Owner: Andrew Owns Agloco URL:http://andrew-owns-agloco.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:28:01 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Having heard so much about Agloco, I've decided to see for myself... Site statistics:Click here
Agloco's referral system 2007-03-15 15:36:00 As I mentioned in my previous post, I'd like to express my views on Agloco's referral system. I will try to outline it's pros and cons.
Agloco's referral system
As you probably know, Agloco has 5 referral levels. That means you get rewarded for people you refer - you get a percentage of their surfing hours (of course, they don't loose anything either). You also get rewards for the referrals of
My new site about Agloco 2007-03-14 22:33:00 I have started a new site about Agloco today. It's in lithuanian so it won't be useful for you english readers, but I just have to brag! We have a news section there, and plenty of information about the company. I also added a link exchange and I'll swap links with Agloco-related sites in any language. It includes a neat little flag near your link as well. Here's the URL for those who are
Banners for promoting Agloco 2007-03-13 07:45:00 I've made some 468x60 banners for Agloco, and you're welcome to use them freely. I'm not good at design, so these don't look professional, but they're quite original if I might say so :)
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For more (and better looking) banners of various sizes, visit http://www.aglocobanners.com.
Finally, I'd like to invite all Agloco-related Squidoo lenses to my newly created group, called "Own the Read more:Banners
Squidoo - a great place to promote Agloco 2007-03-12 00:47:00 Squidoo is a handbuilt catalog of interesting online stuff. It's made of little cute pages called "lenses", and each one of them describes a single topic. You can build one in minutes with their module system. You can even make money by placing pre-made affiliate modules (for example, Amazon or eBay product links), and everything you make with them will be paid by Squidoo. Nice!
There's also the Read more:Squidoo
Viewbar™ release date announced 2007-03-11 00:05:00 You might already know that Agloco announced the time frame for their Viewbar release. That's when company will actually start paying you for surfing the web. According to Agloco's blog the date is between March 26th and April 16th.
Personally I think they'll delay it until April. I'm waiting eagerly, but I also appreciate the fact that we have another half a month to promote Agloco before people
Agloco's interview video 2007-03-09 23:35:00 This interview
features two of Agloco team members: Ray Everett-Church, Chief Privacy Officer (have you heard about such job before?), and Akshay Mavani, who coordinates strategy.
They explain the concept behind Agloco's Viewbar and how it will work. They also talk about making money from blogs. Now that's a hot topic for us, isn't it? Read more:video
Introduction to Agloco 2007-03-09 15:25:00 I would like to start off this blog by posting an introduction to Agloco. It should give you a pretty clear picture about what it's all about. All information is accurate as it's taken from Agloco's official site.
You might already know that almost everything you do on the Internet makes money for someone else. And that’s not just when you spend money. Just about every time you view an ad, click Read more:Introduction
Viewbar™ update 2007-03-23 01:36:00 According to the official blog of Agloco, the revised release date for Viewbar is between April 2nd and April 16th. These news are not surprising because Agloco delayed their launch before (we had been expecting it on February or March). However, now that we have a date set, it should be released on time.
On other note, I got my 100th referral today:
Compared to stats I posted a little over a
Agloco directory 2007-03-30 22:39:00 You might have noticed the AglocoDirectory button under "Vote for this blog". Their website has a list of everything Agloco-related. There are separate categories for blogs, websites, Squidoo lenses, etc. and separate lists for each country (if yours isn't there yet, they will add it). Their support is friendly and answered all my questions.
I recommend adding your sites to this directory. It's
Viewbar release details 2007-04-04 18:24:00 The official Agloco blog had something interesting today. Apparently the Viewbar will be released in batches, depending on your registration date. That makes me glad I have BBBD, although there won't be much advantage for getting it early if surfing limit is still a mere 5 hours a month.
The initial launch is for Windows OS only. They did say Linux and Mac versions are coming though. That's nice Read more:details
, Viewbar release
Offline advertising and free business cards 2007-04-08 16:02:00 I found that VistaPrint is offering free 250 business cards. You have to pay for delivery though (around $6). There are plenty of designs to choose from although they aren't very impressive.
I thought I might use those to advertise my site about Agloco "offline". I have been wondering if such advertising (like newspaper ads or fliers) would be any good. It wouldn't be targeted - most people Read more:Offline
Viewbar delay 2007-04-18 22:43:00 If you read the official blog of Agloco, you probably know that Viewbar release was delayed again, and no new date was given. All we know is that it should come this month. The reason mentioned was a problem in "integrating viewbar and ad servers".
I realise a lot of people are frustrated (I am somewhat annoyed myself), but I don't think it's a reason to panic... yet. Comparing delay of new Mac
$1.99 domain names 2007-04-19 22:26:00 If you plan to buy a domain
, take a look at Yahoo! SmallBusiness which offers one for ridiculously low price of 2 bucks. This discount is only applied to the first year though.
