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Buy Text Links

2007-01-28T06:32:00.000-08:00

For all these webmasters who try hard to push their sites to the top, one major weapon is link building. Numerous conversations are taking place in the best webmaster forums about the value of links. To buy text links is not a simple task. You should check the PR of the site where you re going to be linked and take into consideration the traffic. Beside check the number of the outgoing links, because this is another important factor in order to choose. Good luck..

The price of a text link ad, starts from 2, 3 usd and can reach 100-150 usd per month but buying some good links can give much more income..

v7n Contextual Links

2007-01-22T03:56:00.000-08:00

I was reading John Scott's SEO Blog this morning about v7n Contextual Links. His project seems great.

Why choose v7n Contextual Links to monetize your blog?
Well they pay 10$ for a simple link on a new blog post. There is no pagerank requirement (yet) but it's sure that the higher pageranked blogs will get more responses. Furthermore, you don't have to blog about the advertiser and his service but just embeding a link in a word/sentence.

SEO Friendly Directory Script

2007-01-22T03:23:00.000-08:00

I was looking for a SEO Friendly Directory Script other than PHP Link Directory and I found Site Sift Listings would be a great idea to use.

Features
- Categories
- Sub Categories
- Edit Listings
- Paypal and 2CheckOut payment system
- Featured Links
- Expiring System
- Sort listings
- Meta Tags
- Google Sitemap
- Check links for broken links
- Domain banning

What do you think? Any suggestions?

Jenaniston.info for sale

2007-01-12T00:34:00.000-08:00

* URL: jenaniston.info
* Established: 12 Jan 2007
* Uniques/Month: 7,000
* Page views/month: 11,000
* Monthly Revenue: 45
* PageRank: 3
* Listed: 12 Jan 2007

Description:

I have bought the site in summer 2006 from a DP member. No content update from then, i spend some time for link building though.

I have done some celebrity link exchanges and i have submitted the site to over 200 directories.

No paid advertising and links.

I have listed the auction in DP yesterday, and i got an offer of 270$ until now.
Revenue Details:

December: 37$ (adsense)
January (estimated): 45$/month (adsense)

No sold links yet
Traffic Details:

7000 uniques per month
11000 pages per month
Most traffic comes from Google Images and MSN

Traffic is stable since November.

Check printscreens for more details.

Traffic refs: http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5489/jenanistontrafficrefsot3.jpg

For more printscreens and bids check sitepoint auction:

(image is clickable)

Techabout.com for sale

2006-12-04T11:09:00.000-08:00

Techabout.com is one of my first projects I started early this year. The first blog (plasmatv) has been established on March 1,2006.

There are 4 blogs and 1 page that generate revenue.

The traffic is steady. The site can produce revenue with no work for many months.

The reason I'm selling this site is that it wasn't a hobby for me but a revenue producer and that get me bored fast.

The site has great potential, a very very brandable domain and one of my best adsense placement. Adding text-link-ads, creating a rss home page and adding content (if you don't know the subject, product specifications are good too) to the blogs will help a lot to increase revenue.
Revenue Details:

http://www.techabout.com/plasmatv
PR 4
Revenue from google adsense: 500$
Revenue from link sales: 100$+

http://www.techabout.com/ringtones
PR 4
Revenue from maxbounty: 210$

http://www.techabout.com/webhosting
Revenue from google adsense: 3$
Revenue from link sales: 40$

http://www.techabout.com/digitalcameras
Revenue from google adsense: 25$

http://www.techabout.com/cellphones
Revenue from google adsense: 55$

Total 900$+ in 9 months

Screenshots:
[1] [2] [3] [4]

Directory Networking

2006-11-29T00:57:00.000-08:00

Yesterday i have finished my new directory Deluxedir.com and i was looking for some ways to promote it. I just checked Directories forums on DP and dvduval had a nice suggestion:

del.icio.us has become an important resource that seems to be heavily spidered by search engines and improves "page strength" as defined by seomoz.com. I would like for people to start to work together and add each others directories to del.icio.us.

Here is my del.icio.us account:
http://del.icio.us/Dazed_and_confused

Paypal calculator

2006-05-22T02:10:00.000-07:00

If you use Paypal and have ever wanted to calculate how much you’ll be paying in fees for different situations then you might be interested in PPCalc a PayPal Fee Calculator.

It also has a ‘reverse fee calculator’ which will tell you how much to ask for if you want to receive a certain amount. Very useful.

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New AdSense referral product: Picasa

2006-05-04T13:02:00.000-07:00

Picasa is a Windows application that allows users to find, edit, and enjoy the pictures on their computer in seconds. Picasa also makes advanced editing and picture sharing simple with fast one-click fixes. Visit the Picasa website.

