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Blog Carnival: Blogging: Forty- Eighth Edition

admin — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:35:54 +0000

This is the Forty- Eighth edition of the Blog Carnival: Blogging

twitterads presents Get Targeted Traffic To Blog With Twitter | How to Use Twitter and Get Money | Make People Follow You On Twitter posted at blogging tips. saying, See easy guide how to get targetted twitter followers. Easy step by step and you can make money of twitter or just have many people following you.
Marketing Ace presents You Can Be A Bum Marketing Success posted at Internet Marketing Ace.
Ian RIchardson presents New Technology, Turn Articles into Live Talking Videos in one click posted at Make Money Blogging. saying, Article marketing is being talked about a lot online, and many of us know how effective it can be in generating traffic. Now imagine being able to turn any article into a video as easy as 1 2 3!
Yonit Gruber-hazani presents SEO guides - the best i found on the net posted at yonitg.com. saying, While learning about SEO in the last few month, these were the tutorials and case studies I liked the most.
Debbie Foster presents Top 5 Reasons Your Website Doesn’t Make Money posted at Internet Income - The Journey.
Brian Maxwell presents Top 10 Online Business Opportunities To Make Money posted at Live Your Life With Prosperity and Success. saying, Discover the top 10 money making online businesses opportunities to earn extra cash during the current economic downturn. 10 Best online business opportunities
Brian Maxwell presents Home Based Business Opportunity ~ 3 Ways to Make Money Online posted at Live Your Life With Prosperity and Success. saying, Finding a profitable Home Based Business opportunity can be extremely difficult. Learn how to find the right home based business to make money online.
Steven Leung presents The Interaction Between Your Blog and Website posted at Integrated Marketing Experts. saying, Sometimes stakeholders in your organization don’t understand blogging or why the company should have one. This short introductory story highlights one such conversation.
Chris presents Creating a Blog posted at HostsandReviews.com. saying, Step by step instructions in a straight-forward manner about creating a blog. saying, Step by step instructions in a straight-forward manner about creating a blog.
Stephen Pierce presents 201 FREE Twitter Tools and Twitter Apps posted at DTAlpha TalkBack with Stephen Pierce. saying, This +100 page resource is jammed packed with 201 Twitter tools and Twitter Apps. Some known, some unknown… ALL incredible! ALL YOURS… FREE!
We Build your Blog presents WordPress Blog - More Recommended Plugins posted at We Build your Blog. saying, I don’t know exact numbers but some say there are more than 10 million users of the WordPress Blogging platform (and it grows by thousands everyday!).And to make Blogging as easy as possible with WordPress there are thousand of different plugins that you can download for free and install.
Steven Chang presents 10 Killer Blog Post Ideas posted at How To Start A Blog: For Fun And Profit!

How to add Bidvertiser ads in to Feedburner feeds?

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:20:54 +0000

Bidvertiser is a great PPC ads offering company. You can make some real money out of their ads. Now, they have introduced their ads for feeds. Here are the steps to add the Bidvertiser feed ads in to the Feedburner Feeds:

Login to your Bidvertiser account (if you don’t have, create one). Register your site by clicking on “Bidvertiser Center”. Now, we are all set for adding the ads. Look for:

Click on Click here to start!
Select the option “Add a new Feed that relates to a website that is already registered with BidVertiser”. Then, select your site under “My feed relates to:” and enter your “Feed URL” and “Feed Title”. Make sure you add your original feed URL and not the Feedburner one. If you are using wordpress the original feed depends on the permalink structure of your blog. For this site it is: http://thatsblog.com/feed After that click on “Next”.
Now, you have to verify your feed ownership. Create a new post in to your blog and put your Feed Verification code. It must be something like this: BDV-a number-BDV. Publish the post and click on “Verify”. After your feed is verified you can delete that post, there is no need for that now.
In the next step select the option “Feedburner” for “I need the Feed Widget for:”. Now login to your Feedburner account in another window. Select your feed and click on “Edit feed details” at the top. Then, again visit to the Bidvertiser account and take the code from Step 4 “Copy (CTRL+C) and Paste (CTRL+V) the following Feed address under Original Feed:”

and paste it into the “Original Feed” field of Feedburner.

Click on “Save Feed details”. Then, again go to the same Bidvertiser page and click on “Next”.
From Bidvertiser account page select your Feed and click on “Get Feed Widget”. Choose the type of blog you are using under “I need the Feed Widget for:”. For example: Wordpress. Download, install and activate the plugin. That’s it! You are done. You can now see the bidvertiser ads in your Feedburner feeds.

List of In Text Advertising PPC Networks

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:48:48 +0000

Here is a list of In Text Advertising PPC Networks:

Kontera: Kontera’s ContentLink In-Text Website Advertising Solution lets you monetize your content in real-time, enabling an incremental increase in ad revenue by providing a new source of untapped ad inventory. ContentLinks also enhances user experience by serving relevant and informational ads that match the user’s interest and frame of mind.
Infolinks: Infolinks presents the next generation of In-Text Advertising, leading the industry with the most relevant in-text advertising links and the highest revenue share - guaranteed.
Adbrite Inline ads: The Inline ads format allows you to display an ad only when a user scrolls over a given word—saving you a lot of space.
Snap: Snap will automatically take a portion of the advertising inventory in the shots on a given site and share them in one of two ways:
1. A site can market itself using text or graphics. This is an easy way for a site to promote specials, news, etc.
2. A site can donate the ad inventory to a beloved charity such as Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, etc.
Miva: Only MIVA MC gives you the option of including InLine Ads within your content, as well as next to it. Even if you already have Pay-Per-Click Ads on your web site, you can use InLine to deliver even more revenue. With InLine Ads, keywords within the actual content of your web pages are highlighted. InLine Ads are 100% user initiated - related Pay-Per-Click Ads appear when users mouse over these highlighted keywords.
Vibrant Media: Vibrant In-Text Advertising campaigns will increase your advertising revenue without adding more clutter, allowing you to expand advertising real estate with relevant in-text placements.
Chitika Linx: Chitika | Linx will automatically identify key products/keywords mentioned in the content on a website or blog and hyperlink (double underline) those keywords to interactive paid (CPC-based) product listings featuring best deals, offers and promotions from name brand merchants. When users mouse-over these links, a small bubble-like scroll over is revealed listing offers from merchants.

