Revenue Program Review – PayPerPost.com is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

Ok, I’ve been with PayPerPost.com for over two years now and never written a review of their services. I have mentioned them in the past as m=part of my marketing efforts but it was only recently I decided to start writing more about my revenue programs.

As mentioned paid blogging is one of my favorite ways to generate some cash and PayPerPost.com has been a big part of that. They are the first paid blogging programs with their introduction causing quite a stir and controversy over the merits of paid blogging.

When I began with them it was actually quite amzing. I could easily generate an additional $100 per day in revuenue with 3 or 4 blog posts and that was what some people try to earn over all. It was sweet to say I could use an extra few bucks this week and I could sit down to do some writing and get paid big bucks for my time. I would take the time and create the best blog posts I could with well researched anchor text and deep links for everyone. I personally wrote some of my best articles because I was being paid to do so.

Today I logged in with the exact same blogs which have all lost a little bit of traffic in the past year. I have not done much for link building and website promotion on some of my blogs and even some have not been written to much in the past year. I would expect things to change some and maybe there would be a change in price for blog posts on my sites but what I saw this morning was downright depressing. I have a number of PR4 website still listed with them because I quit paid posts on my more popular blogs some time ago. A PR4 website is like bread and butter in the industry and a decent money maker for the efforts in most cases.

Today the best I could get from PayPerpost.com were some unrelated websites with a top price of $9 per post which is a far cry from the $35 these sites earned a year ago. I can only imagine that advertising dollars are drying up and the fierce competition in the blogging market has created a surplus in bloggers who will write just about anything for a buck or two.

PayPerPost.com has the best system for paid blogging and has been the most reliable revenue program for paid blogging but the volume and price per post has dropped dramatically and its just plain harder to make that extra $100.

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Moving over to Google Affiliate Network is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

I got an email a few days back telling me I needed link my Adsense account to my Google Affiliate Network account before some expiration date. To be honest I was unaware I even had a an account with them. It must be very old and something I never used. I assume it was with DoubleClick but I cannot remember ever actually using their services.

I figure it was wort investigating so I tracked down a new password and logged into the account for the first time today. the interface is smooth and at first glance there were lots of advertisers. I had a Commission Junction account that was actually deleted for lack of use. I had some old banners out there that were deadlinked and I figure what better time to clean up some old ads than now.

I’m moving over to the Google Affiliate Network for all my banner advertisements and and I’ll probably even test some ads out in new places on many of my sites. I have a few dozen sites which have little to no advertising on them and it’s about time I monetize them.

I also have a Linkshare account which brings in some pretty crappy returns. I made some money there a couple years back but my performance with their programs has been weak the last two years. I avoided dealing with it and considered much of it to be a result of economic slowdown and a general lack of ecommerce being driven by banners. I’ve never liked banner ads and the fact I rarely click on them seems to make me think no one else ever clicks on them either.

I’ll keep everyone posted on my transition to Google Affiliate Network from Linkshare and Commission Junction. I would love any advice you may have on how to achive best performance with their program and I’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

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I have a lot of domains and to be honest many of them have never been used. I used to think it was crap to buy a domain and not at least build a page on it so I had a lot of single page website pointing to some program or maybe just linking back to one of my primary sites.

These domains are nice premium keyword domains with long term value which I am just holding on to and not interested in building some big business under at the moment. I went through a phase there for a while where I was building some splogs or spammy style blogs and using content pulled from various rss feeds to populate articles in WordPress but those got old fast. I came out with a few DMCA notices and very little revenue from the large amounts of useless traffic generated.

Maybe I was using the wrong revenue programs or maybe I wasn’t building enough links but whatever the case splogs were not big money maker for me. Of the domains with no content I actually had a few dozen that were dead sites and pointed to either empty directories on the server because I never got around to building a site or even worse they still pointed at some silly template at the registrar because I never even updated the DNS after purchasing the domains. Some of these go back to 2004 when I bought a load of domains and never built them up.

Every once in awhile someone makes an offer to buy one of my domains and I’ll sell it but to be honest I was looking for an easy revenue program that required nothing on my part. Over the years I had heard about paid parking programs for domains but many of them required you to make a payment to join the program or you had to pay them some huge percentage of revenue that seemed ludicrous to me. I just did not agree that I should have to pay my own money in order to promote my domains with your program. The real value is in the keywords of my domains and if they are generating clicks with no content why should I pay you a portion of that?

