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Affiliate programs are a great means of earning some handy cash; but not all affiliate programs are profitable. Some will only take up your time and energy and some others may even spoil your website reputation. This is why you got to carefully select your affiliate marketing programs and make sure that they work for you same as your work for them. Given below are a few points that will help you make better decision in choosing an affiliate program that works for you rather than working only for the affiliate merchant.

Points to take into consideration before selecting an affiliate program

1.) Your website and your visitors

If your website is about cars then promoting cycle related products is going to have very less or no impact.

Secondly finding and scrutinizing your visitors and your target market is a good idea. In any affiliate program, your visitor is the one who is going to get you returns. So primarily get to know your visitors. Analyze your visitor behavior using your website statistics before deciding on which affiliate program to go for. Your objective should be to find out what your visitors are looking for and then promote products of their interest which also match with your existing products or services (if any).

2.) Affiliate merchant’s website

Most affiliates don’t give much importance to the affiliate merchant’s website, forgetting the fact that here’s where the actual sales conversion is to take place. It’s very important that the affiliate merchant’s website is designed to sell. So check and make sure that the merchant’s website is free from unwanted banner advertisements/pop-ups and focus on the affiliate product.

Other important things to check out are the sales copy, privacy policy, product guarantees, after sales service and special discounts/offers available with the product/service. Your main aim must be to find out if the product/service features would actually prompt the referred visitor to make a purchase.

Some affiliate merchants promote more than one product/service on a webpage which can dilute the conversion rate. It is best to go for affiliate programs that focus on a single product/service per webpage.


3.) Quality of goods/services

Just imagine how you would feel, if you were referred by a website to a product that turned out to be of inferior quality? Your visitors will feel the same way about your website if you promote inferior or overly priced goods/services. Always make sure to know about the product/service you are planning to promote. Check for testimonials and references from existing customers to find out about the quality of goods. If possible you can even plan on using them yourself to be on the safer side. In addition, also make sure to compare similar products available over the internet for features and rates.

There are many products that have trial periods or return policies associated with them. Products having return policies can increase the conversion rate but may also lead to debiting in case of a chargeback. Promoting products sold on a trial period basis requires cookie detection to track sales at the end of the period which is very unreliable. So it’s better to confirm with the affiliate merchant the tracking method used or the affiliate payment scheme, in case the products have trial periods.

4.) Reputation of the affiliate merchant

The reputation of the affiliate merchant is important because the odds are against you. There are chances that some affiliate merchants may not payout or make deductions to your actual payments. So make sure to find out using references about the affiliate merchant’s history of making proper payments.

Already existing affiliates of the affiliate merchant are your best source of information. In addition be sure to read their business literature to get an idea about their history of past and present operations.


5.) Commission scheme of the affiliate program

There are many different types of commission schemes that affiliate programs use to reward their affiliates. Some of the most popular ones are pay per click, pay per lead and pay per sale schemes. Some others even offer two tiered and multi tiered commission schemes. Some commission schemes can even be a mix and match of the above.

In case of a pay per click/hit scheme the minimum commission that you can expect is $0.5 to $0.10 per click. For pay per sale a good commission rate would be 15% to 50%. Some companies even offer lifetime commissions, but as most of them are based on cookie identification, they may not work out well.

With the competition increasing almost all merchants have started offering two tiered commissions, some even offer multi tiered ones. Joining these schemes can give you a chance to get paid for the direct sales you make and also for the sales made by affiliates referred by you.



6.) Tracking software used

Tracking software is used by the affiliate merchant to track individual affiliate sales. An affiliate merchant can make use of in-house tracking software, join an affiliate network or use services of an ASP in order to track leads.

In case the affiliate merchant makes use of independent tracking software or ASP services, make sure to find out if the software is reliable and has the ability to track all kinds of sales. If the software uses cookie tracking, find out the duration of the cookie. Although using cookies to track affiliates does not always work fine as the cookies can be deleted by the buyer.

Most affiliate merchants today make use of affiliate network services. Affiliate network services are the safest when it comes to making payments on time, conflict resolution and accurate tracking. Affiliate Networks are also great sources to find good affiliate programs and can help you get payments from different merchants through a single cheque. So make sure to register at some good networks. Some reputed affiliate network services are commission junction, LinkShare, Clickxgalore, and ClickTrade.

