Things have been really busy in the Webtrepreneur’s life recently, and finding time to write articles is not the tricky part, it’s finding content which is full of information, and won’t waste you time that is hard! I don’t believe is writing useless content just to keep the blog posts rolling.

I have seen a massive increase in traffic over at Blogvertise, which is great to see, the ‘Whose pixels rock‘ section has seen some good changes too, which is always interesting to watch. For those of you who are using the service, may I ask that you please add a link from your website to Blogvertise, this not only increases the popularity of the website, but also brings you potential traffic, and creates traffic for others. Blogging, and the art of increasing ones traffic is a group effort, support others and they will support you, it’s as simple as that. You can find our banners here, take a look please. I will post the latest top pixel list sometime over the next week or so.

I was taking a look at all the affiliate networks earlier this morning, and have a little bit of information on each one. I noticed on Bidvertiser that they now have a service which you may use to drive traffic to your eBay adverts. The service looks rather useful to me, I took some time to read about it, and decided that I would paste 6 points here for you:

1. Browse our directory of participating sites and use our keyword tool to find the ones that are appropriate for your eBay item(s).

2. Choose your geographical targeting, to only show your ads to users from specific locations.

3. Set your max bid and budget.

4. Choose any of your eBay Items.

5. Your ad is created automaticaly.

6. Your ad runs on the sites you have selected.

Sign up for Bidvertiser now!

Google Adsense update from the Inside Adsense blog:

“We’re now requiring AdSense publishers to comply with the spirit of our Page Quality Guidelines. If you’re an AdWords advertiser, you might already be familiar with these guidelines, which are intended to provide a better experience for users, advertisers, and publishers alike. If you use any kind of online advertising, know that these guidelines encourage publishers to, among other things, create sites with simple navigation and substantial, useful content.

This new policy requirement doesn’t mean that you can’t use online advertising; it simply means that if you do, you need to be sure that the way you advertise meets with the guidelines, whether it’s through AdWords or through any other advertising program. However you advertise your site, it can always benefit from significant and relevant content, clear navigation, and the other points in our quality guidelines.

The other noteworthy update: now you can place up to three link units on a page. As we’ve noted in the past, link units are a great way to provide relevant, user-friendly ads in hard-to-fit locations on your site. With the new opportunity to place three link units — and the plethora of link unit formats — we hope you’ll find great ways of incorporating this unique ad format on your site.”

As the days go on, I find myself moving more and more away from Adsense, and taking on a lot of Traffic Synergy’s advert campaigns. I have watched my stats very closely, and have noticed that I am starting to make more money with Traffic Synergy than any other affiliate network I am involved with. To new publishers, PPC (pay per click) campaigns are always the most appealing, as you see revenue right from the beginning, but why not take some time, and be patient and use there CPA (cost per action) campaigns. There are several campaigns, which can generate you a huge amount of money! Hint: Travel Campaigns!!

Right, so that’s the update for now. I am going to do my best to start putting up content more often again, and hopefully source some useful information!

TravelStart Hotels explained thanks to Traffic Synergy. For all you Traffic Synergy members who have noticed an extra couple hundred rand in your account, and have had no idea where it has come from, I will be able to explain this to you, and solve the mystery. This is how the new TravelStart Hotel affiliate rewards program, which allocates commission when a flight-booker checks into a TravelStart Hotel or rents a TravelStart car:

• A Hotel or Car sale is tracked with a flight booking.
• You earn an extra R140.00 for the hotel/car booking, in addition to your R80.00 commission earned for the flight booking.
• A hotel/car booking gets added to a seperate campaign called TravelStart Hotels, which will never reflect any impressions or clicks, only the allocated commission.

This is a fantastic way to earn some extra money if you are running an Accommodation or Travel website. These figures above as large, and very easy to target on your website. The banner adverts, email adverts and text adverts are fancy, user friendly, and most importantly, don’t attract too much attention away from the content on your website.

Use the link below to subscribe with Traffic Synergy, and learn to earn some extra revenue with the Internet as your tool!

Traffic Synergy was proud to present a new click campaign a few hours ago! This campaign revolves around property, so for those of you with property website, I think you will click this one!

“Sale tracking has been added to this Click Campaign, effectively monitoring the quality of traffic to your site. If the quality of traffic is not satisfactory, you will not be allowed to continue running this campaign. So make sure to target your clicks well. High quality traffic will not go unrewarded, as PrivateProperty is offering a great payout.”

PPC is R1.32, which is a very generous amount! Unfortunately, they only payout to South African geo-clicks, so this one’s for the locals only really. Not only are you permitted to run this campaign on your website, they will also allow email targetting, so you can add these great adverts to your newsletters, which would probably earn you a huge revenue!

Head on over, and take a look at what they have to offer with regards to this fantastic offer!

It really interests me that I have not had a single Traffic Synergy sign up, since I posted an article on their services. I know that a large number, almost 70% of my readers are based in South Africa, and if you are reading my website, the chances are that you have a website/blog and are interested in monetizing your website. So why no signups? Perhaps what I need to do, is be a little more direct and give some proof.

I signed up to Traffic Synergies affilate services at the beginning of May, and have since then posted just a couple of their adverts across two of my websites. I have not had a great deal of time to put effort into it, so what I have made thus far, I think I would be safe saying, is bare minimum. The two sites I have posted their adverts on are Webtrepreneur and iMod. iMod is my personal blog, which does not get too much attension, and the traffic is nothing fantastic. Webtrepreneur gets decent traffic, around several hundred uniques a month, but is still in its very early stages. This being said, I have done bare minimum, with not a great deal of traffic to deal with, and my results are fairly fantastic if you ask me. I have probably spent around one hour setting up the adverts.

Commision Results:

Today: R11.76
Yesterday: R21.36
May: R108.80

Now, if you are into monetizing and know a bit about the scene, you will vouch that these results are pretty good considering the time and traffic I have had to play with. It is not a great deal of money, but R108.80 for an hours work (and I was programming at the same time I was doing it) is a good rate for any work. Besides, I was sitting in my room, drinking coffee, listening to music and playing around online while I was doing it - so yes, R100/hour is fantastic.

If you are more inspired now, give it a bash, spend an hour playing around, get a couple adverts up, and see what happens - that’s what this is all about - trial and error, and personally I am very happy with my R100. Take a look now!