New Ad network by Technorati: Engage

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:21:01 +0000

Technorati has launched new ad network known as Technorati Engage. You have to sign up for a publisher account and you decide how much you want to charge per week. If there is a situation where you have “unsold space,” meaning there aren’t enough paid advertisements to fill your ad box, Targeted CPC (RON) ads will appear. Targeted CPC (RON) ads are run of network ads that are served only to online visitors within a specific geographic region and/or site category. For example, if the advertiser limits the Targeted CPC (RON) ad to only “Business and Finance” blogs in the U.S. and Canada, the ad will only be seen by visitors from those regions on blogs within that category. You are paid per click for Targeted Cost per Click ads on your blog. The amount you earn for each click depends on where the click occurred.

They have introduced an ad format known as the PhoText Ads. A PhoText ad is a selected image or picture that is displayed with a headline of up to 25 characters of text including spaces and a description of 65 characters. They say that the PhoText ads tend to have a higher Click Through Ratio than plain text ads.

I have joined this network quite some time back. However, there haven’t been any sales yet. It’s a new network and will take some time to settle down.

Some common abbreviations used in online advertising

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:56:00 +0000

Here are some common short forms used in web advertising:

CPC: Cost per click: It is the amount of money an advertiser pays search engines and other Internet publishers for a single click on its advertisement that brings one visitor to its website.
eCPC: Effective cost per click: The effective cost per click is the effective cost of each click after other revenues and expenses are factored in.
PPC: Pay Per Click: It is an Internet advertising model used on search engines, advertising networks, and content sites, such as blogs, in which advertisers pay their host only when their ad is clicked. With search engines, advertisers typically bid on keyword phrases relevant to their target market. Content sites commonly charge a fixed price per click rather than use a bidding system.
CPM: Cost per mille: (in Latin mille means thousand), can be purchased on the basis of what it costs to show the ad to one thousand viewers (CPM). It is used in marketing as a benchmark to calculate the relative cost of an advertising campaign or an ad message in a given medium. Rather than an absolute cost, CPM estimates the cost per 1000 views of the ad.
CPT: Cost per thousand: same as CPM
eCPM: Effective cost per mille: It is used to measure the effectiveness of a publisher’s inventory being sold (by the publisher) via a CPA, CPC, or CPT basis. In other words, the eCPM tells the publisher what they would have received if they sold the advertising inventory on a CPM basis (instead of a CPA, CPC, or CPT basis).
CPA: Cost Per Action: It is an online advertising pricing model, where the advertiser pays for each specified action (a purchase, a form submission, and so on) linked to the advertisement.
CPA: Cost Per Acquisition: It has to do with the fact that most CPA offers by advertisers are about acquiring something (typically new customers by making sales). Using the term “Cost Per Acquisition” instead of “Cost Per Action” is not incorrect. It is actually more specific. “Cost Per Acquisition” is included in “Cost Per Action”, but not all “Cost Per Action” offers can be referred to as “Cost Per Acquisition”.
eCPA: Effective Cost Per Action: It is used to measure the effectiveness of advertising inventory purchased (by the advertiser) via a CPC, CPI, or CPT basis. In other words, the eCPA tells the advertiser what they would have paid if they purchased the advertising inventory on a Cost Per Action basis (instead of a Cost Per Click, Cost Per Impression, or Cost Per Time basis).
PPA: Pay Per Action: same as CPA
CPI: Cost per impression: It is a phrase often used in online advertising and marketing related to web traffic. It is used for measuring the worth and cost of a specific e-marketing campaign. This technique is applied with web banners, text links, e-mail spam, and opt-in e-mail advertising, although opt-in e-mail advertising is more commonly charged on a cost per action (CPA) basis.
CTR: Click-through rate: It is a way of measuring the success of an online advertising campaign. A CTR is obtained by dividing the number of users who clicked on an ad on a web page by the number of times the ad was delivered (impressions). For example, if a banner ad was delivered 100 times (impressions delivered) and one person clicked on it (clicks recorded), then the resulting CTR would be 1 percent.
CPL: Cost Per Lead: In CPL campaigns, advertisers pay for an interested lead i.e. the contact information of a person interested in the advertiser’s product or service. CPL campaigns are suitable for brand marketers and direct response marketers looking to engage consumers at multiple touchpoints - by building a newsletter list, community site, reward program or member acquisition program.
CPV: Cost Per Visitor: Itis where advertisers pay for the delivery of a Targeted Visitor to the advertisers website.
CPV: Cost per View: in the case of Pop Ups and Unders
CPO: Cost Per Order: This type of dvertising is based on each time an order is transacted.
CPE: Cost Per Engagement: It is a form of Cost Per Action pricing first introduced in March 2008. Differing from cost-per-impression or cost-per-click models, a CPE model means advertising impressions are free and advertisers pay only when a user engages with their specific ad unit. Engagement is defined as a user interacting with an ad in any number of ways.