7.) Terms and conditions for payment

You do all the hard work as an affiliate and hence you should make sure that you get paid for it. There are chances that the affiliate merchant might have some unwanted rules and regulations in his affiliate agreement; so in-case you don’t like to get a bitter shock in the aftermath, be sure to check out the terms and conditions with utmost care. Some things that you got to look out for in the terms and conditions are as follows,

a.) Payment frequency/Payout rate

Make sure that the affiliate merchant makes payments at the end of every month or with- in a few days afterward. Anything above 2 months for making payments is not advisable. Also find out the mode of making payments. Payment gateways are safer and faster as compared to cheques.

b.) Payment for future sales

Many visitors won’t buy products on their first visit. They might come back though after some time to make the purchase. Make sure that the affiliate merchant pays you for future sales made by a customer referred by you. Although the chances that you get credit for future sales is low due to cookie deletion possibilities, but it is better to have options open.

c.) Minimum Balance Amount for payout

Most affiliate merchants and affiliate networks have a minimum amount for payout. An affiliate would require reaching that amount to get a payment. Find out the minimum balance and estimate if the target is easily achievable for the given product/service.

d.) Roll over/carry over terms

Roll-overs or carry-overs are related to the minimum balance. If the affiliate fails to achieve the minimum balance within a month (or the set payment date), the payment keeps rolling on. Although this is not a problem, some merchant’s may have a fixed rollover period after which the payments will not be issued. Joining such programs is not recommended.

e.) Conditions for Charge-backs on product return

Some merchants have a product return policy which allows the buyer to get full refund in-case he is dissatisfied with the product. The period within which the buyer should return the product to get a refund is called the chargeback period. Make sure to take note of the chargeback period of the merchant and also find out how much of your commission will be debited if this happens. Although products having a return policy will have a better conversion rate they can also lead to the affiliate’s cash getting debited or completely taken back.

In addition to the payment terms some other conditions that you got to check out are the ‘condition of exclusivity’ (which could mean the affiliate cannot promote any other product except the affiliate product/service or that he should not promote competitor products/services) and conflict resolution method of the merchant.


8.) Additional facilities offered

In addition to simply offering banner ads most good affiliate merchants offer other facilities like, real time sales statistics and tracking information, free training on how to promote the products/services, newsletters, affiliate help lines and even website improvement programs. Some affiliate merchants even offer their affiliates a say in their decision making process.

Many good affiliate merchants also have a policy of rewarding better performing affiliates with incentives, over and above the commissions. Joining such programs can really be a rewarding experience.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Posted by Pramid Sun Desk | 11:46 AM | | 0 comments »

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is internet marketing that allows websites to share traffic and revenue using banner and text advertisements. Merchants who sell goods and services online pay commissions to website owners (Affiliates) for sending traffic to their site. Affiliates can earn and are paid commissions when one of the following events occur:

Click thru: A visitor to the Affiliates website clicks on a Merchants banner and visits the Merchants website. This payment structure is referred to as - cost per click (cpc or ppc).

Lead: A visitor referred by the Affiliate completes a form on the Merchants website. This is payment structure is referred to as - cost per lead (cpl).

Sale: A visitor referred by the Affiliate purchases goods and services from the Merchant. This payment structure is referred to as - cost per acquisition (cpa).

Paying for results means risks are small for the merchant, but possibilities are big for you if you invest effort and skill to develop targeted traffic. There are no guarantees about what you can earn, however, that also means that there are no limits either!

The key to being a successful affiliate is to send targeted traffic to the merchant's site. This means that if your site is about billiards then a gardening advertisement wouldn't be a good choice, a sports oriented merchant and links would be, of course the best. This may sounds easy to you, but it many affiliates put banners in to a rotation script on their site and expect to make major money, being an affiliate means that you'll need to be creative in your presentation of the link (s) and frequently update your merchants and links.

The principles of affiliate marketing are pretty easy… A merchant who wants to sell more may decide to offer an affiliate program. Using this affiliate program he will attract webmasters of other sites, so called publishers, who are willing to sell or promote the merchants product on their site. In exchange the webmaster who promotes the merchant or sends him a sale gets a commission. The handling and shipping is all taken care of by the merchant, basically you only send him a new customer or prospect.

What are alternatives to Google AdSense?

Posted by Pramid Sun Desk | 11:34 AM | | 1 comments »

What are alternatives to Google AdSense?
Google AdSense is the leader in web-based content-sensitive marketing.

Webmasters place Google AdSense JavaScript code on their web pages and Google AdSense serves advertisements based upon the content of the web page.

Some webmasters are either not accepted into the Google AdSense program, or do not wish to do business with Google.

