Entries Tagged ‘onlne ads’

In fact, I was intending to write on a similar topic (’US ad expenditure trend‘) until I read this post from ProBlogger today. Basically he is talking about how to recession-proof your blog and I encourage all of you to read that post first (and excuse any duplication here, as I wrote this post in one go as an improvisation on my draft)

As we all are experiencing, the global markets are nose-diving for the past few weeks following credit crunch, sub-prime issues and what not. Directly or indirectly this has affected the job scene, housing market and various other bank rate specific industries such as automobile sector. It is imminent that it will soon affect online entrepreneurs as well. So if you are a blogger, web service provider or an online content provider chances are you will be going through a lean patch - especially if your main source of income is one of the above - in the coming months. Click Here to Continue Reading

The other day, while browsing through some Orkut groups I hit upon a few ‘Adsense’ groups. Though the group descriptions said that they are Adsense support forums, soon I realized that they are nothing but ‘click-exchange’ groups. Though my Adsense account is somehow not functional (though valid clicks are there and account is active), I thought of subscribing to one of these groups.

In no time, I received some mails in my inbox and more than 100 requests in my Yahoo Messenger from interested click partners. The requests are like this ‘10 refreshes and couple of ad clicks’ or ‘A few refreshes and one Google custom search using certain keyword’ etc. Many of them claimed that their Adsense account is adding good amount of money each day through click exchange programs while they didn’t have genuine traffic inflow.
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I wasn’t quite sure whether to post this article here as I had touched upon this topic very recently under ‘How Do I’ category. However, I will mention a few other things here for the sake of continuity.

Online advertisement business has been spreading at an alarming pace for the past few years when Google revolutionised the whole concept. Though there were many players before that it was Google all the way once it started realising the potential of search engine results into huge money. The term ‘Search Engine Marketing’ (SEM) and ‘Search Engine Optimization’ (SEO) are almost synonymous to online ads now.

Difference between ads and other money making mechanisms
As we had discussed earlier, we have get-paid-to (GPT) read email programs, GPT blog, GPT do surveys etc. Click Here to Continue Reading