can have both advantage of CPC and CPM for a single ads? You can with Adgitize. This is because by showing Adgitize ads on your pages, you can have earning for both clicks and impressions of the ads. The more ads you place on your blogs, the more you can earn. Earnings for clicks will surely be higher than impression. Even if there are no ads displayed, you will still earn for every pageview of your ads. That is what we really want. Therefore, if your Adsense or any other CPC ads are not performing well, try Adgitize and you'll like it.

Adgitize also offer you to advertise with really low charge of $14 per month to all their publishers network. Since the publisher network are mostly bloggers, your ads will be displayed on thousand of blogs. There are also option to be affiliate where you'll be paid $5 for every new signing and $2-$5 per advertiser. What is more interesting is the $1 non-expiring monthly commission for every advertiser. Payment are made via PayPal with minimum amount of $10 or $50 via check. Joining Adgitize will really give you a continuous stream of earning. Not to forget the cheap advertising.

Adgitize was founded by Ken Brown to provide an alternative advertising platform for bloggers. A social gathering area in our forum where bloggers can share ideas for blogging, advertising, earning revenues and raise blog traffic growth. Adgitize has a unique point system that translates into real dollars for bloggers with blogs of all sizes big or small.

Update: Another thing I'd like to add.. I am also getting credits every time I write a new post.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

How to Put Advertisement in Blogs

This post is just for people who don’t know that they can make money from their blogs or maybe want to monetize their blogs but don’t know the sources or what type of ads that can be used. In other words, this post is not for a web-savvy person and I’ve seen a lot of personal blogs which some of them have high traffic and pagerank but no advertising or maybe just one advertisement. Some advertising companies will make offer to advertise in our blogs when they found out that our blog have many unique visitors per day but it might take a very long time for that offer to come. For those who don’t get the offer, some of them might never know that they can generate some cash by writing their blogs. What I’m going to do here is to explain some term in advertising that we should know and list some advertising services that can easily help you make money from blogging.

Important Terms You Should Know:

Publishers – Blog owners that want to put ads in their blogs are called publishers because they are the one that publish the blog.
Advertisers – Any party who want to advertise their products, website, blogs, etc. through advertising networks
Cost Per Click (CPC) – The cost paid by advertiser to ads networks for every click on their advertisement
Pay Per Click (PPC) – The amount paid to publishers for each click on an advertisement which varies depending on the ads value and ads networks.
Cost Per 1000 Impression (CPM) – Cost paid by advertisers to ads networks for every 1000 impressions of their advertisement.
Pay Per 1000 Impression (PPM) – Amount received by publishers for every 1000 impressions of an advertisement
Impression - Number of time an advertisement had been shown on a page.
Click Through Ratio (CTR) - Impressions divided by the number of clicks over a set time period
Return On Investment (ROI) - The sales minus investment divided by the investment. Especially if you are both an advertiser and a publisher
Pageview – Number of pages viewed in a blog or website. One visitor who view three pages will generate 3 pageview at a time
Visits - Number of times anyone has viewed the site
Unique visitors - Visitors from different IP addresses that are important for advertisement

List of Advertising Networks You Can Easily Use:

Google Adsense – Keyword based PPC text ads network that also offers image ads. The text ads displayed on a page depends on the keywords available on that page while publishers can customize the ads categories. Minimum payout to publishers is USD100 and available through Western Union Money Transfer up to USD2999 or via check for amount more than USD2999.
BidVertiser – Similar to Google Adsense but offers lower minimum payout which makes it a better option if you want to be paid fast. Minimum payout is USD10 to be paid via PayPal or USD50 via check.
Adbrite – Ad network that offer text and image ads similar to Adsense or in-line ads where some keywords in the blog post were turned to be temporary ads links. There is also option to have full page ads for returning visitors only.
Yahoo Publisher Network – Yahoo’s version of Adsense
Microsoft AdCenter – Microsoft’s version of Adsense
Nuffnang – Malaysian ads network that shows image ads of various sizes. Minimum payout is RM50 via check.

Other Ad Networks:

Kontera – PPC in-content links where blog post keywords are changed to temporary ads links.
Text Link Ads – Shows ads links just like all other links in your blogs. This ads can also helps to increase your pagerank
TTZ Media - Product based PPC ads suitable for shopping or product related blogs
Chitika – Product based PPC ad network
WidgetBucks – Product based PPC ad network

Video Advertising:

Captain Ad – Captain Ad places advertisements before embedded videos of any popular video sharing websites like YouTube, megavideo and so on. Captain Ad is paying for this ad format to webmasters a CPM of 1.00 USD. The integration is very easy as well.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Monetize Immediately or Later?

You might read somewhere to write a lot of post, get many visitors, do seo, listing, optimize template or whatever when you just started a blog. Then when everything are done you can focus on monetizing your blog with advertising. I don't do that. I start monetizing all my blogs immediately. I put ads in my blogs right on the first day. Most of them. Following an advice from Carl Ocab. This is because even if you only have one or two visitors per day, they might click on your ads and make you money. Imagine the waste if you wait long enough before monetizing your blogs. Don't waste a single cent. Do it now.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Another Affiliate Program

From my participation in free advertisement had really paid up by bringing some visitors to this blog. There's a quote: You get what you paid for and it's true. The visitors from the free programs are not as much as if you entered AdWords, BitVersiter or any other advertising but it is enough for a start.

I had just entered a new affiliate program, SFI Affiliate Center and I really feels this is a good program. The person who refered this program to me had already made some money from it. I really hope after a month I could see some extra income from this program. Check the program at http://www.quickinfo247.com/10459715/FREE

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Participate In Free Advertising

I had just signed up with Adgridwork, a free advertising site that will help to promote my blog with other sites or blogs that also participated with the same program. The method is anybody who join the program need to put an ads that will display links to other participating sites. This is not the first free advertising program that I've registered. Yesterday I've already join SEO News and put a widget in this blog. The widget will display feeds from all sites or blogs that join SEO News. I'll be looking for more opportunities like these. From these free programs we might not have a rapid increase in our site traffic but still it is very helpful since I am sticking to the objective of not spending any money at least before I make some profit.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Don't Try to Disguise Your Blog Like AdSense Ads

I found a very important post by Alan Liew at http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com/. It's a really important warning to all Adsense users. If you don't read carefully the terms and conditions when you're signing for Adsense account, you better do it now. Alan Liew had been disallowed to display Adsense ads in his blog because his contents or layout just looks like ads. (As being said by Google). So don't try to fool the visitors in order to have high click rate and especially not Google. Nobody want to be terminated by Google. Try to read more at his page.
Read again the AdSense Term & Conditions especially the Prohibited Uses.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Get the Best Keywords for your AdSense and AdWords

What is the best keywords for our site or blog? I always use the AdWords Keyword Tool to analyze my blog for the best keywords. You can just enter the URL of your site and the tool will analyze all available keywords and will display the search volume for each keywords either for last month or average. It also display the advertiser competition and average CPC for each keywords. Other options also available. I think this tool is also very important when you want to select or setup and advertisement in AdSense. I use it to select the keywords that have the highest CPC and it really works. I've tried that in one of my blogs and the ads keywords that were chosen from this tool have better CPC rate.

Another tool I just found today is the Google Search-based Keyword Tool. This one is still in Beta and I don't really understand how Google make this instead of having the AdWord Keyword Tool. You can read more from the page or in a posting by Vinshe. If anybody knows the pros and cons of this tool or have better suggestion please share them here.