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Recently, an advertising network known as WidgetBucks launched and began their quest to revolutionize the world of online marketing. In providing their pay-per-click shopping widget programs, WidgetBucks seeks to make advertising a much easier process for just about everyone involved. Traditional advertising is effective in some cases, but often times, it fails to meet the needs of companies. It just doesn’t reach customers in the right way. WidgetBucks is a different kind of online advertising, though.

Depending upon your role in the entire operation, WidgetBucks provides a different experience for various webmasters. The advertisements seem to reach customers in a different way. The latest marketing research has indicated that, on the whole, internet browsers are extremely fickle and they’re able to pick up on the tricks that marketing professionals bring. With WidgetBucks, the advertisements read more like content. Internet browsers see the WidgetBucks advertisements just like they do the articles on a webmaster’s site.

Webmasters have found that WidgetBucks can be very profitable when compared to other forms of affiliate marketing. Most website owners report a very high click through rate and from that, a solid CPM. What is the primary reason why this is happening? WidgetBucks serves the hot niches in the website industry. Among the popular niches are video games, sports, jewelry, health topics, and plenty of other things that are currently hot in the industry.

If you are a webmaster and you plan on making the big bucks using this advertising program, you better have a website in one of the popular niches. Otherwise, their advertising seems to fall short of the mark. Their advertisements are well written and are designed to make people really want to explore the product being advertised, but some webmasters find that their site is not one that benefits from such marketing.

The referral program is also very popular and is a good way to make some income using the program. At last check, WidgetBucks had an offer of $25 for any person who registers their high traffic site. From there, webmasters aren’t finished making money through WidgetBucks. You can earn 10% of the total lifetime earnings of all of the people you refer through your personal referral link. Depending upon who clicks on your site, this could end up being a very profitable aspect of the entire operation.

As far as payments go, there is a little bit of a waiting period. This can be frustrating at first, but after a while, the cycle begins to catch up to itself and you’ll be receiving regular payments. Just 45 days after the end of the month, WidgetBucks will send payment through either the Paypal system or through a personal check.

On the whole, WidgetBucks is a pretty good new system and they stand to revolutionize the market some. The advertisements are well written, which is the main difference between these ads and some of the other ones that you might see online.

There are better ways to promote your website. You must use Craigslist.

Use these tips and start to make money right now:

* Catch the curiosity of the reader in your subject, not the ad
* SHORT ADS receive more clicks than LONG ADS
* Ebay is a great word to use in the subject of your ads
* Short ads get 80% more success to not be flagged
* Write “numbers” in your subject. They work lie a charm!
* Google is very glad about Craigslist posts. Take advantage of this!
* Track your clicks in order to know which ad was the best

So here are 10 of some of the most effective ways to make your site’s visitors click on your ads:

1. Use reverse psychology on your banner ads. You could tell people not to click on your banner ad. Forexample “Don’t Click Here If You Are Comfortable With Your Looks”… This is one of the famous techniques used by the Rick Jerk.

2. Make your banner ad words as attractive as possible. Use words like ultimate, powerful, sizzling, hot, etc. Your words should relate and highlight your total offer.

3. Offer a discount offer on your banner ad. People are always looking for good deals. You could offer a percentage discount, dollar discount, buy one get one free discount, etc.

4. Use a testimonial on your banner ad. This’ll give people proof they aren’t wasting their time clicking on your banner ad. The testimonial should include enough information so they understand the offer.

5. You could have a famous and respectable person on your banner ad representing your product, website or service. People will click because they’ll trust them over you.

6. Use a strong guarantee on your banner ad. You could include the guarantee as a headline for your offer. It could read double or triple your money back guarantee, lifetime your money back guarantee, etc.

7. Tell people to click on your banner ad. Newbies to the internet may not even know they can click on banners. Just having the phrase “click here” on your banner will increase your click-throughs.

8. You could advertise a trial or sample offer. This will tell people there is no risk or obligation if they click on your banner ad and try out your product or service.

9. Tell people the major benefit of your product, website or service on your banner ad. It could be benefits like: make money online, lose weight, increase energy, save money, save time, etc.

10. You could advertise a free offer on your banner ad. People love free stuff. The freebie should relate to your target audience. If the freebie is attractive to them they will click.

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You have got TONS of brilliant stories but you aren’t getting a decent number of readers. Digg.com offers an excellent opportunity to everyone to submit their own stories and get it rated by its members. If you are able to get enough votes by its members then your story hits the FrontPage and that means you get thousands of readers flocking to your story.

Any story can get popular at Digg, if you just know how.

