Difference between buying backlinks

I'm sure that some of you invest into buying one-way backlines to your website or blog. Along the way you will always notice prices with such a big range. You can get a link on some PR5 for $10 per month and on another PR5 site, it would cost $40 per month. Most people think that this second site is just an overpriced site and doesn't know the market too well. Well those who think that are totally wrong, that price fits exactly the package that is included when you get your link onto that webmasters site.

Difference

Many of you should know that the amount of traffic that you recieve to your site has to do nothing with your PageRank. PageRank is 100% decided from the quality of your backlinks, the more and better quality your backlinks are, the higher your PageRank would appear. When you pick that offer of $10, all your getting is a PR5 backlink, nothing else. This person will always most likely have very little traffic to his site, so your only paying the 10 bucks for a backlink.
Now, the webmaster that is offering to put a backlink up to your site for $40 per month will likely have alot better traffic then the one with the $10 price. So your not only getting a backlink, your also getting additional traffic from his site.

So either way you can look at it, I would always choose the sites that have traffic and a high PageRank.

PPI/PPC/Affiliate - Optimization

When I'm browsing through websites, I commonly notice how a large number of webmasters chose to use their website as an extra income. That is great for them, but most of them share a common problem. The three most common programs that are used to generate revenue with their sites are :

PPI - Get paid for 1k impressions
PPC - Get paid for each click
Affiliate - Get paid for each sale made through your site

These three programs center around one thing. and that is the percentage of targeted visitors to your site. Target visitors consist of visitors that have interest in your niche. Non-Targeted traffic is traffic that consists of visitors that have no interest in your niche.

Problem

The problem is that most webmasters use the less efficient program depending on their targeted traffic percentage. Let me tell you a real life story, I know a person who receives a heavy 9k unique targeted visitors per day organically. It's all from the search engine, but he uses PPC program. PCC wouldn't be that bad, but if he would use an Affiliate program, his earning per day would increase by three or four times the amount. Since this traffic is so well targeted, his conversion rate would be extremely high.
Below is a scale that you should pay attention to when deciding which program to use:

Targeted /Visitors Program

0%-25% /PPI
26%-50% /CPC
51%-100% /Affiliate

By following that scale, you can optimize your earning for your website. Some webmasters even use all three of these programs, though this isn't always recommended since your site quality will decrease and it may cause some of your visitors to become irritated.

Changed!

As some of my return visitors can notice, I have now changed my blog template completely due to the fact that the last one was dull and not that user friendly. This week I will be trying to put my effort into adding different links and information onto the template to make it more professional.

Thanks,
Martin

Using MyBlogLog could get you banned from Adsense

I wrote yesterday about the sorry tale of the now Yahoo! owned MyBlogLog banning Jeremy Schoemaker following Jeremy’s exposure of serious security issues with the service, but from from Jeremy today: MyBlogLog Tracks Your Visitors Ad Clicks.

Shortform: MyBlogLog is not only tracking visits from other MyBlogLog members to your site (if you’re using the service) they are also tracking clicks on your ads, INCLUDING Adsense ads.

I can’t speak for other users, but certainly when I signed up for the service I don’t remember anything being clearly mentioned about MyBlogLog spying on the ad clicks on my site.

Certainly, other 3rd party trackers do track this sort of behavior. I use Adlogger on a number of sites to track my clicks and to protect against click fraud, but notably I choose to do so and I run my own copy locally so that only I have control over the data it gathers. Services such as Alexa, Google Toolbar (both of which I use via the searchstatus plugin) and Compete send data on my surfing habits back to their respective companies, but they send MY data back, not the data of visitors to my sites, and I OPT IN TO those services, knowing to well the implications of doing so. MyBlogLog on the other hand is spying on my visitors (which I accept) but also their activity on each site (ad clicks), which I don’t accept. Notably I’ve also read recently (don’t have the link at hand) that prior to Yahoo’s acquisition of the company, MyBlogLog were trying to shop these stats to the highest bidder, so privacy of the data is questionable as well.

Are you using Adsense and MyBlogLog together? Remember the rule about not being able to disclose the CTR rates to third parties? MyBlogLog is gathering this exact data on your site if you’re using the service. Using Adsense with MyBlogLog could get you banned from Adsense!

As of 5 minutes ago I’ve removed MyBlogLog from my own personal blog. My Adsense account is too valuable to risk, and I’m outraged that MyBlogLog was stealing this data from my site. If you haven’t done so yet, I’d encourage everyone using the service to take it down immediately. For all it’s benefits (it’s still a fun idea) the risks far outweigh the benefits.

By Duncan Riley on 02.23.07 | Syndicate 901am