Yes, I am cynical

21 Feb

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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Voxant, the numbers are in

Filed under: CPM Programs — Tags: , — kiviniar
18 Feb

I have had them for exactly 12 days and now that I crossed a small milestone, I thought it best to share my earning stats.

Voxant is the best CPM network that I have joined and if you have a site with good traffic then I would highly recommend them to you.

I am running their widgets on three sites and I am almost at $10 per day and hope to push that to $30 per day now that I plan to use them on my other sites too.

The only disadvantage with Voxant widgets is that they need quite a lot of space.

But if you can accommodate them like I  did then it will work very well.

Voxant pays a flat rate based on CPM (per thousand impressions) and also for their text and image content widgets, you donot need any kind of clicks to generate a commission.

You can read my initial review here:  Voxant Newsroom

On my program rating scale I have give them a 5/5

These stats are for 6-17th Feb

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PayPerPost: Get paid to blog

Filed under: Cash Cow, Paid Blogging — Tags: , — kiviniar
14 Feb

You must have heard about Pay Per Post or you are a member already. Well if you were contemplating joining them, but were not able to sumit your blog for inclusion as you blog was not 90 days old the you can sigh with relief.

Payperpost has just today updated their TOS and have change the minimum age requirement for approving new blogs into their system.

Now a blog can participate in their scheme if they are just 30 days (1 month) old.

Minimum Blog Age. Blogs must be live for a minimum of thirty (30) days, counted from the date of the blog’s first post, with at least ten (10) pre-existing posts written in the 30 days prior to registration with the PayPerPost Marketplace.

This I guess will be a big relief for people who are new to blogging and wanted to use Pay Per Post for make an extra buck with their blogging skills.

So if you always wanted to know how to support your blogging and at the same time make money online, then this is definitely one of the best schemes out there.

For those of you who are not a part of PayPerPost, I guess this is the best time to review this paid blogging system.

Pay Per Post is one of my top three paid blogging networks.

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Review: NetAudioAds™ Pay-Per-Play

Filed under: CPM Programs, Cash Cow — Tags: , , — kiviniar
31 Jan

So I have been off topic for quite some time. Actually I should be blogging more about the money making schemes available to webmasters and so I am now doing my first review of a very interesting ad network, “NetAudioAds™ Pay-Per-Play

Today I would be reviewing a quite unknown concept called Pay Per Play and a new ad network.

All of you must have heard of Pay Per Click (PPC), but the concept of Pay Per Play would be new to many.

This marketing concept has taken ground on the fact that the masses are moving from the conventional source of media, the television to the internet.

The simple reasons being that the power to choose is completely in the hands of the online surfer, than the television viewer. And hence the migration.This being the case, television advertisers are now looking to the Internet as an alternate form of advertising.

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