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Publisher Spot – Professional Reviews Of Ad Network

by Melvin · Sep 16, 2008

This is a paid review sponsored by Tyler Cruz

These days there are tons of things that exist. I mean even in an offline world you’ll probably come across with a lot of stuffs that boast all the same portfolio but you’ll never really know unless you do a research. Same as online! When I was starting out I was like joining and joining every of all these affiliate and ad networks in hopes that the more I have joined, the more I would earn. And definitely it’s a flop most of the times. I guess this is where Publisher Spot comes in.

Publisher Spot is basically a site that provides “informative” reviews of all of these networks and companies that an online entrepreneur should look to. I know Publisher Spot when it was in its early days. Honestly I thought it was just like one of those “run of the mill” sites that provides reviews, everything positive so that people would get in there, sign w/that affiliate link and boom profit! But then it was not

The site has a clean layout, and a sleek design. The reviews are done superbly! I mean when I look at the reviews there’s even a thing at the sidebar wherein there are details about the program. The creatives, Payment Methods, Minimum Payout, Payment frequency which I think is a very great thing. I find the review great and not biased. How hard it is not to get biased on something? ๐Ÿ˜‰

The review and commenting also works for those who have an account. I think it’s great that he had only supplied it for those who are registered with the site. This prevents proxies who could just easily game the rating system. Actually these new features is something that for me had made the site way way better. The site also has a forum, which I doubt that will gain any attraction and a blog. The easy navigation of the site is great and I just like it. It makes it easier for those who are newbies and maybe we can remove the word “confusing” when we’re talking about the layout.

All in all I do feel its a great project. To be honest I had something like this long planned way back last year and that it never took off because of lack of commitment from me. I commend Tyler’s effor to produce this site that many newbies starting could surely benefit from. The only thing I didn’t like much is this:

Although they are selling advertising on Publisher Spot, they are not flaunting it. The only link to itheir advertise page is at the bottom so I think its another nice idea rather than to put it uptop, announce it and have there reputation tarnished. Well I know a lot of blogs have already said their piece about it. I think its a great overall project as well as a reference for a lot of aspiring internet marketers. A great job by Mr. Cruz

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Paid Post Tagged With: Affiliate Marketing, publisher spot

Answers and Questions 1

by Melvin · Sep 14, 2008

So I never really wanted to be mainstream, but I think this is the best way to go if you’re heading back on a busy week. Fire your questions away and the best question, not not really, but one that I like the most will get $10 on his/her paypal account.

Questions can literally be everything, if I don’t feel to answer the question then I will not answer the question… ๐Ÿ˜‰

CLOSED: PENDING ANSWERS

Filed Under: Giveaways, Q & A Tagged With: answer, Contest, question

Guess What, My PR is 0 Again!

by Melvin · Sep 13, 2008

Just woke up this morning and well upon looking at the toolbar of my firefox, it stated that I got a pr0 rankings anew. I immediately head on to my SEOMOZ account and indeed my blog has became a pr0 just a couple of hours ago..

Let’s face it the pagerank on toolbars is something a lot of people building links are always looking at. Although, it doesn’t make much sense and the real PR algo is what counts, it still makes sense to have a fair overall ranking. Back to the PR update, its strange because I have never done any paid post and all links and banners ads here are nofollowed so I’m not passing the PR juice. I don’t think I have done black hat link building stuffs or so… Hmm. what do you think?

Filed Under: Ramblings, SEO Tagged With: google, pagerank, pr

The Top Commentators For August

by Melvin · Sep 10, 2008

Update: Allow me 2 days to process the rewards… ๐Ÿ˜‰

I have been slacking a little bit now on posting blog not only because I have some other stuffs to do but also because I am feeling so much lazy about it. I was tweaking and optimizing all of my dating sites and everything that is related to it. I’ve been also in bad mood these (waking up in morning) and I don’t know why. One thing I feel is that I don’t feel well.

So with the top commentator rewards that happen every month, I nearly forgot the August Month. With the success from previous months, I had a thought for bigger prizes for the succeeding months. So for the last month’s jackass top spammers commentators, here they are:

  • IronBlogger
  • Rockstar Sid
  • Dilson Decano
  • Blog Tips For Beginners
  • Ganesh

So for that month’s stake, the top 3 will get the Unique Blog Money Maker Ebook Which is worth $7. 4 and 5 will get 1000 entrecard credits each. In addition to that the top commentator will get a free 1 month featured link at my sidebar while no.2 will get into my blogroll link (no nofollow). All’s well that ends well ๐Ÿ˜‰

For the future, I might be giving out more surprises. As you may have noticed, I do not disclose the rewards every month so that it would be a surprise to everyone. The future rewards would range to cash, gift cards, and some other stuffs.

