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If you have been looking about this site lately you would have noticed that I added two dealdotcom features to this site. 

1. A RSS feed at the bottom in the footer that is updated each day with new deals.
2. A Deal of the day banner in teh right sidebar that is also updated daily with a new deal.

I’ve been experimenting with DealDotCom lately and I have been very impressed with the cool promotion features.  These features are straight out of the box and included with the dealdotcom affiliate program.  What makes them slick are that they are wordpress plugins.  All I had to do was

1. Download the plugin code. 
2. Install them both in my wordpress plugin folder
3. Go into wordpress and activate the plugin.
4. Add my affiliate ID from the options panel.
5. Add the code to my theme to activate the template. 
6. Or use a dealdotcom widget (Yes, this is even possible)
7. Done

My site is instantly monetize with dealdotcom deals.  Once more, all of this is free.  All I had to do was sign-up for the dealdotcom affiliate program (FREE)and goto my account and get the plugins.  Painless, No difficult coding, No fuss..  What a great deal….

What do you think of the two new items..  Are they overpowering or do they make since.

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Today I wanted to introduce you to my “Top Spots”, which is an opportunity for you to advertise your service, web site or blog on marketassociate.com for a relatively cheap price, 1 dollars a slot.  I currently offer a few premier advertising spots on the blog, but I wanted to be able to also offer advertising that anyone could afford, while offering a fun and unique twist to it.

This is what I came up with.  $1.00 will guarantee that you will get a slot for one day.  What I came up with was, running the ScratchBack program.  ScratchBack is an online “tipping” system. It allows me, the publisher, to accept tips and “give back” links* or images* in return.

This is a fairly new concept that I have not tried on any of my other websites and I wanted to Beta it for a little while before I rolled it out to my whole enterprise.  For those publishers that are looking for a means to roll out a simple linking program I would recommend this.  Its easy to setup and it has a fun twist if you opt to use the feature.  The twist is you would setup the system to accept tips and bump other peoples links off the list.  I decided not to implement this feature on this site.  I wanted to guarentee time for every person who would use it.  It is also a great way to once again monetize your website.

Be sure to check it out today and get a link on this site for 1 dollar a day.

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Learn more about Adbrite, Text Link Ads, Adster

Monetizing your website or blog is tricky business.  You need to find the right balance between just tacky and functional.  Lately, I have been working to accomplish the latter.  Just Functional..  I have also been experimenting with paid links.  I have found that all are not the same.  Even though they are all fairly easy to setup.  In this guide to want to introduce you to three text link providers that I have been experimenting with either by buying links or selling links through them.

Buying Links

I have used two of these services to buy links because quit frankly, I am lazy and I don’t like to go out and ask a number of websites will they add my link to them.  I am also looking for more one-way links then recipical links.  I have found that the one way links are more powerful when it comes to SEO and I can center on websites that are complementary to my website.  Buying links is not a hard task.  If you have the money it would only take about 15 to 20 min. to find a website that you may want a link from and pay for it. 

So, I proceeded to buy links from adbrite and text link ads.  Although, I was happier with the links that I brought from adbrite in terms of traffic, I got even more prolonged exposure through the search engines using text link ads.  Let me explain.  Yes, when you buy a link from adbrite the link with eventually go to your website if clicked.  But the link is not a direct link to your website.  It links to adbrite then is redirected to your website.  In terms of SEO you will never get prolonged traffic from this kind of link.  The search engines will not give you credit for the backlink.  This kind of link basically will not give the points needed in the search engines but will provide traffic.  If the website has a significant amount of traffic.  Now, if traffic is all that you’re looking for this is OK.  But for me I did not want just traffic.

With text link ads.com the links provided link directly to the advertiser’s sites (the site paying for the link).  The only downfall is that you can’t see the publisher’s site before you pay.  Let me explain.  Text link ads.com has a search engine that allows the advertiser to search by page rank, price, traffic or any combination of all.  They provide you a list of the sites with no names or web addresses, just the page rank of the site, the price and the alexa traffic index.  Once the link to the site is purchased it is possible to see the site where the link will be placed.  At this time the advertiser is given a chance to cancel the link within 24 hours after purchasing the link.  This was the only linking service website that I have been able to find thus far that links directly to the advertisers website without going through a intermediate website.  Which is great for SEO.

Selling Links

Selling links is a different story.  I currently sell links through text link ads and adster.  I like text link ads because once I installed a provided wordpress plugin I did not have to do anything else except add an description at there website that would attract buyers.  Text links Ads sets the prices for me in accordance with the traffic of my site.  The more traffic the higher the price for the link.

Adbrite and adster are pretty much the same when it comes to selling links with them.  You signup for the services and they provide a widget that is installed on the provider’s site.  The provider sets all the prices for the links.  Which could be a little tricky, if little traffic is coming to a site what would be a fair price?  That is up to you to decide.

Aside from that I would recommend all three when it comes to selling links.  Buying links I only recommend text link ads.  I am more on the SEO side and I believe the links mean more for search engine serps coming from text link ads.

Learn more about Adbrite, Text Link Ads, Adster

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I added Kontara to this website today.  I had lot of positive result with this program on two of my other websites so I thought it would be good to try it out on this website.  I am hoping that it does just a well as the other sites.  Fingers crossed..  Here we go..

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Lately, I have been updating a lot of my website with new blog templates and new structures to take advantage of newly learned ways to monetize my website.  I have to say I have been very impressed with the results so far.  Even though it has been only a week or two I have seen an increase in the amount of money earned with two of my sites.  So, I thought it would be fair to reveal some of the things that I have been doing to accomplish this task.

1. - Google adsense has always been the bread and butter of my monetary business with all my website.  I guess because it is so easy to implement it in anything that I publish.  Rather it be a article or a website.  If you don’t know with google adsense is it a means to add ads to websites that pay YOU money if the ad or text link is clicked.   Google adsense is connected with google adwords were publishers will pay per click to advertise in the Google network which is very expansive and includes search engines as well as websites, radio and classifieds.  For me google has paid very well and as I increase in volume/content so has google adsense income.

2.  My second means of income comes from affiliate marketing.  Right now I market a lot of merchandise from eBay, amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, overstock, netflix, tickmaster.co.uk and the list goes on.  Most of the income comes from my websites but I also write a lot of articles that I publish on article sites that also link to affiliates.  If you don’t know about article marketing you need to read this article “Article Marketing And Promotion“.  In this article I give a detailed explanation of how to make money with article marketing.

3.  Text Links Ads - I started selling ad space on my website to see if it was possible to even make some money doing this.  I have to say that it is possible.  I have not been doing this very long but so far I like the result and text links ads.com makes it easy as pie to implement this on any website.  The only prerequisite to this is that you will have to be accepted into there program.  But once in they will promote your site and get you the best price that they can.  If you don’t get accepted into their program there are other programs that you can implement that will do the same.

4.  Kontera - This little program has been a little God sent for me and I see a lot of potential in it.  Especially for my pocket.  The website is Kontera.com.  Definitely get involved with this program.

5.  Bidvertiser - is in direct competition with google adsense and the great thing about them is that there payout is a minimum of $10 dollars.  If  you are not convinced with google adsense I would recommend using them.  They have a lot of advertisers and this is a great opportunity for make money.

These are just a few of the new resources that I am trying out.  Stay tuned as I will be trying out even more in the near future.

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