Procaster.com is a easy to use live broadcasting software created by the live streaming service Mogulus that only requires you to have a computer in order to create a live broadcast from your desktop to your website or channel on Mogulus.
To be honest Kontera was never my first choice when it came to In-Text Ads, but after Vibrant Media turned me down there wasn’t any other company other than Kontera that look promising. I signed up with Kontera late 2007 and I added it to my music site Hip Hop Music Dot Com, It was up and running for about 2 months but then I ended up changing my theme and forgot to place the code back on my site, which was probably due to the earnings not being very impressive.
If your an Affiliate or Pay-Per-Click marketer then there are a few things that you face on a daily basis, which include logging into each ppc engine or affiliate network one at a time, attempting to combine excel sheets into one in order to compare stats, spending hours trying to find flaws in your campaign and making calculated guesses as to where you should maximize and minimize your marketing efforts. Getting these tasks done requires the use of multiple tools and software.
I know right now everyone is crazy about Twitter including my self but on my music site Music Video Cast , Twitter doesn't drive any traffic to that site at all. This might be due to the fact that I haven't incorporated Twitter into the marketing efforts for Music Video Cast. None the less one of the largest traffic sources to that site is Wikipedia. I've been experimenting with Wikipedia for over a year now and I've pretty much figured out what works and what doesn't.
They are so many people out there that just don't like Twitter for different reasons, some may argue that they don't feel the need to let everyone know every single mundane activity there performing. Others will say it's too simple and something like that won't last very long. When the truth is that the power is in it's simplicity, 90 percent of the world prefer things to be simple this is why Twitter works and why it's growing at such a fast rate.
The other day my earnings for my hip hop music blog (HipHopMusicDotCom.com) doubled, the funny thing is the traffic remained the same there was no spike and the amount of clicks I received wasn't any different from any other day, so what changed? I've learned that the earnings you make from Google Ads depend on the quality and the amount of ad inventory Google has at any particular moment in time and not on the amount of clicks your ads receive.
When building an online store, they are a few things that you will need in order to run your online business efficiently. You will need a easy way to collect payments online with different options such as credit card, check, money order etc. The ability to automatically calculate shipping and tax information for various states and carriers such as FedEx and UPS. An easy way to mange your customers, inventory and orders as well as keeping track of your profit and expenses.
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I’m Sorry but Kontera Sucks, Don’t Even Waste Your Time.
June 3rd, 2009 • 2 comments • Filed Under
To be honest Kontera was never my first choice when it came to In-Text Ads, but after Vibrant Media turned me down there wasn’t any other company other than Kontera that look promising. I signed up with Kontera late 2007 and I added it to my music site Hip Hop Music Dot Com, It was up and running for about 2 months but then I ended up changing my theme and forgot to place the code back on my site, which was probably due to the earnings not being very impressive.
9 months into 2008 Kontera contacts me talking about joining there program unaware that I was already affiliated with them. I told them I already tried the program and the results were less than mediocre. They told me that there ad inventory had grown drastically since the previous year and that they had a special promotion going on. I decided to give them a shot to see what was up and I must admit the ads were most certainly performing better than before. I was averaging about 300 clicks daily and that’s along side my Google Adsense earnings which were not affected, From October going into December of 2008 the earnings were really good and started to think well maybe Kontera could become a long term income stream.
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May 28th, 2009 • 3 comments • Filed Under
When building an online store, they are a few things that you will need in order to run your online business efficiently. You will need a easy way to collect payments online with different options such as credit card, check, money order etc.
The ability to automatically calculate shipping and tax information for various states and carriers such as FedEx and UPS. An easy way to mange your customers, inventory and orders as well as keeping track of your profit and expenses.
To achieve all this you would need a variety of tools and services that could possibly cost you thousands of dollars, and you haven’t even gotten to marketing and promoting your business. These are the obstacles that ecommerce business owners face and the reason why 90 percent of them fail within there first year. This dilemma created a demand for more efficient, less time consuming and a more cost effective ways of getting and online store up and running.
ProStores is one of the the few tools that has attempted to solve this a problem and has succeeded at doing so. ProStores an eBay company is a all in one online store solution that combines all the fundamental tools required to operate an online store and then kicks it into overdrive by offering many more features and add-ons that makes running a online store as simple as writing a email.
So what’s some of the benefits of using a solution like ProStores?
