Website Traffic

Thursday, September 07, 2006

HyperVRE - Adsense content generator

Recently I cam accross this program called HyperVRE. VRE stands for virtual real estate. This program is designed to generate webpages that are targeted at adsense revenue. The software is provided free but you can purchase a gold membership. To generate the pages you need to select a keyword for your pages. You can then do a look up of related keywords. This seems to query the Overture search database because I have noticed that sometimes I cannot get a connection there. The Overture search will list top search phrases for a given keyword in a previous month.

HyperVRE also has the ability to add RSS feed onto you webpage. This will allow your webpage to have changing content which is better fo search engines as they will visit your pages more often. The main reason for HyperVRE is to allow you to add your Adsense code but I prefer to put this on my page template so that I don't have to add it all the time.

A new page will be created for each keyword phrase. The only issue with this is that there are usally not enough articles for every page, so you have the option to re-use articles. If you re-use articles there is the risk of duplicate content.

With a gold membership you can lower the keyword count so that HyperVRE will find more articles. There is a viral aspect to HyperVRE if you have a gold membership. That is if you refer the software to others as free members, each page that they create will have your affiliate links to Amazon, ClickBank, or PayDotCom, and each person they refer as a free member will have you affiliate links and so on.

The best thing about HyperVRE for me is that you can create a lot of content very quickly.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Make money from your website traffic with Adsense

There are many ways to make money from your website traffic. One way is by putting advertising links on your page. A well know and easy implement method is by using Google Adsense. When visitors come to your webpage and click on a google ad you will earn from that click. The amount you will earn is based on the bid amount from the advertiser. You can earn froma few cents to a couple of dollars.

The ads that are displayed will depend on the content of your webpage. You can influence what is displayed by targeting those keywords on your webpage. Where you place the google add will also influence the number of clicks you get. Ads within the primary content of your page have a high click rate where as ads on the bottom right of you webpage will have a low click rate. You should review the 'heat map' under the optimization tips on the Google Adsense website.

Although Google Adsense is a great place for advertiser, there are some publishers that cheat the system. I have heard of syndictates that click ads on there partner sites and thus cheating advertises. I have even read in a forum where this one person tells how he makes so much money by getting all his relatives to click on the ads on his website, then he wonders why Google suspended his account.

Play your cards right and you could be pulling in a great income from Google Adsense.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Exactseek paid advertising

In February I came across an Exactseek search engine paid listing. The listing guaranteed top 10 exposure on 180+ search engines and it cost $12 for 3 months. This allows you to get your advert listed for a specific keyword phrase. There are only 30 availabilities for a specific keyword phrase. The site also claims to get over 150 million searches per month.

If someone does an exact search for your keyword your paid listing will be displayed with the other paid listings to the right of the search results. What I have found is that my search phrase does not get listed that often although the overture search tools has a count of 86000. In fact the Exactseek statistics shows my search phrase getting a total of 48 impressions. Even worse is the statistics show that I have received 189 clicks . I don't know how you can get more clicks that you have impressions unless a person clicks on you listing multiple times or system is faking the clicks. From my webite statistics I estimate I got possibly 10 clicks. So at $1.20 per click this is not a very good option.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Website traffic from autosurfs

Autosurfs have proven very popular in the past year, especially for people looking to earn money online. So what are autosurfs? Well, autosurfs allow members to view other members site and they are paid for viewing a certain number each day. The amount they can earn is based on the membership that they have purchased. Example, if they purchase $100 membership and the earnings per day is 10%, they could earn $10 per day. Membership will last for a specific lenght of time as differs from autosurf to autosurf. Example, you could get a autosurf offering 1% for 365 days or 12% from 12 days.

Your probably wondering if autosurfs are scams. Many are run with the intention of making money for its members and doing their best to keep going, but there are some that are started specifically to scam members. This can be done by phishing sites which collect your password then hack into your other online accounts, while others just disappear with your money.

So the question is can you really make money with autosurfs! Well, those people that get in early and withdraw their profits usually do. In most cases the autosurf sites will run out of money to pay their members. They claim to make income from memberships and other earnings, but will never tell you what the other earnings are. In recent times many of the top autosurfs have fallen from their high perches due to lack of funds.

The next question is whether it is worthwhile advertising on autosurfs. The truth be told, most members just start the surfing, let it run with out viewing the sites and then logoff once they have reached their earnings for the day. Others are only interesting in money making opportunities.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Website traffic from manual surf exchanges

Doing a search on google I came across manual surf exchnges. So what are manual surf exchanges. The way it works, you earn credits for viewing someone elses website and you then use those credits to display your own site. Websites are displayed are a set period of time, usually between 20 and 30 seconds. After this period you will need to click a verification button to move to the next site. The verification button will be one of say 4 links with the question 'Please click the number 8' or 'Please clisk the hightest number'. These verification buttons are to prevent cheating of the program where a software program could be used to move to the next site. This ensures that real people are viewing the websites.

This is a really tiring way to get traffic and all this clicking could give you cramps in your fingers. The alternative would be to buy the credits instead, but you must consider what type of people are viewing the sites. Most are just clicking away to get as many credits as possible to show their own website and don't pay much attention to what they are viewing. Many of the sites displayed are referral links to other manual traffic exchanges because by referring otheres to a manual traffic exchange you can earn credits for websites they view. I suppose for some the insentive is that they can sell their credits back to the website owner or other users and so make a small profit.

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Pay Per Click website traffic

Pay per Click or PPC is advertising where a link or banner is placed on a website and if surfer clicks on the link they are directed to your website. You will pay for each click that is delivered to your site. I tried PPC using Googles adwords. The way it works is when a surfer does Google search on one of the keywords you have specified a link to your site is listed next to the search results. If the surfer clicks on your link you will pay Google and amount upto the maximum you have specified per click. The minimum amount payable is 5 cents. What I found with selling my software this way was that most of my profits went to pay for the Adwords advertising. So if you wish to use PPC advertising I would suggest having a product that sells like hot cakes or has a huge profit per sale.

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Buying website traffic hits

When I first started out I was looking for ways to get more traffic to my website. I came across traffic generator where you could purchase hits for a set amount of traffic. It wasn't too expensive so I gave it a try. I purchased 10000 hits for $6.95 to be delived to my address book software program. The hits would be delivered over a 3o day period so I receive approximately 300 hits per day. After a week or so I decided to look at my website statistics and although I was receiving many visitors, there was no other activity from them. I emailed the administrator of the web traffic generator to find out how the visitors were being delived to my website. What I found out is that they were delivered by pop-unders. In the end, after 10000 visitors , only 4 of them downloaded my software program. So that was the last time I ever purchase hits from traffic generators.

So what is a pop-under. Well it's a web browser screen that opens up behind the screen you are viewing. The screen you are viewing has some code on it that triggers and event to open a new window with a specified URL. Most people would find pop-ups annoying but now a days most browsers such as Netscape and Firefox have pop-up blocker. If you have Internet Explorer you can download the google toolbar which has a pop-up blocker.

Knowing that the traffic generator use pop-unders, it is my opinion that the quality of the visitor is very poor as they are not realy interested in viewing the pop-under. I generally just close the window without looking at what the website is about.