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CMF Ads - My Network Ads suggestion - a better way for publisher and advertiser

In my previous post about Network Ads i complained about the low payout for publishers and the influence of my existing campaign advertisers. After i wrote that article i thought about it and how CMF Ads could make it a successful Network ad for both parties - Publishers as well as Advertisers.

What if we just fill the empty ad slots with Network ads instead of CMF House Ads?

If a widget is already full, Network ads would not show up until one slot would be empty (otherwise it hurts the actual advertisers).

In this case, you could run the CMF House ad (if you don't like any of the existing Network ads) and earn 0 cent or you could run one or more of the Network ads and earn more than with the actual 30 day-Flat-rate solution.

Sure, this will cut down the page views/clicks for the Network advertiser by a high percentage.

In this case the ad price could be set by Page impressions 10.000/25.000/50.000 and not by a time period.
The price should be 5,5555 cents for 1.000 page views with 90% of the revenue being shared to the publishers and 10% for CMF Ads (it would equal to 50% of the suggested price).

UPDATE:
Another addition would be to expand it to a certain formula:

- For each ad slot, only one Network ad
- a maximum of 5 Network ads can run simultaneously, if you have the 5 ad slot widget
- if you have only 1 ad slot, only 1 Network ad is allowed to run
- wouldn't hurt the classic advertiser (like it does NOW) (End of Update)


Why is this a fair offer?

With the actual pricing system only members with HIGH TRAFFIC (more than 7.500 page views) and LESS ADS (double amount of available slots - 4 ads running with 2 slots or 6 ads running with 3 slots...) get a significant payout (more than 3 cents) from the Network ads because the actual Network ad price is fixed to 30 days and not to page views but the payout is calculated by own ad views/overall page views!

Most members contribute on a monthly basis less than 1.000/500/100 ad views for each running Network ad! For my Network ad this would mean you would get less than 3/1,5/0,3 cents after the payout is calculated (based on 300.000+ page views - after 80 hours i got now 41.000+ page views).

If we calculated the payout by "how many days/hours the ad was running" which would be appropriate as the Network ad is for a certain TIME PERIOD (30 days) the payout amount would look differently especially for LOW TRAFFIC BLOGS (then High Traffic blogs would earn less than 2 cents or not participate at all and Low Traffic blogs could earn easily more than 2 cents for each ad)!


With the new pricing and change to page impressions there would be a fair price to run one or more Network ads on an empty slot (when i look at my suggested price with 77 cents and i charge usually 60 cents). If the Cost/page impression would be just 5,5555 cents, you would still get 50% of your suggested price for an previous empty slot with the actual solution you get between 3 - 25% of your suggested price (depending how many ads you are running)!

And if publisher like to increase their earnings they can use with this solution the biggest widget with 4 or 5 slots as there will be a fair price for empty slots and Network advertisers will be more than happy to buy such an ad.

What does this mean for Advertiser?

Advertiser pay more (up to 100%) but the exposure on the blogs will be better because the publisher approves your Network ad while an empty slot is available. There should be a possibility to choose one or more ads which "share" ONLY THIS EMPTY SLOT (Why more ads? When one ad has reached its page view limit there is the need of another ad running immediately).

It is better to pay more for this Network ad and have a SATISFIED PUBLISHER as they are the majority who approve at the moment Network ads (with too little to earn).

Otherwise there will or are already more and more publisher who let the current Network ads pending or cancel it immediately as soon as they are queued up!

I believe Network Ads can get a success when the payout for publishers is significant higher than with the current system and if it doesn't influence the actual campaign advertiser (like it does now if you approve additional Network ads).

To join the discussion i published this article in the CMF Ads forum, too!

CMF Ads: Network Ads - bad for most publishers, good for some advertisers

Yesterday CMF Ads launched Network Ads within their System. It's a new way to get your name out in the blogosphere. With a Network Ads you can advertise on over 640 blogs for a time period of 30 days and it costs only 10$ (similar to Adgitize, mostly rotating ads, just no need to click on your ads!).

Is this good or bad news for Publishers?