When a user downloads and installs Picasa through your referral, we'll credit your account with up to $1.00 (more details). *

* First time installation on Windows PC.

Nokia 6682

2006-05-04T04:37:00.000-07:00

Features and a small review of Nokia 6682

read more | digg story

YPNblog

2006-04-11T03:38:00.000-07:00

You heard it here first! YPN has launched their own YPN blog to keep publishers (and want-to-be publishers!) up-to-date and in the loop with the very latest about the program.

Yahoo! Publisher Network blog will be a resource for publishers, by publishers. In it, publishers will find not only what they might expect from a product-focused industry blog-the latest on issues, new releases, and tips-but also in-depth how-to's, publisher interviews, industry trends, links to articles and other news and information you can use. The blog is also intended to be a community platform that will help publishers learn how to be more successful and profitable publishers.

Text Link Ads

2006-04-09T10:51:00.000-07:00

Do you have webmaster traffic or bloggers visiting your site? Join the Text Link Ads Affiliate Program and profit from traffic to your site that either buys or sells text links. Text Link Ads are very popular for both building traffic (ad buyers) and selling ad space to generate extra revenue (publishers). Many advertising related affiliate programs pay you commission for either buyers or new publishers - we pay you for both! You can earn $25 for either buyers or approved publishers of Text Link Ads. Compare that to the commission rate offered by other programs. Here’s your opportunity to make money offering advertising solutions that appeal to a wide variety of web site visitors.
Text Link Ads Affiliate Program Highlights

Earn $25 for Text Link Ads buyers and approved Publishers
60 day cookies - get the credit you deserve
No 800# phone leaks - our phone number is for support only, no orders are taken by phone
Dedicated, professional affiliate program support

Text Link Ads is a well known company and a name you can trust! The 1st thing to do in order to start earning with our program, is sign up - then get those text links or banner ads up today.

More info here

AdSense Placement on Homepage

2006-04-05T00:30:00.000-07:00

How important is the placement of AdSense on the front page? The welcome page, the intro, the first impression? Is it worth it, to potentially lose a customer/visitor to an advertisement or worst a competitor? Is it worth it to give your visitor the impression that you have the intent of making money off of them? While some visitors might not actually think this, in the world that we live in, the first impressions often makes the biggest impact.

I been pondering this for a while, since using AdSense. Is the potential earnings, worth the lost of a potential visitor?

Two weeks ago, I put a few ad units on the front page of one of my web sites. After a full day of running the ad units I checked the stats, and notice that the earnings covered 1/2 to 2/3 of what that web site usually makes on a daily basis! I've never put any ads on the front page before, but this was astonishing to see! Even more amazing is the fact that the earnings and CTR for my overall account has doubled, while the ads on the front page continues to maintained it's consistency. Taking stats from my channels, I was able to see that the CTR for the ads on the home page was 5 times that of the ads being displayed by the rest of the site.

Of course this could be base on the type of web site and the placement however I have tested this out on another web site. While it did not yield the same results, the CTR was fairly high as well. Again this depends on the the type and placement.

Now, the question is the lost of visitors. Do the visitors come back or press the back button after seeing the advertisement? I have no idea and don't think there is a way to find out. However, checking your traffic stats might yield some answers. If you know how to look and compare your stats, you could probably find the answers. My findings reported that I either lost a tiny bit, or none at all. When I compare the pageviews-to-unique, to other days before placing the ad units on the home page, compared with now they are pretty much even. Which means I'm not losing any visitors.

All in all, in my experience placing ads on the home page, can bring in a lot more than what other pages within your web site can make. It's all an experiment right now and I believe any one who wants to try to optimize and place ads on their home page should do so.

http://www.adtalks.com/reviews/adsense_placement_on_home_page/

BigDaddy news

2006-03-23T05:48:00.000-08:00

Bigdaddy status update: almost there

We’re down to just 1-2 data centers left in the switchover to Bigdaddy. It’s possible that the Bigdaddy switchover will be complete in the next week or two. Just as a reminder, Bigdaddy is a software upgrade to Google’s infrastructure that provides the framework for a lot of improvements to core search quality in the coming months (smarter redirect handling, improved canonicalization, etc.). A team of dedicated people has worked very hard on this change; props to them for the code, sweat, and hours they’ve put into it.

Gone Supplemental

Some site owners over at WebmasterWorld have been discussing an issue where on Bigdaddy data centers, the site wouldn’t be crawled as much in the main index. That would result in Google showing more pages from the supplemental results for that site. GoogleGuy requested feedback with concrete details, and several people responded with enough details that we identified and changed a threshold in Bigdaddy to crawl more pages from those sites.

