1. What is your primary business model?
2. Do you make transfers as easy as the rules allow?
3. Do you allow for easy locking/unlocking?
4. Do you make it easy to opt-out of auto-renewals?
5. Do you tie domains to your services?
6. Do you offer Whois privacy? What are your privacy policies in general?
7. What are your policies on compliance issues like litigation, ownership disputes and WDRP?
8. How easy is it to contact you?
9. What happens when my domain expires?
10. Are you a registrar or reseller?

By getting answers to these questions before switching registrar, you’re likely to save yourself a headache at the very least, if not some money.

The entire article is definitely worth reading.

A key feature they [Adbrite] have launched is the ability to allow publishers to stay with their current network, and change to Adbrite ads only if they’ll make more from those ads. So a publisher can show Google ads most of the time, and Adbrite will switch their own ads in only if they’ve sold inventory that pay over a publisher-set CPM level.

Couple that with the option to use text link ads, banner ads, and full-page ads (”interstitials”), and you got yourself a very nice advertising platform for publishers and advertisers alike.

If you are on the advertiser side, you can now rely on features such as highly specific demographic targeting, which appears to be on par with the MSN adCenter platform. MSN adCenter has gone to great lengths to provide fine-grained geographic and demographic targeting.

Nonetheless, the accuracy of almost any demographic targeting that suggests that it can pinpoint income levels, gender, etc. is probably rather low, especially considering that home networks and computers are often shared between parents and their children, as just one example. But, nonetheless, it is great to see that Adbrite is embracing an improvement and expansion of their offerings; it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Marziah Karch at About has a nice article on some of the essential things that you want to avoid, unless your goal is to be “banned” from search engines. She focuses on Google in particular, but many of her tips are applicable to almost all search engines, including Yahoo, MSN, etc.

The top 10 things to avoid can be summarized as:

1. Cloaking
2. Duplicate Content
3. Have a Robot Write Your Web Site
4. Add Keywords that Don’t Relate to Your Content
5. Link to Bad Neighborhoods
6. Hide Text
7. Title Stacking
8. Distribute Viruses, Trojans, or Other Badware
9. Doorway Pages
10. Automated Inquiries

The bottom-line comes down to producing valuable content for your visitors. There are several recent examples of this in the blogsphere. The first being John Chow’s blog. He started his blog earlier this year, and just in the month of October, 2006, his blogging income was $1,361.64 based on Google AdSense and Vibrant Media IntelliTXT alone. [:on | smalltalk] is another site (also a blog) that demonstrates the traffic-driving power of valuable content. Within just a few months, the author has been able to gain 23167 visitors (October, 2006 statistics).

Related Posts:

• Getting on Digg’s Front Page
• 5 Tips to Make Your Blog More Popular
• Top AdSense Earners

Fortunately, however, a 2.0 compatible version can be found here. To avoid conflicts with the (new) built-in session manager that ships with Firefox 2.0, you may want to disable it.

The built-in session manager can be quickly disabled by typing about:config in the address bar and then modifying the key “browser.sessionstore.enabled” to “false”.

In fact, in certain instances, you may be able to combine contextual advertising like that of Google AdSense with other money-making solutions. But, be sure to review each outlet’s policies on mixing contextual ads of different advertising outlets, as there may be restrictions in some cases.

The top money makers that SEO Moola recommends include primarily contextual advertising, direct ad sales, as well as affiliate and referral programs. Together these basic revenue streams can help you increase and maintain a strong and steady cash flow month after month.

This is the first part of a SEO Moola several articles that will cover key cash generating techniques for content publishers.

Text Links Ads

Text Links Ads works slightly different than the common contextual ad model. By categorizing your site and associating keywords with it, you can sell ad positions for your site to advertisers. Depending on a variety of factors regarding your site including your Alex ranking, the selling price will vary.

They also have a new, interesting feature that integrates ads into your feeds. You need to use Wordpress 2.0+ for this feature, however.

Text Links Ads offers an affiliate program in addition to their traditional ads. It’s a really nice program, as they give you $25 for every person that signs up through your referral. It can be a great way of adding some extra cash in your pocket, especially if your site targets other bloggers or advertisers.