• Don’t Submit Your Stories Just Yet!
• After joining Digg, you need to have a lot of friends. I kept Adding about thousands of friends (This takes a hell of a time but you have to do some hard work). When you add a person as a friend, you become a fan of him. If he accepts your friend invite, you become his mutual friend. After About a day I had about a few hundred mutual friends and rest were the people I was fan of.
• Now i started removing those people from my friend list who were inactive and those who didn’t accept my friend invite.
• In less than an hour or two , I brought my friends list down to just over a hundred people ( All of them Mutual ) .
• Now i submitted my UNIQUE story and shared my story with all of my mutual friends.
• The story hit the FrontPage in less than twelve hours from the time I submitted it.

Note For Webmasters: Avoid using Digg all the time. It should be noted that your pages would gain Higher Rankings on Search Engines but later they would just disappear and you would just see those Digg pages instead of your own site. Limiting your own stories to just one or two a month is a nice idea to maintain your site ranking well. Digg may also BAN your site if you submit DUPLICATE stories.

Digg Exchange is not a Good IDEA. You would be manipulating Digg this way! Use the CLEANER Method I have provided. You are just doing everything the SMARTER way.

Now the dust has settled regarding Google’s stance on directories, what does the future hold for the sector?
In my own opinion the move made by Google was a master stroke for various reasons.

If a directory owner had the capital to list their site on 1,000’s of paid directories, their website was bound to rank well, regardless of the optimisation of the site, the amount of traffic the site delivered and the strength of the inner pages.

This is history now, Google have adjusted their platform so only genuine directories perform well. I have noticed Google now displays links based on quality not page rank. Google is now indexing more and more links from free directories even though they display little to no page ranking. This is fantastic news for the general public, however not so good for directory owners.

I believe in the future Google will continue to stamp down on paid directories as well as penalising sites who pay for links. So how can directories be of benefit if less and less people want to purchase links?

The answer to this is simple, people need to look away from the direct benefit and look towards in-direct benefit, I will try to explain. I own a free reciprocal link business services directory. I gain benefit in terms of my link building process is totally automated through the directory and content is added on a regular basis. By using this tactic as well as others I have transformed my business from being an average ranked business services website, to being one of the highest ranked in the UK.

All online businesses have to have a degree of flexibility, simply because the goal posts change on a regular basis. By being flexible and forward thinking it is possible to use a bad situation to your benefit. For sure people will continue to purchase links from directories, even when doing so will damage their sites ranking, but eventually the stream of customers will dry up. The majority of paid directories will have to change their business model if they want to be around in a few years time.

November 28th, 2007 by Courtney

If you read what the statement says, you can see that buying or selling links that pass PageRank can negatively effect the rankings of a site. I personally have been watching the sites that are ranked in front of me for ‘internet marketing’ and can tell you that many of the sites in the top 10 in Google were buying links before this fiasco. Many of those links have since come down, including one site-wide link using ‘internet marketing’ as the anchor from a PR10 site. Tell me that this doesn’t make it easier for me.

Google’s Paid Link Smack-Down Is Leveling The Playing Field
I know that some of you are mad because of this whole thing, and I understand that. A revenue stream that you could once use is pretty much over if you’re serious about your site. On the other hand, however, this will make it easier for you to compete for rankings against sites that have bigger budgets than you.

Help Is On The Way For Link Sellers
If you read the quote from Google, you’ll see that Google is ok with selling links, as long as you use nofollows on them. SocialSpark and other services are being created to allow you to connect with advertisers that want to buy buzz, not PageRank. Google is going to be ok with SocialSpark because you will be allowed to place nofollow on your links.

Ok, first of all, get your PageRank up to 6. In all honesty, how hard is to get PR5? You can purchase one sitewide at PR7 site and get up to 5, or you can spend a couple hundred dollars submitting to high quality directories. (although, I admit, it could be a little harder after the recent PR update, when many dirs lost their PR).
The reason behind this is that permanent directory listing does not mean much, if your PR drops in the future. By having higher PR you are showing me (the submitter) that you are serious about your directory, because you have put some time and money into it. You need to have high PR and professional looking directory if you want people to submit to it.
And let’s be honest, people submit to directories for PR, not for traffic. The days when directories were providing traffic are long gone. Do not brag about your traffic. Work hard, and brag about your PR.

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You might ask yourself has your web site been banned by Google, because you might have read or heard that various actions and methods might make that happen. For example creating multiple web sites with duplicate content or generating web pages with no original content with affiliate ads might get a web site banned by Google. Some people have for example created fake directory pages using DMOZ and Google AdSense ads or other affiliate program ads just to get money when people click the links and some have used computer programs to create large amounts of computer generated link pages, etc. (more…)

Choosing a domain name for your new website can be tricky, do you take this domain, that domain or look for more.

There are certain factors that should help you choose and here are 10 tips that can help you choose the best domain for you. (more…)