I checked in that email queue tonight to see how the “gonesupplemental” feedback looked. I looked at an emergency responder site, a truck site, a ticket site, a karate site, a silver site, a T-shirt site, a site about memory, a site selling a type of document, a boating site, and a jewelry site. All were getting more pages crawled, and I expect over time that we’ll crawl more pages from these sites and similar sites that people mentioned. The biggest site that I saw had 711K pages reported, and I saw other sites with 40,400 estimated pages and 52,700estimated pages for a site: search.

So the upshot is that if you’re one of these people who was paying attention to this issue, I think it has already improved quite a bit, and I would expect to see more pages indexed in the coming week or two. Some sites may see improvements earlier than others because of where a site happens to be in Google’s crawl cycle.

Number of channels increased on YPN

2006-03-23T05:07:00.000-08:00

Yahoo! Publisher Network made some changes last night during their Friday night maintenance downtime.

First, the number of channels has been increased from 50 to 100 for each of the reporting URLs and reporting categories.

They have also made it possible to remove ad style palettes as well as rename them. This will be great, as I will finally be able to remove one of the two channels I inadvertantly named JenSense back before YPN was in public beta.

There are also some cosmetic changes that avid YPN stat checkers should notice immediately.

Tags: YPN, Yahoo Publisher

Keywords

2006-03-07T03:53:00.000-08:00

As you might imagine, good search engine optimization (SEO) techniques are extremely important for the single-page site. The page must target a specific keyword, ideally as narrow a niche as you can make it. Make sure you do all the standard SEO tricks:

* keyword in domain
* keyword in title
* keyword in heading
* keyword in bold
* keyword used near the top and bottom of the page

Check the keyword density of the page (important: do this before you place any ads on it) and make sure the focus is on the right keyword.

Getting the keyword in the domain name may be hard. You may find it simpler to use a subdomain associated with a domain you already own, since then you can name the subdomain whatever you want.

memwg

Firefox made $72M last year

2006-03-06T11:09:00.000-08:00

The best piece of information I got out of BarCampLA was that Firefox, which is produced by the for-profit Mozilla Corporation, made $72M last year and is on target to have 120 employees this year. I have no idea if this is true (anyone?), but it makes sense. I mean, there have to be 72M people using Firefox out there, and making $1 a year seems low to me! Mark Pincus brought this topic up recently.

Mozilla Corporation makes all that money because of the Google Search box on the top right. If you search with that box (which I do all day long) and you click on the Google ads on the results page Firefox gets ~80% of that. They also have Amazon in the search box, and other services that I'm sure kick them back some affiliate fees.

calacanis

google search adsense, mozilla firefox

Buying text links

2006-03-04T02:16:00.000-08:00

I've recently considered buying some links to my web site and have some thoughts on what the best approach is. I'll outline them here briefly and would be interested in hearing what you all think about these assumptions/guidelines.

1) Buying from a link broker is fine, but it is important to be aware of several things, including:

a) Link brokers are, ultimately, interested in selling as many links as possible - listen to what they have to say about what works, but take it with a grain of salt as well.

b) When PR increases, they'll likely be quick to point out the "new higher rates" for your links...but when PR falls, it's unlikely that you'll be contacted about your decreased monthly rates. You have to watch this for yourself.

c) They'll have plenty of links that are in unrelated categories or just on questionable sites. Choose how much you want to "walk the line" with linking. If you want a blast of links to quickly get to the top of the rankings in MSN and Yahoo!, you may have to buy on questionable sites. If you want to be more careful or "whitehat", choose relevance and be patient in waiting for the right opportunities.

2) Buy links on relevant sites - this conflicts with the options I've listed above, but in my case, I wish to only buy links that are from relevant sites with legitimate content. If the site appears to be fodder only for eyeballs and adsense clicks, I'll avoid it. But if it's related, or in an ancillary area of service (mine is a service business), I'll go with it. "Related" is grey area sometimes, but I have decided always to err on the side of caution.

3) Watch the IPs where the links are coming from. If you can't easily access a list of the IPs, it may be best to avoid that broker. You should at least be able to see IPs after you've signed up for an account and all links should be on different "Class C" IPs (e.g. - aaa.bbb.CCC.ddd).

4) Don't view a link from a PR 8-10 site as a magic tool to vault you to the top of the rankings. It likely won't happen, though in the long run it should have beneficial effects on your PR (in Google) and, more importantly, rankings and traffic.

