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Three steps to increasing AdBrite revenue yield

Here are useful tips from AdBrite Blog to help drive more revenue for publishers who use text and/or banner zones.

This simple 3-step plan should increase your chances of maximizing revenue yield. These are fairly basic tips, but often it’s the tried-and-true advice that works best.

1) Choose prominent, above-the-fold zone placements

The old adage says three things matter in real estate: location, location, location. The same is true for online advertising.

To maximize revenue production, make sure your AdBrite ad zone is prominently placed. This usually means “above the fold” (at the top of the page) or near other content areas where users are likely to discover and engage with ad messages.

With more prominent placements, users are more likely to click on your text ads, and banner advertisers will find your inventory more desirable. All of this should increase your revenue yield per page.

2) Choose banner-and-text zones

AdBrite offers site owners lots of flexibility to choose how ads are displayed on your sites.

Over time, we’ve found that standard zone sizes, which expose your site to banner and text ads in our auction, yield maximum revenue for publishers. For example, the medium rectangle (300×250) is our highest-yielding ad placement.

Choosing one of our five standard banner-and-text zone sizes exposes your zone to the maximum possible advertiser demand from both banner and text advertisers. More buyers usually means more relevant ads and a higher price.

3) Try Inline and Full Page Ad products

By choosing above-the-fold banner-and-text zones, you’ve already set yourself up to receive our highest-yielding banner and text ads. To boost your revenue even further, try inline ads and Full Page Ads.

Inline ads are interactive and take up less real estate than standard zones. Up to eight words that you already have on your site will be highlighted, and you generate revenue when a user mouses over the double-underlined word and clicks on an associated text ad.

Full Page Ads allow you to earn incremental revenue without using your website space. Publishers running Full Page Ads typically generate $3-10 CPMs for those ads.

Family Dollar $5.00 of Coupon

Check your Family Dollar flyer this week.

There is a $5.00 off coupon with purchases totaling at least $25.00.

I shop there anyway, so there was no problem reaching the minimum.

The coupon is good through 4/14/08.

And you can grab a few flyers at the store and return to use more coupons.

Aductions to commence business operations in Malaysia

Aductions now has an office in Malaysia.

The name and address to our Malaysian office is:

Aductions Sdn. Bhd
L6-03A Wisma BU8
No 11 Lebuh Bandar Utama
47800 Petailing Jaya
Malaysia


The move to set up an office in Malaysia is part of our strategy to extend our services to the media buyers and publishers located in Malaysia and other countries in South East Asia.

What have we been up to?

Our United States and Malaysian team members have been working very closely with some of the Malaysian media buyers that have expressed great interest in running their ad campaigns on the Aductions Advertising Platform. Most of these media buyers like the platform because of its transparency and precise targetability features.

Coming soon

We are also rolling out a new feature that will allow publishers to choose if they want media buyers to procure their ad spaces at a discount in return for a long term commitment to advertise on their site. We will provide you with some more details about this feature very soon.

What do you need to do?

Please make sure the Aductions ad code is installed on your site in order for the system to collect and build a traffic profile on your ad space. Media buyers use these profiles to determine which ad space is the best fit for their ad campaigns.

Finally, we are very glad to commence business in Malaysian and we look forward to helping you sell your inventory and manage your ad campaigns more effectively.

SharedReviews: The Art of Reputation

SharedReviews' Reputation Score

This is a new system that will measure some of your activities within the community and assign bonuses and negatives to those actions based on how much they contribute to the overall goals of the community, which is to have the best community and the highest quality reviews available anywhere online.

Reputation Score will be the NEW tie breaker for all reviews that tie for a revenue earning position, starting with the April Cycle. Also, we have designed your Reputation Score to determine how many votes you will be allowed to cast per category. Everyone starts with a Reputation Score of 50%; members with a score between 25% to 74% will be able to cast only 2 votes per subcategory, with scores above or below this range increasing or decreasing the allowed votes per subcategory in real-time. Here is the breakdown:

100%: 4 votes per category
75% - 99%: 3 votes per category
25%-74%: 2 votes per category
1%-24%: 1 vote per category
0%: 0 Votes

March SharedReviews Earnings Report for ghostrider30.blogspot.com

Here's the report you've been waiting for!

