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

ViralBlogAds is launching their blog ad network! Right now, the pre-launch
campaign is going on with a contest that offers $1,650/- worth prizes from various sponsors. The ad program is open for subscription and bloggers can actually sign up now as publishers and take part in the pre-launch contest while availing the publisher options.

Too many blog ad networks?

Of late, there has been a flurry of ad networks that were specially designed to target blogs. Some of them are link or blogroll networks such as Blogrolledwhere as some others are flat rate banner networks (e.g. PerformancingAds). Most banner networks supported only the blog friendly 125×125 image ads and many of Click Here to Continue Reading

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! Click Here to Continue Reading

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. Click Here to Continue Reading

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. Click Here to Continue Reading