5) Mix up your anchor text, using multiple phrases or words that are relevant and for which you'd like to rank well. Blasting many links using one set of anchor text may get you to the top in Yahoo! or MSN in the short run, and maybe even Google, but Google will likely "dislike" this as it doesn't appear to be "natural" linking. The current index update should be evidence enough of the strange things that can happen with the mother of all search engines.

6) Try to buy links that will actually deliver traffic by themselves. This may seem elementary, but with the clamor about buying links merely to increase PR or gain top 10 rankings, what is often overlooked is the traffic that can actually be delivered from links on relevant, high-traffic pages.

Canton , DP Forums

Staffing Agency - IT Staffing

Upcoming adCenter Traffic Increase

2006-02-28T00:03:00.000-08:00

Good news from adCenter pilot world - we're ready to increase traffic to adCenter campaigns. We've reached an important milestone with our most recent upgrade and, by popular request from our advertisers, we'll be increasing traffic by approximately 70% from our current levels.

"Advertisers should see a significant and delectable increase in traffic," according to Jed Nahum, Director, adCenter Product Management.

For those of you who are pilot advertisers, this means that your budget may be impacted due to the increase. Also, as more traffic is directed to adCenter, you should expect a decrease in traffic from your Yahoo! Search campaigns. As we move toward launch, I'll continue to post here about the size and timing of additional traffic increases.

The current traffic increase is scheduled to begin on Monday February 27th. Pilot advertisers should begin to see an impact on Tuesday February 28th, however, it may take several days to perform the increase.

Revenue for webmasters

New adcenter blog

ISO to UTF-8 Tutorial

2005-12-26T10:24:00.000-08:00

Searching the web for a problem I face on a greek site about encoding, I found a very useful PHP class which changes the charset of a variable.

First of you all you have to download the class from here:
http://mikolajj.republika.pl/files/ConvertCharset/ConvertCharset_v1.0.zip .

Secondly, unzip the file and upload to your /www/ folder the ConvertTables dir and the ConvertCharset.class.php .

Open your php script you want to change the encoding.
Add to the line #1 the next code:

ob_start();
include("ConvertCharset.class.php");
?>

Then, go to the last line of your script and add:

$contents = ob_get_contents(); // store buffer in $contents
ob_end_clean(); // delete output buffer and stop buffering
$FromCharset = "iso-8859-7";
$ToCharset = "utf-8";
$text = new ConvertCharset();
$contents= $text ->Convert($contents, $FromCharset, $ToCharset);
echo "$contents";
?>

Don't forget to change the meta tag charset to UTF-8 to work properly.

Here is the list charsets you can operate with. The main requirement is that a character has to be in both character sets, otherwise it will return an error.

WINDOWS
windows-1250 - Central Europe
windows-1251 - Cyrillic
windows-1252 - Latin I
windows-1253 - Greek
windows-1254 - Turkish
windows-1255 - Hebrew
windows-1256 - Arabic
windows-1257 - Baltic
windows-1258 - Viet Nam
cp874 - Thai - this file is also for DOS

DOS
cp437 - Latin US
cp737 - Greek
cp775 - BaltRim
cp850 - Latin1
cp852 - Latin2
cp855 - Cyrylic
cp857 - Turkish
cp860 - Portuguese
cp861 - Iceland
cp862 - Hebrew
cp863 - Canada
cp864 - Arabic
cp865 - Nordic
cp866 - Cyrylic Russian (this is the one, used in IE "Cyrillic (DOS)" )
cp869 - Greek2

MAC (Apple)
x-mac-cyrillic
x-mac-greek
x-mac-icelandic
x-mac-ce
x-mac-roman

ISO (Unix/Linux)
iso-8859-1
iso-8859-2
iso-8859-3
iso-8859-4
iso-8859-5
iso-8859-6
iso-8859-7
iso-8859-8
iso-8859-9
iso-8859-10
iso-8859-11
iso-8859-12
iso-8859-13
iso-8859-14
iso-8859-15
iso-8859-16

MISCELLANEOUS
gsm0338 (ETSI GSM 03.38)
cp037
cp424
cp500
cp856
cp875
cp1006
cp1026
koi8-r (Cyrillic)
koi8-u (Cyrillic Ukrainian)
nextstep
us-ascii
us-ascii-quotes

DSP implementation for NeXT
stdenc
symbol
zdingbat

Good Luck

Kanoodle Pays for Cookie Distribution

2005-12-19T12:14:00.000-08:00

In a twist on the ad network concept, Kanoodle has launched a program that will pay publishers to distribute Kanoodle's targeting cookies, whether they show Kanoodle ads on their site or not.

