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Adsense is Dead

Ken — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:16:30 +0000

Interestingly I found this new marketing spin call “The Death of Adsense“

Normally I get bombarded with so many “marketing guru” email daily that I just ignore the pitch. But something about it caught my attention.

First was the graphic, impactful, shocking, got my attention.

Then it was the free report. Yeah I got lots of free reports saved on my harddisk. Wouldn’t mind adding another to the collection. Why not?

Then I found that I was duped! The guy before got paid $0.50 just for me to download it. (That’s Fifty, five-o, 1/2 a dollar, NOT a fraction of a cent!)

What! The guy behind this spin is on drug or he is crazy or both! A viral marketing like this would create thousands if not tens of thousand of download. And he is paying for each download!

Well, what you waiting for? Click here to bust this guy and earn me 50 cents.

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Sign up for Text Link Ads and get paid

Ken — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:38:00 +0000

Text Link Ads (my review) is a popular source of revenue that had received good review in forum such as Earners Forum.

The concept is simple, the service broker site owners who what to get one directional links with publisher willing to host their links. So if you own a website, you are a good candidate to sign up for Text Link Ads.

Now I will even pay you to sign up. Here’s why and how.

Text Link Ads has a referral program that pays $25 if any referred visitor results in a sale or gets accepted into their publisher program.

Click on this banner and sign up now and if I get paid, I will share the referrer fee 50-50 with you.

Interested? Find out how.

Follow the banner above or this link to sign up.
Send me your name that your sign up with.
If your name appears in my referral payment list, I will pay you via PayPal when TLA pays me.
Done.

Can you trust me?

Well, that’s the only catch, you will have to trust me. If you don’t, simply don’t sign up. Simple.

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Keyword Research Tools

Ken — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:24:36 +0000

What are Keywords?

Keywords are the cornerstone of the successful revenue seeker. Having the right keywords can have a huge impact on your bottom line. Whether you are targeting search engine keywords or using keywords in your Adword or Overture campaigns.

There are some great keyword research tools for finding massive keyword lists and gain insights from them. Here are some research tools:

Once you have a list of keywords, you take it a huge step further with variations. Keyword variation generators can help you generate different variation of keywords:

Keyword Toolbox
GoodKeywords

What keyword research tools do you use?

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List of Revenue Source Alternatives

Ken — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:54:28 +0000

I talk alot about getting alternative revenue sources.

Here is compiled list (in alphabetical order) of revenue sources from a few references. A few from my own list are also included.

For the few that I had mentioned before, I included a link to my post.

references:

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Forwarding referral links

Ken — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:15:41 +0000

Yesterday I talk about whether referral links should be disclosed.

One of the publisher concern is that referral link is bypassed whether unintentionally, intentionally or even maliciously.

Today, I want to introduce you a way to forward your referral link and at the same time hiding (or cloaking) your referral link.

It is fairly easy if you follow closely the following instructions. Two methods will be presented.

The first requires your server to run PHP. If you are using WordPress blog, then your server has PHP and you an use this method. The second method works on any website.

Method 1: Using PHP forward

Create a folder. I use go. So all my links will be something like http://seekingrevenue.com/go/referral-site.php
In the folder create a file, name it referral-site.php for example, text-link-ads.php.
Edit the file and put in the following codeheader('Location: http://your-referral-link.com/?id=12345'); ?>
Replace http://your-referral-link.com/?id=12345 with your referral link
Use the new link link in your content.

Method 2: Using HTML redirect

As above, create a folder. I use go. Your links will be something like http://seekingrevenue.com/go/referral-site.html
In the folder create a file, name it referral-site.html for example, text-link-ads.html.
Edit the file and put in the following code”
content="0;URL=http://your-referral-link.com/?id=12345">
Replace http://your-referral-link.com/?id=12345 with your referral link
Use the new link link in your content.

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Disclosing Affiliate Links?

Ken — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:37:14 +0000

The views on disclosing affiliate links differs widely.

A while back Weblog Tools Collection introduced Text Link Ads (referral) with a referral link and Matt quickly pointed out that referral links should be disclosed.

Later, another post was quick to point out that the link is not a referral.

What is your opinion on disclosing affiliate links?

Having been on the reader’s side and now standing on the publisher side, I know the debate well.

As a reader, I do not like to be tricked into clicking on referral links. I had even seen link saying something but linking to another. However I do not mind giving the publisher the referral if the information is useful. Anyway it is someone else that is paying, so why not make someone happy.

As a publisher, the concern is readers bypassing the referral. Each click is a potential earning and if I can get more people to click, all the better.

Is there a balance?

My decision is to disclose affiliate referral using the title attributes in the link tag and if necessary mentioning it. I hope the reader will appreciate this action as a sincere introduction and give me the referral if I deserve it.

How do you decide?

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Marketing Giveaway

Ken — Wed, 31 May 2006 19:47:43 +0000

Very often I receive giveaway offers in my email. Most of the time I ignore them or simply sent them to the trash.

Don’t get me wrong, giveaway and offers are good way to promote your products and website. But there are so many crap or sneaky giveaways that good giveaway are overshadowed.

Just today I received an email introducing a giveaway offer. It looks decent enough so I gave it a try. There is a usual plot to up sell you other products which are always tempting. Then you are give free stuffs that seem linked from other sites.

Overall the free information are still worth a read. The elaborate setup for this giveaway is also worth learning from.

Try it yourself.