DreamHost is an interesting affiliate program for a Site Hosting and Domain Service. You can sign up here. You do not need to purchase anything to join their affiliate program.

Affiliate Options:

• You have two options: make $97 per new signup or 10% of all payments they make forever.
• Earnings are multi-level, meaning you can receive $5 or 5% for everyone your referral signs up

Unique Affiliate Program Ability:
You can make unique promo codes that only you have. You can choose to give free domains, more storage, more bandwidth, or a discount, or any combination. This is useful because you can make a unique promo code that no one else has, providing an offer like no one else. How this works is that you give up part of your $97 affiliate fee.

Promo Code:
By using a promo code such as t40 you can provide the ability for someone to write down the promo code and visit the site DreamHost.com when they have a chance and use the code instead of clicking on a link.

See the use of a unique code to provide a free domain and a $77 discount, to provide a years worth of hosting and a free domain name for only $42.40, see the offer here.

One of my favorite sites to get any programming I need is Scriptlance. Scriptlance is a marketplace for programmers and those that need something programmed. I have used the site for years.

You can find programmers for everything from graphics, design for webpages, wordpress themes, drupal themes, wordpress modification, drupal modification, entire websites from scratch, database work, script installation, facebook applications, server maintenance, operating system upgrades, and more.

Employees and/or contractors to work part time or full time for an extended period of time are also available. Writers can also be found to write articles and other content.

If you can describe what you want created, simply join, post your project and watch the bids come in. You do not need to accept any of the bids and can cancel the project if you do not like the responses. There is also a dispute mechanism if you feel the programmer is not providing the service they stated they would.

A great feature is their Project Message Board. Those that bid can leave you private messages that the other bidders will not be able to view. The best use of the Project Message Board is to request to see their portfolio of work. If they claim to be able to create new Wordpress themes ask them to provide URLs of sites they have worked on.

Another feature is the total number of jobs they have worked on. You can see the description of the jobs they worked on and the ranking they were given. When each job is completed the requestor can rank the programmers work from 1 to 10. You may pay be escrowing the payment with Scriptlance and once completed you release the payment. This lets the programmer know you intend to pay them, the money is available, and once the work is completed you will release the escrow.

The programmers on the site are from all over the world. When you need some programming help, no matter how small or large, join Scriptlance.

Technorati Tags: scriptlance, freelancer, outsource, offshore, development

Technorati is a site to track blogs and media through tagging. They currently track 107.3 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media, as of the writing of this article.

Tagging is done by you and as long as you use their required code you will be submitted to their system. You may tag your post with keywords that you believe are relevant to your post. As Technorati is so large now you want to be found in their system. Some sites make their decisions on whether or not you can participate in an advertising campaign or even make your services available in their directory look at Technorati as one of the deciding factors, such as ReviewMe.

Here are the steps to get started:

• join free here
• enter and claim your blog or site so Technorati may validate you own the blog, all you do is create a post with a code they give you. Once you are validated you may then delete your post.
• you will have a main account with a bio and other information, which is about you
• next you will enter general tags for you
• most importantly, you will never be found in Technorati, you need to enter tags for every post you have

Now you will be found in the Technorati directory. Their metrics include a Ranking, Authority and a Favorite metric. To assure you are in the directory you need to use the following code: which they calculate, and a favorite rating.

Tags will assist in bettering your Technorati rank. To place a Technorati keyword on your post, below is the code for tagging your content: vc news

Code for tags:
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/VC%20News" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/technorati.com');" rel="tag">VC News</a>

Favorite buttons such as this, get the code from Technorati, allow users to Favorite your site

Code for favorite button:
<br /> <a href="http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add=http://www.longest.com" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/technorati.com');"><img src="http://static.technorati.com/pix/fave/tech-fav-1.png" alt="Add to Technorati Favorites" /></a>

Technorati Tags: wordpress, technorati, website traffic

As a test I decided to have a Facebook Application created to promote Agloco (original post is here).

The application was launched on 9/14/07, as of 9/26/07 there have been a total of 256 installations in 13 days, an average of 20 installations a day. An installation means that someone has added the application to their profile. Through this application there have been an additional 33 Agloco signups.