StatsJunky.com – The Ultimate Affiliate Marketing Tool
May 27th, 2009 • 1 comment • Filed Under
If your an Affiliate or Pay-Per-Click marketer then there are a few things that you face on a daily basis, which include logging into each ppc engine or affiliate network one at a time, attempting to combine excel sheets into one in order to compare stats, spending hours trying to find flaws in your campaign and making calculated guesses as to where you should maximize and minimize your marketing efforts. Getting these tasks done requires the use of multiple tools and software.
StatsJunky fills a void for Affiliate and Pay-Per-Click marketers by giving them a centralized dashboard where they can manage all there campaigns, affiliate networks, advertising networks, keywords, profits and losses. There software is integrated with hundreds of affiliate networks which include all of the most popular ones such as Commission Junction, Click Bank, Link Share, Click Booth, Azoogle Ads and bunch more.
Now of course there are tons of tools and services out there that offer similar features sets, so what are the benefits of using StatsJunky over hosted or open source platforms?
ProCaster.com – One Click Live Broadcasting
May 22nd, 2009 • 0 comments • Filed Under
Procaster.com is a easy to use live broadcasting software created by the live streaming service Mogulus that only requires you to have a computer in order to create a live broadcast from your desktop to your website or channel on Mogulus.
16 Free Link Redirection Services
May 21st, 2009 • 1 comment • Filed Under
URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, domain redirection and domain forwarding, is a technique on the World Wide Web for making a web page available under many URLs. Check out some of the benefits of using a link redirection service plus 16 Free link redirection services available for you to use.
They are various uses for URL direction services, some include:
- They shorten the ugly, long and hard to remember URLs/
- Great for promoting Affiliate Programs if you don’t want to keep track of multiple domains.
- Use to track multiple URLs to see how they perform/
- Sent in emails to shorten longer URLs that sometime break depending on the email client.
VDirect
vdirect.com, vdirect.net, webrally.net, snapto.net, getto.net, emailme.net, netbounce.com, netbounce.net, oneaddress.net
VDirect offers two types of service: either choose a domain name from the list and get http://username.domain and http://www.username.domain (along with a username@domain free email address) or else register a domain name with them and get full www.domain.com redirection! (the latter option is also open to you if you already own a domain name). VDirect also offers statistics on the number of people visiting your site through the redirection link. All this is free and ad-supported, though you can choose to remove the ads for an annual fee. Sadly, the range of “standard” domain names is fairly limited.
WebAlias
sail.to, up.to, way.to, got.to, escape.to, and several more
WebAlias offers a free URL redirection service with both subdomain (NAME.domain.to) and subdirectory (domain.to/NAME) style addresses. The service also provides detailed traffic stats on visitors using the redirection URL.
Opt.to
arrive.to, directme.to, surfin.to, tunnel.to, mouse.to and over 100 other domain names.
Free URL redirection service with a wide choice of domain names. Offers both subdomain.domain.to and domain.to/subdomain/ forms of the URL.
Getting Long Lasting Traffic From Wikipedia
May 21st, 2009 • 4 comments • Filed Under
I know right now everyone is crazy about Twitter including my self but on my music site Music Video Cast , Twitter doesn’t drive any traffic to that site at all. This might be due to the fact that I haven’t incorporated Twitter into the marketing efforts for Music Video Cast. None the less one of the largest traffic sources to that site is Wikipedia. I’ve been experimenting with Wikipedia for over a year now and I’ve pretty much figured out what works and what doesn’t.
The key to getting traffic from Wikipedia is to simply post external and reference links. I’ve spent quite some time posting up many different types of links to see which ones would get removed and which ones would remain. In general as long as the content is related to the topic the links will usual remain on the Wiki page. Now of course there are some exceptions to the rule for instance if your linking to copyrighted content the link will quickly be removed by a moderator, Try to keep post rejected links to a minimum be eventually those links will automatically get remove and if they will you’re a spammer they will ban you by your IP address so you can’t edit and Wikipedia articles anymore. Judging by how quickly I’ve seen links removed from Wikipedia I figure there has to be at least a thousand moderators at any given time of the day to handle the millions of submission they receive daily.
Since my site is music related I was mostly on the artist’s song pages. Once I started getting traffic I needed somewhere to send that traffic which is when I decided to start promoting music affiliate programs specifically ringtone affiliate programs. I’ve had some success with driving traffic to ringtone affiliate programs but it’s a bit tricky, for instance I send traffic to ringtone affiliate programs for Fontonia, Thumplay and SendMeMobile. I split test to see which one converted the best and to also see what links would get removed. Fontonia turned out to be the preferred choice because they had the highest payout.
