Make Money Online with Kiviniar

So I too decided to join Project Wonderful and was pretty happy when my site got approved to participate in their marketplace.I was in a hurry to start selling ad space on my sites and like any other webmaster I was pretty excited to be able to monetize the extra space on my sites.

But within a few hours, I removed their ad code as something was bothering me.

I suddenly realized that one of my most guarded secret (I don’t even share this with my advertisers) was out in display and I was not so comfortable with that.

For all Project Wonderful publishers, a detailed stats page is created, wherein, you will find all the possible stats related to your site on which you are selling PW ads.

I was not so happy to see my traffic referrals as that is one thing that can be easily used by a competitor to gain an advantage over my site.

I have a few traffic source that I would not like to disclose and the fact that everyone could see it did not please me.

So Project Wonderful is in the selves for me at the moment, I have sent a support ticket to see if I can turn off that particular stat display. (Will update you on the reply I receive)
I know I sound a bit cynical, but with some sources sending me a couple of thousand visitors in free traffic, I prefer to take guard.

However, I would stress that Project Wonderful is a great way to monetize your sites.

You might want to try them, here are some Project Wonderful testimonials that you can read.

(Highly recommended for webmaster who are not in a position to directly search for client to advertise on their sites)

Problem Solved (Hats Off for a Great Response Time):

Hi Kiviniar,

When you block the referrer what we do is treat them as if they arrived
without telling us where they came from. In other words, we’ll still be
reporting them as hits etc.

So your other stats will be the same as if you hadn’t blocked the
domains from displaying.

Tim Maly
http://www.projectwonderful.com

Kiviniar Networks wrote:
> Awesome,
>
> Thanks a lot Tim, my mind is sure at ease.
>
> Just one last question, will my other stats (page views, unique
> visitors) be effected once I block the referrers. I would like to block
> my confidential referrers, who would comprise the major portion of my
> daily website traffic on the sites where I plan to set up PW ads.
>
> If this impacts my other stats, the presented stats would be meaningless
> and possibly not attractive enough for the prospective advertisers.
>
> Thanks a lot for your time.
> Warm Regards
> Kiviniar
>
> —– Original Message —-
> From: Project Wonderful Service
> To: Kiviniar Networks
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:26:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Start selling ads with Project Wonderful
>
> Hi Kiviniar,
>
> Thanks for writing, let’s see if we can sort this out.
>
> I checked out your blog posting and it seems like your main concern is
> that some of your more confidential referrers will be made public.
>
> We do allow you to block referrer domains from displaying, which may be
> enough to solve your problem.
>
> What you can do is:
> -log in
> -go to “my adboxes”
> -click on the “edit” link on the right
> -scroll down to the bottom of the page where it says “referrers”
>
> In that field you can type the domains of your confidential referrers
> which will block those domains from showing up in the list.
>
> If some of the referrers already got in to the stats for your ad box,
> you can create a new ad box and start fresh with their names blocked
> from the get go.
>
> Does this take care of the problem?
>
> Tim Maly
> http://www.projectwonderful.com
>
> Kiviniar Networks wrote:
> > Hello Team,
> >
> > Could you please advice.
> >
> > I would not like people to see my site referral stats, is their any way
> > to turn that off.
> >
> > http://www.kiviniar.com/yes-i-am-cynical/
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your reply.
> > Warm Regards
> > Kiviniar

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Blogosphere is already witnessing an EntreCard craze with many bloggers participation in this social advertising network.

This review is quite late but as it’s been a lot of fun for me (I joined in yesterday), I just wanted to talk about it for the benefit of the people who are yet to join.

What is EntreCard?

To simply put it, EntreCard is a free social advertising network for bloggers where they get a chance to run a little free advertising campaigns on other blogs within the network.

Advertising space is shared via a 125*125 banner with the EntreCard widget.

So to participate in the free advertising you will need to install the EntreCard widget to begin with. You can see mine at the sidebar.

As in any economy, the virtual currency that you will need to survive and transact within this network is called EntreCard Credits.

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So I presume that the dog is called Spottt.

This is the most recent (was launched on 12th Feb) link exchange network to be launched by the Adbrite team.

Basically the network is a sleeker link exchange program.

Spottt is all about sharing traffic with similar sites at no cost.

For you to participate for free traffic, you will need to add the Spottt banner (125*125) on your webpage and for every 2 ad impression that you serve (every 2 time your page with the ad is loaded in the web browser), your ad will be shown once on some site within the network.

So it works out to be a 2:1 ratio.

As quoted from TechCrunch:

That leaves Spottt with 50% of the ad inventory for itself. For the first year they’ll just place their own ads on sites. After a year they’ll add the extra inventory to Adbrite and let advertisers purchase it.

So for those of you who do not have much of an advertising budget, this could well be the coolest thing.

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I was just researching on the subject and was almost done when I found a very interesting post on the topic of achieving Digg success.

So I decided to scrape my stuff and use the post as reference to cover the topic.

Now most of you will be aware of Digg. (wiki: Digg)

For the ones who have not got a chance to use the site much, I will just give a brief introduction to the site.

This is a community based site, where users submit their favorite new articles and others vote (digg) for it if the news appeals to them.

Once a story receives enough votes, it appears on the front page of Digg and is exposed to EXTREME traffic.

Personally the only time my server shuts down is when I have hit the front page at Digg.

Speaking in numbers the last time one of my pages got dugg hard, I received about 1.8K hits within a few days.

I guess that would be enough to convince you of the power of Digg.

Now the question is how should one attempt to hit the front page at Digg.

In this post linked below, Collin explains the simple secrets to Digg success.

If you are seriously looking to market your sites via social networking sites, then remember that you will need to specifically create content for submission keeping in mind the interest of the audience.

Top 10 Reasons This List Will Be Popular on Digg

Let me know if you have some Digg stories to share.

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