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The launch of Smorty has added another competitor in the world of blog advertising. Smorty connects bloggers and advertisers in a seamless way. Advertisers looking for honest reviews submit their requirements to Smorty. These oppurtunities are then presented to bloggers who write on the same topic. Bloggers get paid for their activity.

Smorty differs from other similar services in that the payout offered to bloggers is not dependent only on the advertiser. Read the rest of this entry »

Patrons of this site would remember a program that we promoted which promised to pay 5 GBP every month for displaying banners on 3 pages. There was also a sign up bonus of 10 GBP. And most amazingly traffic did not matter! That was eight months ago. Read about that post here. The good news is that the same program is still active and still pays on time. The name though has changed. It is now called Bucks4Banners. Read the rest of this entry »

The v7n contextual program which pays bloggers to write about their advertisers has announced that they will increase the payout to bloggers.

According to a mail sent out to all blogger members, all new orders will be paid at the rate of $20 instead of the existing $10 per post. As John Scott mentions on the v7n forums, the new payouts will be applicable only to new orders - the existing orders will still be paid at $10 each. Read the rest of this entry »

We have looked at some of the major paid to blog sites. While to continue to review them, we have published below some vital information about them. Keep this site bookmarked for the upcoming extensive reviews.

We have basically looked at four major criterias: eligibility to qualify for the program, the payment per blog post, advertiser requirements and finally, if disclosure is required that the post is paid. Read the rest of this entry »

The last year and a half should be known as the ‘ipod for a signup’ generation due to the large number of sites that offered free ipods for signing up to offers. These offers were usually credit card offers, music sharng websites, internet and broadband connection websites and other similar sites. Since most of these were trial offers and required credit cards to pay for the trial period, the companies allowed incentives to be given for marketing. So you had offers where you sign up to an ‘offer’ and then refer a few of your friends to the same offers and viola, you win a iPOD! Read the rest of this entry »

Today, on myContentWebsite.com, we look at a directory and see how well the webmaster has implemented the points we discussed in our ‘Secrets of a successful directory’ series of articles.

The directory that we are going to analyse is legal-help-directory. As the name implies, this directory lists different types of legal resources from lawyer information to legal forms. Read the rest of this entry »

In this series of articles, we have looked at how to build and monetize a directory site effectively. In this short write up, we look at some of the ways to promote your directory.

Firstly, it is extremely important to find out what seperates your directory from the other ones on the internet. If you are running a general directory, how is it different from the thousands of other ones in the market? What extra benefit does the webmaster get when he submits to yours? List out these points. These will be the USP of your site. Whenever you promote your directory, ensure that your USP is given prominence. Read the rest of this entry »

Now that we have seen how best to design web directories, we look at ways we can monetize them. Note that in order to monetize directories, they need to have good quality sites listed and thereby get quality traffic.

The most common ways to monetize directories has been through the use of contextual pay per click advertisements like Adsense or YPN but these usually are not very good performers when it comes to directories. For directories, the best way to monetize them is to sell paid directory listings. The paid directory listings could be in the form of featured listings, sponsored listings or one of their variations including but not limited to banner advertisements etc. Read the rest of this entry »

A directory is a website business that needs to get the basics right just like any other business. And customer service is among the most important. Sites which make the user’s life easier will do better without a doubt.

When a webmaster visits a directory to submit his site for inclusion, it is very important that all required information including the terms and consitions are prominently visible and are easily understandable. For example, most directories do not allow deep links to your website. Then it is important that this be mentioned in the submit page. But there are other directories like DeepLink.us directory that allow the same. So when you visit the submit page, you find this information prominently displayed in no uncertain terms. Read the rest of this entry »

We discussed earlier about directory niches and how they determine if a directory is successful or not. In this short article, we look at the ‘look and feel’ angle to any directory.

Since we have agreed that a directory is a success only when real humans use it, it becomes extremely important that the directory is user friendly and pleasing to the eyes. That is why it is pathetic to see half baked directories with no thought for the end user springing up all around.

Take a look at Link-exchange-network.com Directory. This directory, even though is not a niche directory has a very simple and soothing user interface. Read the rest of this entry »