WidgetBucks: A review after 1 week of usage 2007-10-11 03:15:18
A few days back I did a similar review
for TNX, and now its time for WidgetBucks.
WidgetBucks provides flash based advertisements that are product centric. These should work very well on product websites. I’ve been evaluating it on YPOPs!, for the last one week and the performance has been quite good so far. In some cases, I’ve replaced AdBrite units with WidgetBucks and the risk of doing so seems to have paid off so far. The payouts are far better than that from AdSense and in most cases even better than Chitika.
They still need to iron out some glitches in their reporting system, but that’s all expected during the early beta launch of any new service!! As of today, they have moved to a real-time reporting system, subject to audits.
Payments are done via Check or PayPal and for a limited time, they are giving away $25 for those who sign-up. The minimum payout is $50, so you would still need to earn $25 additional before you get the free bonus!
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Review of TNX.Net after 1 week of usage 2007-10-08 01:30:08 I wrote about TNX.net about a week ago. This is a review of their service after one-week of usage.
For those who are not aware, TNX.net is a text link ads service similar to Text-Link-Ads, and LinkWorth, but works in a slightly different model, where you can buy and sell points.
I started an advertising campaign using TNX for Online Presence. I’ve placed over 1600 links!! (Yes! you heard it right) for this month on various sites. Each link cost me 1 point. I managed to get 5000 free points using a promotional offer that they were running at DigitalPoint, so it clearly made sense to try it out.
One thing that comes straight to my mind about their advertising via their site, is that you can select the PR of pages on which links should be placed, but you cannot select the websites you want them to be placed on! Their system does that randomly. I found a major glitch though, whereby my ads were coming up on another of my own sites. What!!! I’ve reported this bug to their Suppor
ShoppingAds in Private Beta Testing 2007-10-22 01:11:59 ShoppingAds is yet another program started by Peter Galvin, of Text-Link-Ads. The site, which is currently in private beta testing, has a striking similarity to AuctionAds, which was acquired by him recently.
Here is an excerpt from an email I received today from them:
Anuj, this is a quick reminder to those of you who haven’t signed up for our cost per click ShoppingAds program (details on how to get in below) and also a heads up to our current users that we have made some significant improvements to our ad units that have helped DOUBLE our click through rates the last two days! You will notice we added some nice eye catching graphics to the units and a better “call to action”. Our current users are seeing CPC’s in the $.25 range on average and we think we can deliver a great return for your site. We are ready for you to start running the ads and we offer full international traffic support. To access the new program:
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WidgetBucks delivers some improvements 2007-10-25 23:44:41 I received this email from WidgetBucks this morning:
One of the concerns we’ve heard from many of you has been the slow loading times of our widgets. We really appreciate your feedback and comments in helping us improve in this area. So, today we addressed this issue by rolling out new code that ultimately delivers faster loading widgets.
It is very important to note that this update will require action on your part. You will need to update code of your existing widgets for the speedier load times to take affect on your site, blog or network. Know that changing the code will not impact earnings for any of your widgets.
Here are the two steps you’ll need to follow:
1. Sign-in to WidgetBucks and go to My Widgets
2. For each active widget, simply edit and re-copy the code block into your site or blog (the same steps you went through when you created the widgets originally)
Another option for updating code is to utilize the new categories and ad sizes we’ve incorporated o
PayPerPost is now IZEA 2007-11-01 12:55:15
I received an email from PayPerPost
today informing about their change in corporate identify. Excerpts from the email is shown below:
Going forward our company will be known as IZEA, with PayPerPost as its flagship product and other properties including Blogger’s Choice Awards, RockStartup, Zookoda and BlogInSpace under the IZEA corporate umbrella. These changes are the natural result of our phenomenal growth as a company and the continued success our user community is having with our social marketing tools and strategies.
This new corporate framework will enable us to further execute on our established mission statement: To empower everyone to value and exchange content, creativity and influence. We will be adding additional services over the coming year and I feel strongly that the IZEA brand will allow us to present all our solutions in a more complete and understandable way to our clients, users, investors and the press.
With PayPerPost having diversified its businesses to b
The Best of Online Presence in October "07 2007-10-31 13:30:31
Its the beginning of the month and its time for the customary roundup of the top 3 popular posts from the previous month. In the month of October
‘07 the Top 3 most popular posts in Online Presence
were:
In October, I introduced two new advertising services on this blog, namely, WidgetBucks and TNX. WidgetBucks uses Flash-based ads and will surely be quite successful on product specific blogs. TNX on the other hand a text link advertisement service which uses a very different model from the popular Text-Link-Ads.
To be honest, I wrote about a 3rd advertising network as well — ADS-click. They have some very unique ad widgets. I have been experimenting with their “tag cloud” ad widget on this blog.
As it can be seen, the theme of October ‘07 can clearly be summarized as “Advertisement Networks”. Keeping this in context, I’ll remind all of you about the post from yesterday on Kontera. Kontera is an inline text advertisement service and c Read more:Online Presence
$65,000 in one year! 2007-11-05 04:10:47
Well…the title is kind of catchy isn’t it!
That’s my target figure to make in one year from my “Make Money Online” Activities. Its might be a very small figure for the big time bloggers, but I’m sure when they started off, they had small targets like these in mind. These are just milestones for me and I have to keep working and building on it.
So, is that how much I want to make from Online Presence? Not quite. That’s from my entire network of sites. Its a small set of 5 websites in different niche areas currently and I have a few other websites up my sleeve which I would be launching by the year-end.
How am I doing with respect to that target? Hmm…money is something I have never really discussed on this blog since I have been against it, but I’m changing the rule! I’m currently at 30% of that target in just 8 months. And let’s not forget this is just a “free time hobby” for me. It surely helps me pay a lo
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