The BrightAds Cookies program aims to increase the relevance of the company's behaviorally targeted ads. By increasing the data it collects on viewers of its ads that visit publishers outside its own network, Kanoodle can target more relevant ads to those users when they visit a site that serves Kanoodle's BehaviorTarget ads.

"By distributing more cookies across our network, Kanoodle is better able to fulfill the promise of behavior targeting -- offering advertisers highly-targeted leads and serving the most relevant ads to consumers," said Doug Perlson, chief operating officer of Kanoodle.

When someone visits a site in Kanoodle's network, they download a cookie that assigns them to a behavioral segment based on that site's content. Behavioral segments match up with Kanoodle's 7,500 contextual ad categories

When that same user subsequently visits a site that serves Kanoodle's BehaviorTarget ads, Kanoodle can target ads to that user based on their past Web behavior, using the anonymous user profile stored in the cookie.

Publishers in the program will be paid five percent of the revenue earned when an ad served in Kanoodle's BehaviorTarget network is triggered by the cookie from that publisher's site. If more than one BehaviorTarget cookie is present, the most recent one is given precedence.

Kanoodle expects the program to be particularly attractive to small niche publishers with a targeted audience but limited pageviews, Perlson said. Since publishers do not have to serve Kanoodle's ads to participate, he also expects the program to appeal to sites with existing ad serving relationships, or to e-commerce sites that are wary of showing ads on their site that might distract users from completing a sale.

BrightAds Cookies uses controversial third-party cookies, which face a larger risk of deletion by users and anti-spyware vendors, according to analysts. The cookies Kanoodle uses expire after 30 days and are not used to collect any personally-identifiable information.

"Cookies are crucial to the success of Internet advertising. In general, there's nothing wrong with cookies," Perlson said. "Cookies have been, and will continue to be, an important factor in the availability of free, quality content on the Internet."

The company had explored a partnership with 24/7 Real Media in May 2004 to use its Insight XE analytics platform for behavioral targeting, but never launched a product using that technology, Perlson said.

clickz

PageRank … Yes, it Does Still Matter!

2005-12-19T12:12:00.000-08:00

It’s amazing how many people speak with such authority about how PageRank is now meangingless. PageRank - the little green bar score that Google gives to sites which, in a nutshell, is a measure of how “important” a page is based on which pages are linking to it - is still a very valuable indicator for SEO and link building. I’m not going to go into the detailed original definition of PageRank and how it works but if you don’t know the original basics, it’s an absolute must read.

Now, why are so many (seemingly SEO literate) people adamant that PageRank is now a worthless indicator of the strength of a page? Because with so many people becoming educated about the meaning of PageRank, and the general hierarchical voting system of links between pages on the internet, all the major search engines have had to counter the PageRank manipulators. And it’s no surprise that Google is leading the way.

What we have today is Google working very hard to identify and discount links that it deems less credible. Noone knows for sure exactly how it does this, but there are several good theories out there. I don’t claim to be the genious that has developed any of these theories .. they’re all out there on all the popular boards, but finding them through the dense postings of absolute crap can be a challenege.

more: Nitin Malhotra

PageRank and Pixel Envy

Buying links? Then you should check these:

2005-12-03T03:52:00.000-08:00

1) Placement of link
2) Traffic (visitors & pages)
3) Google Pagerank
4) Number of outbound links
5) Relevancy
6) Design

Promote your blog

2005-12-02T04:06:00.000-08:00

For the Content

Updated daily
Good content, keeping focus on the blog primary subject!
Medium lenght content (not short, not large. Posts that are easy to read)
A weekly diggest
Create a "sense of community" with my commenters
Create podcasts for the blog

Having it linked

Comments on forums, trying to add more value to the discussions.
Comments on blogs (idem forums)
Write papers for the users
Making a contest with the returning visitors, (win an Ipod every month)
Posting on newsgroups
Signature on my emails, forum posts, blog comments and newsgroups.

by Javier Cabrera
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=321370

eMiniMalls UK is now live!

2005-11-28T12:01:00.000-08:00

Geo-targeting is on, so visitors from UK can now expect to see merchandising offers from UK merchants, while visitors from US will continue to see US offers and promotions.

Next stop Paris. We are ready with offers and promotions feeds from several other European countries. Over the next week we will be expanding the service to the following countries: France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, and Netherlands.

chitika blog!

Music Directory

2005-11-28T06:30:00.000-08:00

I create a music niche directory and I want to share it with you.

Music Directory

I'm offering 3 different ways to get listed on my dir.

featured link
price: 6.99$
max: 5 per category

regural link
price: 4.99$
max: 20 per page

recip link
price: 2.99$
max: 20 per page