I've decided to buy andrew-owns-agloco.com to use with this blog, but I ran into a problem. I could only make www.andrew-owns-agloco.com or andrew-owns-agloco.com (without www) work properly, but not both at the same time
My Agloco network update 2007-04-26 20:39:00 I got my 250th referral today:
Compared to my stats just over a month ago, I have +150 referrals. The best thing is, my extended referrals have tripled, and the number is now higher than of those in my direct level. However, I noticed that most of people signed up in the first two weeks of April (probably anticipating the viewbar release). I barely got any new referrals after that.
I will work Read more:network
E-mail from Agloco 2007-04-29 21:49:00 Today I got an e-mail from Agloco titled "AGLOCO Viewbar Update". It was a disappointment because there still aren't any news about launch date. The e-mail contained information that was posted on Agloco's blog over 3 weeks ago! I guess it's for the members who don't bother to read it. (Not that there's much to read lately, it hasn't been updated for 13 days).
There was an interesting piece of
Free traffic for your blog 2007-05-08 19:52:00 You just started a new blog for promoting some kind of online money making opportunity. You want readers, and your budget is $0. You already added it to Technorati, exchanged links with other bloggers, but it doesn't seem to be enough. What now?
An easy way to get free traffic
to your blog is BlogExplosion. It is a traffic exchange for bloggers (you view blogs of other people and they in turn
Where is the community? 2007-05-13 19:30:00 Agloco is a global community
. So, why is it so hard to communicate between the members? I'm talking about something as simple as ability to contact your downline, or at least see who's in your downline. This way I could help my referrals to recruit, or perhaps I could get advice myself from my more experienced upline. Spam? Not a big problem. Direct e-mails are not necessary, something like
Another blog traffic exchange 2007-05-17 06:38:00 About a week ago I wrote about BlogExplosion. This time it's another blog-only traffic
exchange, BlogMad.net. You get visitors for your blog by surfing, just like in other traffic exchanges. The nice thing is that it has a 1:1 surfing ratio - that means you get 1 visitor back for 1 site you view.
Adding and approving your blog here is really easy. You have to wait for admin to approve your
John Chow, the #4 Agloco recruiter 2007-05-16 17:06:00 If you have visited Agloco Top Gun site at least once, you probably noticed the #4 Agloco recruiter
, John Chow, who has over 15.000 Agloco signups. The amazing thing is that only ~1k of them are direct - that means his referrals are very active. John Chow is also the one who got his hands on the Viewbar early - they even wrote about that on Agloco's blog. Why?
The reason: John Chow is a very
Blizzard announces StarCraft 2 2007-05-19 23:08:00 Blizzard has announced StarCraft 2 at their WWI event in Seoul, South Korea (which is famous for it's StarCraft fans). SC2 is going to be a real-time strategy game like its madly popular predecessor. Terran, Protoss and Zerg are all coming back with new units and abilities! The graphics of the demo look simply stunning, while the interface remains very similar to that of first StarCraft. Read more:Blizzard
Another Agloco directory 2007-05-18 05:34:00 Here's a new Agloco directory with a cool design. What's more, it doesn't require a reciprocal link from your site. That's right, you can just add your site there for free and not link back (that's the way directories are supposed to work anyway).
Adding your site to the directory can be useful in several ways. First of all, you might get more traffic (well, not so much from this one since it's
300 2007-05-17 20:15:00 No, it's not the movie - it's my Agloco referrals:
That puts me in top 1% of Agloco recruiters - yay! What's even better, my extended referrals are still growing faster than my direct ones. Even if I can't sit back and watch them increase by hundreds each day like some people do, it's still a big help.
Again, I miss the feature of contacting my downline. But even without it, if you signup
Agloco banner 2007-05-22 09:30:00 Here's a new 468x60 animated banner for promoting Agloco. Feel free to use it in banner exchanges. Just click it to get the full size image and save it to your computer:Alternatively, you can get it from my website:http://www.aglocolietuva.com/media/1/agloco468_green_ENG.gifBanner advertising still remains a good way to get referrals or interested visitors - do you agree?
