Vizu and Feedburner Ads not performing that well
March 12, 2007 by martin
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I’m using Vizu Answers and Feedburner Ads on my main website and both perform badly since I started using them. Vizu Answers adds a poll to your website and pays per impression while the Feedburner ads are added to your feed and are paid by impression as well. Vizu seems to lack advertisers at the moment - I rarely see a poll on my website. My site with 10000 visitors a day had only 38000 ad impressions which means that the poll was not displayed most of the time.
Feedburner on the other hand seems to geotarget traffic really well which means that their ads get only displayed in my feeds if the reader comes from a certain region of this world. It is mostly US-based from what I can see and only 30-40% of my feed readers come from the United States. The other readers do not see an ad at all.
My first paypal payment from Vizu
January 30, 2007 by martin
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A great way to add another revenue source to your website is by adding a paid poll from vizu to it. You configure the settings by yourself, add some keywords and categories to it and select the amount that you want to earn per 1000 impressions.
Vizu then tries to find advertisers that fit your description and adds automatic polls to your website. I had great success with a setting of $2 per 1000 impressions (vizus share is 50% of that number). I just wanted to let everyone know that they actually pay in time and can be recommended. They seem to have troubles finding enough advertisers for my website this month, only 1/3 of impressions have been served.
Buying, Optimizing and Selling Websites
January 21, 2007 by martin
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I would like to write about another method of making money online without putting effort into creating a great website. The following method can be nicely explained with a real life example. Instead of building a new house you buy a used one with lots of potential that looks just a little bit shabby or one were the owner of the house has to sell it under market value. You then pay some craftsmen to make the house nice and shiny and sell it afterwards for a nice profit.
The same can be done with websites if you know the basics. It is not easy to spot a website with potential if you are a beginner. You have lots of other webmasters who are visiting certain forums (digitalpoint, namepros, sitepoint) every day to find websites and buy them before another one does.
A Real Example
I thought I start my daily posts with my own example - How I became someone who is making good money with blogs and websites. It all started by coincidence, really. A friend of mine created a software which he wanted to supply freely and I decided to create a blog for that software. I added adsense to the site without really knowing what I was doing. The same day my website made it to the front page of digg.com which happened to send thousands of users to my site at that day.
The result was a steady flow of visitors from digg and other websites that wrote a story about my blog and the program. I made more than $80 the first day with google adsense. The income decreased in the coming days but I was so motivated by this coincidence that I decided to read and learn more about money making. I probably would have quit some weeks later if my site would not have made it to the homepage of digg.
About Monetizr
I bet the first question that comes to your mind is why the hell does the world need another monetization blog if there already exist such great established blogs like problogger or entrepeneurs journey. Those two blogs are really great and I have them in my feed reader because their are actually essential. What they are missing though is something that I would like to add with my blog.
I try to write for guys like you, guys with dreams of making money online, with blogs that have no or only limited success until now. It is actually pretty easy to become a semi-problogger making money from your blog. And this is the main difference that I want to lay emphasize on. My audience is everyone who wants to reach a certain level and not the guys who are already on that level.