This data is a little messy (forgot the link) but very useful
Market Share of US Internet Visits to Top 20 Social Networking Sites February 2007
Rank Name Domain Market Share
1 MySpace www.myspace.com 80.74%
2 Facebook www.facebook.com 10.32%
3 Bebo www.bebo.com 1.18%
4 BlackPlanet.com www.blackplanet.com 0.88%
5 Xanga www.xanga.com 0.87%
6 iMeem www.imeem.com 0.73%
7 Yahoo! 360 360.yahoo.com 0.72%
8 Classmates www.classmates.com 0.72%
9 hi5 www.hi5.com 0.69%
10 Tagged www.tagged.com 0.67%
11 LiveJournal www.livejournal.com 0.49%
12 Gaiaonline.com www.gaiaonline.com 0.48%
13 Friendster www.friendster.com 0.34%
14 Orkut www.orkut.com 0.26%
15 Windows Live Spaces spaces.live.com 0.18%
16 HoverSpot www.hoverspot.com 0.18%
17 Buzznet www.buzznet.com 0.18%
18 Sconex www.sconex.com 0.14%
19 MiGente.com www.migente.com 0.11%
20 myYearbook www.myyearbook.com 0.11%
Note - data is based on custom category of 20 of the leading social networking websites ranked by market share of visits, which is the percentage of traffic to the site, based on Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. The percentages represent the market share of visits among the websites within the custom category.shady myspace spamming tecniques
Thursday, May 3, 2007
MySpace Marketing
Right now I only have a handful of profiles But i forgot the passwords. I got out of the mass spam technique awhile ago when things started to crash, and put my efforts into other venues and other projects. Fast easy money comes and goes, myspace has become too much of a pain to spam through anymore for me. So I just have a few dozen profiles that request to highly targeted people, and even then I only send out requests once a week or so. I've really lost interest with myspace marketing for the most part. The profiles I have left with pics of girls on them are VERY old profiles, some of the first profiles I ever made that survived the slaughter. They still get views and guys want in their pants, but I haven't done anything with them in a long time. Myspace Marketing really does Ive been marketing on myspace for over 4 months now and earned roughly about $10.000 with it.
Never have I had people together on a forum discussing myspace marketing so its cool to be here and discussw tactics with The Professional guys.
My question to you pros out here is, what methods do still work for you guys and who still promotes surveys?(which earned me my $10k)
It seems that when I blast out 20.000 comments I roughly make 1-2 sales while I used to make 10-20 a day just a month ago:S Click Here
Never have I had people together on a forum discussing myspace marketing so its cool to be here and discussw tactics with The Professional guys.
My question to you pros out here is, what methods do still work for you guys and who still promotes surveys?(which earned me my $10k)
It seems that when I blast out 20.000 comments I roughly make 1-2 sales while I used to make 10-20 a day just a month ago:S Click Here
Sexy Pics For Myspace
I was checking my stats on this site and found that a bunch of you come here looking for hot girls on Myspace. To help you guys out, I've found a couple when surfing around tonight that should help you find those hot girls on Myspace.
Here they are:
http://www.myspace.com/forbidden
http://www.myspace.com/misskristinmarie
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=14287
http://www.myspace.com/jessicajustina
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=46019
http://www.myspace.com/somayareece
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=789490
http://www.myspace.com/mindypantus
http://www.myspace.com/suicidegirls
Don't forget to come back and add a comment with some of the girls that you've found!
This post is sponsored by : "Unclickable Link"
Here they are:
http://www.myspace.com/forbidden
http://www.myspace.com/misskristinmarie
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=14287
http://www.myspace.com/jessicajustina
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=46019
http://www.myspace.com/somayareece
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=789490
http://www.myspace.com/mindypantus
http://www.myspace.com/suicidegirls
Don't forget to come back and add a comment with some of the girls that you've found!
This post is sponsored by : "Unclickable Link"
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Google's AdSense
AdSense often easier than affiliate programs
Google's AdSense is a superb revenue generating opportunity for small, medium and large web sites.