March Cycle Totals:

1) Total Community Reviews that were voted on: 8010
2) Total Votes cast by the community: 98594
3) Community share of revenue this cycle: $10,000.00

Here are your March Cycle earnings:

Reviews you authored:

1) Your Eligible Reviews: 0
2) Your Reviews that received Votes: 0
3) Your Reviews that earned Revenue: 0
4) Total Review Revenue Earned: $0.00

Votes you cast:

1) Your Votes Cast: 0
2) Your Votes that earned Revenue: 0
3) Total Vote Revenue Earned: $0.00

Congratulations, your total March earnings are: $0.00

We have added this total to your profile, and will make our next paypal payment for all outstanding amounts the first week of April.

Make sure to check out the top 10 March community performers that will be posted on both the Blog and the Forum. Keep up the great work, and we look forward to another exciting month of sharing!

Kontera at ad:tech San Francisco

ad:tech is an interactive advertising and technology conference and exhibition.

Worldwide shows blend keynote speakers, topic driven panels and workshops to provide attendees with the tools and techniques they need to compete in a changing world.

Six incredible keynote presentations are lined up for ad:tech San Francisco – make sure you're there! Keynotes are included with a free Exhibit Hall pass

Kontera at ad:tech San Francisco
Dates: April 15-17, 2008
Location: Moscone Center
Our booth, #6277, will be located near the Café and Wifi Lounge.

Drinks are on us!
Join us for Happy Hour at the Kontera booth on Tuesday, April 15th at 4 PM.

Come by booth, have a cold beer and meet the team. While you're there, enter our raffle for the chance to win an iPod Touch!

ad:tech San Francisco is an interactive advertising and technology conference and exhibition.

We're excited about the opportunity to meet with brand marketers, advertising agencies and online publishers under one roof, and we look forward to seeing you there.

Register online to attend the free keynotes and to browse all the leading suppliers – experts in the digital marketing space. Compare and contrast, evaluate and shortlist in a non-jargon environment. Get ahead of the curve at ad:tech San Francisco

Make sure to attend ad:tech Awards that recognizes the talented designers and strategic thinkers who demonstrate excellence in interactive marketing. Winners will be recognized in 25 categories by some of the industry's top leaders.

Kontera is a leading provider of In-Text Advertising & Information Solutions. With over 9,000 publishers in its network, reaching over 75 Million unique users per month, Kontera works with thousands of brand and direct marketers to maximize publisher revenue, optimize campaign performance and enhance overall user experience. www.kontera.com.

A new way to reward Helium writers

Helium is growing – thanks to your hard work. We've come a long way since even this time last year. And we've still got lots of great years together ahead!

Just as we are constantly improving the site, we are continually looking at our business to make improvements. As we've matured with 100,000+ writers on the site, we realize that not all those writers have remained active on Helium. Some writers submitted just a few articles and left the site, while others have become active, even addicted members of our community.

As we have begun to analyze the Helium Ad Revenue Share model, we have identified a long tail of articles on our site that are earning pennies, nickels and dimes that belong to writers who are no longer involved with Helium. We feel that this long tail of earnings might be better utilized if we shared it with our active members – those of you who are turning Helium into the successful, thriving site it has become.

So we're floating the idea of a new payment system. Our concept is to share our ad revenue only with members of the Helium community who maintain one rating star on the site. A single rating star is easy to obtain, and as we all know, rating is at the core of Helium's success. You can earn a rating star by doing only 40 "quality" ratings within the last 90 days – that's less than 15 ratings per week!

Why a rating star and not a writing star? As it turns out, our payment system is geared to allocating payments toward the best content on the site, so the starred writers are already being paid their fair share. Although it's true that every article on Helium participates in the ad revenue share, it turns out that the better-ranked articles get far more views, and as a result, they earn more than lower-ranked articles. That's the way it should be.