There are different opinions as it depends how many page views your blog gets in these 30 days, which ad price you have set and how many ad slots are available or empty! The more ad slots available, the better your "return" for each Network Ad. This said, perhaps you should choose the 4 or 5 ad slot widget from now on to earn additional from the network ads and the classic ads.
What about Ben's discussion about an Advertisement experiment
In short: Reduce your ad slots (to one for each ad network), so that the readers don't get swamped with ads (and you could maximize your earnings).
That's what i call double standard in CMF Ads because NOW you SHOULD maximize your ad slots like Turnip reminded some members in the forum otherwise you WON'T earn anything from the Network ads + classic ads (and your direct classic/campaign advertisers wouldn't get much exposure).
It looks now similar to Adgitize, the more ads you display, the higher is your share on the overall ad views of the specific Network Ad. Only that you could get paid more in Adgitize (even when you don't click and write just occasionally an article daily, you could earn 1-3 cents DAILY not within 30 days).

What influences do the Network Ads have on your earnings?

This depends how many ads you have currently running. In my case i run already 9 ads on 5 ad slots with 8.000 overall page views. The 9th ad can expect 4.500+ ad views (i guess more as soon as some of the other ads expire in the following two weeks).

• ADDING ONE of the Network ads reduces the page views to 4.000/month
• ADDING a SECOND Network ad the page views would be again 10% lower - just 3.600
• For each additional ad the available page views would be reduced by around 200 - 250.
  

At the moment there are 8 Network ads in the system (including mine), this would mean my classic/campaign advertiser who paid up to 60 cents for their ad would get an immediately effective CUT of 60% in page views (from 6.000 ad views down to around 2.400 ad views) for the rest of their ad period and in the end their clicks are lowered probably by more than 60%.

WOULD YOU LIKE THAT SOMEONE CUT OFF YOUR PAID AD VIEWS in this way?
In my case, i will weed out in 3 - 7 days the ads which i have previously placed as some of them are no more WORTH THEIR money because of the extremely reduced ad views!
You can look it up in your Ad history and see how many ad views you got in the last days (divide it by the days), how many ads are running now on the advertised widget and then use this formula to see the NEW daily ad views for your ad and COMPARE if it's worth!

Ad slots/running ads * page views / 30 days


How much can you earn as Publisher from the new Network ads?

Now to the earnings estimation
The advertiser paid 10$ - 1$ is for CMF Ads and 9$ will be divided by all publishers who approved the Network ads.

There are over 600 blogs in the system: 900 cents/600 blogs = 1,5 cents (average)

What does this average price mean for you?

From the old ranking system by page views (which was ironically discontinued in early January) i remember that around 1.800 - 2.200 page views have been necessary to reach a rank of 300 out of more than 600 blogs. But this rank was just a page view ranking, not the real ad view ranking (more ads running than ad slots available reduce the ad views)!
But overall page views of your blog is not everything like i mentioned before, it depends how many ads you have already running!! And with actually 8 NETWORK Ads these page views will get reduced by more than 50%, even with a 5 ad slot widget, not to mention when you have only a 1 ad slot widget (from 2.000 ad views down to 222 ad views/month with previously ONE AD running).

Someone with 5 ad slots and 2.000 page views earns more than someone with 1 ad slot and 5 running ads and the same page views because the Network Ad would get just 20% (400) of the 2.000 page views. In the end you get less than the average 1,5 cents.

My Network Ad gets at the moment around 12.900 ad views/day (it's the first day so there will be a lot of blogs who have not yet approved these new Network ads or who will reject them during the 30 day period after reading this article!). This would equal to 387.000 ad views/30 days.

Here are real numbers from my campaign in terms of ad views of my ad on other blogs!
If you run my ad and you might get at the end of the 30 days (i will update this section daily)

• 2.000 ad views (daily: 67), you could get 2.000/387.000 * 900 cents = 4,65 cents,
• the person with just 400 ad views (daily: 13) will get 0,93 cents and
• the other member with 100 ad views (daily: 3) 0,233 cents.
• To get the average price of 1,5 cents 645 ad views (daily: 32) would be necessary.
  

I'm curious, how much ad views did my ad get on your blog in these days?


Now lets look at Turnip's Electric Car Blog -
16 ads running (canceled mine as i'm in his opinion an attention seeking jacka$$ because i show off the negative things for publishers/classic advertisers - my tone is just more aggressive than from the other members who complain) -
480 page views - 4 ad slots = 120 ad views gives him a whopping 0,28 cent for each Network ad instead of the 2 cents which he usually charges.