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is one of the pioneers in the contextual ads industry. As SEO Moola covered recently, there are people out there, who make upwards of $300,000 a month using Google AdSense. Google AdSense is simple to get started with and gives you a flexible, revenue-generating way of publishing relevant (text, image, or video) ads on your site.

Google also has a pretty good referral program for five of its services: Google AdSense, Google AdWords, Firefox plus Google Toolbar, Google Pack, and Picasa. The referral earnings vary, so you’re best off reading the Google help to learn more about them. If you haven’t signed up for Google AdSense, you can do so by clicking on the button below.

Adbrite

Adbrite offers a similar system to that of Text Links Ads.

Adbrite also offers a referral program, which is quite generous, especially if you manage to attract high-spend advertisers or top revenue generating publishers. Basically, you earn a percentage of the buying or selling activity that the referred Adbrite customer (publisher or advertiser) generates over a period of time. More specifically,

• 50% of AdBrite’s profits for the first 3 months
• 10% of AdBrite’s profit for the next 9 months

This can quickly add up if you have good referrals. In fact, if you share your SEO and SEM knowledge with your readers on your blog, your readers will most likely be able to be more effective with their publishing sites, and consequently you make more money–provided that you referred them, of course.

I really like Adbrite, and I recommend that you give them a try.

Kontera

An interesting solution called ContentLink which embeds ads dynamically into your existing textual content is offered by Kontera. SEO Moola’s keyword news pages currently use Kontera’s technology. If you wish to control where Kontera’s ads appear in your site, you can easily do so by defining special div elements, otherwise Kontera will seek out to add ads, where relevant, throughout your pages.

Unfortunately, Kontera does not appear to offer a referral program at the time of the writing of this post.

I’ve added these top money makers to the SEO Moola top money makers page. In Part 2 of the Top Money Makers series, we will take a closer look at referral programs.

Related SEO Moola Posts

• Top AdSense Earners

After installing the extension, your Google search results will be enabled with additional SEO data such as page rank, Alexa ranking, and inbound link counts for del.icio.us, Yahoo, and dmoz among many others. The following image shows a sample result after searching on “seo moola” in Google.

But, the extension doesn’t stop there.

It also adds useful links underneath your Google and Yahoo search input field. After searching on a term, you can click on these links to get additional SEO information from interesting sources such as:

• Google Trends
• SEO Book Keyword Research Tool
• Yahoo!’s Top Bid Prices for Keywords
• Google Traffic Estimator
• Google Keyword Sandbox

I highly recommend giving the SEO Firefox Plugin a try, as it may save you some time and money as you refine and improve your search engine optimization strategies.

For other SEO and non-SEO related Firefox extensions that I personally find very useful, I’ve created a dedicated page for you that contains a list of these extensions.

In summary, he suggests that you follow the below simple steps to get the attention of digg readers:

1. Make A List or Tutorial Headline
2. Write about Digg
3. Appeal to the Apple fanboys
4. Doom and Gloom about how Global Warming will destroy us all
5. Write about how great Firefox is
6. Remember: Walmart, George Bush, and Fox News have NEVER done ANYTHING right
7. Repeat after me: “Microsoft sucks, Microsoft Sucks, Microsoft Sucks”
8. Make up outrageous statistics that you have not researched
9. Insult as many groups as you can
10. Include the world’s slowest loading Plugin

The full article is a must read : )

Besides the fun factor in knowing what people around the world are looking for, it can help you understand current search engine trends and thereby perhaps give ideas on what type of content you may want to blog about. In fact, to save you some time, I’ve included real-time news updates associated with each popular keyword.

Today, for example, the most popular keyword on Google is elin nordegren (Tiger Wood’s Swedish wife). Users using Yahoo, however, seem to be mostly interested in Jessica Simpson today.

I hope you find this information useful. If you have suggestions on other SEO information that you think would be beneficial to you, please write to me with your ideas. Be sure to check back for continuously updated SEO information at your finger tips, including the highest paying keywords on the web. Better yet, why not take this as an opportunity to subscribe to the SEO Moola RSS feed.

John Chow has a great article on some of these top AdSense earners, including Markus Frind of PlentyOfFish.com, who makes an amazing $300,000/month. Kevin Rose of digg.com makes $250,000/month–and the list goes on.

If you’re ready to sign up for Google AdSense and start making some moola, it’s not too late, nor will it cost you a dime. The sky is the limit.