Thursday, September 11, 2008

8 Low Cost Methods to Promote Your Website and Blog Offline

1. Have a bumper sticker printed up with your web site address and other business information. Place it on the bumper of your car. People will see it when you're driving.

2. Have some t-shirts made with your web site address and other business information. Your family or friends could wear them almost anywhere.

3. Have some ball caps made with your web site address and other business information. Wear them to keep the sun out of your eyes and promote your business at the same time.

4. Have some business cards printed up with your web site address and other business information. Pass them out to people you meet or that might be
interested in your business.

5. Have a magnetic sign made with your web site address and other business information. Place it on your car door or roof when you are traveling.

6. Have some flyers printed out with your web site address and other business information. Keep a few with you to hang on bulletin boards you see.

7. Have some jackets printed with your web site address and other business information. Give
them away to family and friends. When it's too cold for t-shirts, you can wear jackets.

8. Have some mugs imprinted with your web site address and other business information. Use them when you have company or give them away to friends and family as gifts.

by:Alan Liew

Google Disallows AdSense Arbitrage

You may have heard a lot about Google bans AdSense accounts for the reason of invalid ad clicks previously. And now Google is taking a further step to close AdSense publishers accounts if Google thinks that the AdSense publishers websites aren't suitable to their AdSense content network. A number of AdSense publishers has reported that they received emails from Google stating that they have an unsuitable business model and their AdSense account will be disabled within 2 weeks. This is a shocking news to me. The affected AdSense publishers will not lose any AdSense revenue as Google will pay all the earning the publishers have earned.

So far there is only emails communication with the involved AdSense published, Google has not officially announced about this matter.

All those affected publishers are either doing AdSense Arbitrage or building sites that are specially for AdSense (MFA sites). AdSense arbitrage means getting traffic/visitors from Google Adwords PPC advertising program to AdSense websites in order to generate AdSense revenue. It is a fast way to make money from AdSense. For 'made for AdSense' (MFA) sites, I think Google is targeting to close MFA sites that are lacking of content.

It seems that fast and easy money cannot be found in AdSense anymore. To work with AdSense for long term, you must provide unique and helpful content to your targeted visitors on your website. Google has said that AdSense is for content. They want to display their AdSense ads on websites with relevant content not websites offer little content and give no value to visitors.

by: Alan Liew