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Tuesday, 18th September 2007
John Reese just launched his new blog syndication site called BlogRush. It works like a traffic exchange service. You display related blog posts of other blogs on your blog X times and your blog posts will get displayed on other people’s blogs X times too. There is a ratio of how many impressions you get in return for displaying the BlogRush widget. This depends on the number of people you refer to BlogRush. The basic level is 1:1 and you will get better ratios like 1:2 as you progress.
It is important to understand that impressions does not equals to traffic. An impression like most banner ad systems, is simply the instance an ad is displayed in front of a person. Whether the person feels compelled to click through to your web site depends on a lot of other factors.
I am testing BlogRush right now and I hope it makes a substantial difference in my blog traffic.
Tagged As: blog-syndication, blogrush, john-reese, traffic-exchange
Tuesday, 18th September 2007
DealDotCom is like a discount web site for internet marketing related products. There is an internet marketing product on sale everyday and it lasts for only 24 hours. If you miss it, you won’t get another chance.
Product creators may submit their products to be sold on DealDotCom. The best thing about DealDotCom is their 2-tier affiliate program. According to their official documentation, you get paid 35% of DealDotCom’s profit for every item that they buy. If someone you referred to DealDotCom refers someone else, you get paid 15% of DealDotCom’s profit every time they buy something for the rest of your life.
Tagged As: dealdotcom, Internet Marketing
Wednesday, 12th September 2007
I recently signed up for AuctionAds to test if it will earn more money than Google AdSense for one of my sites. So far my results have not been good due to the fact the AuctionAds keyword rotation system seems to be broken.
AuctionAds is not a contextual advertising network. You have to specify the keywords into the system to get relevant ads displayed on your web site. Google AdSense on the other hand tries to automatically detect your web site’s theme and display relevant ads at their own discretion. AuctionAds allows you to set the keywords, minimum/maximum bid price, negative keywords and a couple of matching options.
According to AuctionAds’ keyword document:
One powerful feature you can use is result refinement using a “,”. Say for example you have a web site with baseball cards. You automatically insert the players name from the page into the ads, but not every player may have auctions with their name listed. You could however specify: “derek jeter rookie card, derek jeter, baseball”. The engine will try to find Derek Jeter rookie cards, and if all else fails will show simply “baseball” ads.
If you simply want to return all of several …
Tagged As: AuctionAds, auctionads-colon, auctionads-comma, auctionads-keyword-rotation
Saturday, 8th September 2007
I tested hundreds of article directories back in the day when I fell for the hype of the effectiveness of article submitters. My belief back then was if I had more links pointing back to my web site, the better my site would rank. I was expecting an avalanche of traffic to come to my web sites but I was disappointed when the traffic was so pathetic.
Instead of submitting to hundreds of article directories, I only submit to about 9 article directories for my article marketing (bum marketing) campaigns. This saves me a lot of time, money and prevents my articles from competing against one another for rankings in the search engines.
My Top Article Directories by Alexa Rank
I ranked my list of article directories by Alexa traffic stats and this is the order of the article directories. I know there are article directories with better Alexa rankings than some of the ones listed above but these are my “approved list” of article directories.
I grouped my articles directories into a list of article directories worth submitting to and another list I consider worthless in terms of getting traffic.
My Condemned List of Article Directories
I compiled my findings with my tracking links at …
Tagged As: Article Marketing, article-post-robot, article-rewriter, article-spinner, article-submitter, bum-marketing, content-composer, top-article-directories
Saturday, 1st September 2007
Building on where I left off in my previous post on SEO: Quality Over Quantity, I found a good post at SEOmoz on the value of submitting to directories, link building and “nofollow links”. They interviewed Google.com’s head of Google’s Webspam team, Matt Cutts, to find out more about Google’s attitude towards some SEO issues. I would pay extra attention to Matt’s reply to the following question:
What is Google’s position on the value of generic web directories that market to webmasters as a way to boost link strength, PageRank and relevance? Would you largely agree or disagree with my assertions about the value of generic web directories on the subject?
SEOmoz also has a post titled “The Wisdom and Folly of Directory Link Building“. You’ll get tips on what to look out for when selecting a directory to submit your site to. The good ones are usually very difficult to get in and they almost always require you to pay them a substantial amount of money to get reviewed with no guarantee that your link will be added. What’s worse, they might not even refund you your money if they reject your site!
Tagged As: directories, link-building, matt-cutts, nofollow-links, seo
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