For those webmasters, there are many alternatives to Google AdSense:

Clicksor
TargetPoint
MarketBanker
BidClix
Chitika
AllFeeds
Adhearus
AffiliateSensor
Bidvertiser
Veoda
Revenue Pilot
Kanoodle Bright Ads
Enhance Interactive
Quigo AdSonar
Searchfeed
Vibrant Media IntelliTXT
Vibrant Media SmartAd
Nixie
MIVA AdRevenue Xpress
Fastclick
contextWeb ContextAd


AdSense Alternate Ads
Many webmasters are not looking for a true replacement for Google AdSense, but instead are seeking for an alternative for when Google AdSense is not able to find an advertisement which matches the content of their web page. Normally, when AdSense is unable to find a matching advertisement, it selects a random Public Service Announcement (PSA) and displays it in the ad space. These PSA's generate no revenue for the webmaster.

Google has created the ability to load an alternate ad when it cannot find a matching ad. This is accomplished by setting a variable called google_alternate_ad_url in your AdSense layout code:

google_alternate_ad_url = "/adsense-alternate-ad.shtml";
These alternate ads can include advertisements from Google AdSense competitors.

This capability enables you to tap into a revenue stream which would normally be lost to AdSense PSAs. It also enables you to test Google AdSense alternatives in a reduced-risk environment.


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Clicksor
Clicksor will pay you up to 60% of the advertising clicks revenues generated from your website. Contextual Advertising Technology by Clicksor allows your visitors to enjoy the content of your website and bring generous earnings to you at the same time.

As an affiliate, Clicksor passes its profits along to you by paying up to 60% of the advertising clicks revenues generated from your website. Clicksor provides online real time stats and a fortnightly payment schedule. In any pay period in which your earnings exceed $50.00, payments are made either by check or instantly through PayPal. Revenue totaling less that $50 will rolled into the following period.

Clicksor offers webmasters the opportunity to earn an additional income by simply underlining a selection of clickable text or dislaying targeted contextual banner on their websites.

TargetPoint
Targetpoint's services are particularly publisher-oriented: You'll have absolute control over the appearance of your ads, supervision over ad content, up-to-date statistics on your site's performance and most importantly better bottom-line revenue.

Targetpoint offers Publisher services, which generate more money using our new, patent pending content recognition and matching technology:

Adpoint generates content-relevant, revenue-evaluated ads.
Exitpoint helps utilizing the full capacity web exit traffic.
Searchpoint (beta) features enhanced search capabilities, which enhance your users experience and generate additional profit.
Registration is free and quick. You are guaranteed to get 60% of the total on-click revenue. Payment options include Bank checks, Paypal and Wire transfers (if eligible).

MarketBanker
MarketBanker features:

Instant, free setup
No software to install, just 4 lines of HTML
You set pricing for your site
Accept all major credit cards
Small, non-intrusive text links (40 chars) are a pleasure
Approve or reject each link for your site
Automated link start and expiration
Track success with MarketBanker Statistics
Included in MarketBanker's site directory
Frequently Asked Questions

BidClix
Ten reasons why publishers are choosing BidClix, and making us one of the Internet's leading ad networks:

1. Get paid more for your ad inventory. We find the highest yielding ads for your site through our proprietary optimization technology. Since advertisers compete for access to your valuable inventory on a bid-for-placement basis, this maximizes your effective CPM.

2. Fast payment - get paid within 15 days. You get paid faster from us and can put that money to work sooner. BidClix pays Net 15 from the end of each month.

3. Thousands of advertisers. Our marketplace plugs you into an enormous pool of quality advertisers. Your site will always have fresh ad content, keeping site visitors interested and click-through rates high.

4. Quality and integrity of our sites. We have stringent guidelines in place about which sites we work with - part of the reason we're able to offer such great experiences for our partner publishers. The high quality of sites in our ad marketplace - sites like yours that offer focused, well-developed content - attracts high-paying advertisers who know the value of your audience (and are willing to pay). Our CPC prices and our revenue are also kept high because we have strict fraud controls in place.

5. Highly efficient marketplace. With BidClix, you don't need to negotiate with advertisers, or chase accounts. We take care of this for you in a fast, efficient marketplace, bringing thousands of advertisers together to compete for access to your valuable inventory. The end result is higher prices for your inventory, and substantial time and cost savings for you.

6. Real-time reporting. BidClix's comprehensive real-time reporting tools are part of our dedication to exceptional customer service. You can browse through a wide selection of reports, all designed to make it easy for you to track the performance of your ad inventory.

7. Greater flexibility and control. BidClix offers more flexibility in how you manage your ad inventory. There are no costs to sell your inventory in the BidClix advertising marketplace, or sign-up or activation fees - it's completely no-risk to try us out. You choose the BidClix channel that best matches the content of your site and the type of ad unit you want to display. We serve all types of standard ad units - banners, skyscrapers, towers, and pop-ups/unders. You can also use us to find new ways to place ads on your site.