Some webmasters are designing brand new sites specifically for serving AdSense text ads. (It's against the AdSense rules to design a site purely for AdSense, so you'll want to include a few affiliate links or sell your own product, too.)
Here's the background info:
AdSense overview
AdSense FAQ
AdSense tech FAQ
AdSense policies
Sign up for AdSense.
AdSense allows you to serve text-based Google AdWords on your web site and receive a share of the pay-per-click payment. AdSense ads are similar to the AdWords ads you see on the right-hand side at Google when you do a search there.
AdSense is having a huge impact on the affiliate marketing industry. It's often much easier to generate revenue from AdSense than from an affiliate program.
Weak affiliate merchants will die faster than ever.
If you're a merchant running a lousy affiliate program, now's the time to improve it FAST.
AdSense's advantages
AdSense is simple to join.
It's easy to paste a bit of code into your pages.
It's free to join.
You don't have to spend time finding advertisers.
Google provides well written, highly relevant ads - chosen to closely match the content on your pages.
You don't have to waste time choosing different ads for different pages.
You don't have to mess around with different code for various affiliate programs.
You're free to concentrate on providing good content and Google does the work of finding the best ads for your pages from 100,000 AdWords advertisers.
It's suitable for beginners or marketing veterans.
AdSense provides simple, easy-to-understand stats.
If you have affiliate links on your site, you ARE allowed to add AdSense ads. However, with your affiliate links, you must not mimic the look and feel of the Google ads.
You can filter up to 200 URLs, so you can block ads for sites that don't meet your standards. You can also block strong competitors.
Inevitably, AdSense is competing strongly for space on web sites with all other revenue sharing opportunities.
If you own a small web site you can plug a bit of AdSense code into your site and almost instantly relevant text ads that are likely to appeal to your visitors will appear on your pages.
If you own several sites, you need apply only once. This makes AdSense much simpler than joining a bunch of affiliate programs.
As you can see, I'm really keen on this revenue sharing service.
Sign up for AdSense.
Disadvantages
One problem is inappropriate ads. You don't want spammy junk advertised on your site. Google's standards probably aren't as high as yours. You can filter out 200 URLs, but in some industries that won't be enough.
The stats Google supplies are inadequate. They're easy to understand at a glance. However, they don't tell you exactly which ads people are clicking on, or which keywords are involved. That's frustrating.
Also, I'd like to be able to identify and block ads that have very low payout rates, without doing a lot of sleuthing and messing around.
The ad panels say "Ads by Google" - free advertising for Google. You don't earn anything if someone clicks on that link.
The minimum payout is $100, which is regarded as too high by sites which don't receive much traffic. That won't worry experienced webmasters.
Also, sites that want to display AdSense ads may not include "other content-targeted and/or text-based ads on the pages displaying AdWords ads." However, human beings review the sites. Rejected sites have been able to appeal successfully.
Another disadvantage is that Google doesn't allow you to share your stats with other webmasters. The AdSense Terms and Conditions say:
"Confidentiality. You agree not to disclose Google Confidential Information without Google's prior written consent. 'Google Confidential Information' includes without limitation: ... (b) click-through rates or other statistics relating to Site performance in the Program provided to you by Google..."
That's really weird. Web site owners need to be able to share such information and discuss successes and failures.
A big disadvantage of the service is that Google doesn't say how much its AdSense partners will receive. You'll just receive an unknown share of the revenue.
Only a company with the goodwill and respect Google has earned could get away with such a cheeky offer.
Google says:
"How much will I earn through this program? The AdWords ads you are able to display on your content pages are cost-per-click (CPC) ads. This means that advertisers pay only when users click on ads. You'll receive a portion of the amount paid for clicks on AdWords ads on your website. Although we don't disclose the exact revenue share, our goal is to enable publishers to make as much or more than they could with other advertising networks."
