AdGridWork: free advertising
While I was writing Free traffic for your blog I discovered another source of free traffic through free advertising, AdGridWork. Since they promise a lot of traffic, I wanted to give it a shot. Let’s see what it’s all about.
How it works?
The registration is free. You will configure a text banner (which is very easy) and it will be displayed on other sites/blogs from AdGridWork network. All you have to do to configure your ad is to complete a form with your site/blog/product details.
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Private Ads Selling: Myth Or Reality?
We’ve got a couple of questions from people wanting to know how to draw advertisers to their blogs. I suppose this question was born from reading some “advice” on high traffic blogs, that the best revenue stream for a blog is private ads selling.
Let’s put it the other way around: let’s suppose you are an advertiser: you run your own business and you want to advertise it. You agree to reinvest part of your profits back into advertising every month. This could mean that you eat less, you drink less, you don’t go to Maldives on vacation, with the sole purpose of putting that money in advertising your business.
Now think: given what I’ve just told you, would you agree to buy an ad box in my sidebar? Would you pay me $30 a month for it?
Your next question: “what are my benefits of advertising in your sidebar?” (please argue this if you think it’s wrong)
Me: well, you get all my 10000 readers per month looking at your ad, clicking on your ad and buying your product.
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Your March Earnings From Our Blogging
What does a blogger who writes about making money online do in the first day of every month?
Of course, he publishes his earnings from the previous month, so the readers see how much money he made. And most of the time, these are really hilarious. To be proud that you made $20 from AdSense last month, and in the same time to teach people how to make money from AdSense is something beyond common sense and understanding. Being remarkable and being remembered is not about trying to be what you are not, but rather about being yourself and stepping out of the crowd through the things you are and you do.
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How To Make A Sitewide Disclosure Policy
If you decided to make money online with the paid to post model, then you need to know that more and more, the advertisers require a sitewide disclosure policy, rather than an in-post disclosure. That’s because also advertisers are afraid of being caught by Google that they buy links, and get de-indexed. And this is true: if Google catches either you or the advertiser doing these paid reviews, your site will lose the PR and eventually it will end up de-indexed, so it won’t show in the search results not even for it’s own name.
However, if you still want to make some money by writing paid posts, you’ll have to add a disclosure policy page to your blog. This is one way of getting it done quickly:
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All You Need Is Links
Do you remember that song of The Beatles, “All You Need Is Love”?
If we were to re-write a version for the internet, it would sound like this: All you need is links… links is all you need!
Let me tell you this story: before going into internet marketing, I used to have a brick and mortar business. By the time I started it, I thought it’s going to be cool, but pretty soon after it turned profitable I realized I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life doing that kind of business. So, one day I stepped out, with enough money in my account as to secure a decent living for about two years.
Thinking at the future, I started to search for niches, to start something else. Doesn’t it sound very well like finding online niches and building websites to target them?
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