8. A dedicated selling team that can fill 100% of your inventory. BidClix is like having a virtual sales force working for you - connecting you with thousands of advertisers. You can fill 100% of your inventory with our ads, or use us to supplement your existing sales force. Our relationships with our publishers are entirely non-exclusive. You can work directly with other advertisers, or ad networks, although many publishers choose us as their sole revenue partner.

9. Quick and easy to get started. Our simple application form takes only a few minutes to fill in. Then all you have to do is copy and paste a couple of lines of html code into your site, and you're ready to go!

10. Responsibility, Responsiveness, and Reliability. Work with a company that demonstrates the 3 R's - Responsibility, Responsiveness, and Reliability. The people at BidClix are completely focused on responding to your needs with exceptional, innovative services.

Chitika
RealContext helps Online Publishers maximize their ad revenues by displaying contextually relevant, targeted, and best bang-for-the-buck ads on their websites.

Based on our proprietary patent-pending Content and Behavior-based Targeting (CBeT) technology, RealContext is the next generation ad targeting system that will help you leverage your two biggest assets: your online audience and your online content.

RealContext will select ads that are:

Relevant To Your Content

Artificial intelligence techniques are used to select the most relevant ads that suit your web page content

Targeted To Your Visitors' Interests

Your site-specific ad-click through data is used to select the most targeted ads to match your visitors' interests

Selected to Maximize Revenues

Relevant and targeted keywords selected from your site are matched & filtered based on what advertisers are paying

RealContext Value Proposition:

Selects ads that match both your content and your visitors interests
Dynamic feedback loop to learn your audiences likes and dislikes and select targeted ads
Leverages your site-specific click-through data to only select ads that suit your audience s interests.
Relies on a tightly-coupled reverse mapping algorithm to select ads with high revenue potential
Provides detailed in-depth domain- and url-level reporting
Supports kid-safe filtering, category/topic mapping and domain-/topic level ad blocking

AllFeeds
AllFeeds Features:

Top pay-per-click listings from thousands of advertisers

Multiple formats available for your easy display

Text Links
Search Boxes
DHTML Popups
Buttons
Banners
XML Feeds
Real time Reporting Monthly payouts with rollover earnings

We will mail you a check once a month for as long as you have earned at least $25.00. If you dont earn $25.00 within one month, your earned comission will be added to your next month's payment. Checks are mailed out the last day of the following month.

Free to join for qualified websites
Easy co-branding to your own look and feel
Customized campaigns including our award winning technology integration with Google Adsense!
Do you have a Google Adsense account that's tired of not getting paid for Google's default public service listings? Replace them with Allfeeds.com technology today! With hardly any effort, you can add Allfeeds's targeted listings to your existing Google Adsense account! It looks and feels the same but you get paid more often! Replace those public service ads today!

Adhearus

Adhearus will allow you to generate more revenue for your advertising space than you thought possible.

Better Ads for your website

Our revolutionary ad serving technology ensures that only the most relevant ads are shown on your site and is constantly optimizing their delivery to maximize your revenue.

Make more money.

You get paid for every visitor that clicks on an ad.

Advertisers will bid against each other for your advertising space, ensuring that you receive every penny that you deserve. Unlike other advertising programs, you get paid monthly for all of the revenue your website has earned, providing you with a steady income flow.

Flexibility

You can choose which ad types and sizes you would like to display and where. Currently the ad types available on Adhearus are: Text Ads, Pop-Ups, Pop-Unders, Banners, Buttons Rectangles and Skyscrapers.

Online Account Management and Reports.

We provide you with extensive reports so you can see how well our advertising is performing. You can change the type of ads you display as well as their location any time.

Display your own ads, too.

If you choose, you can rotate your own ads in with Adhearus ads. You can simply upload your own ads, specify how often you would like them displayed and we will rotate them in for you. You can even rotate in other advertising companies ads.

Online Account Management and Reports

We provide you with extensive reports so you can see how well our advertising is performing. You can change the type of ads you display as well as their location any time.

Filter out unwanted ads.

Even though we take extraordinary steps to ensure that only relevant ads are displayed on your site, we also provide you with the ability to block individual ads or entire advertisers that you don t want to be displayed.

Getting started is fast and easy.

Joining online is easy and only takes a few minutes. After joining you will instantly be able to start displaying ads on your website. You ll be generating new revenue within 5 minutes of now.

AffiliateSensor
Affiliate Sensor's context-relevant, text-link affiliate ad blocks let you choose from ClickBank's over 10,000 products by copying and pasting a little JavaScript onto your web pages.

You show only context-relevent, highly targeted text ads that you have control over.

The ads you display are sorted to show the best performing affiliate links on top.

Real-time reporting, including clicks by domain, page and referrer.