Isn't that a lot of money for a 30 day? It's faster to get this 0,28 cent by clicking one more Spikes each month, isn't it :)

My advice:

Network ads might be worth the money for members who

• have not many ads running and expand their widget to the maximum of 5 ad slots
• have empty slots
• will have empty slots in the next 12 days (this means, don't put your ads on auto-approval, let the ads pending until they get auto-approved after 12 days or cancel the ad on the 11th day or approve the ad within the 12 days as soon as you have an empty slot)

If you approve a Network ad you should cancel the Network ad when you get again a classic/campaign advertisers because they give you the REAL EARNINGS and for them each CLICK/Page view is counting (more ad views for them, higher possibility of a click, better return, might advertise again), a Network Advertiser doesn't care about your earnings (earnings from Network ads will be at least 70% less than what you usually charge).

Another tip for your CMF PROFILE!

Write it detailed in your CMF Profile description if you allow Network ads or not and if allowed how many you approve and if you cancel the Network ads when a classic/campaign advertiser buys an ad space (which just filled out the usually "empty" CMF Ad house slot)!

As soon as the first payout will take place in March (as there are several members who don't approve the ad, so it will take 42 days until payout), less members will approve the Network ads when they see that they earned less than the average 1,5 cents and lost traditional advertisers for which they charged 5, 10 or even 30 cents.

Adgitize: AdgiScore + Traffic Rating

Adgitize announced today a new method to measure your Blog Rating (or Ranking) and a easy comparison with other Adgitize members (in Adgitize's blog it's called competitors but i believe we are a big family as we have to visit each other daily to reach our 100 click points). The new measurement is called AdgiScore and represents a mixture of your daily Adgitize clicking, page views of your blog and blog updates.

• The clicks have the least influence in this AdgiScore and are calculated for the last 31 days.
  
  
• Your blog updates (posts) are calculated into the AdgiScore for the last 31 days.
  
  
• The page views are at the moment only calculated into the AdgiScore from the previous day (as more data is available this might get expanded)!
  
  
• The lower the numbers of your Traffic Rating & AdgiScore, the better is your ranking inside of Adgitize!
  

Ken Brown's explanation for the purpose of AdgiScore (like written in the Adgitize Blog comment):

The goal for the AdgiScore in my mind is giving members an idea of how active a blogger is. Did the blogger just create a blog and hasn’t touched it for years? Or are they actively writing and visiting other blogs?

In my experience, if you are visiting other blogs you are more likely to be commenting and making relationships with other bloggers. Both of these events are huge when it comes to long term success in blogging.

Additionally there is a Traffic Rating available which shows the Page view rank in comparison to all active Adgitize publishers with ads on their blogs.

In case you want to advertise on Adgitize blogs, you can check now how they are ranking inside of Adgitize and how they interact with the blogging community by posting article and visiting other blogs (in comparison to your own rank and in a few days/weeks more statistics will be available).

The Ranking system is for everyone to use, even when you're not an Adgitize member. In this case CMF, EntreCard members or other bloggers could look up your Rating Scores before buying an ad on your blog :)

Here is the Screenshot of the new baby from Adgitize - AdgiScore + Traffic Rating with a short explanation how to use the new rating system.



In case you want to know your own blog rating you could join Adgitize now for free - The ad network with World Class Advertising on a Blogger's Budget
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More details -how Non-Referrals and referrals who advertised already can join- about this 777$-ADGITIZE 1-WEEK-AD-Giveaway will be published on 11.November 2010.

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CMF Ads - A critical look - Part 1

As we are heading now into Week 3 of CMF Ads new blog traffic option "Spikes" and several blog reviews about "Spikes" later, it's astonishing how positive some members are about the "Spikes".

Who are these members who have a positive attitude towards "Spikes"?

1. Most of these members are "CMF Ads only"-members with no affilation to EntreCard or Adgitize. Some of these members get only 5 - 30 visitors per day when i look at the statistics which CMF Ads provides.
   Sure they are lucky to get -usually within 3 days- 50 additional visitors for 20 cents instead of spending three to five $ for different ad spaces on other CMF blogs to achieve the same result (within 30 days) if you can achieve so many clicks at all.
   
   
2. Some members are EntreCard members, but again with just a small portion of traffic and mostly not very active in EntreCard, as always there are exception when we talk about more than 175 spikes advertiser (Admaster and Frugal Housewife, Kitchen Retro, Virtual Dime Museum).
   