If writing is the heart of Helium, rating is its soul. The success of Helium is based on its community of writers who are sharing their insights, knowledge and creativity through submissions. And success at Helium is also driven by the judgments we provide every day through rating.

Let us know what you think. You can join a conversation about this on the Helium boards. Or drop an email to heliumnewsfeedback@helium.com.

Invite Your Friends to Kontera and Get Cash

Already enjoying the benefits of Kontera? Invite your friends to join the party. You’ll receive a $25 bonus from us for each friend who becomes an active Kontera publisher. So why not spread the word? Telling your friends about Kontera has never been easier:

*Log into Kontera’s Publisher Center using your user name and password

*Select “My Account” tab and click on “Invite a Friend”.

*Type in your friends’ names and send away

*Your friends sign up through the link on your email.

*You will get a $25 bonus for every friend you bring who reaches 50,000 page views within 60 days of sign up.

Can’t wait to meet your friends!

Happy Monetizing with Rubicon Certified Ad Space

the Rubicon Project, a company with a mission to automate the large, yet highly inefficient advertising industry, has established the Certified Ad Space program. The program was created to satisfy ad network and advertiser needs for broader exposure and access to safe, high-quality website inventory, while ensuring that campaigns reach the intended audience and content. The program features a 21-point certification checklist and ratings system that has verified more than 10 billion ads and 725 websites for more than 62 ad networks to date.

Rubicon released first-ever market research report: "2008 Online Advertising Market Report - Q1: Ad Network Landscape, Trends & Outlook."

Here's the scoop on what these things mean for your website:

The Rubicon Certified Ad Space program is our new independent verification program created to ensure your carefully segmented ad space is bringing you top dollar. The great news for you? As one of the 15% of websites we selected from our of 5000 applicants to participate in our private Beta, your site is already Rubicon Certified. Our goal is to bring your ad space greater visibility - and greater value - by touting its certification to our ad network partners every day. Read our press release about the program here.

The Q1: Ad Network Landscape, Trends & Outlook report is intended as a guide through the chaotic landscape of ad networks and revenue optimization that you face every day. We hope you might find it useful to help make smart decisions for your business.

Make money with Carousel widget

Associates is Amazon.com's affiliate marketing program. By linking to Amazon products and services you can add compelling content for your site visitors enjoyment and receive up to 10% in referral fees for doing so.

As one of the first online affiliate marketing programs, Associates has a 10-year track record of developing solutions to help website owners, Web developers, and Amazon sellers make money.

Associates drive internet traffic to Amazon.com through specially formatted links that allow us to track sales and other activity.

Associates earn up to 10% in referral fees on all qualifying revenue made through their links.

Amazon has now launched a new widget for Amazon Associates that includes an engaging new display format plus multiple product selection options.

The Carousel widget presents products in an interactive 3D display allowing you to select either the Carousel or Ferris Wheel format in multiple sizes that work for your site.

There are several ways to create your widget; you can hand-pick specific products to recommend to your viewers or choose to display the latest Bestsellers and New Releases from any Amazon category.

The below ad unit is a ‘carousel’ format (horizontal) but they also have a ‘ferris wheel’ format (vertical). Each come in different size options.

Microsoft, Yahoo!, and the MacBook Air

Can you replace the battery on the MacBook Air? Is Microsoft in bed with Yahoo? This week’s video addresses these pressing questions.

How To Make Money Selling Recipes

Practically everybody's got hundreds of recipes stashed away somewhere. Why not sell 'em? So why don't you? The right way is to run a small classified ad in any of the tabloid newspapers. You could also try a local newspaper, even put up a little note on the bulletin board in your local grocery store, church, community center or dozens of other places.

If you have something unusual, especially if you offer a package deal like 5-10 recipes for $2.00 or so, you can get quite a few responses, and indeed make a profit. Of course most people try a market a single recipe, charge upwards of $5.00 and end up with nothing to show for their efforts.