An easy-to-use script building interface that lets you fully customize your ad blocks.

We give you 5% of the impressions of every account that signs up through your "Ads by.." link.

We have all of the adformats supplied by Google AdSense, so you can use our ads to replace the Public Service Ads (PSA's). We even have a special link format that you can add directly into the google_alternate_ad_url line of your AdSense code.

AffiliateSense makes money by sending 5% of the ad-block impressions to their own ClickBank account and 5% to the account of whoever you signed up through.

Bidvertiser

Place text ads on your site and get paid for every click

Are you sure you are getting the most out of your advertising space?

Join BidVertiser now and we will turn your advertising space into cash! Simply display the BidVertiser text ads on your website and let advertisers bid against each other! We will always display the highest bidders to maximize your revenue!

Get paid for every click
You get paid for every visitor that clicks on an ad. Our goal is to enable you to make as much as possible from your advertising space, by letting advertisers bid on your ad space. We pay by monthly checks, with a minimum of only US $25.

Always have the highest bidders displayed on your website
BidVertiser will always display the highest bidders on your site, assuring the maximum revenue possible at any given time.

Have your bidding steadily improved over time
You will see a constant improvement in your bidding over time, as both your visitors and our advertisers will be exposed to the opportunity of bidding against each other on your ad space.

Customize the layout of your ads
BidVertiser gives you a simple point-and-click tool to help you customize the layout of the ads to fit your site's look and feel, in order to retain the high quality of your website.

Block any unwanted ad
BidVertiser enables you to filter-out any unwanted ads. Prior to your own filtering, each ad has to be pre-approved by our editorial team. This mechanism gives you a piece of mind with regards to the ads displayed on your website.

Generate detailed reports to monitor your ads performance
Use the Publisher Center to generate detailed online reports to monitor your ads performance, including the number of page impressions, clicks, click-through rate, and the total amount you've earned.

Veoda
Veoda has several opportunities to partner and earn money:

Static Listings Professional Contextual Ads Highly Acclaimed
Flash Listings professional animated scrolling ads
Search box Customizable search box that pays
Fly in Ads Text based Ads that Fly-In on a users screen
PowerBox Professionally created search box and results
Xml Feeds Data feed for external parsing
Refer Users Receive 30% of all deposits/earnings for life

Revenue Pilot
RevenuePilot provides you with the most innovative, efficient and effective way to monetize your traffic. The Pay For Performance (PFP) and the Pay Per Click (PPC) markets have created ample opportunity for the web publishing community to turn its traffic into pure profits. RevenuePilot offers its affiliates seamless entrance into this highly profitable arena through its Premiere Pay Per Click Network.

Kanoodle Bright Ads
Put Kanoodle's sponsored links on your Web site and earn revenue with every click! No matter what type of content you have on your site, Kanoodle has BrightAds to match - so they're always relevant and sure to appeal to your site's visitors.

Matching Ads to Content - Brilliant!

We offer content publishers the opportunity to place on their sites ContextTarget and BehaviorTarget sponsored links - the only ones created exclusively for content sites. By mapping BrightAds to "topics" and "segments," not to keywords, we match the content of your site to hand-picked areas of interest. This means the ads we show are always relevant to your visitors.

Easy Income - It's a No-Brainer

Clearly Defined Revenue: BrightAds are text based, revenue-per-click (RPC) sponsored links. This means advertisers pay every time a visitor clicks on the links - and we'll pay you a 50% share of the charge.
High Revenue-Per-Click (RPC): Kanoodle's RPCs are highly competitive, with many topics monetizing at a rate significantly higher than our competitors.
PayPal: BrightAds offers easy payment via PayPal.
Smart - But You Don't Have to be a Genius to Earn

Simplicity: Simple signup, simple setup! All you have to do is tell us a little bit about yourself and your site. Once you're approved, we'll automatically generate the HTML code you need. Just copy-and-paste it into your own site and you're good to go.

Creative Control and Flexibility: You're not limited to a single one-size-fits-all option. Pick how many BrightAds you want, customize how they look, and we'll serve the ad units that work best for your site.

Detailed Reporting: Our detailed click and earnings reports mean you never have to guess at how well BrightAds is performing for you.

Enhance Interactive
Enhance Interactive serves its customers' paid listings and contextual advertisements on search engines and content-based Web sites throughout the Internet. We partner with industry leaders such as MSN and InfoSpace, as well as smaller search engines and targeted content sites, and we pay them cash for displaying our advertisers' messages.

Here's how we work with our distribution partners:

Cobrand Search

A revenue building strategy for customers who are currently leaving your Web site. Instead of losing your users to a search engine when they opt to search the Web, simply offer them an opportunity to search right from your Web site, while you make money each time a user clicks on a paid search listing.