So the only way to know how much you'll earn is to try it and see. If you want to bail out, all you have to do is remove the code from your site.
Don't put all your eggs in the AdSense basket. If Google discovers fraudulent clicks on ads appearing on your pages, it can dump your site from the service, and refuse to pay you all revenue owed. Some webmasters who claim total innocence have had this happen to them.
Google has made several changes to its AdSense FAQ, clarifying varying things. For example, it IS possible to apply for separate accounts for separate web sites. I've done so, and checked with Google that it's OK in my case. Read the rules - they look ambiguous to me. If in doubt, ask first!
Some time after the launch of AdSense, Google added "channels" which improve the tracking. I strongly recommend that you experiment with these.
Sites with "excessive advertising" are being rejected.
PLEASE read the rules and FAQ. When I looked, some advice in the rules contradicted advice in the FAQ. If in any doubt, ask their support staff. They're very helpful.
Generate revenue from your website. Google AdSense.
Google's AdSense is a superb revenue generating opportunity for small, medium and large web sites.
Some webmasters are designing brand new sites specifically for serving AdSense text ads. (It's against the AdSense rules to design a site purely for AdSense, so you'll want to include a few affiliate links or sell your own product, too.)
Here's the background info:
AdSense overview
AdSense FAQ
AdSense tech FAQ
AdSense policies
Sign up for AdSense.
AdSense allows you to serve text-based Google AdWords on your web site and receive a share of the pay-per-click payment. AdSense ads are similar to the AdWords ads you see on the right-hand side at Google when you do a search there.
AdSense is having a huge impact on the affiliate marketing industry. It's often much easier to generate revenue from AdSense than from an affiliate program.
Weak affiliate merchants will die faster than ever.
If you're a merchant running a lousy affiliate program, now's the time to improve it FAST.
AdSense's advantages
AdSense is simple to join.
It's easy to paste a bit of code into your pages.
It's free to join.
You don't have to spend time finding advertisers.
Google provides well written, highly relevant ads - chosen to closely match the content on your pages.
You don't have to waste time choosing different ads for different pages.
You don't have to mess around with different code for various affiliate programs.
You're free to concentrate on providing good content and Google does the work of finding the best ads for your pages from 100,000 AdWords advertisers.
It's suitable for beginners or marketing veterans.
AdSense provides simple, easy-to-understand stats.
If you have affiliate links on your site, you ARE allowed to add AdSense ads. However, with your affiliate links, you must not mimic the look and feel of the Google ads.
You can filter up to 200 URLs, so you can block ads for sites that don't meet your standards. You can also block strong competitors.
Inevitably, AdSense is competing strongly for space on web sites with all other revenue sharing opportunities.
If you own a small web site you can plug a bit of AdSense code into your site and almost instantly relevant text ads that are likely to appeal to your visitors will appear on your pages.
If you own several sites, you need apply only once. This makes AdSense much simpler than joining a bunch of affiliate programs.
As you can see, I'm really keen on this revenue sharing service.
Sign up for AdSense.
Disadvantages
One problem is inappropriate ads. You don't want spammy junk advertised on your site. Google's standards probably aren't as high as yours. You can filter out 200 URLs, but in some industries that won't be enough.
The stats Google supplies are inadequate. They're easy to understand at a glance. However, they don't tell you exactly which ads people are clicking on, or which keywords are involved. That's frustrating.
Also, I'd like to be able to identify and block ads that have very low payout rates, without doing a lot of sleuthing and messing around.
The ad panels say "Ads by Google" - free advertising for Google. You don't earn anything if someone clicks on that link.
The minimum payout is $100, which is regarded as too high by sites which don't receive much traffic. That won't worry experienced webmasters.
Also, sites that want to display AdSense ads may not include "other content-targeted and/or text-based ads on the pages displaying AdWords ads." However, human beings review the sites. Rejected sites have been able to appeal successfully.
