Webmaster Tips for making MORE money

Recently WidgetBucks has been smacked left right and center by parts of the webmaster community due to their buggy start, high expectations and bold claims.

I posted my doubts on WidgetBucks a month ago but reserved my judgement.

Yesterday, they finally posted the October 07 earnings for webmasters to see which I thought was a great step in the right direction.

However, it was the development today which makes me feel the Internet Marketer’s new wonderboy has finally grown of age - They are now posting real time referral earnings.

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Disturbing news indeed as webmasters over at DigitalPoint gets a bit concerned in this thread.

All the PR checker tools are reporting N/A for their sites, enough to give any webmaster cause for concern. Personally, I think its just a temporary thing though and for those that are worried about their site, our trusty old PageRank Verification Tool is still working. So go over and get your dose of Google’s green juice if you need.

If Google is thinking of killing showing of External PageRank though, what would that mean?

Hundreds, no Thousands …. millions? .. or directory owners will turn grey overnight. SEOs will be drowned in calls from their clients.Text Link Ads wont know what to base their prices on anymore… and most devastating of all … our trusty PR verification tool would be useless!!!!!

Thats bad …

Yep, checked my stats and definitely traffic from John Chow’s blog.

Looking closer there was something else in with the referrer URL …

http://widget.blogrush.com/box.php?
f=XXXXXXXX&url=http%3A//www.johnchow.com/
&ref=&r=XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Oh well, no free lunch from Mr. Chow then and just the new BlogRush widget working as intended.

BlogRush has just improved their interface and removed over 10,000 blogs from their network to improve the quality. Thought I’d give it a go as it seems fun enough.

Its a Blog Syndication network, where you install their widget as per right hand column and you get credits for every view. These credits then allow your headline to be viewed on other blogs in your Blogrush category.

You also get credits for blogs you referred and also the but I like is their ‘rich gives to the poor’ type system where bonus credits are given to less popular blogs.

I’ll post more on my impressions on it later but for those that want to try it for themselves, be nice if you click on my referral link here .

Last week Bidvertiser started a $20 Free Traffic promo for their referrers to offer their visitors. So if you want some free traffic and want to give Bidvertiser a go Get $20 in FREE Clicks to Advertise Here! The best part of this promo is that they don’t require any initial deposit so it is really free traffic.

Please do post back on here once you have tried it and give your input on how well the traffic converts.

Logging in to my Chitika account, just noticed that they have an in-line text ad program in BETA.

The programme is called Linx and works the same way as the other In-line text networks in our guide. Basically, you copy and paste their bit of code onto your webpage and the code will identify keywords that are relevant to Chitika’s Ads. It will link those words and mouseover of those links will have a pop-up window showing some details of the ad. If your visitor clicks through then you get some revenue.

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The Internet is one of the greatest inventions in the past century because it allows people to have near unlimited choice. In the not so distant pass, say 10 years: -

• If I wanted to look for information, I’d go to the Library and hope that they have the relevant books available
• If I wanted to learn more about Bleach the Anime - I’d probably have to resort to badly researched magazines
• I’d listen to the radio or watch MTV to catch on the latest songs waiting for one that I’d like
• etc, etc …

Now, I can research myself to shortsightedness on any subject I want, download the latest Bleach episode minutes after it has aired in Japan and listen and buy music of any style at any time.

So, with the above in mind, why the need for your website - does it serve a purpose? Does it offer any benefits to the people that you are trying to reach?

• If you are doing an information / content Web site, does the content provide something of value to your visitors?
• If you are doing an affiliates datafeed mall - Does your mall enable your visitors to find their required products easier?
• If you are doing a directory, are you frustrating your visitors by recommending them sub-standard websites?

In a market of choices, Web sites that don’t offer anything to their visitors wont have a place, so please have a coffee and think about the below question,

Is my Web site giving my visitors what they want?

For your viewing please, we have added a new section to this blog called Articles. In it we will be put stuff that we regard as good reference material for our users.

Take a look when you have time on the guides were are currently working on

* Publishers Guide to Ad networks
o CPC Ad Networks
o CPA - Affiliate Networks
o In-line Text Ad Networks
o Other Ad Networks

* SEO Articles

Further to my previous post on experimenting with WidgetBucks, I wanted to explain a bit more to you about this new buzz in the Internet Marketing world.

WidgetBucks is backed by Mpire, a company founded in 2005 that runs a pretty decent online shopping site of the same name. Their new venture allows webmasters monetize websites by installing widgets. A sample of one as below and is relatively simple to install,

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Today, I will introduce to you a new player to the website monetization scene - WidgetBucks.

I’ve had enough of AuctionAds as I am confused how an Ebay based affiliate scheme can result in so little conversions with the amount of clicks I was bringing them.

Using ArticleGOLD as my platform again, I have removed most of the AuctionAd scripts and in places replaced them with the WidgetBucks ones. I’ve hear good things of the WidgetBucks programme so it will be interesting to see the results.

Then I hit the first problem.

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Its that time of the month again for a look back for the month’s progress. From our affiliate milestones post a few months ago, lets recap on September’s targets:

September 07 - Target USD300 - 200% increase from previous month
This month should see a substantial increase in revenue and we are going for doubling our last months total. Mainly I hope through the ArticleGOLD script but other stuff should start to kick in.

The main priority targets for this month are:
1. Launch a main affiliate project with proper foundation work for it.
2. Register affiliate earnings from at least 5 merchants.

So how did we do?
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