To market this application we spent $170 on the three different Facebook advertising networks, see our article on the Facebook Advertising Networks. The application has the ability for users to refer their friends, therefore obtaining more installations without having to pay for them.

Here are the statistics as of 9/26/07:

• 256 Installations
• 20 Installations per day (average)
• 33 Agloco signups
• $170 spent
• Cost Per Installation: $.66
• Cost Per Referral: $5.15

As time goes on the cost per installation will go down as more installations occur daily, referrals will increase and the cost per referral will also decrease.

Install the Agloco Application for Facebook allows you to install with the click of a button. You may either go to my Facebook Page Here and click the “Add Widget” button, or go directly to the application page here.

First: Join Agloco Here
Second: Install Facebook Application for Agloco Here

Technorati Tags: facebook application, facebook agloco, agloco, affiliate program, network marketing, marketing test

StubHub is a great site to buy tickets online for sporting events, theater, concerts and more. Even if you want to See Sold-Out Shows! Tickets Available on StubHub.com



On StubHub fans buy and sell tickets. While you may join many different affiliate programs, there are others such as Commission Junction that aggregate advertisers and publishers. You choose the programs you want.

In a previous post Site Traffic Test : ReviewMe, we set up an advertising test with ReviewMe. Here is the background:

For this test I chose to create a campaign using the Advertiser Offer Reviews. My campaign was for 5 reviews at $10 for a total of $50 on September 6th. I was able to write a small description of my site and what I wanted them to focus on. ……. I started the campaign on September 6th and the offer lasts for 30 days, to end October 7th. As of today September 17th I had 3 bloggers decide to take me up on the offer and write posts.

The Reviews are complete, I ordered 5 and all have been completed. Below is an update results table with all reviews:

Getting started and setting up the campaign was extremely easy. Once a review had been written I received an email with a link that logged me into their site and provided me with the reviewer, a link to the review on their page, and allowed me to rank/vote 1 to 5 on the value of the review.

There are various ways to evaluate the campaign to know if it is useful.

First, determine how many visits/clicks you have received from the sites. You can do this by looking in your sites statistics package which analyzes your log files. In this case I spent $50 and received 5 clicks so far, for a cost per click (CPC) of $10 which taken by itself as the sole metric is horrible. What is interesting is that these are articles are never deleted and therefore additional clicks can continue to drive down the CPC price.

Second, links to your site are valuable since search engines may rank you in their results higher for more links into your site showing popularity. Even better is to use the same anchor text. Anchor text are the words that are used for the link back to your site. In this case I chose Make Money Online, therefore search engines may rank me higher in their results for make money online. The popularity of the site that wrote your review and linked to you is also taken into account in search engine algorithms. When you set up a campaign you may choose the popularity of those reviewing you. I use Alexa rank above to show the varying popularity of the sites writing reviews.

To determine when the links to your site are relevant and assist in your search engine rankings you use the following search on Google link:longest.com

Currently we have received 5 clicks and the articles are not yet being found in Google linking back to us. We will review the results periodically.

You may sign up to use ReviewMe here.

Technorati Tags: review me, reviewme, affiliate program, marketing test

Not only can you use Facebook applications to market your own site or service (see our Facebook Application for Agloco), you can also generate revenue from your application.

You can place code in your application that allows others to purchase clicks. You then make a portion of the price an advertiser paid.

Some work on a Cost Per Click model (CPC) for the click through in your application. For example, if an Advertiser pays 10 cents per click and you receive a click at 50% you would receive 5 cents. Others work on a Cost Per Thousand (CPM) model in which you receive a set price for every 1,000 advertisements shown.

These three advertising networks focus exclusively on Facebook and work like any other ad network, just copy and paste the code in your application.

fbExchange is an example of an advertising network that pays you on a CPC model. You simply add their code to your application and you are generating revenue.

Cubics is an example of an advertising network that pays you on a CPM model, a set price for every 1,000 advertisements displayed. As of the writing of this article they are paying 33 to 81 cents per 1,000 views.

Appsaholic is part of the Social Media network and is not currently accepting publishers as of the writing of this article. However, you may buy advertising on a CPC model.

How large the advertising network on Facebook is remains to be seen.