   
3. The other members are Adgitize members who are not advertising, so they don't get automatic traffic to their blogs. It's the same reason like in No. 1 - it's cheap traffic.
   By calling it "cheap" i really mean cheap!

Looking at the numbers from my Spikes #2 and #3, especially after you strip them down into real statistics and not just the average numbers of received visitors shows a complete different picture of the visitor's quality - not like the Admin's of CMF want to tell you that they give you better visitors than EntreCard or Adgitize or that their system is better as you don't have to write an article/daily to earn points, waste time by visiting other blogs!

Spikes - 2- just 31 seconds stay (average) but from the 46 recorded visitors (60 visitors overall including the additional 10 free visitors from 29th December) only 5 stayed longer than 0 seconds!
Spikes -3- getting better after i published the CMF Spikes poll -but only 25 visitors gave their votes yet- even when there have been 50 CMF visitors?

CMF Ads: My results of the SPIKES

Image by hongiiv via Flickr

I tried the new feature in CMF Ads called Spikes at the Christmas weekend. It took 3 days during this time from 24th - 27th December until i received 50 "unique" visitors from CMF Ads.

Let's look at the numbers from Google Analytics:

• 32 from 50 visits have been recorded - which leaves 18 visits as Drop & Run visits (36%)

• From the 32 visits only 43,75 % (14) have been NEW VISITS (unique)
  
  
• The average time on the site from these 32 visitors has been 1:32 minutes (40 seconds more than my usual average time)
  
  
• Bounce rate & Page views (can't be calculated as my code was duplicated and i just changed it to the new Analytic codes on 26th December) - therefore i bought a new spike to test it again :)
  
  
• The recorded visits (32) accounted for 3.3% of my overall visitors (946) in these three days.
  

My Conclusion

As we usually shouldn't count Drop & Run visits because there is no real value in them, i paid 20 cents for 32 visitors (0,625 cents/visitors) who stayed longer than the average visitor on my blog.

The longer on-site time could be connected with my article about CMF Ads and the comments from CMF admins as only CMF members visited me through CMF Spikes.
We will see what happen when i don't update or have another topic as myr first article in the future.

As CMF Ads doesn't know which member visited me already from EntreCard or Adgitize the uniqueness lacks in my opinion. New visits have been just 43,75% which means there are more than 50% who visit me regularly from EntreCard/Adgitize/CMF Ads.

At the moment i believe the drop & run visits will increase as there is nothing that stops the member (like EntreCard where you have to "look for" the Drop box or in Adgitize for the next ad to click on), especially if they have already visited me from EntreCard/Adgitize on the same day!

The Bounce rate might increase as well as more and more members have already visited your blog from the previous Spikes purchase, following this the average time on the site will decrease.

Using Spikes as a permanent way to drive traffic to your blog is not the best way if you DON'T UPDATE YOUR BLOG before you buy a new SPIKES.

The Spikes will be used up during the weekdays (and after they are now established) faster than during the last few days as more and more members see this as a way to earn easily money for their advertising campaigns (DROP & RUN TRAFFIC).

Actually there are have been more than 109 Spikes member which would give you already 21,8 Cents if you have visited them (enough to self-fund a SPIKES) and new blogs are added each hour.

UPDATE:
After 4 hours i received -for my SECOND SPIKES- 10 CLICKS from CMF Ad members, only 3 got recorded by Google Analytics with an average time on the site of 0 seconds and 1 new visitor (who also didn't like to read)!
That's being said, i seem to be right that it's more for the incentive of 0,2 cents than for staying and reading the actual blog (after the blog might have been visited in the previous days)!

What should YOU DO?

• Give it a ONE-TIME try, 20 cents is not much for getting up to 50 visitors who stay a while on your page.

• Don't expect many comments (got 5 comments from CMF only members, the other comments were mainly given because i commented on their blog!)
  
  
• Write about your experience with CMF SPIKES or a topic related to CMF members/blogger to attract them a little longer on your blog, express your views in the CMF forum :)
  
  
• Members with mainly paid post may get visitors but i doubt that Google Analytics will count this visits (after a second Spikes is purchased) as the first impression of a blog counts - similar to Adgitize where many members avoid ads which haven't Adgitize ads on it themselves, members remember "bad blogs".
  
  
• Buy a second SPIKES after some days not immediately after your FIRST ONE has expired!
  

