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Most Visited Website on Christmas, Facebook

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Just what website was most visited this year on Christmas? Facebook became the number one Christmas website, having been visited more than any other website. Why the huge jump in website traffic for Facebook? Most people were probably trying to update their Facebook status, write Merry Christmas on each other’s walls, or check out what was going on with their friends.

Facebook, for many, functions not only as a social tool, but as a way to send emails to their friends. In fact analytics firm Hitwise wrote on their Twitter account that Facebook was the “most visited site in the United States on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.”

In fact it is surprising that Facebook actually beat out Google on Christmas.  Most blogs found their traffic decreasing during Christmas since most people just didn’t use a computer like normally.  However, Facebook found a way to become number 1, at least in the USA.  Or take it as Facebook has 1,000 employees while Google has about 30,000.  In any case, a very impressive feat for Facebook.

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Earnings Fluctuations With Infolinks

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Lately my earnings have been fluctuating heavily with infolinks. While with most ad programs you can expect a pretty normal rate of return, infolinks has been fluctuating heavily. I have gotten as high as $6 ecpm, earnings per thousand, and the next day to have it suddenly switch to as low as $2. Why the large fluctuations? Often times this is attributed to variation in keywords I use but, in the case of infolinks it might be the fact that they are a smaller ad company. One company alone might be buying huge ad space from infolinks and decide one day to stop their ad campaigns leading to publishers earning less with infolinks.

My point is, the smaller the ad company, like infolinks, the more flucations you´ll probably find with your earnings. Still infolinks performs much better than kontera. Kontera on average performed far less, at about 2 cents per click.

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The Best Way to Grow Blog Traffic

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Yaro Starak has been growing his blog traffic through a method he calls “Impact Marketing Techniques”. The techniques have allowe him to bring all kinds of traffic to his six figure income blog. Yaro runs an online blog course for becoming a better blogger and has uploaded a number of videos. To his credibility he does run a six figure blog. While I do find his idea credible, I also think there is a different method for everyone that works. What he recommends as one of his best impact marketing techniques is releasing a free report.

A recent promotion that was done for SampleADay, one of my other websites was a condom giveaway at a San Diego Festival. Each coondom was attached with a logo for sampleaday costing around 1.6 cents per physical impression. Will this grow my Blog Traffic in a good way? We will find out. Trial and error is one of the easiest ways to find out what works and doesn’t. Don’t worry about failing because once you hit the right method you will reap the rewards.

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Using Adbrite Full Page Ads

Friday, May 15th, 2009

So far I have been experimenting with  Adbrite Full Page Ads as an additional form of advertising.  Though it is detracting from some of my websites, I have a few sites where Adbrite Full Page Ads work well.  Some of my sites get 95% organic traffic from search engines, making them perfect for these types of ads.  My main goal for the sites that get mainly  search engine traffic is to convert them into a click in any way possible.

In Adbrite you’ll see that these full page ads will occasionally pop up in which the user has to click continue to the site in order to view your site.  You’ll see top websites also using this strategy as these ads usually pay a pretty high ecpm.

Basically even without a click every ad that pops up converts no matter what the action that is taken.  If they continue on to your website, you have the option to convert again into another click. So if you are only concerned about profits and keeping organic search engine traffic, Adbrite Full page Ads seems like a decent option to consider.

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