The Importance of Blog Design
May 21st, 2009 • 0 comments • Filed Under
Blogs have increased popularity over this past years. Many people have started to create their personal blogs to express their thoughts and feelings. Internet companies have also started their blogs to inform consumers on the latest product news and reviews.
Because of this, blogs are also being used as internet marketing media. Before, internet marketing is done by placing banners and links on popular websites, such as news and information sites. Links were also included on newsletters and marketing letters sent to the members of their mailing lists.
Many people spend time reading blogs. People read their friend’s blogs, their favorite author’s blogs, blogs on topics that they are interested in, and blogs on product reviews. With the increasing popularity of blogging, it is even feared that people rely on blogs to get the latest news.
While getting news reports from blogs isn’t reliable, some people look for product reviews through blogs. In some cases, this is more dependable. While it is true that some media persons are being paid to write good reviews about a certain product, blog writers write about their actual experiences on products and services from a company.
Since there are many people who read and start their own blogs, blogs are a good medium to market a product. With the increasing blog traffic means increase in product sales.
Blog traffic can be increased by joining affiliate programs and sites, which will list your blog under a certain search category or name. You can also have your blog advertised in popular websites. This, however, will cost some money and is not advisable if you have just started blogging.
A writer who has just launched his/her blog will want as much traffic as possible to increase advertisements on the site. Also, some advertisers pay every time their link is clicked or the page that has their link is viewed.
When you have increased traffic on your blog, you should try to keep you visitors coming back and recommending your blog to friends and colleagues.
This can be done by having informative or amusing content and good blog layout and design. You may develop your blog’s content or you can also acquire the services of a web content writer to provide you with the blog articles.
The blog’s layout and design also plays a big role. While most of the companies offering free blog hosting offer pre-selected templates, there are also some that allows customization that if you utilize this feature correctly can increase your blog’s traffic.
How to Get Traffic To Your Website From Twitter
May 19th, 2009 • 0 comments • Filed Under
They are so many people out there that just don’t like Twitter for different reasons, some may argue that they don’t feel the need to let everyone know every single mundane activity there performing. Others will say it’s too simple and something like that won’t last very long. When the truth is that the power is in it’s simplicity, 90 percent of the world prefer things to be simple this is why Twitter works and why it’s growing at such a fast rate. Just imagine having 10,000 plus followers you can send to any product or service.
Most Marketers, Bloggers, Media/News companies and Businesses have already realized the advantages of using Twitter help build their brand. I just implemented Twitter on my music blog this month and I’m averaging 30 to 40 followers daily, We are now half way through the month and I’ve already received 1500 visits from Twitter and that’s with just over a 100 followers.
Why Goolge Adsense Pays Some Websites More Than Others
May 19th, 2009 • 0 comments • Filed Under
The other day my earnings for my hip hop music blog (HipHopMusicDotCom.com) doubled, the funny thing is the traffic remained the same there was no spike and the amount of clicks I received wasn’t any different from any other day, so what changed? I’ve learned that the earnings you make from Google Ads depend on the quality and the amount of ad inventory Google has at any particular moment in time and not on the amount of clicks your ads receive. My hip hop blog gets anywhere from 40,000 to 60,000 page views daily and I receive quite a few clicks but then my music video blog (MusicVideoCast.com) only receives on average 10,000 page views with far less clicks than HipHopMusiccDotCom.com but manages to match it’s earnings.
So the type of site you have also plays a role in the amount of Money you’ll make with Google Adsense. For instance lets say I was running a blog about health care coupled with the type of traffic I receive to my hip hop blog, my earnings would most certainly triple what I’m making now because the ad inventory for health care is bigger and the amount of money advertisers are paying for those ads is much higher sometimes even as much as ten dollars per click. A simple rule of thumb to go by is the more money advertisers have to pay for keywords for a particular type of content the more money Adsense publishers will make if there site caters to that particular type of content.
Makes me wish I knew something about health care…..LOL
6 Reasons Why You Need A Website
May 18th, 2009 • 7 comments • Filed Under
If you don’t have a website, then you might not realize all the great things they can do for you. Maybe you think there wouldn’t be any point, because your business is too small – or maybe you don’t even have a business! Perhaps you think it’d be a lot of work for little reward. Or maybe you paid big bucks for a site back during the dot-com ‘boom’ days, only to get nothing but trouble out of it and shut it down a year later. Whatever your situation is, though, you need a website, and I’m here to tell you why.
