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Adsense and Tuesdays?

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

I don’t know if this means anything, but I just noticed a strange pattern on my Adsense Report. For the last two and a half months, almost every tuesday, my adsebse earnings are zero.

For the rest of the days, its pretty much the same thing. I wonder what is going on out here. If anything, I would have expected them to drop at the weekends, but there is no clear pattern there. The only pattern is a noticeable drop on tuesdays.

I probably should have noticed it earlier, but I rarely check my AdSense account. It pretty much manages itself. So …. Even if I had noticed, I have no clue on why it is so, so I don’t know how I could have repaired it in any case. The only hunch I have is that perhaps some really repulsive ads show on tuesdays for some reason? I’m going to watch the ads and see if I can understand this phenomenon better.

Anyone have a clue on what is happening?

Link Nerve

Sunday, June 15th, 2008
I found this link building service - Link Nerve - which is currently in beta and will be launched soon. Their idea is to sell content links from words occurring naturally in the content of websites.

I have applied to them to see if I can test it, but no response so far. I am interested in seeing how this works, and the way the content links are managed and how practical it gets.

I tried a few words, and the links cost about $30 for “any page rank”, and go up to $465 per link for a Page Rank 8 site.

Stay tuned folks, this might get interesting.

I guess this is going to be fantastic for advertisers, as these links should work very well for both their link building purposes, as well as getting traffic by virtue of their relevance (at least seeming relevance). How well, in comparison with cost remains to be seen.

How well it will work for bloggers remains to be seen, as well as the process of identifying which words occur in which blogs…..

Sponsored Reviews

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

So many people are looking for easy ways to be online and earn from it. One of the greatest ways I know is to write reviews. Many people look at this as “selling your soul” or something, but really, do you need to sell your soul to have an opinion about something?

I enjoy doing paid reviews. Of course, the best part is that I get paid for writing, but there are other aspects to it too. One being that I end up looking at products, services and websites that I otherwise would probably have missed. Another, is for me to develop my writing skills, so that I can say what I want to say, rather than provide some sugar coated garbage. Believe me, this needs practice, and paid practice is good incentive.

There are literally endless places you can get opportunities to write reviews and get paid for them. I keep posting opportunities like that from time to time, and this is a time when I share one of those:

What I like about SponsoredReviews.com is that it doesn’t limit you to advertizers selecting your site before you can attempt reviews, but you can actually go through the requirements posted and bid on the ones you think will work for your interests, blog, style of writing and money requirements. This is good, because with many paid review sites, you end up having to settle for whatever their automated systems throw your way, and I am certain that many good matches are not even noticed.

For example, I could find a subject that really was of interest to me, and then, honestly, even if the budget is not as high as I expect, it works for me, because I am going to enjoy writing it. This is not something a software can anticipate.

But there are other sites of course, and I might as well list them here:

Another really good paid blogging site.

Another nice place is Review Stream - its really easy and hassle free to write reviews here, and there are no issues with creating accounts or anything. Quick and painless.

So far, so good. Will point out more opportunities as I come across them.

Paid Social Networking

Thursday, May 1st, 2008
So, in a world of paid this and that and the other, we now have the advent of paid social networking with myLot.

What basically happens is the same as any other social networking. The fun part is where you earn money when people visit your page or rate your comments. Why not? I mean sites like Orkut for example earn from the content we generate. So why not provide a share to the creators and motivate people to interact more on the site?

If you are already a social networking bum, this might just be your internet bill payment. Head over and give it a whirl. If it doesn’t work, what have you lost anyway?

Review me

Thursday, September 13th, 2007
I have joined Get Reviewed At ReviewMe! as a reviewer. This allows me to get paid for writing reviews on subjects that interest me.

What I like about review me is that it allows me to write whatever I honestly think. There is no requirement for a positive review. In the past, I wanted to join such programmes, but what made me leery was the rejection that could accompany posts that are not positive, and I can’t honestly write a real review and only be positive all the time.

I see a great number of advantages to this service.

For bloggers, it is a source of easy income as well as a flow of things to write about to tide you over times when you are blocked. I don’t know if people accept every offer they get, but I pick up the ones that interest me and leave out the ones that don’t so for me, it is simply a source of inspiration for writing that pays me as well.

I guess if it is done only for the money, it might not work out so well, as the quality of reviews would go down, and eventually, a person would be left writing garbage. THAT would be a disaster in terms of the quality of the blog itself, and I think it shouldn’t be done.

For people who’d like to promote their services or get honest feedback
that can help them improve on their services or products can find that
and get nice links in the content as a bonus. I don’t know if it is any
use in search engine marketing, as there is a disclosure that it is a
paid review, but it certainly shouldn’t harm. I see it as an excellent opportunity to find out what people related with your subject think of what you are offering and it will definitely enable improvement if the reviews are taken seriously, rather than simply treated as links.

You have the links anyway, why not get more value from what you are already paying for?

Anyway, if you’d like to give it a shot, go for it, and let me know what you think as well.
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