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OpenX Ad Server & Geotargeting

muratos — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:02:41 +0000

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!

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Announcing a crazy blogging experiment – newblogaday.com

muratos — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:01:37 +0000

Blogging is one of the easiest ways to make considerable amount of money in short to mid range time with no to little investments using only your time and energy to write interesting articles and market them to the interested readers. Since I have already a well established blog content publishing network, I have decided to take it to a step further. It is all about generating 365 unique blogs in 365 days with lots of useful and interesting content which will make money for me. Well, if you are interested to learn about this blog challenge, I kindly invite you to visit newblogaday.com

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Cash For Your Blog: Earn Easy £10 instantly and £5 monthly

muratos — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:43:01 +0000

Important Update 17.08.2008 :

I think they don’t accept new bloggers more to the system because all the ads slots are full. Thanks for everyone who joined. You can try other opportunities listed on my blog for extra income while I discover new ones

Freebies4Webmasters is an easy income advertising network which uses direct link placement method which will pay you £5 monthly by PayPal for placing their high quality 468×60 text links on the bottom of your selected 3 pages.

I have been just accepted with my Gadget blog and replaced the codes in the bottom of these 3 pages. You can see these high quality ads on these pages.

You will receive your free £10 payment when your first banner goes live on these three pages of your website or blog. After that you will receive monthly £5 payments to your PayPal account if they are still there. Another £5 bonus is available if you implement the ads within 72 hours after approval to the program.

As you know, a referral program is a good encouragement for making more money. If you bring another blogger to the network which implements the codes you get £10. There are no limits on how many bloggers you can refer and how many websites you can add for advertisements.

And my final opinion. Actually, I was hesitant to join at first but after seeing that the ads are from a respected UK website I was persuaded that it is not a scam. Freebies4Webmasters uses an effective selected advertisement tactics for the advertiser because each application is approved by editors. Try to choose your best pages with content when you submit your application. I was approved after 2 days of application. If you have any questions please comment on this article. I will try to help you.

Last update to topic : Today 03.08.2008, they paid my first £10 to paypal. So, actually you will need to wait almost a week. Anyway, free money is nice any rejections?

Another hot update: One of my blog visitors asked me payment proof. So I have added here as well. Check please below

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Google Adwords is now much more powerful

muratos — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:18:58 +0000

Google lately made two very useful improvements on their Adwords money machine. The first one is the optional feature to be able to put keywords for certain placements (websites) on the content network. As you maybe know, content network is always the target of MFA (Made for Adsense) sites to crop huge profits by Adsense Arbitrage methods. Now, it is more easy to prevent and control it by individually choosing the placements in the campaign. But, the unexperienced Adwords advertisers who don’t target their ads according to language, location and placements will continue being the victims of Arbitrage professionals. Here are two screenshots from one of my campaigns showing the placement targeting options with sample websites I have added now for demonstration.

The other progress is about keyword tool. You can now see statistics on the approximate number of search queries matching your keywords. This data allows you to better plan your budget and pick keywords most likely to return quality leads, which in turn can help improve your ROI.

Here is the example screenshot for “best affiliate programs” and its related keywords.

If Google further shows the number of result websites turning from the search nearby, most people will not need advanced keyword tools like Keyword Country for affiliate programs or niche website building.

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CPL Ads on RocketProfit Affiliate Network

muratos — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:06:07 +0000

I was very busy this week making design changes, new ads conversion tests on my blogs, testing new money making opportunities and writing some Facebook applications. Because of this, I couldn’t post anything new for a week. Shame on me! I will try to post more often.

Anyway, I will recommend you to join RocketProfit affiliate network; especially for those who failed on affiliate marketing up to now with no sales or very little amount of sales. I know many Commission Junction, Amazon affiliates who are in this situation actually.

The main advantage of RocketProfit is that you don’t have to sell anything with the 90% of the programs there. To be specific, CPL (Cost Per Lead) type ads. All you need is to get reasonable US (In some cases UK, Europe or Worldwide) traffic for completion of profiles, email captures, cell submit, free trial program downloads, registrations. It is much easier to convert there. To be specific, with some programs you can make $4 with a completed profile, or $1 for just an email. Minimum payouts are $25 . It is easy to reach that, you should think much more here.