Paid Listings

Integrate Enhance Interactive listings with your existing search results listings, and earn money each time a user clicks on an Enhance Interactive paid listing.

Contextual Advertising

Include branded listings located throughout your site. TopLinks pulls the most popular Enhance Interactive advertisers (based on the content of each page) and displays them in an advertisement form. Whether you need pop-ups, pop unders, sidebars, skyscrapers or banners, or button/text links, this TopLinks program caters to you.

Integration for all these programs is simple, and commission is paid out every 30 days. So, with just a few lines of code, you can have a custom-built search engine (or ad server) that further monetizes your traffic.

Quigo AdSonar

Make more money from your site traffic, on your terms. AdSonar gives you the tools to quickly and easily place advertisements on your site that will interest your users and produce clicks.

Set-Up is Easy

You define choices such as ad format and placement. Once users click on AdSonar ads on your site, you start earning money.

Improve Ad Relevancy

Only advertisers in your category can appear on your site.

Gain More Control

You can generate reports at the URL, domain and ad level to see where your ad revenues are originating.

Increase Your Profits

You define your own default ads and even serve ads from your own listings to stop unprofitable "filler ads."

Searchfeed
By partnering with Searchfeed.com, Webmasters enhance site content while earning additional revenue from existing Web traffic. Through the integration of paid keyword content, visitors gain access to more relevant information about an area of interest, increasing usability and overall 'stickiness' of a partner's site.

Searchfeed.com's ad technology is deployed through both search and content channel integration, helping to monetize Internet traffic more effectively while maintaining the existing look and feel of a partner's site.

Vibrant Media IntelliTXT
Vibrant Media's patent-pending IntelliTXT technology highlights commercial text links from keywords appearing within pages of online content. Vibrant Media's proprietary technology automates the analysis and categorization of content, identifies the most appropriate marketing message to deliver and, when activated by the user, dynamically serves advertising messages to the right user at the right time.

Contextual Targeting - Relevant, unobtrusive user-activated advertising messages within the content, providing further product or service information to readers
Simple Revenue Model - Pay-for-performance (CPC) pricing adds an instant incremental revenue stream. No set-up fees, virtually zero cost of sales and no impact on existing online advertising real estate.
Easy Implementation - Publisher set up is fast and easy - just integrate simple JavaScript. Publisher retains full editorial control over the look and feel of IntelliTXT.
Publisher Permission - IntelliTXT is controlled and managed by the publisher. This is not a desktop application.
User Activated - Delivers the advertiser's message within the body of content only when the user mouses over the clearly identified advertising link.

Vibrant Media SmartAd
Vibrant Media's patented SmartAD dynamically matches web publishers' high-quality content with relevant leading advertisers that are searching for contextually targeted real estate. Contextually relevant banner ads are dynamically delivered adjacent to immediate editorial content. Publishers receive fixed CPM for all paid SmartAD units served on the site.

Adds incremental display advertising revenue.
Automates analysis and categorization of content to determine contextually appropriate advertising message.
Provides advertisers with a new method of delivering advertising messages in a highly contextual environment.
Complements publisher's existing advertising and other third-party relationships.

Nixie
Nixxie's partnership solution uses intelligent technology that can read and understand the content of your websites pages. By doing so, Nixxie delivers advertising that is most relevant to the content of your web pages.

Nixxie offers a modular approach to contextual advertising. You have a choice of solutions featuring text ads, price comparison listings and live auction advertising. Click here to see a typical implementation of Nixxie on a web page.

What Nixxie can do for your website:

Create a complimentary or new advertising revenue stream.
Enhance user experience by featuring relevant and useful advertising.
Open the door to one of the Internet's largest advertiser databases featuring big high street brands to local niche products and services.
Earn you revenues every time a visitor clicks on Nixxie's listings.
Offers a variety of implementations tailor made to suit your websites requirements.
Very easy and quick implementations requiring minimal effort for maximum returns.
Superior customer service and timely payments.

MIVA AdRevenue Xpress
AdRevenue XpressTM (ARX) provides immediate revenue opportunities to web publishers by monetizing website traffic. ARX is a unique distribution program, offering small-to-medium-sized web publishers the opportunity to generate revenue by displaying relevant MIVA ad content on their website. By offering relevant content and services, partners extend brand equity and improve site visitor experience.

