Here is a list of online directories where you can submit your site. You can manually submit to each below to increase your exposure and links to your site.

These have a Google page rank of 4, not that this means the page your site will be listed on will have a rank of 4, nor that the rank is really indicative of anything. I have just chosen to list them this way:

• XDTSL.net
• Xakami
• Submit site web directory
• Web 1 Directory

LinkShare has been around for years as an affiliate marketing provider. LinkShare aggregates affiliate programs so you do not have to sign up for multiple programs and hope that they pay you. All your reporting is in one area as well.

The service is free to join. They work with the merchants and the affiliates like yourself. Merchants like having access to many affiliates like you through this network so they do not have to find affiliates themselves. They also like having the affiliate program implementation, reporting, and statistics taken care of by another.

Join LinkShare for Free Here

Affiliates like you enjoy having one login, one place for reporting, one check each month, and someone else (LinkShare) to be the watchdog and assure the merchants are honest in reporting and pay outs.

They also have a great new interface. See screen shot below.

LinkShare is an e-commerce business solution for over 3.5 million online relationships. Become an affiliate of the LinkShare Network for FREE and earn revenue by linking to over 500 premier online merchants

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Ever wonder how other sites rank highly for certain keywords, the keywords you want to rank highly for? There are many software packages out there, I have mentioned LINK SEO 8, which I like very much, and others to assist with your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy. Some tools are created with a very narrow focus and they do that one thing very well. Here is the Mantra for the SEO SpyGlass Tool:

Here’s A 100% Proven Way To Quickly And Easily Outrank ANY Site, For ANY Keyword,
And Get A Top Google Ranking

In order to obtain a high rank for any keyword you need to analyze the pages that current have the keyword spots. By determining how the high ranking pages got there you can duplicate that effort or a similar one and hopefully obtain a similar ranking.

The SEO SpyGlass Tool tells you who links to the page, where links come from whether it be other pages forums or social networks, the ranks of those other pages and much more.

Learn more about the SEO SpyGlass Tool here, or buy your copy now, or download a trial copy here.

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With regard to future updates, the program will download updates automatically as soon as you start it. Buy your copy here.

Instead of adding code to your pages for each ad network, swapping code every couple of days, and attempting to determine which ad network you make the most money with, why not let someone else do it for you? Try one of these three services as they are free.

Recently three advertising optimization networks have appeared and each one received funding as investors seem to believe these are valuable services: YieldBuild $6 Million, Pubmatic $7 Million and Rubicon Project $27 Million.

I was first made aware of PubMatic and wrote about Pubmatic here.

Each service will run multiple ad networks, rotate them, and optimize them for your site. The goal is to obtain the greatest eCPM for you. An eCPM is an effective CPM, the amount you receive per 1,000 advertisements. Some ads may be sold on a CPC (Cost Per Click) or CPA (Cost Per Acquisition) or CPL (Cost per Lead), these will yield an effective CPM as more ads are run.

The following are free services and I suggest you try them all to determine who can optimize best for you and your site.

• Pubmatic
• Rubicon Project
• YieldBuild

This is the February 2008 monthly summary in the quest for $10,000 a month in revenue, part time. We will be tracking the site growth both in traffic and revenue here on the about page. This site is unique, we show you exactly what our progress is towards $10,000 a month, in your spare time. We discuss what we tried, what worked or did not work.

Of most interest is the marketing tests category, detailing tests and how they performed.

The first month was September when the site launched on 9/4/07.

SITE STATISTICS	Launch	September 07	October 07	November 07	December 07	January 08	February 08
Alexa	2,712,399	408,377	237,610	194,131	212,169	256,630	293,028
Quantcast	NA	6,083,285	5,950,003	1,883,550	1,906,217	1,815,963	1,924,150
Technorati Ranking	NA	640,383	550,426	317,977	246,538	257,527	199,700
Technorati Authority	NA	10	15	26	26	37	40
RSS Subscribers	1	25	113	132	132	135	145
Newsletter Subscribers	-	-	-	-	-	-	852

* Alexa is a 3 month average

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REVENUE	Launch	September 07	October 07	November 07	December 07	January 08	January 08
Advertising & Affiliate	$ 0	$ 0.48	$ 5.18	$ 27.96	$ 190.18	$ 278.85	$ 1600.56
Direct Sales	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0	$ 18.80	$ 57.32	$ 141.43	$ 166.96
TOTAL REVENUE	$ 0.00	$ 0.48	$ 5.18	$ 46.76	$ 247.50	$ 420.28	$ 1767.52

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EXPENSES	Launch	September 07	October 07	November 07	December 07	January 08	February 08
Reviews	$0	$50	$20	$0	$77	$0	$0
Advertising	$0	$0	$180.65	$0	$0	$216.81	$963
Development + Hosting	$0	$470	$0	$0	$0	$0	$109.95
TOTAL SPENT	$0	$520	$200.65	$0	$77	$216.81	$1072.95
TOTAL PROFIT	$0	($517.64)	($194.05)	$34.71	$136.50	$169.52	$694.50

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I increased spend dramatically on advertising this month and it translated into sales. The two categories of revenue above advertising and affiliate sales are going to be combined into one category for the following reason, I may run a network having advertisements that are affiliate sales and therefore they are one in the same. As an example, I may join an affiliate program and put ads on my site for them or I may run ads from an advertising network and an affiliate ad is run throughout that network. Either way the sale was an affiliate sale meaning some sort of a CPA (cost per acquisition) and I was not going to be paid unless the acquisition was fulfilled. You can fined a list of the Top Online Advertising Networks.To note this month, I added aweber and have grown a substantial newsletter list. It appears that the RSS subscriptions have not grown much but individuals are much more likely to join a newsletter list.The goal is still to create as much viral traffic as possible and I continue to use SEO Suite v8.0 to assist with my SEO when I have time. I also needed a second server this month, much more powerful and dedicated server.