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NEW @CMFAds - Get a Traffic Spike!

I just logged in at CMF Ads and what did i see a new way to get TRAFFIC to your blog! And it's a cheap way, too.

You just pay 20 cents and can get 50 visitors (0.4 cents/visitor) to your blog with the new TRAFFIC Option called Spikes.

The Advantages of Spikes

As an incentive to use this new TRAFFIC Option called Spikes the members who click on your Spike will receive for each click 0.2 cent.

That means if 50 blogs have bought an Spike (at the moment: 60), you can get 10 cents when you visit all 50 blogs. This money can be used "immediately" (i had around 5 minutes delay in recording these spikes in my funds) to buy an ad on other blogs. No longer waiting for 30 days until your first ad on your blog has finished!

As a security to get unique visitors, you can't click more than once each day on these blogs. After you refresh the page the already clicked blogs will disappear until 24 hours are over (UPDATE: or if already 50 other members have clicked on that blog it won't appear on the same day and on the following days, only if the advertiser buys again a spike!).

This system is only for Publishers, advertiser can't take part in Spikes!

The Disadvantage of Spikes

I think it will be the same like we can see in EntreCard and Adgitize with an incentive system to produce clicks (visits) for the members who bought a Spike - not only your visitors will spike but your BOUNCE Rate will SPIKE, too :)

I just clicked the 20 available spikes and that's it, you don't have to click through to another ad (like you do with Adgitize) or look for the Drop box of EntreCard. The visit may last just for a few seconds in a worst case scenario.


Conclusion

The Bounce rate seems to get a problem (for the advertisers) as i had already visited most the Entrecard/Adgitize-Blogs which have been in the Spikes list.
Perhaps i will use from now on this Spikes List as my start for dropping my EntreCards and Adgitize clicking. As it will give me the incentive of getting some cents for advertising or recovering/reducing the costs of my own spikes.
But nothing really new when you already a member of EntreCard - there you get ECs for each visit on a members blog- or Adgitize - there you get click points which convert at the end of the day in cents, too.

It's kind of a new paid-to-click opportunity with less cents than from Neobux but it won't turn into scam like many other PTC-Sites as it is funded by the paid advertisers!

For me a good opportunity to find some new "CMF-Ads only"-Blogs which i have never visited in the past!

What would you think about producing not only some traffic for these members but also giving them some COMMENT LOVE for getting some cents incentive from CMF-ADS?

After i missed out to comment on the first 20 blogs, i started to comment on all the other 40 blogs and will further comment on the newly added blogs!

We will see in the next weeks how many members will renew their spikes and how it affected their visits/bounce rates!

If you like to use this new cheap system at CMF Ads or if you want to place an CMF ad on my blog for 33 cents (between 5.500-6.500 ad views/month for your blog, 8.000+ pageviews/month), simply sign up here.

Adgitize: HURRY and SAVE up to 12$ for your new ad!

In the last two weeks i saw in many comments a lot of uncertainty about the upcoming price hike for the Adgitize ads after the price hike was announced on 7th October 2009 in the Adgitize-Blog "Adgitize to raise Ad prices in November".

The data provided from the Adgitize-Blog for the new earnings calculation was based on the 28th September 2009. There we had little bit more than 180 advertiser in the system.

Points	Old Daily Earnings	New Daily Earnings
under 200 points	No Change	No Change
200 points a day	15 cents a day	24 cents a day
290 points a day	22 cents a day	35 cents a day
300 points a day	44 cents a day	72 cents a day
360 points a day	53 cents a day	86 cents a day
430 Points a day	63 cents a day	$1.03 a day
500 Points a day	74 cents a day	$1.20 a day

The data which was provided in this list will only be effective from the day on when the same amount of advertiser has paid the 24$ for a one month ad (12$ for 7 days, 18$ for 2 weeks).

Guess when this will be? You're right, it can only be effective from 1st December on when the last ONE MONTH Ad of 31st October has been renewed!

Ken Brown gave the following answer to my question in the Adgitize-Blog:

@Cornyman - Your comment about the mixed earnings is absolutely correct. In November you will begin the month at the current earnings and then as more advertisers convert to the higher ad prices you will see your earnings ramp up to the projected higher earnings.

For the members in Adgitize who have to RENEW their ad in the first two weeks of November, there will be a loss for the month of November as you need 80 cents for the 30 days in November to achieve the 24$.


