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Adsense Alternatives

Max — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:20:26 +0000

Great Google AdSense Alternatives

It can be said that greatness is deserved by virtue of hard work. Google has proved that both hard work and a considerable investment produces greatness. This has been the bane of all web designers trying to monetize a web site. Google AdSense is the King of monetizing websites. Many alternatives have entered the advertising online space.

The list below is a partial list of some of the alternatives available for web designers and Internet Marketeers. I have personally only used a handful of the companies listed below. My experience has shown that while some are very good at creating wealth, they pale in comparison to AdSense.

I encourage you to give some of them a try. While they will most likely not generate the income that AdSense produces, they are all viable and important in keeping competition alive in the advertising world. Some other factors to consider when choosing an ad serving program is the specific need. What I mean by that is that the ads generally shown by AdSense are closely related to the topic in which you are writing about. This could be a great thing or not so good.

If you are creating content in which you don’t want someone to possibly click on an ad to a competitor then AdSense might not be for you. Most of the others do not serve ads that are too close to the topic of specific page. Some such as AdBrite will just serve advertising that the advertisers in the network want to show. In other words, you don’t have too much say in what is showed. This means that you could have a topic on Travel and AdBrite might serve advertisements on your page about Insurance or Weight Loss.

Don’t discount these ads. Some people actually might be interested in those subjects and at least the click will not send the reader to a competitor!

Weigh in on the list and post some comments below. If you know of Ad Serving companies please let me know so that I can update the list.

Social Network Spam or Marketing

Max — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:53:24 +0000

I recently read an article from Search Engine Journal that caught my attention. The story was about using Social Media for Marketing purposes by virtue of Google. The search goes as following:

Linkedin

site:linkedin.com inurl:in “social media expert”

Bebo

site:.bebo.com inurl:profile inurl:bebo “social media expert”

CafeMom

site:www.cafemom.com inurl:cafemom.com/home/ “stay at home mom”

Facebook

site:facebook.com/people “led zeppelin”

Flickr

site:flickr.com/people “@gmail”

Twitter

site:twitter.com -inurl:statuses -inurl:status “social media expert”

MySpace

site:profile.myspace.com inurl:myspace inurl:fuseaction “go to nc state”

YouTube

site:youtube.com/user “social media expert”

Using the aforementioned search in Google results in a list of users / or members that have an interest in the searched topic. This seems like a great way to find people to send a message for purpose of marketing to them.

The one thing that I question is the spam issue. If you do this research and reach out to Social Users, this is in my mind considered spam. I have received unsolicited messages on LinkedIn and other Social sites and I did at the time consider this spam.

What do you think?

Easy Domain Name Generators

Max — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:43:47 +0000

Coming up with a great domain name for a new online venture has never been easy. Many of the great names are taken ( only talking about .Com’s ) and the rest of them offered for ransom for huge amounts of money. This is capitalism at it’s finest! I don’t have a problem with making a mint off a name that you though up of and had the courage to purchase. This is after all the way things go in our money driven society.

In 2003 I made such a purchase of a domain IMChat.com. The price tag was $1,888. I paid it and was happy to have made the transaction. Keep in mind that a few weeks before someone had bought the rights to this name for $9.99. Talk about profit! No more – I have from this point on made the effort to just come up with some names that have been let go to re-registration land. Some of the tools I have listed bellow have helped me in my perfect domain name search. Hope that it helps you out too. Good hunting!

Nameboy
free domain name generator, search and creation
Instant Domain Name
This is a pretty good quick search tool for finding out if that name is taken in a jiffy.
DNGenerator.com
Domain Name Generator with Domain Name Finder to register domain names if expired domain names
Domain name generator
Intelligent random name generator that finds available domains and unique business names.
Domain Name Generator
Domain Name Generator will produce a list of possible domain name ideas based on the word or phrase you input.
Namedroppers
We provide a more efficient method for finding and generating domain names. Search for domain names using multiple keywords
Whoix?
Domain Name Wizard
Make Words
Another pretty cool tool using some unique methods of creating words. Not an easy way to find that perfect domain but worth the effort.

Let me know of any others that you found out there. I’ll post it out there so that we can get ourselves a complete up to date list.