Blog Contest: 3 Free OpenX Ad Server Beginner’s Guide Books

I have teamed up with one of the best IT books publishing companies, Packt Publishing, and now we are giving away 3 OpenX books free which is valued at $35 each.

For those who are new to ad servers, OpenX is an open source (free) software which you can use to take control of all your online advertising at your websites, blogs and optimize the advertisements to maximize your earnings.

In other words, if you are a blogger & not using an ad server such as OpenX, it is quite possible that you are earning much less than you actually could!

How to win one of the books?
You should write a short blog post (200 – 300 words) with a backlink to OpenX guide book. You are free to choose a topic similar to the following suggested ones.

Topic #1: What is online ad server?
Topic #2: How do(would) you optimize ads on your blogs to earn more?
Topic #3: OpenX features

It is a first come first served contest. The first 3 bloggers who publish the post on their blogs will get the books. So, come here & add your comment with link to the published blog post.

Due to shipping costs, the books will be shipped to bloggers from only US & EU countries. Winners from other countries will get e-book version instead. So, the contest is actually open worldwide.

p.s : You can even make money with this best selling IT book if you are also a member of Amazon associates affiliate program. Just browse to one of the suitable Amazon links and get your link with your Amazon ID and spread the love, enjoy your commissions from Amazon !

OpenX book at Amazon.com

OpenX book at Amazon.co.uk

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75% Revenue Share Gadget Articles Website

Revenue sharing websites are becoming more and more popular. Considering this, I have decided to convert one of my gadget blogs to such a useful service for all of us.

Gadgetthink.com is one of the newest blogs which offers Adsense revenue share for the original articles submitted on website. The difference of the blog is that, you need to submit articles similar to the ones published at gizmodo, engadget or simply Amazon product reviews etc.

So, I only accept specific niche electronics product reviews, gadgets, cool designs, technology related articles.

You get 75% of Adsense impressions on your posts and allowed to insert affiliate links (Amazon.com etc.) and links to your blogs, websites in the blog post.

My aim is to provide good level of extra income for the contributors in the long run. So, you can be sure that spam and plagiarized content will not be tolerated there.  If you want to join Gadgetthink.com, click here now.

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OpenX Ad Server & Geotargeting

OpenX is the best and most popular open source ad serving solution for a website. Every online business should run it to optimize and manage the online advertisements. As a blogger or a blog network owner, OpenX can optimize your online advertising needs and maximize your profits through the usage of built-in geotargeting system and many other features. In this article, we will learn about geotargeting in OpenX

Geotargeting briefly is the process of showing ads relevant to the origin of the visitor. I will provide you an example to show the importance of using it on your blogs.

Suppose a small Amazon products review blog gets 10,000 impressions monthly and here is the distributions of page impressions according to visitor originating country.

US : 5,500

UK : 3,000

France : 500

Germany : 500

Others : 500

Without geotargeting optimization, a UK visitor would see the banners and links to Amazon US website. Eventhough, some of these people click on Amazon.com affiliate links, this would bring you nothing. Zero. The reason is simple. Amazon US does not ship most products internationally and UK visitors would not buy from US because there is Amazon.co.uk for them.

Geotargeting Solution

In an optimized website, we should show Amazon.com links to US, Amazon.co.uk links to only UK visitors, Amazon.fr to France etc. This way, we will use every page impression beneficently.

OpenX Geotargeting

OpenX allows to show banners in the system according to Geotargeting. It is very easy to use it. Plus, you can achieve it on multiple blogs without changing any template, HTML code for wordpress, blogger installed blogs. All is achieved in a central management screen.

You can learn more about what you can achieve with OpenX by reading OpenX Book.

You can read the reviews about OpenX Ad Server Guide at Amazon as well.

Here is the official website to OpenX where you can download and install OpenX Ad Server free.

Overall, OpenX is effective, open source solution, ever written to maximize ad earnings on the websites, blogs!

OpenX Review

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Getting .edu Backlinks Same Way Gizmodo Does

I know that the title is a bit strange but it is true that you can get high quality .edu backlinks to rank in SERPs incredibly high for certain keywords like reputed sites including Gizmodo. I should emphasize that it is not an automated or just press the button solution and needs a combination of high quality article plus social efforts.

I have written in HubPages a long useful article with sample screenshots from a certain Gizmodo page, .edu link and related Google SERP success. Read this, you will not be sorry later :)

Best Way to Get .edu Backlinks

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Starting HubPages 50 Product Campaign

I knew about HubPages for a long time but couldn’t find time and an action plan to use this high quality article sharing network where you can put your ads (Yeah, we get 60% of all page impressions, thus revenue generating) and more importantly free quality backlinks. The advantage of HubPages is that search engines trust the pages and give high rankings. Since I compete on many technology related keywords it was essential for me to get backlinks.

So, it is the day to start a 50 articles product campaign on several technology items. I plant to write two hubs each day. I will reveal my traffic and revenue (Amazon sales) at the end of this month for the experiment (It doesn’t include Google Adsense for sure, because it is against their rules). Anyway, here is my first hub : Best iPhone Cases of 2009 and possibly 2010 :)

By the way, HubPages network has a very effective affiliate program as well where you can earn affiliate revenue in 2 ways.

  1. You get referral’s 10% of all lifetime impressions on their hubs.
  2. This one is interesting. Even if you don’t write anything, you can put your affiliate links in settings. Then, if you give a link to another person’s hub, you can get up to 12% of their traffic impression revenue after someone clicks on the link you put for 120 minutes. A quite effective way of earning money promoting other people as well.
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