What would be, if you could preserve the old ad price of 14$ (or less) for another month?

• Yes, it is possible to get it for the old price! But i would only suggest it for members whose ads are expiring in the first two weeks of November.

• Just BUY an additional ad until the end of October! If you want to save additional 1 or 2$, you have to take care of the 10 DAYS Rule in case you want to run more than two ads!

• If you buy a third/fourth ad 10 days before the old ad expires, you will get these ads for 13 and 12 $, this would result in a saving of up to 12$ in comparison with a renewal in November for 24$!

• I would just advise you, NOT to buy two same ads for one blog. In case you want to do this because you have only ONE BLOG, you should consider to use TWO DIFFERENT AD PICTURES!

Benefits of buying a NEW ad instead of RENEWING the ad in November:

• You save up to 12$ for one month!
  
  
• You get additional 50 points until your "old" first ad expires in November, in case you have already two ads running, you would get additional 25 points for a 3rd or 4th ad!
  
  
• The additional points will give you until the "old" ad expires between 5 and 40 cents more money each day (especially when you don't publish/click daily and had days with less than 300 points)!
  
  
• You get additional page/ad view points for your new ad!
  
  
• You can change the ad after the old ad has expired by simply "Edit Info" in the Advertise section of Adgitize (change image and URL, resubmit and wait until it's approved)... Old ad for the old price :)
  
  
• You can stay in the wait and see-mood throughout November, watching if the earnings develop in the projected direction and decide in the end of November if you want to try to renew your ad for 24$.
  
  

Are there benefits to pay 24$ even when you can't earn the full amount?

Yes, there are some, too :)

• There will be a decrease in advertisers which will result in more clicks for the remaining advertisers - the previous advertisers are now publisher and have to click again on 100 ads instead of 51 ads!
  
  
• Your page/ad view points will raise when there are less advertiser in the network which might result in better earnings to achieve your goal of a fully paid ad for the following month!
  
  
• You still have to click only 51 ads instead of 100 ads (less time, more money)
  
  
• You still get 100 advertiser points (or more, see next point) each day
  
  
• Join the Preferred Publisher Program in Adgitize to increase traffic (more page/ad view points) and advertiser points for higher earnings! (read my guide and get more FREE Traffic!)
  
  
• In case you would like to achieve your goal of a fully paid ad with your Adgitize earnings, you should read How to earn more money with Adgitize
  
  
• When i could achieve each month since June that i got my money or sometimes the double or triple of my 14$ back (see my payment proofs), you can achieve the same!
  
  

BONUS-OFFER for my Referrals

If you are not yet a member of Adgitize, but want to get additional traffic for your blog and earn some $$, join as my referral.

You will receive 50% of the referral commission of your first time ad (only if approved from Adgitize!)

• until end of October it will be 3$,
  
  
• from November onwards you will get 4,50 $
  

I'm glad if i could help you in making a better decision for your new advertising campaign in Adgitize beyond the month of November. Let's see you again as a new member, publisher or a new/old advertiser.

Enjoy Adgitize!

Build a popular blog with these three types of posts!

There are a lot of questions how to grow your blog and generate traffic which is what keeps your blog alive!

Are you a blogger who writes for yourself or do you write your blog posts for your readers? How can you attract your readers to read your posts? Which posts attract which readers?

What are the ingredients for a successful blog?

Like in the real life, we can not live without some sugar, spice and vitamins.

Why vitamins?

As everyone needs vitamins in the daily life, these posts are one of the essentials for the regular readers in your blog.

They represent your blog or your niche like in my case it would be the guides of myLot, Adgitize and EntreCard or the Scam posts.

These posts help you grow and build up the blog!


The purpose of sugar posts!

What do you think about your important blog posts? Do they always keep the attention of your readers or will it get after a while too serious?
I think you know what will come next. They wait for some sweeties from you! Why?
Sugar posts catch the attention of new readers and of your loyal reader much easier. The sole purpose of these posts is to make your blog easier to consume.

Sugar posts are usually blog lists where other readers can find additional information about a specific topic like the Scam List , paid survey list or freebies like the Suze Orman ebook

Like in the real life, try to keep your sugar posts in little dosages otherwise your blog will turn into a candy shop. The sugar posts shall attract new readers to keep on reading your vitamin posts and make them to one of your regular readers!