Another disadvantage is that Google doesn't allow you to share your stats with other webmasters. The AdSense Terms and Conditions say:
"Confidentiality. You agree not to disclose Google Confidential Information without Google's prior written consent. 'Google Confidential Information' includes without limitation: ... (b) click-through rates or other statistics relating to Site performance in the Program provided to you by Google..."
That's really weird. Web site owners need to be able to share such information and discuss successes and failures.
A big disadvantage of the service is that Google doesn't say how much its AdSense partners will receive. You'll just receive an unknown share of the revenue.
Only a company with the goodwill and respect Google has earned could get away with such a cheeky offer.
Google says:
"How much will I earn through this program? The AdWords ads you are able to display on your content pages are cost-per-click (CPC) ads. This means that advertisers pay only when users click on ads. You'll receive a portion of the amount paid for clicks on AdWords ads on your website. Although we don't disclose the exact revenue share, our goal is to enable publishers to make as much or more than they could with other advertising networks."
So the only way to know how much you'll earn is to try it and see. If you want to bail out, all you have to do is remove the code from your site.
Don't put all your eggs in the AdSense basket. If Google discovers fraudulent clicks on ads appearing on your pages, it can dump your site from the service, and refuse to pay you all revenue owed. Some webmasters who claim total innocence have had this happen to them.
Google has made several changes to its AdSense FAQ, clarifying varying things. For example, it IS possible to apply for separate accounts for separate web sites. I've done so, and checked with Google that it's OK in my case. Read the rules - they look ambiguous to me. If in doubt, ask first!
Some time after the launch of AdSense, Google added "channels" which improve the tracking. I strongly recommend that you experiment with these.
Sites with "excessive advertising" are being rejected.
PLEASE read the rules and FAQ. When I looked, some advice in the rules contradicted advice in the FAQ. If in any doubt, ask their support staff. They're very helpful.
Generate revenue from your website. Google AdSense.
Best Ways to increase your Adsense Earnings Reviewed
5 Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings
1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The oneformat that worked well for the majority is the LargeRectangle (336X280). This same format have thetendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-throughrates. Why choose this format out of the many you canuse? Basically because the ads will look like normalweb links, and people, being used to clicking on them,click these types of links. They may or may not knowthey are clicking on your Adsense but as long as thereare clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.
2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose acolor that will go well with the background of yoursite. If your site has a white background, try to usewhite as the color of your ad border and background.The idea to patterning the colors is to make theAdsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again,This will result to more clicks from people visitingyour site.
3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of yoursite and put them at the top. Do not try to hide yourAdsense. Put them in the place where people can seethem quickly. You will be amazed how the differencebetween Adsense locations can make when you see yourearnings.
4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you thinksome sites are better off than the others, put yourads there and try to maintaining and managing them. Ifthere is already lots of Adsense put into that certainsite, put yours on top of all of them. That wayvisitor will see your ads first upon browsing intothat site.
5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense codeinto the webpages using SSI (or server side included).Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense codein a text file, save it as ?adsense text?, and uploadit to the root directory of the web server. Then usingSSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a timesaver especially for those who are using automaticpage generators to generate pages on their website.
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3 For the Price of One
1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The oneformat that worked well for the majority is the LargeRectangle (336X280). This same format have thetendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-throughrates. Why choose this format out of the many you canuse? Basically because the ads will look like normalweb links, and people, being used to clicking on them,click these types of links. They may or may not knowthey are clicking on your Adsense but as long as thereare clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.
2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose acolor that will go well with the background of yoursite. If your site has a white background, try to usewhite as the color of your ad border and background.The idea to patterning the colors is to make theAdsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again,This will result to more clicks from people visitingyour site.
3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of yoursite and put them at the top. Do not try to hide yourAdsense. Put them in the place where people can seethem quickly. You will be amazed how the differencebetween Adsense locations can make when you see yourearnings.
4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you thinksome sites are better off than the others, put yourads there and try to maintaining and managing them. Ifthere is already lots of Adsense put into that certainsite, put yours on top of all of them. That wayvisitor will see your ads first upon browsing intothat site.