Features

Dynamic Content - Provide your website with relevant content through predefined keyword searches
Search Box - Add a co-branded search box
Category Directory - Create category and directory searches based on site content
404 Error Page - Turn embarrassing broken links and missing pages into revenue generating opportunities
How It Works

You choose the search or directory implementations that best fit your needs
You copy and paste or use a simple online wizard to integrate sponsored content
Your visitors use the search box, or click on a directory link or dynamic ad
We deliver relevant ad content from the MIVA Network
Your visitors click on one or more of the ads
You gain revenue through visitor clicks
Fastclick
Generating revenue, superior technology, a trusting partnership and customer support are the driving force of our Publisher network.

Generate Revenue

Earn up to an industry-high 65-percent monthly payout on all advertising revenue your website generates! Fastclick pays by the 25th of the month for the previous month by check or PayPal.

And now you can improve your ad revenue with Text Ads! Text Ads are a new, text-based ad format customizable by the publisher to integrate with your site and complement your current display advertising. Join us to see the possibilities.

Technology

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ContextAd provides a dramatic increase in click throughs, resulting in higher effective CPMs. Matching the most appropriate spots to the most appropriate advertisers translates into the ability to better manage and sell inventory. Additionally, the technology's unique ability to bridge keyword and category targeting means it can access new inventory that publishers can offer advertisers, creating entirely new revenue streams. These factors represent critical competitive and economic differentiators in the rapidly evolving contextual advertising category.

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Ads are served in real-time

ContextAd uses our patent pending technology to connect content, ads, and users all within as little as 20 milliseconds. Our system assigns a definition to each web page in our network in real-time which means that ContextAd can be used with dynamic content. As a result, you can show the most relevant ads on all your web pages, enhancing the value for your users and advertisers, while increasing your CPM.

Categories and keywords are utilized for matching

ContextAd goes beyond searching for a single keyword. It indexes your page with the category and multiple keywords without the delay of time consuming hand coding. This unique combination of category and keywords delivers more value to the advertiser and therefore a higher CPM for you. Click here to learn more

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ContextAd offers you the ability to create new revenue streams by adding contextual ad units on your site. ContextAd uses a revenue ranking system that rewards the best performing ads with more volume. This means that the targeted ads that are rotated across your Web site are optimized based on relevance, performance, and price, so they produce as much revenue as possible. When ads are more relevant, more users will be interested in them and will click on them more often - earning more money for you.

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ContextAd not only supports standard IAB sizes, but also allows non-standard sizes as well. For example, ContextWeb's PowerAd (500x300) has been created to maximize the publisher's CPM.

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You now have the ability to control the various colors of the creative units on your web pages. Customize your ads by text color, title color, background color and the border color. This can all be easily accomplished through the online portal for publishers.

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Once you are using ContextAd you will have access to continually updated revenue reporting. Our system tracks ad performance and provides detailed reporting on page impressions, number of clicks, click through rates and overall revenue results.

How did we optimize our site for ads?

Posted by Pramid Sun Desk | 11:28 AM | | 0 comments »

How did we optimize our site for ads?

Google adsense Tips

Location of adsense in the page
The first thing we did was, move the adsense from the bottom of the pages to the top left corner. Now, the adsense ad appear just above the page specific menu in all pages. In this new location, the adsense merges well with the layout of the site and visitors may think that these are links to sections in our site itself. This increases the possibility of clicks.



Background and border color of Adsense ad unit

We used the same background color as our page specific menu. This make the adsense look more like a page menu. Also, we used white borders for the adsense, but placed them inside a table with the same border color as our page menu. Now the adsense looks more like the page menu.


Ad format - Number of Ads in the adsense

Google gives only two options regarding the number of ad links in an adsense ad unit - 4 ad links per unit or 5 ad links per unit. Initially we selected 5 so that we can have more ads. But soon we realised that this option creates ad links in smaller size which make it hard to read. Also, the font size was smaller than our links in the site. We changed to 4 ad links per unit and this made it easier to read and more friendly for the visitors.

Rich content
Like AdSense works well on pages with rich content. It is difficult to fool Google. If you have lot of pages with rich content, you must be able to make maximum benefit from the Google AdSense program.


Rich Keywords
The amount you get depends on how much Google makes from the clicks. Advertisers pay different amounts for keywords. Some keywords are very expensive and you will get good money if you are lucky to get those keyword ads in your page.

How to register in Google Adsense ?

Posted by Pramid Sun Desk | 11:02 AM | | 0 comments »

How to register in Google Adsense ?

Open Google and click on Advertising Programs


select advertising Programs


Select Google Adsense


Register Your account


submit your information



Complete the registration and Google will verify your site and inform the status of registration in 1 to 2 days

Your email Id will be the login name.

The email you get from Google:-

Congratulations!

Your Google AdSense application has been approved. You can now activate your account and start delivering ads on your site in minutes.