Why you should use some spicy posts!

The purpose of spice in your blog is to keep the whole blog interesting as every meal gets less tasty without some spicy herbs or chilli!
Sugar and vitamin posts will give you the opportunity to gain and hold your readers, they help you to grow substantially.

Within spicy posts you present your flavor and your own personality (opinion). This will, can and should cause some heated debates on your blog.
One of my spicy posts included EntreCard: The Wipe Out has already started.

Is it dangerous for your loyal readership to use this kind of spice?
Of course you can say, "Hey, they won't like my opinion about this topic."
Yes, that's might be true but first of all not everyone will flee and stop coming back. They may hate this particular post, ok. You won't like their comments on this post.
You have to bare it like they have to. But in the end your reader will no where else get this specific spicy flavor of your post!


Let's summarize the recipe...

Take a little bit of sugar to attract new readers, keep your readers and yourself healthy with the vitamins and make your blog more interesting with some spices!


What do you think about it and which kind of post might this be?

EntreCard explained: Earn money - get traffic - Part III-

Dropping cards gives you not only traffic for your blog, but also each time ECs, the virtual currency from Entrecard which can be converted in real $$.

The details for you!

How do i earn money with dropping cards on other members?

Every card which you drop on another member gives yourself 1 EC and the owner of the widget gets 1 EC. When they drop back on your widget, you get 1 EC, too.

That means always encourage yourself and the other members to drop back:

• by using the Inbox
• by commenting on the other members blog
• by link exchange with the other members blog
  

In the beginning the drop back ratio might be below 50%, the more regular you drop on the members, the higher the possibility will be that they drop back regularly on you, too!

I achieve up to 80% drop backs in the last few weeks since i drop regularly around 300 cards daily for all my four blog.

After you clicked on a maximum of 300 blogs daily, your job would be done for that day.
Usually the members who are the most popular give you a drop-back within 24 hours, some even after some minutes!

Other income sources in Entrecard are

• writing one blog article per day (25 ECs, sometimes not for every day!)
• approving advertisements on your EntreCard-Widget (earnings depending on the price the advertiser pays). It starts with 2 EC and can be doubled daily if someone else advertises each day on your widget.
  Advertising will be explained in more detail in one of the next parts!
  

In the next parts we will learn

• how to use the Statistics and the Top droppers for more traffic to your page
• how to get popular within a few days/weeks (and earn more)
  
• which blogs you should choose for advertising your own blog
• and many more things to earn and get more traffic to your blog!
  

Stay tuned and keep on dropping daily on our blogs.
Don't forget the THREE TOP DROPPERS on this blog will get 500, 300 or 200 EC and the TOP 25 Droppers get link love for the next Page Rank update!!!

EntreCard explained: Getting Traffic and Money - Part II-

In the second and third part of EntreCard explained we look into the category of getting traffic to our blog with the help of the Dropping System.

The Dropping System needs two persons of EntreCard. Both members should have put the widget code on their blogs. If you haven't put this code on your blog yet, login to EntreCard and click on the "Get code"-Button. There you can choose three different types of widget with different sizes.


Stop! Before you start dropping cards - use these tools to save much time!

1. Using the EntreCard Toolbar for FireFox is very helpful, not only because you can browse faster through the categories and have the full menu available with just two clicks, you can also see the actual advertising price of this blog and favorite him.
   
   
2. Use this Pop-Up tool (for FireFox) from Dustin from Blogfiction.org which puts the EntreCard-Widget always in the upper left corner - no need for searching the whole page where the owner has hidden it.

OK, when you have installed these two tools the life will be more relaxed!


Looking for blogs with the EntreCard widget

Once it's on your blog, we have to find the second member who has also the widget on the blog. Simply click on the "Campaign"-Button. Now you can see the different categories which EntreCard has to offer.

At the beginning you should start with your niche, it's the easiest to get some members to drop back frequently (or wouldn't you like to know what the competitors/friends are writing on their blogs?). For me, it is the Finance and Investing category which has more than 1000 blogs.


How to choose which blog you should visit?

