for your own 14$ ad? If you are a member, i guess you want to know, if you're not a member, this article will help you in finding an ad network that pays you (back most of your ad price) to advertise in its network!
Additionally you will get as my referral a
FREE ONE WEEK AD (value 7$) which will give you between 250 - 500 visitors/week and up to 3.50 $ earnings in Adgitize - simply sign up by clicking on one of my Adgitize ads - the easiest way to monetize your blog and to get traffic to your blog!
My
payment proofs from Adgitize from
July since today 5th December 2009, always more than 14$/month (including referral earnings)!
Yesterday John Lottery from "
Ask the Blogster" asked me -after reading the
previous Adgitize blog post with my points and earnings statistic- how i could achieve these numbers as he only achieved a
maximum of 480 points with
TWO running ads (three blogs registered).
Eli came up with a similar conclusion as he only owns ONE BLOG, "
Business Sphere"and his highest points have been just 425 (with one ad + paid preferred publisher).
In the last six month i could achieve daily in Adgitize 440 - 470 points (
FOUR BLOGS registered) which has been nearly the maximum of the points (500 points until August, 600+ points since end of August).
The Basics in generating points in Adgitize- Click the necessary amount of ads until you see 100 in the blue field under the Adgitize ads (for publishers this are 100 different ads, for advertiser just 50 ads) -> 100 click points
- Publish ONE article per day (more are allowed but don't give additional points!) -> 100 article points
- advertise in Adgitize for 31 days (14$ = 45 cents/day, best value!) -> 100 advertiser points
Advertising gives you the necessary bonus -as you could see in #1-, less clicking and it will double your page/ad view points in #4
- drive traffic like crazy to your blog, use EntreCard and drop 300 cards, find persons who reciprocate your drop, get into the TOP 15 spot of your category and make your way in the overall TOP 15 for total exposure and FREE advertising for your blog!
Why it is important to get to the TOP 15 in your category and in the end in the overall TOP 15!
If you start dropping cards
look yourself for an ad image that makes other curious about you or write the purpose of your blog into the image (be creative).
By using EntreCard's own templates you should write in a few words "what is your blog about" to attract some members (usually less members click on these cards).
Looking in my Category "Finance and Investing" there is not much competition and it would be easy to climb from 0 to 350 member visits (popularity points) with just 3-5 days dropping 300 cards.
This would give you already some exposure for the persons who are interested in this category and you would get some free visitors, just because you are in the TOP 15.
To get in the category "Mixed Bag" into the TOP 15 you have to find a good strategy with dropping and it will take time (more than 2 weeks) to come closer to the TOP 15 as there are over 2.000 blogs.
Getting into the
overall TOP 15 needs time -around one month- but with the
following strategies it's easier for you to achieve!
Some different
dropping strategies:
- Drop on the 300 most popular blogs daily as they are usually daily active and most of them are reciprocating drops.
- Build friendships by commenting on some of the blogs where you drop cards.
Commenting gives you exposure and a free text link (to your blog or blogger profile), especially if you comment on the TOP 30 blogs in EntreCard (as they get over 300 visitors from EntreCard!).
- Be fast in commenting = make the comment as one of the first on each blog post, more likely that others will read it and visit you, if it's NOT A SPAMMING COMMENT or just a "Great post, nice article"-comment :)
- Use Google Friend Connect or subscribe to the RSS-Feed so that you get their new blog posts automatically delivered!
- Drop on popular blogs in your category (even if they are not one of the 300 most popular blogs) to make them aware of your blog and your interests, share your knowledge with them.
- Drop on blogs who appear in your inbox, they might be interested in your blog and come back for a visit in the following days, too! Sort out blogs who didn't reciprocate your drops (if they are NOT OF INTEREST to you).
- Advertise daily in EntreCard with the received ECs. Look out for "cheap" ad spots by checking the popularity points. Buy throughout the categories and buy at least each second day one ad which costs up to 512 EC, it's worth the ECs and with more traffic your own ad price will raise, too, giving you more ECs to invest in more ads!
- Reward Top Droppers (look in your EntreCard Statistics) with link love, the easiest way is to join Dropaholics as they provide you with different widgets for your Top Droppers (you can see one in my sidebar, the largest one, small ones only show the ad pictures). Some members just visit you because of being an active member in Dropaholics (even if you don't drop back on them)! They just want to be on your TOP Dropper widget!
With these strategies you can get more visitors from EntreCard to your blog but your content should be attractive, too. So that they enjoy to visit you daily or frequently every other day.
If you write your content not only for your readers but partially for the Search engines (SEO), you will gain additional free traffic from Google, Yahoo and Bing.
Use
Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Facebook and/or MySpace to increase your readership even more.
The page and ad view point system, the more points you want, the more you have to work!The page view points are calculated in a very steep way. The
maximum page view points (with
FOUR BLOGS!) i could achieve was
60 points (originally it's
30 points as the points get doubled if you're an advertiser). Therefore i need
2.000 page views.
The highest page views i could achieve in the past have been 2.500 but nothing changed with the page view points, so this will be really hard for myself to achieve once the 70 page view points.
But
you can influence the ad view points with the number of ads which you display and the number of ad groups!
Eli for example could improve his ad view points by adding one bigger ad blog with 9 ads or two different ad groups (one with two ads, a second one with eight ads). In this case he could achieve already the five fold of his page views. At the moment he gets just the 1,5 times his page views as he only displays ONE ad group with ONE ad and a SECOND ad group with TWO ads.
This change could be worth
up to 30 ad view points, on average 20 more ad view points daily!
- Choose two ad groups and mix them so that you show only a maximum of ten ads
For the
ad views the point system (for advertisers) looks like this:
- more than 10.000 ad views - 100 points (50 for publishers)
- between 9.000 - 10.000 ad views - 90 points (45 for publishers)
- less than 9.000 ad views - 80 points (40 for publishers)
As i didn't get 70 points in ad views, i can't tell you if 10 (5 for publishers) points are given for every 1.000 ad views. Therefore i would need your feedback :)
Another point which you should take into account - Preferred Publisher ProgramUse the Preferred Publisher Program, it gives you free traffic (in case you click already daily the maximum of ads, 100 or 50) for one blog and additional 10 advertiser points. Otherwise read my
guide for the Adgitize Preferred Publisher Program.
If you want to sign up for the
paid Preferred Publisher Program, the prices start from 6$/month and you will get 25 advertiser points
Some other members achieve high points, too but only with more than ONE BLOG or several paid ads/preferred publisher!In the
Adgitize Leaderboard you can find in the TOP 10 usually only members with
MORE than ONE BLOG (up to six blogs -
Positive Men).
I would say everyone who has
on average more than 470 points has
two ads running or is PAID preferred publisher with a second/third/... blog as it's too difficult to jump over the 60 page view points.
I achieved the
500 points on 2nd of December just because i
started my new ad at the same day as my old ad expired.
I wanted to see if there is a
big difference in earnings but it seems it's
just 1 or 2 cents for each 10 points in this area (different when you jump between from 270 to 300 or 370 to 400).
These have been a lot of tips how to achieve much more points in Adgitize, most of them are free, some might take additional time each day but in the end
you will get most of the invested ad price returned by Adgitize!
In the past you simply had to
achieve around 400 points on average to
get paid by Adgitize for advertising (+ around 2000+ visitor/monthly) now it will be around 430+ points to achieve the same effect.
Join now, get traffic and make a profit with blogging!
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