The other most important point is about incentives. Most offers ‘CANNOT be incentivized’, but there are still ‘CAN BE incentivized’ opportunities. DO NOT miss them.

At RocketProfit, each affiliate has a manager assigned to them. So, you can ask recommendations, share your thoughts. That’s a really advantage to be in contact with them through AIM. It gives confidence and more passion to generate more income.

There are tons of campaign offers from reputable companies including ‘exclusive’ ones which are expected to perform very well.

The design of the site, offers tracking, real time report pages are excellent, in brief.

If you are looking for an affiliate network which will bring you good money, I recommend RocketProfit network. If you join with my RocketProfit link I will be happy. Write a comment to this post and I will help you making money using RocketProfit.

Affiliate Hint #1: If you have a network of sites and blogs, do not separate your forces on different ads at the same time. Choose one and pump it everywhere possible to see the results on high volume. If you succeed then continue to attack with it; if you don’t, change it with another.

Affiliate Hint #2: Do not run many networks at the same time hoping that you will get checks from all of them someday. No, you will end up with a good sum of money residing in many places in small amounts without checks. I suffered it about also before.

I will share my experience on evil ways of money making with viral Facebook applications on the next post.

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Make (Some) Money From Your Content Thief

muratos — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:29:02 +0000

We all know about content scraper sites. You write an article by giving your energy, time and thinking.. And see that someone exactly copies it and runs a website thinking to fool you and earn money. I have recently met a website (I will not give its name for now, it is also in Entrecard system and thinks that I wouldn’t notice it) copying all the content from my gadget website in some intervals:

What he has forgotten is to change or delete my affiliate links. I have many Amazon links in my articles and this scraper website helps to market the products to my advantage. On the other way, he gives my SEO harm because search engines will punish the duplicate content. I will wait some time to reveal that website to EC community and my readers. Dear thief, Further, I will take the necessary steps. You are warned!

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Best Way to Make Money on StumbleUpon Traffic

muratos — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:22:01 +0000

Many people complain that they can’t make a good level of money on Stumbleupon traffic. Actually, there are right points on their thoughts but you are not completely lost. I will give you the best tried method of making money with Stumbleupon traffic.

First of all, Stumbleupon users are more experienced than the others and are able to catch the advertisements on your pages, and naturally escape from clicking especially Google Adsense ads. If your website gets a page CTR of 1% on average for Adsense, for stumbleupon traffic, it can down to 0.10% level easily. So, forget about it.

Maybe, you will not believe much but the best way to convert is Amazon product links. You should write a very specific quality post including innovative, quality Amazon electronics that many people would like to have one. To be concrete, I will give you a real example that I experienced this month.

I have written an article about How to read books at night without disturbing your partner with the lights in one of my gadget blogs. I have given 2 related Amazon products namely LightWedge Paperback and LightWedge Mini as sample links. Stumble users much liked it.

Here is the screenshots of my earnings for latest 7 days only from this article. Amazon Sales Commissions totaled on $42.71

As you see, I sold only 5 of the products I directly advertised bringing commissions around $5. The other items are totally different. One person bought 15 books for $400 and this brought commission of $25.95. I earned around $12 for other products. Note that not all the orders were shipped yet, the commissions will increase. There are 1066 product clicks were at that period and experienced 3.75% conversion rate.

StumbleUpon Traffic + Amazon Affiliate Links Benefits

StumbleUpon users like to shop on Amazon regularly. Even they don’t buy your direct link, some of them will buy another
Even you don’t sell that day, you will sell another day because of the Amazon affiliate cookie set on their computers.
They can’t always understand that it is an affiliated link because Amazon links are (hopefully) really long.
There is always possibility of a huge spending some of StumbleUpon users at Amazon

These are only affiliate benefits of Amazon. You can make money extra with your traffic using Pay per Impressions Ads. Because your traffic increased, it is likely that you will get more reviews chances and advertisers will approach you naturally. You can convert to RSS readers for a future investment.

Note that if your article is not high quality your StumbleUpon traffic will never increase and die much faster than naturally.