There are a few ways to choose blogs:

1. Watch in your Inbox, usually there are a few members who dropped already their card on your widget.
   
   
2. Click on the Tab "Popular" and you will get the list of the most popular blogs within EntreCard (which should be one of your goals if you want to get much traffic which equals in the end in more money in your pockets ;-) ). Choose from the drop down list your category and click on the first three rows. After that you have visited already 15 blogs. Then continue by clicking on "Next" for the next 15 blogs (or you can choose more rows - up to 24 = 120 blogs)
   
   
3. After you clicked on one of these blogs (Inbox or from the Campaign category), you can do chain-clicking. That means you click on the Ads which are displayed on/ the beside the drop-button. By this way you can reach more blogs from other categories, too.
   
   
4. There are lists available from Entrecard members which you can click daily. You can have a look at a list of these lists on The One Minute Guide - How to drop Entrecards faster
   

In the next parts we will learn

• how to earn money with the Entrecard drops
  
• how to use the Statistics and the Top droppers for more traffic to your page
• how to get popular within a few days/weeks (and earn more)
  
• which blogs you should choose for advertising your own blog
• and many more things to earn and get more traffic to your blog!
  

Stay tuned and keep on dropping daily on our blogs.
Don't forget the THREE TOP DROPPERS on this blog will get 500, 300 or 200 EC !

Adgitize - Earn money and more traffic

Many of my readers of my blogs have already recognized in the last weeks that i use Adgitize as one of my online earning programs.

I have a special offer:

If you decide to advertise with Adgitize

• you will get 3.00 $
  

Why do i use Adgitize on all of my blogs?

It helps you to

• earn daily some additional money

and if you advertise

• you get daily more visitors to your blog/website.

How can you earn money with Adgitize?

1. Write each day ONE article (on one of your blogs is enough)
2. Click all the Advertisers ads (at the moment around 70 to 80 ads)
3. For the combined Page views of all your registered blogs
4. For the combined Ad Views of all your registered blogs
5. Advertise with Adgitize

What are the monetary benefits of Adgitize?

The money you can earn with Adgitize depends on your daily activities. The above stated activities are daily calculated into points. You can follow these principles but they are not guaranteed for the future. It always depends on the number of available advertisers + on the revenue Adgitize generated with the advertisements on that day.

Between 0 and 100 points = 0.01 $
between 100 and 200 points = 0.02 - 0.03 $
between 200 and 300 points = 0.15 - 0.28 $
between 300 and 400 points = 0.35 - 0.50 $
between 400 and 500 points = 0.50 - 0.80 $
between 500 and 610 points = 0.80 - 1.10 $

How can i achieve these points in Adgitize?

I wrote a special short guide on The One Minute Guide for achieving more points which will equal in earning daily more money!

What are the advantages of advertising with Adgitize?

When you are already member of Entrecard, you can use your 125 x 125 banner in Adgitize or you can advertise with a 468 x 60 banner, too.

You will get many new visitors each day as there are 3.000 members who have to put the Adgitize ads on their blogs to earn money for their own ad views!

Additional to the exposure from the member blogs active Adgitize members are waiting to click on your ad (because they will earn points by visiting advertiser blogs/websites).

You will get some additional benefits (time-saving) for advertising with Adgitize.

• Each click on the advertiser's ads is worth 2 points instead of 1 point, you have to click daily on less ads to reach the 100 points!
• You earn additional money because you will get the 100 advertising points each day (50 visits/clicks on your ads required - usually you'll get more than that)
  
• Your ad view and page view points will increase because of the new visitors which adds up on the money side + the 100 advertiser points (between 0.02 and 0.60 $ daily more earnings depending on your daily activities!)
• When you are very active (clicking ads + writing one article each day), the advertising costs are "paid back" at the end of the month (up to 0.60 $ x 30 days = 18 $)!
  

What are the advertising prices in Adgitize?

Prices are cheap in comparison to the exposure that you will get each day because there are more than 3.000 members.

These are the prices for 125 x 125 and 468 x 60 banners

THESE PRICES WILL INCREASE FROM NOVEMBER 2009 ON (Number in brackets):

One week costs 7 $ (12$) = 1 $ each day
For two weeks you pay 10 $ (18$)= 0,71 $ each day
For one month they charge 14 $ (24$)= 0,452 - 0,50 $ each day


For me these advantages have been very impressive and after i knew how to earn my full points in Adgitize, i will definitely book an one month advertisement in June (when we have settled our search for an apartment and then have our internet connection established in this apartment ;-) ).

Here again the special offer for Entrecard members:

If you decide to advertise with Adgitize

1. you will get 3.00 $