Anyone running recipe ads will be guaranteed lots of responses. Promise. No, they won't be from people wanting your favorite recipe. Well, maybe one or two will. Most inquiries will be offers to join a recipe club. Right now this very minute hundreds of people are going through the classified ads getting ready to send the unsuspecting recipe advertiser an offer to join their recipe club, which is another version of an illegal chain letter.

The first thing promoters of this type of scheme will tell you is that every one of their members gets hundreds and hundreds of people to send them one, two, even five dollars per recipe. It won't happen and it's illegal. As I already said very few people will part with $2-$5 for a single recipe, unless you know how to turn lead into gold or something equally exciting. So don't waste your money joining any clubs.

OK, now that you were warned what is likely to happen, it's time to tell you how you can, with a little luck, make money selling recipes. To keep your advertising costs to a minimum you must use classified ads. To compete with the dozens of others offering recipes you have to grab the readers attention. I know of no one who reads classified ads. People just skim through them and stop if they see something interesting.

So the most important part of your classified ad must be the first three or four words Choose powerful words that make your potential customer excited enough to read the rest of your ad.

Note the difference between the two ads on the following page. It's the same recipe but the choice of words in the first is so bland that practically everyone will pass it up. The second should at least spark a bit of curiosity, and get your potential customer to read the rest of your ad.

GRANDMA'S CHOCOLATE TORTE CAKE

Delicious easily prepared dessert that your family will love. Send $2 & SASE to Jane Smith, allrecipesonline.blogspot.com

FOR CHOCOLATE LOVERS ONLY.

Mouth watering sinfully delicious desserts. 5 tempting recipes you'll love. $2 Smith, allrecipesonline.blogspot.com

Write and rewrite your ad to get maximum impact with the fewest possible words Not only will your ad be more effective, it will cost you a lot less to run it as well.

Note the all too common mistakes in the first ad. A single recipe for something that probably can be found in most cook books. Unnecessary words that cost extra money. Nothing left to the reader's imagination. The reader's probably thinking I could call up Aunt Betty and get her Chocolate Torte recipe, besides I owe her a phone call anyway. Such an ad will draw few if any responses.

The first ad implies the recipe is easy to prepare. Usually a fatal mistake in recipe ads. Either the potential customer will think "if it's so easy to fix... it isn't worth the $2, or heck, I don't have the time prepare anything elaborate, I think I'll pass. It's a lose/lose method. Don't use it!

Another mistake is saying your family will love it. The reader may be thinking "You don't know my family." What you should be doing is get the reader to think about what he likes in desserts, without bringing back any bad memories. Since there's no way to know what the reader of your ad likes, stick with general terms. The exception should be the ad's headline (the first three or four words) which should qualify a general type of recipe without getting to specific.

The second ad serves this purpose and also uses a little psychology. How many ads have you seen that say "Don't read this?" It's only human nature that you will want to read it all the more.

Using verbs to describe the desserts probably gets the reader's mind to thinking back to the last dessert he enjoyed, without causing him to remember a specific dessert he may not have liked at all.

Not telling exactly what recipes you'll get will peak curiosity if the price is right. Of course offering 5 different recipes for the same price others charge for one recipe will improve you response rate without really increasing your costs.

Eliminating unnecessary words not only makes the ad more readable, it saves money too.

Finally, don't come across as being cheap. Asking for a self addressed stamped envelope will turn off a lot of potential customers The whole purpose of your ad should be to get inquiries so you can sell additional items. Remember, a satisfied customer is likely to order from you again. The key to making money in mail order is repeat business

Everyone likes a "free gift" so include a bonus free recipe or two.

When responses come in, fill orders daily. Don't wait around to see what the mailman brings tomorrow. Have a collection of additional recipes you can sell ready to go. Make a circular and include with the recipes you just sold. Offer a discount or some kind of special for ordering right away.

Consider selling hard to find kitchen tools you purchase wholesale or cook books from publisher's over stocks. Don't give up if you don't have success immediately, but be smart enough to know when things aren't working.