Adobe and Yahoo! have teamed up to bring PPC [Pay per click] ads to PDF files that are distributed over Internet and emails. The Ads served by Yahoo! inside the PDF viewer of Adobe will be contextual in nature and based on the content of the PDF file being viewed. Via [News.com] How does Adobe PDF Ads work? Publishers will have to upload their PDF files to Yahoo’s ad system and when those PDF files are downloaded and viewed, publishers
Continue ReadingWhat’s the difference, you might ask! There is a very thin line between commercialization and monetization from a blog owners’ perspective. But that thin line is very much noticeable by blog visitors. A blog owner may not be consciously doing it but may happen without him even noticing it. Below are certain aspects that might help you understand the difference. Commercialization of Blog: When commercialized, a blog is heavily dominated with advertisement, content promoting commercial products and a lot of
Continue ReadingAre you looking for ways to make money online by leveraging your website traffic? Look no further, Gaiam and GT Media have an affiliate marketing program, through Linkshare affiliate network and managed by AMWSO, that lets you add video ads to your blog posts and website pages with an affiliate tracking ID embedded into it. By using video ads in your site’s content, you increase the chances of your visitors purchasing the product that you are recommending. The video ad
Continue ReadingMany of us look for ways to make money online and search engine is the best place to start looking for articles full of information, tips, tricks and ways to start making money online. Isn’t it? There is a blog worth mentioning though, which will help you make money online and it’s Johnchow.com, authored by John Chow. You will be surprised with the kind of tips and various ways of making money on the Internet that are mentioned on his
Continue ReadingGoogle recently launched the PPA program in beta, we covered it here, and opened a new media for advertisers to use Google’s PPA program to advertise and sell their products. Compared to the PPC (Pay per Click) programs, PPA (Pay per Action) [could also be called as an affiliate program to a certain extent] have an advantage and it is that advertisers pay publishers only when a click converts to a sale. Advertisers run the affiliate program using various marketing
Continue ReadingGetting to know the best ad format can dramatically improve the overall performance of the Ad program for your site. Let it be Google AdSense, Yahoo YPN or any other Ad program, the same trick applies to all. The performance of your ad units, in terms of CTR, directly depends on the source of the traffic from which visitors visit your site for various reasons. The primary sources from which you receive visitors on your site are: Search Engines –
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Sometime ago I was looking at my AdSense report and was disappointed looking at my CTR and the CPC values. I was totally clueless as to why would Ad clicks generate as low as $0.01 most of the time for weeks altogether. Searching on Google did not produce any definitive answer to my growing cause of concern. Some articles suggested that it happens most often during this time of the year while other suggested that it was due to lack
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