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4/30/07

AdGridWork - The Free Advertising Network

AdGridWork.com At times building traffic and readership to our blog can be a daunting task. By taking traffic exchanges out of the equation since their traffic quality is nearly non-existent, we are left with search engines, social networks, forum participation and perhaps even paid advertising. The question now is where else can we make our blog known? If you are looking for a free platform, then do give AdGridWork a try.

Some of you may have noticed an Adsense-like ad at the bottom of my furthest right-sidebar for the past 3 days. Well this is AdGridWork and I’ve been experimenting with how effective this channel can be to drive targeted traffic. So far the result is quite satisfactory and since its free, I would say its an awesome channel to market our blog with. My ads thus far have been shown 798 times with 2 click-throughs and in-return displayed ads of other bloggers 950 times with 2 conversions as well.

My AdGridWork Stats

The main benefit I would say is the ability to target specific audience which is exactly what we want. This can be done by choosing a specific relevant category and keywords. Our blog ad will then be seen within other participating blogs and we will also be featuring ads in similar category.

The first crucial component to do well is by picking the right category and keywords for reasons stated above and the second would be writing a catchy ad for our blog. The following screenshot will give you a better understanding of how it all works:

AdGridWork Overview

At the end of the day, I find that perhaps those technology blogs will benefit more from this since I’ve seen many participating blogs in this category. I do wonder if any ecommerce enabled sites have given AdGridWork a try cause that would be interesting to see especially ebooks or e-applications sellers.

Post You Might Have Missed: Amazon Is Sticking It To Kontera With Context Links Beta

I was just browsing through all my affiliate programs to check on new offers and stats when I found out that Amazon just released their Beta Context Links program. What it is for sure is very similar to Kontera where it links to Amazon products via specific relevant phrases within our blog content. I guess their tagline says it all - ‘You create the content. We’ll link it.’

Their added features are being able to limit the total number of ads to appear and controlling the delivery of the ads. As an example, you can disable the hovering effect of the links by just making them direct links and also choose which Amazon category to apply.

The other important feature is the ability to choose either exact matching of product names or leaving it loose. This will surely benefit those blogs or sites which covers specific product topics such as audio equipments, computer hardware or PS2 gaming blogs among many others.

Setting it up is pretty straight forward by placing their ad script just before the tag in your blog template and you’re ready to go. You can see it working almost immediately at most after 2 refreshes.

You can view some live examples of blogs using Context Links Beta here:
- Muppet Central News
- Thought Garage
- World of Warcraft Tips

For an indepth info on this program, kindly visit the The Official Amazon Associates Blog.

4/26/07

Pagerank Update Driving Bloggers Mad

Pagerank UpdateWell no doubt about this quarter’s pagerank update being late and the buzz around bloggers and webmasters can be seen vividly. Although I wouldn’t categorize it as the most important benchmark to a blog success, it is still quite crucial in particularly towards earning potential, especially in regards to selling links and the ability to command a higher price for reviews or paid posts.

Most believe the actual update will be seen sometime this week or early next week although none can be sure. Some even reported a PR change in some of their individual pages recently but none have provided any concrete proof of it being so.

Nevertheless everyone is getting a little restless and myself included but in my case, its more about seeing how I fare through all the hardwork I’ve put in for the past 4 months. If you are a frequent reader of this blog of mine, you’ll understand my passion for trying different things and experimenting.

Anyways I would like to share some links for your further reading and also some of my favorite Pagerank checkers especially the new one I found which also check all your individual pages. Hope all of you find it useful!

4/16/07

Download album Josh Groban - Awake

Awake

WMI (2006)

TITRES

  • 01. Mai (Album Version) »
  • 02. You Are Loved [Don't Give Up] (Album Version) »
  • 03. Un Dia Llegara (Album Version) »
  • 04. February Song (Album Version) »
  • 05. L'Ultima Notte (Album Version) »
  • 06. So She Dances (Album Version) »
  • 07. In Her Eyes (Album Version) »
  • 08. Solo Por Ti (Album Version) »
  • 09. Now Or Never (Album Version) »
  • 10. Un Giorno Per Noi (Album Version) »
  • 11. Lullaby [With Ladysmith Black Mambazo] (Album Version) »
  • 12. Weeping [With Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Vusi Mahlasela] (Album Version) »
  • 13. Machine [With Herbie Hancock] (Album Version) »
  • 14. Verita [Bonus Track] »
  • 15. Awake [Bonus Track] »
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[SND] 03. Un Dia Llegara.mp3 16-Apr-2007 19:53 5.9M
[SND] 04. February Song.mp3 16-Apr-2007 19:55 7.2M
[SND] 05. L'Ultima Notte.mp3 16-Apr-2007 19:57 6.0M
[SND] 06. So She Dances.mp3 16-Apr-2007 19:59 6.7M
[SND] 07. In Her Eyes.mp3 16-Apr-2007 20:00 6.7M
[SND] 08. Solo Por Ti.mp3 16-Apr-2007 20:01 5.5M
[SND] 09. Now Or Never.mp3 16-Apr-2007 20:03 5.0M
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[SND] 11. Lullaby.mp3 16-Apr-2007 20:07 3.5M
[SND] 12. Weeping.mp3 16-Apr-2007 20:09 6.5M
[SND] 13. Machine.mp3 16-Apr-2007 20:12 6.7M