5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense codeinto the webpages using SSI (or server side included).Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense codein a text file, save it as ?adsense text?, and uploadit to the root directory of the web server. Then usingSSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a timesaver especially for those who are using automaticpage generators to generate pages on their website.
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3 For the Price of One
Social Networks to promote your site increase adsense CTR revenue by 5000%
Yes, you can use social networks to promote your site. I think you are confused in your marketing. You are not marketing Adsense rather you are marketing you and your site(s).
Take MySpace - simple but effective way to use MySpace to promote anything is to use the blog that MySpace gives you and write informative posts and in those post you would put a link to your marketing materail:
Example - MySpace layouts - create a page especially for MySpace users. On that page give good links that you know of for MySpace layouts (the KEI for these search terms is in he 1000's per day) and on that page populate it with your Adsense. Same can be done with widgets. One thing here is: do not spam comments and dont use the bulletin system at MySpace as your account will be deleted pronto.
You could do the same thing inside your profile at any social networking/bookmarking site as most all of them give you a profile page where you can add your info.
The thing is social is just what it means - social. You are using these sites to make friends or business contacts AND links. Be interactive with other platforms: post comments on others blogs. Two things happen when you become 'real'. You build your authority and you get links all over the place if you content is good as people will glady post or refer to your content to others. Its all about the traffic anyways isn't it?
Think of social media this way. If Google died tomorrow would you beable to be found on the Internet through a search? Using social media is teaching the web (which is us) who and what you are.
SENSERELY is correct to some extent. I cannot tell you how may 'spammers' get it all wrong with these services. I see accounts being deleted daily.
Listen, your ultimate goal is (real) traffic. If you are not using social media to help you promote your sites you are missing the boat BIG time. Just remeber that your are not marketing Adsense. StumbleUpon (6000 hits in 2 months), Digg and Technoarati are all top notch places to start driving traffic to your site(s)
And to answer your question direct, NO - you will not get your account deleted by using social media services. Think a minute about YouTube. Who owns it? Google. Can you use YouTube to drive traffic to your site, YES. Has anyones account been deleted for using YouTube to drive traffic to their site(s)...dont think so.
Take MySpace - simple but effective way to use MySpace to promote anything is to use the blog that MySpace gives you and write informative posts and in those post you would put a link to your marketing materail:
Example - MySpace layouts - create a page especially for MySpace users. On that page give good links that you know of for MySpace layouts (the KEI for these search terms is in he 1000's per day) and on that page populate it with your Adsense. Same can be done with widgets. One thing here is: do not spam comments and dont use the bulletin system at MySpace as your account will be deleted pronto.
You could do the same thing inside your profile at any social networking/bookmarking site as most all of them give you a profile page where you can add your info.
The thing is social is just what it means - social. You are using these sites to make friends or business contacts AND links. Be interactive with other platforms: post comments on others blogs. Two things happen when you become 'real'. You build your authority and you get links all over the place if you content is good as people will glady post or refer to your content to others. Its all about the traffic anyways isn't it?
Think of social media this way. If Google died tomorrow would you beable to be found on the Internet through a search? Using social media is teaching the web (which is us) who and what you are.
SENSERELY is correct to some extent. I cannot tell you how may 'spammers' get it all wrong with these services. I see accounts being deleted daily.
Listen, your ultimate goal is (real) traffic. If you are not using social media to help you promote your sites you are missing the boat BIG time. Just remeber that your are not marketing Adsense. StumbleUpon (6000 hits in 2 months), Digg and Technoarati are all top notch places to start driving traffic to your site(s)
And to answer your question direct, NO - you will not get your account deleted by using social media services. Think a minute about YouTube. Who owns it? Google. Can you use YouTube to drive traffic to your site, YES. Has anyones account been deleted for using YouTube to drive traffic to their site(s)...dont think so.
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