I just received an email from Peter Gavin of Text-Link-Ads.com (TLA) notifying that my site (not this one) has been pre-approved at the newly launched Reviewme.com.
The email message goes like this: » Read more: ReviewMe: Write Reviews and Get Paid
Archive for November, 2006
ReviewMe: Write Reviews and Get Paid
November 11th, 2006AdWords Advertiser? You Better Have a “Quality” Landing Page!
November 10th, 2006
If you’re an AdWords advertiser, there’s an important update that you need to know:Â
Google will begin incorporating landing page quality into the Quality Score for your contextually-targeted ads.Â
» Read more: AdWords Advertiser? You Better Have a “Quality” Landing Page!
How to Increase Blog Search Engine Traffic by Porting to WordPress
November 7th, 2006Here’s a story of how Chris Pearson apparently increased his search engine traffic by 455% in just one month (from September to October).
He made two simple changes:
- He ported his blog from MovableType to WordPress
- He based his design code on the Cutline framework
» Read more: How to Increase Blog Search Engine Traffic by Porting to WordPress
How Much is a Text Link Worth?
November 5th, 2006How much should you be paying or charging per month for a text link ad on your website?
Here’s a list of link price calculators that you might want to try out:
- Text Link Ads Link Worth Calculator – Factors in Alexa traffic ranking, link popularity, site theme (see Ken Cheung’s post for comparison chart), links sold, single or site-wide placement, location on page
- SEO Tools – Link Price Calculator – Factors in backlinks, page rank, website traffic, etc.
- LinkVendor.com Link Value Calculator
Google AdSense in Password-Protected Areas?
November 4th, 2006At present, Google AdSense does not support ads in password-protected areas. There is hope however that this limitation or restriction would go away.
According to Dave Taylor, the AdSense team is testing out a new capability called Site Authentication. A colleague of his received this invitation from the AdSense team: » Read more: Google AdSense in Password-Protected Areas?
MySpace Bans Affiliate Marketing
November 2nd, 2006MySpace is coming down hard on members exploiting it for commercial purposes as highlighted in Allan Gardyne’s latest issue of his newsletter.
So, if you’re considering making money blogging on MySpace, you better now ditch that idea or rather, be very subtle about your marketing endeavor.
This will be bad news for affiliate marketers who had been successful at cashing in on the use of a huge social networking club like MySpace as a marketing platform.
It will also be bad news to the publishers and affiliates of products dealing with marketing on MySpace; these products are rendered irrelevant in an instant.
Easily Add Podcast to Your Blog and Drive Traffic!
November 2nd, 2006Podcasting is getting serious attention nowadays but relative to blogs, the podcast sphere is still relatively small by comparison. In a recent seminar that I attended, internet marketing guru Derek Gehl did point out that now is a good time to capitalize on the podcast space as it’s still pretty much a new frontier.
Recently, someone asked me about how I implemented the podcast feature that I have on this blog. If you have listened to any of my podcast, it’s not me who is in the podcast. 
» Read more: Easily Add Podcast to Your Blog and Drive Traffic!
AdSense for Audio On the Way?
November 1st, 2006Wow! Contextual advertising over podcast? Is this a rumor?
A little over month ago, Jennifer Slegg (a.k.a. JenSense) stumbled upon an interesting job posting in Google. The position advertised is for Strategic Partner Development Manager for AdSense for Audio.
Some digging revealed that AdSense for Audio was originally slated for Q3 release, but it’s apparently going through some delays.