Filed Under: Giveaways Tagged With: Giveaways, top commentators. rewards

The Huge Value Of Testing Stuffs

by Melvin · Sep 8, 2008

Most people underestestimate the value of testing different stuffs. I mean most don’t even know they should test things. Testing plays a key role not only in online business but also in every aspects of life. Sometimes, it can be risky and most of the times it will help us learn and gain knowledge based on what we have observed. With affiliate marketing, I really love to test stuffs out. I mean when I was doing Adwords early this year I was very receptive on committing mistakes and learning from them. I put up different landing pages and different color schemes and see how they flop!ย  On that way, you know you could do better the next time.

There are tons of ways wherein you can test something and do a case study. Like for instance in this blog, when I was promoting Pepperjam Network here. I think I made over $100 with an affiliate banner at the sidebar (when there are few advertisers yet). Why is that so? Basically I just rotated every type of ad that Pepperjam gives. I give my users different views of the ads which I think have helped both of us. What you are needing to do is make your users avoid banner blindness wherein they just go w/your site and say “these banners again”. That’s why as much as possible I ask for different types of ads from advertisers so that they can maximize their exposure from this blog.

Now someone can say “It’s risky to test things and I don’t think I can afford it”. Well its true but most of the times it is not really as risky as what you might ever think of. What you have to do is always look and observe what you’re visitors are doing. How they respond to it. It’s easy sometimes to say, “oh what I did doesn’t really make much sense” but you will benefit a lot from it on a long term basis. How if it doesn’t work? Then it doesn’t work, leave it! If you believe you have exerted a better effort with stuffs that flops then you can always drop it and start again. I know many are afraid but it’s just business and life I think. You will succeed and you will fail

I know some of you also do testing and some “under the microscope” experiments. Maybe you can share yours and what you have learned from it.

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Blogging Experience, Preachings Tagged With: Affiliate Marketing, experimenting, testing

Every Kid Who Has A Blog Is Busy Right Now!

by Melvin · Sep 6, 2008

Student Blogger
Student Blogger

Yesterday I was looking on blog premiere forum (kid and teenager bloggers) and have observed that it seems most kid bloggers today have had some adjustments with his posting frequency and others have just simply stopped because of studies. Well this is true especially the latter part of the year wherein the school resumes back and more probably take a huge chunk of time of bloggers and marketers who are studying still. It has also been noticeable that the comments and activity of young bloggers through forums and social sites have decreased. Really hard to manage time right?

Well I think it’s one crucial thing here and most kid and teenagers will learn from it. How they should be able to manage their time and how we should maintain our online stuffs without having our studies suffer. For me the trimester of our school has ended. There will be a one week break before I head back again to the second trimester. This trime by far is the busiest one and I really learned a lot on it. It’s ironic because the blog has never lost its ranking. I mean from August to July, I have stopped promoting it and well mainly because I can’t, everything related to school has been like eating my whole time.

How about you? I know most readers here do also study and split their time doing different stuffs, do you think you are managing your time well?

Filed Under: Blogging Experience, Preachings, Ramblings Tagged With: bloggers, school, student, studies

Make Some Money By Placing Banners

by Melvin · Sep 3, 2008

I am not really a fan of these “place a banner” and get monthly payments or anything like that but sometimes stuffs like this will help people or new people build something for startup and it does not cause anything to join. So I thought I would be making a post about it.

Well What I am talking about here is freebies 4 Webmaster. Last July they contacted me introducing their services, I though they were just scam or maybe they are really so I turned down their offer. But then last month I was playing with monetization here in this blog and you may notice me placing different things on the sidebar and doing A and B testing. Then one friend referred this now to me. I pasted the 468X60 on the lower part of the sidebar. I did it last August 20 and then yesterday I received 10 British Pounds from them which means they really pay. They do also promise to pay monthly for keeping that banner on my site. Lets see.

Filed Under: Blog Tools, Blogging Experience, Monetization Tactics Tagged With: banner blog, make money blog

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