The face of internet advertising is changing. Blogging has become a very popular means of advertising through the use of personal reviews as well as blog advertising. Blog advertising can be on a pay per click, pay per X amount of impressions or pay per post basis. Pay per click is where a blogger gets paid for time a sponsored link is clicked on their blog.

Getting paid for the amount of impressions could be beneficial if you get a lot of traffic to your blog. Most of the programs that pay this way group impressions by multiples of 1000. That means your ads would need to be displayed 1000 times, or the set multiple of it, before you would be credited any money. Pay per post programs pay you based on each individual post you have that meets their guidelines. Most of these are contracted reviews in which you have signed up and agreed to complete within a certain time frame.

You might be wondering how this could be profitable since each of us only uses a certain number of products and at some point you could run out of things to write about. Well, that’s where pay per click and pay per impression advertising comes into play. When you sign up to get paid this way, the site you signed up with crawls your site periodically and picks up on keywords throughout each page you have the ads placed on. Ads that are relevant to that page are then automatically generated and placed on your site via the ad code you were provided by them.

Your readers then get to see ads for things that may interest them and when they click you are credited with money for it. Pay per impression crawls and generates ads in the same way, but when you get paid is different. It could be good to test each of these programs for a short while to see which one would be the most beneficial for you. You may have a lot of readers but none of them click, in that case pay per impression would work best for you.

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adminUncategorized17 Aug, 2008No Comments

Know Thy SEO Spider

NO I am not talking about the eight-legged hairy creatures of nightmares. These spiders are electronic, used by search engines, and if you ignore them they give you nightmares that will haunt you every waking moment

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is all about common sense; it doesn’t necessitate specific knowledge of algorithms, programming and classifications. All it requires is a basic understanding of how search engines spiders work. Taking care of the search engine spiders likes and dislikes can prove to be crucial for the health and success of your website.

The Spider at Work

They are called spiders because they crawl over the Web in search of content. Search engines gather data about a website by ’sending’ the spider or bots to ‘read’ the site and copy its content. This content is stored in the search engine’s database. As they copy and absorb content from one document, they create record links and send other bots to make copies of content on those linked documents this process goes on and on. As of now the major search engines have established databases that measure their size in the tens of billions using this process.

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adminUncategorized5 Oct, 2007No Comments

The internet age has brought us many wonderful things like shopping from home, unlimited research capabilities, and YouTube. However, this new era has also ushered in a hidden menace: spyware and adware now infect over 90% of the world’s computers. The problem is that these digital viruses, like their biological namesake, change their structure just as quickly as programs can be written to detect and delete them.

These malicious files are also aptly named in regards to their effects on a computer’s performance. This is due to the nature of how a spyware program operates: spyware is installed on your system without your knowledge, and does not leave an icon on your desktop nor can it be deleted using Windows’ “Add or remove programs,” feature. While you browse the web, listen to music, and chat on your computer, spyware runs in the background, keeping track of everything you do and type. This information is relayed back to whatever company caused the software to be installed in the first place. When multiple spyware applications have installed themselves onto a machine, they all continue to run at the same time on top of whatever else the owner is doing. This dramatically slows down even a very fast computer.

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adminUncategorized5 May, 2007No Comments