Seeking revenue, gaining independence
Since last week, I had been unable to get report from Adbrite. A long wait and database error message was shown even time I click on Report.
Even signing in is frequently a problem.
Today I notice the graphic button on the right was missing, so I went o AdBrite’s site and found the site in this state.
A case of too much traffic and cannot cope? Or sign of trouble?
A few days ago I got my first Text Link Ads buy on my site. Exciting! So naturally I took a closer look at how I can optimise this source of revenue.
While reading their link buying guide (pdf), I learnt about site wide links. Something I had not paid attention to before.
Here’s what they have to say,
Site wide links can put your link on 1,000’s of pages on one domain. We do not recommend purchasing a large number of site wide links on unrelated websites. You can draw attention to your website because your competition may have 50 links and then your site starts showing up with 2,000 backlinks. This can potentially cause your competition to file a spam report if you are buying links on unrelated websites and could cause your site to be banned by a major search engine.
Having the same link text on too many site-wide links could also raise a flag for having too high of a percentage of the same anchor text pointing to your website.
A site wide link will not typically give you much of a boost over one link from the best page of a website on Google. Site-wide links can help more in some search engines like the new MSN Search and Yahoo! Search, but you still need to stay relevant.
It is more natural for a website to have a high percentage of single page links versus a much smaller percentage of site wide incoming links. Too many site wide incoming links could possibly trigger a red flag with the search engine.
(Underlines are made by me.)
Things to ponder:
I talk about the need to seek different source of revenue so that not all the eggs are put in the same basket.
A few days ago I just received a Paypal credit for a program that I had joined. So I know this is a real, tried and tested program that I can recommend to you.
The company is called eNMarketing and they run 3 programs – Cardfountain, TrustyHound and FunnyTaf affiliate programs.
So far I find the CardFountain program most effective as it pays $0.50 for anyone that sign up and send an ecard from their service. The cards are well designed and especially the talking card is unique.
They payout using Paypal when your earning reaches $25. That means you just need 50 people to send out the cards to receive your earning.
Besides ecards, there are free downloads, screensavers that may appeal to your visitors.
Sign up is free, so why not give it a try? (Links contains my affiliate links.)
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