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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Blogging for Dollars DVD

Well I have finally watched the entire 90 minute DVD and I must say it is truely amazing. The simplicity of all the techniques it will probably take less than an hour to implement all that I have learnt. And best of all, they are all free. The DVD is just a filming of one of her seminars given by Scott and he goes through the exact step he used to get top search engine rankings.

I have already watch the DVD twice. The first time was to absorb all this information and the second was to take notes so that I could go to my computer and start applying these techniques. I be doing that as soon as I finish this entry. Once done I'll keep you informed of my findings.
If you haven't already obtained a copy of Blogging for Dollars or would like more information, you can visit my website traffic site.

One thing I must warn you about that is not covered in the DVD is Spam blogs. Some blogging websites run algorithms to determine if a blog is a spam blog and your blog will be disabled if it is. When I first started blogging I was trying things out to see how they worked and my blog was disabled due to spam. So I would suggest doing some reseach to avoid this.

My quest to get more traffic to my website

Three years ago I started my online business. As a software developer I had originally developed an income and expense tracking sytem for my uncle who owned a butchery. The income and expense tracking systems, IEMS as I had called it, saved him a lot of time when he had to submit his tax information to his book keeper and as a management tool he could quickly tell if his business was performing well.

So what have done is create a website to sell this program to other people. My biggest hurdle was getting visitor to my website and not just any visitor but targeted visitors who are actually looking for what I am selling. My latest discovery is a course called 'Blogging for Dollars' which consists of a DVD and a 115 page book. I have purchased this course and was really excited when it arrived today. After first glancing through the pages I was a bit dissapointed as most of the information I kind of already knew. I have not yet looked at the DVD or read the book thoroughly as I am still at work but have read a couple of pages. So I have started this blog to see if this DVD and book really is worth the money I paid for it.