I steered clear of paid parking programs and focused instead on content development and revenue programs related to the domain niche when possible. Recently I decided to boost my usage of Google Adsense after ripping the ads out of most of my sites two years ago. I felt the conversions on Google ads was weak and I tried some other niche specific programs but these required to much maintenance and the difference in revenue was negligible. I was making more money but it took me more effort which sucks when you’re lazy like me.

While creating ads for my sites I was reminded that Google offers their Adsense for Domains now and I figured it was time to start better using some of these domains. I moved over just over 100 domains that have been dad or unused in the last two years. None of these was developed or promoted beyond possibly a single page with one external banner and no more than a paragraph of static content that was as stale as any content you have seen. Many of them were still shtml pages designed before I got into PHP and database driven sites.

It was actually pretty simple to move them over and Google of course offers detailed instructions on how to transfer DNS and Hosts records settings based on your registrar so you can be up and running in under 24 hours. It’s Google so we have no issue with trust or payments and they take care of serving up the best ads based on keywords you use and of course the domain name.

In the last week my earnings from the domains has averaged just below $10 per day which covers the registration fees on one domain. If it maintains the same pace for a full year I’ll be able to pay off two years of registration for the whole lot of domains each year until I either sell them or have time to build a new site. It’s not making me huge bucks but it’s not costing me anything as some of those domains were.

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Why have parked domains? Build quick and easy landing pages with Amazon Astore is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

I have always found it funny how many people have domains with no content and what I find even funnier are the number of domainers willing to share their domain revenues with registrars and parked pages programs. I see most of the traffic from a parked domain as coming from the type in value of the domain primarily and the idea of buying a domain and parking someones affiliate page on it so I can split the revenues on it just seems stupid on my opinion. I’m not a professional web designer but I can manage to slap a website up on any domain and push traffic to a custom tailored program.

Ihad about 50 domains that I recently purchased and had yet to build. They have been sitting for a few months and I was not looking to spend any money or much time in building them at all. I needed an idea and it came to me while looking over the collection of domains. I realized that many of them were products or ecommerce related so I thought about some simple shops to build. Full blown ecommerce sites are pretty easy to get up but loading quality content into them and delaying with customers this time of year had me rethink things. I knew I wanted to put something up fast so I jumped on Amazon and configured a bunch of Astore campaigns for the domains. I was able to build a store in just a minute or two for each domain.

I built a simple PHP page with an iframe including the Amazon storefront. I also added a couple of related rss feeds for some fresh updating content from some of my own wordpress blogs so I syndicated some of my content on parked domains and I’m using my own affiliate programs which give me 100% of my own revenue and no additional work to do but link build or add content.

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Internet marketing service links advertisers and webmasters is a post from: Affordable Web Pro

As a self employed work from home web developer I am always interested in new revenue sources and finding a comprehensive internet marketing service that not only provides a service I would buy but offers an affiliate relationship that will allow me to make money with them. Google Adsense is one of the bigger or more popular advertising services but there are in fact many smaller niche programs that pay out decent checks each and every month for my work.

Some programs I work with are very specific and only allow me to work with one type of advertising media and few work with more than one type of ad. One of the greatest strengths the web has is its use in linking groups of people looking for common products or services. In our instance we’re looking for advertising clients willing to spend som e money with us for exposure on our network of websites. On occasion though we are also looking for advertising opportunities for our own sites and now we can have them both in one service from DClick Ads. They offer a unique service in uniting online advertisers with webmasters and bloggers interested in making money with their ad space online. The DClick Ads service allows a webmaster like me or you sign up and provide details on sites in their network and what type of advertising space they have available. The best part is you can select anything banners to standard text link ads and even premium writing services with embedded hyperlinks located directly within unique text content on the webmasters blog or website.

I signed up for the program which pays out via Paypal and was approved quick enough. I ‘m even kicked down for this post and already a a fan of their program. I’m now in the process of installing some code on my sites so my ads go live later this week. I’ll have to update you more on this later but for now this looks like a great new internet marketing service making money for webmasters.

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