Technorati Tags: facebook, facebook application, agloco facebook

WordTracker is a great tool. It allows you to increase your site traffic faster and cheaper when used appropriately. Especially in conjunction with posts that use permalinks (see our past article) having those keywords. WordTracker let’s you determine what people are searching for on the Web. It also helps you identify keywords and phrases that are relevant to your site or business and most likely to be used as queries by search engine visitors. You can also determine how many competing sites are using those keywords and can identify the phrases that have the greatest traffic potential. A quote from a user on their site.

“Why I use Wordtracker as my Number One Search Engine Positioning Tool.” Nick Usborne Copywriter

Wordtracker is now the industry’s leading keyword research tool, as they have a database of over 330 million search terms updated on a weekly basis. Links to Wordtracker:

• Keyword Tracker Tool
• Free Trial
• Product Tool
• WordTracker Offers

Technorati Tags: wordtracker, seo, search engine optimization

I decided to test the ReviewMe system for advertisers. To get started you first sign up with ReviewMe (Join Here), then order a review and choose either Blog Marketplace Reviews, Advertiser Offer Reviews or Advertorials.

Blog Marketplace Reviews allow you to choose which blogs you would like to write a review about you. You choose the site and if the site accepts your offer they write a review.

Advertiser Offer Reviews allows you to create a campaign and an offer open to all, with some parameters, that bloggers may choose to accept.

Advertorials allow you to write the review and have others post the review “as is”. You maintain control over the article.

For this test I chose to create a campaign using the Advertiser Offer Reviews. My campaign was for 5 reviews at $10 for a total of $50 on September 6th. I was able to write a small description of my site and what I wanted them to focus on. You are also able to provide the hyperlink (URL and Anchor text) for the blogger to use. Most importantly you can choose the quality of site that is allowed to accept your offer to write a review.

I started the campaign on September 6th and the offer lasts for 30 days, to end October 7th. As of today September 17th I had 3 bloggers decide to take me up on the offer and write posts.

Results

There are two more posts available, I will update as they come in. One of the articles was clearly better than the other two, however both provided the URL and Anchor Text I requested. Each review has multiple components you can control and benefit your site.

• Static Page - unlike a banner advertisement or contextual advertisement, the post having a link back to your site lives forever and is not removed.
• Linking In - By providing the anchor text and URL that links back to your site the search engines may take into account the text of the link thereby increasing your rankings on that keyword search. In other words if you choose to have the text of the link say “dog houses” and all the reviews use this text back to you then you may increase your search engine rankings for that keyword phrase “dog houses”.
• Anchor Text - you provide the link title that appears in your article.
• URL - you choose the URL that links back to your site, it can be to any page on your site.
• Site Traffic - as these links will last forever you will always receive additional website traffic.

As one type of cost benefit analysis you could average the number of click-throughs to the site from the article, knowing that you spent $10 on the article, and determine a cost per click which will continuously decrease over time as you receive more clicks.

Technorati Tags: review me, reviewme, affiliate program

Overall the process was simple and once I set up the campaign I was emailed as each post was written. I will continue to use Review Me for reviews and post updates.

I had a Facebook Application for Agloco built to test utilizing a contractor to create a Facebook application. If you are not familiar with Facebook, it is a very nicely done social network. You may join groups, find friends, and use various applications. Facebook Applications are growing in popularity. Here is what it looks like:

The Agloco Application for Facebook allows you to install with the click of a button. You may either go to my Facebook Page Here and click the “Add Widget” button, or go directly to the application page here.

The power of this simple application is gaining referrals and:

• you only need to click a button to install it on your Facebook page
• you enter in your Agloco ID when you install it
• the next person that installs, after seeing it on your Facebook page, can join Agloco and it uses your referral ID so you gain another referral
• when the application is installed it asks you to tell your friends, you can select who you would like to send it to, therefore it spreads quickly so others will join
• it acts as a simple advertisement and has a button to join Agloco (with your Referral ID) and a button to Add the Widget so it will spread and increase your referrals

Here is a screen shot of the what it looks like on a Facebook page (it will be a little lower on the page but you get the idea):

First: Join Agloco Here
Second: Install Facebook Application for Agloco Here

Technorati Tags: facebook application, facebook agloco, agloco, affiliate program, network marketing