Entries for the ‘C. New Money Makers !’ Category

Looks like, this is an era of blog contests! I get to see a brand new contest every other day or so while going through my subscribed blogs (Incidentally, the number of blogs in my Google Reader has been growing at such an unmanageable rate that I had to somehow forcibly bring it down to 40-50 blogs).

At the moment, around 15 of the blogs in my RSS reader are having some contest or other and a few of these blogs are dedicated to contests alone! This does not mean that I have been participating in blog contests quite actively. In reality I have not participated in a single contest so far! However, I thought of writing about this topic today as the resources in my reader that I talked about may be of use to some of you! [Read on...]

There are not many CPM networks that are willing to approve publisher accounts of blogs or websites that does not have significant amount of traffic. In most cases, the Pay-Per-Impression programs would approve only those sites that meet 1000 unique visitors/2500 page impressions per day as minimum traffic requirement. Also, for many premium CPM networks, traffic alone is not the criteria but the site or blog should have unique content as per their norms.

With the CPM networks showing their back to small blogs, these bloggers are forced to revert to Paid-To-Promote (PTP) networks that promise decent eCPM rates. One such product is the CreditBurner PTP network that I had reviewed sometime back. Yet another similar product is MVAV Media’s CPM program. [Read on...]

A couple of weeks ago, the team at Performancing launched their newest blog advertising solution by name the PerformancingAds. Performancing has been experimenting around with various Ad services for a couple of years now and hopefully they will make it big this time around. Though I had prepared this review a few days back, I thought waiting until it started showing some results and the following are the findings from the initial trials.

A totally new concept and why?

The PerformancingAds brings in a new concept altogether by merging the traffic needs and monetary aspects of blogs. In other words, it is a solution invented by the bloggers for bloggers. So every aspect from traffic exchanges, appearance of their website and the ad blocks properties themselves have the emphasis of typical blogs’ and bloggers’ needs. [Read on...]

CreditBurner is a PTP network (Paid-To-Promote). They have a wide variety options to choose when it comes to ad types that the publishers can display on their blogs or websites. I had a 10 day long trial with CreditBurner and the following is my view on this network, based on my experience with their CPM banner ads alone.

Sign up Process

The sign up for publishers is extremely fast as you can get started as soon as you enroll. There is no major site requirement in order to become a publisher with CreditBurner and moreover their simple sign up form does not even ask for any site information where the ads might get displayed. As a publisher, you just need to provide your name, email address, snail mail address and PayPal/EGold information to get started. There is a signup credit of $0.35 for every publisher. [Read on...]

Take The Globe (TakeTheGlobe) is a relatively new advertisement initiative. It is not an ad network but more like a Get-Paid-To view ads program. I have known the person behind this effort via the DP forums when I wanted to purchase some initial traffic to this blog (In fact, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the DollarShower.com ad link is still displayed there)

How does it work?
TTG is for both advertisers and ad-viewers. Advertisers with TTG are usually those who purchase traffic to their websites - not necessarily quality traffic which give them referral sign up, ad clicks etc - but more like human hits [Read on...]