Make money with Text-Link-Ads 2007-05-20 01:52:00 Text-Link-Ads is a company which allows you to buy static text links on thousands of categorized websites - or put links on your own blog/website and make money. The most important thing here is the page rank of your site. The higher it is, the more money you can make (the amount of visitors doesn't really matter besides making it more attractive to advertisers). You can check your page rank here.Besides selling text links on your site, you can also make money by referring new members through the affiliate program, putting text links to the bottom of every post you make, or even showing text ads in your RSS feed. These last two options seem to be limited to blogs using WordPress platform though.I tried submitting two PageRank 3 sites when I signed up. First one was this blog, and it was automatically rejected. Second one was my Lithuanian website about Agloco and it was accepted. Since they both have PR3, I guess the reason was that my website has a second level domain. I might try to
Integrate FeedBurner with Blogger 2007-05-23 12:48:00 I'm going to show you how to use FeedBurner
with your blog in this short guide. First of all, here are some cool things that FeedBurner can do.FeedBurner takes over your blog's feeds, enhances their functionality and gives you detailed statistics on your subscribers. You can add social bookmarks like Digg! to both your feed and your blog (see the bottom of this post), offer e-mail subscriptions, show subscriber count on your blog and so on. You can even see what kind of feed readers your subscribers use, and what kind of bots (like Technorati search) visit your feed. And this is just a part of what they offer!Once you signup at FeedBurner and configure it to your liking, you can integrate it fully with your blog hosted on Blogger
. Let's start by changing AutoDiscovery URL. When you visit a site which has feed information between it's <head> tags, all modern browsers display a little icon to indicate that. You will need to change it to point to your "burned" feed at FeedBurn Read more:Integrate
Make 80x15 buttons easily 2007-05-28 16:01:00 As you probably know, 80x15 buttons, or "badges" are very popular, especially among bloggers. People use them when exchanging links, or to show which CMS their site is running on, or that it has valid code, and so on. There even are some banner exchanges which use this format.If you want to make great looking 80x15 buttons (like this one: ) yourself , there is no need for Photoshop or any other heavyweight image editor. All you need is this online tool from BlogFlux. You can choose text, border and background colors as well as text alignment. The button generated comes in *.gif format. You can also make bigger 88x13 buttons the same way.If you need more functions, try online button maker by LuccaZappa. This one generates *.png files. There are many fonts avalaible, you can set text position precisely, and upload your own images to be used as part of the button.Since these websites don't host the buttons you make, you will need to save them to your PC first. Then you can upload them to
Agloco Viewbar has been released 2007-06-04 08:59:00 I've been using the Viewbar for last 30 minutes or so. It sits at the bottom of my screen and refuses to show any kind of ads. Agloco's blog says that the ad servers were overloaded and ad network people are working on it. Anyway, it's not Agloco's problem, and even if you don't see any advertisements, you are getting paid for surfing already! Besides the white space in the center where they should be, the Viewbar is fully functional.Since Agloco.com seems to be overloaded as well, you are welcome to download the Viewbar from my site:http://www.aglocolietuva.com/files/viewbar.win32.1.00.exeThe funny thing is, a lot of members will probably use up their 5 hours monthly limit without ever seeing a single ad (I did, for one). That makes me think that it's not likely we'll get paid in cash in the next month or two. It was mentioned vaguely in Agloco's official blog few weeks ago as well. Getting Viewbar is just the start.
Viewbar will be released tomorrow 2007-06-03 06:26:00 Yes, you read that right! There's a new post titled "Viewbar release this Monday" on Agloco's official blog, and that's exactly what it means. With no news from them for a while, I'm glad I can finally write an Agloco-related post myself.Viewbar will be released on the morning of June 4th (California time). For anyone wondering, that's GMT -7, so it will be evening in Europe (that's where I live) and early Tuesday morning in Asia. I'm not sure yet, but it seems they dropped the idea of releasing the Viewbar in batches and decided to release it for everyone in one go, as their newest post doesn't say anything about download being available only to some members.The supported OS for Viewbar are Windows Vista, WinXP and Win2000. The supported browsers are Firefox and IE. Anyone using Linux OS or a Mac will have to wait till they release an appropriate version.Having invested time and even some money in building my Agloco network, I'm very glad to hear that it's finally starting t Read more:tomorrow
Promoting Agloco in traffic exchanges 2007-06-12 11:32:00 Using traffic
exchanges to promote Agloco might not be very effective, but it's free and easy. You should not, however, promote your Agloco referral URL directly. It sends visitors straight to the registration form, and you will be lucky to get any signups this way. Use a splash page instead, and get the most out of your traffic credits.A splash page is a simple and short page that visitors see before entering your main site, in this case - Agloco referral URL. Splash pages used for traffic exchanges should load fast, have no auto-playing audio, and as few images as possible (many traffic exchange users surf with graphics turned off).It's important to write a catchy, attention-grabbing headline. You should also outline most important reasons to join Agloco, or some interesting facts about it. The visitors will only look at your splash page for a few seconds, but if it gets their attention they will read further, and if they become interested, they will click the signup link.When crea
JaKelDaily.com review 2007-06-11 15:03:00 Jason Neuman at JaKelDaily.com is offering a link back to my blog if I review
his blog. This is the second post of this kind I'm writing - I reviewed John Chow's blog a while ago, and besides a free link, I even got some visitors.JaKelDaily.com was started on February the 10th, 2007. I had to mention that, because in the relatively short time of 5 months, Jason's blog achieved Google PageRank 5 and Technorati authority of nearly 500 (to compare, this blog is PR3, so I win more from the deal). This was accomplished using various aggressive (and effective) link building tactics, including posting so-called "link trains", submitting to directories, and, of course, asking for reviews like this one. Jason even created a blog here at Blogger with sole purpose of linking to JaKelDaily.com - now this part is not very nice :-)Jason writes on various subjects, including cars, family, technology, and making money online. There are only a few short posts on technology and cars though. Personall
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