What is Google Adsense

Posted by Pramid Sun Desk | 9:59 AM | | 1 comments »

What is Google Adsense ?

Google AdSense is the program that can give you advertising revenue from each page on your website—with a minimal investment in time and no additional resources.
AdSense delivers relevant text and image ads that are precisely targeted to your site and your site content. And when you add a Google search box to your site, AdSense delivers relevant text ads that are targeted to the Google search results pages generated by your visitors’ search request.

Here is an excerpt taken from Google's FAQ:

"Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant, text-based, unobtrusive Google AdWords ads on their website's content pages and earn money. Because the ads are related to what your users are looking for on your site, you'll finally have a way to both monetize and enhance your content pages".

How much you earn per click depends on how much the advertisers are willing to pay. If the keywords the advertiser has chosen are in high demand you could receive several dollars per click. Alternatively low demand keywords will yield a few cents per click.

How does Google AdSense work?

1. Sign up for a new Google Adsense account at https://www.google.com/adsense. It only takes a few minutes.

2. Once your site has been accepted (usually within three days) you will receive a snippet of code to include on your web pages. You can insert this code on as many pages or web sites as you like. Google AdWords will start appearing almost immediately.

3. You earn a few cents or a few dollars per click when someone clicks on the Google AdWords displayed on any of your web pages. Don't create revenue falsely by repetitively clicking on your ads. This will result in Google penalizing or possibly eliminating your site. You may also lose the money you already earned.

4. Viewing your stats - you can check your AdSense earnings anytime by logging into your web-based account.

Here is what you will see:

Impressions - how many times Google AdSense ads have been displayed on your Web page.

Clicks - the number of times an ad is clicked.

Clickthrough rate - the percentage of times an ad is clicked, out of the total number of impressions.

Your earnings - how much you have earned from Google so far.

5. Google will send you a check every 30 days when you earn $100.00 or more. You will also receive payment at the end of the year, regardless of your account balance.

Who is Google AdSense for?

Content-based web sites - google advertisers want their ads on web pages that contain highly targeted keywords. This enables the Google search engine to easily spider the site, plus engage the visitor in the web page content. This better prepares the visitor's mind to then click on the Google AdWords ad.

Theme-based web sites - create a web site that focuses on highly targeted keywords. These should be keywords that are often searched for (high demand) but don't have too many competing web sites (low supply).

How to increase your AdSense earnings

1. Choose one topic per page - write content for your topic with a few targeted keyword phrases. Google will then serve ads that are more relevant resulting in higher clickthroughs.

2. Use white space around your ad - this will make your ad stand out from the rest of your page so visitors can easily view it. Google also provides different colors for your ad so it will harmonize with the web page color.

3. Test out your ad placement - Google recommends using the vertical skyscraper format that runs down the side of your page for optimum results. Try testing both horizontal and vertical formats over a period of time to see which format gives you the best results.

4. Create more content-based pages - expand the theme of your web site by creating pages that focus on your keyword phrases. Optimize those pages for the search engines. This will not only attract traffic to those pages but make them more relevant for Google AdWords to be displayed.

Conclusion - give Google AdSense a try by writing keyword-focused pages based upon the interests you are passionate about. You will not only enjoy writing about them, but earn some extra cash as well

How to make money with Ads by Google ?

There's nothing complex about the AdSense
You run a website

You sign up for Google's AdSense program

You post AdSense ads on your site

You get traffic

This traffic clicks on the ads

Google charges the advertiser

You get checks from Google

Pay the checks in

Continue reading on Internet http://www.google.com/services/adsense_tour/

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AdSense Frequently Asked Questions
https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/index.py?fulldump=1

  1. Log into your Blogger account.

  2. Click the "Layout" link under your blog name on the Dashboard. If you don't have such a link, go to your Templates page for your blog and click the "AdSense" tab.

  3. If you have clicked the "Layout" link earlier, you will now be given a choice of where to place your advertisments. For example, if you want to put your ad in the side column click the "Add a Page Element" link in that column. If you want it at the bottom of the page, click the similarly named link at the bottom.

    A new window will open, allowing you to choose the type of page element you want to add. Click the checkbox beside "AdSense". You will be brought to yet another page when you do that. Look for the "Sign in" link and click it. Enter your AdSense login and password to log into your AdSense account.

    Note: Those who had to click an "AdSense" tab in the first step will not have the choice of choosing where to place your advertisements. If that's the case for you, just skip to the next step.

  4. Once you have signed in, you will be brought to a screen that allows you to choose the size and colour scheme of your advertisements. A preview window underneath your selection shows you what your advert will look like.

  5. When you're done, click the "Save changes" button.

That's it. When you next check out your blog, you should be able to see your advertisements.