| NetSmarter @ 2005-08-21 10:17 (Web Traffic and SEO) According to eMarketer.com, comScore estimates that about 30% of US Internet users visited blogs in the first quarter. Nielsen//NetRatings says the top 50 blog sites, including blog hosts, draw about 20% of active Internet users.
comScore's blogging study, which was sponsored by Gawker Media and SixApart, estimates that 50 million US Internet users visited blogs in the first quarter of 2005, up from about 34 million a year earlier, and says blog visitation is up 31% from January 2005 through July 2005.
The top blog hosting services have grown significantly. ComScore reports that the number of unique visitors to six of the top 10 services grew by more than 100% from the first quarter of 2004 to the first quarter of 2005. Blogspot.com (better known as Blogger.com), continues to be the largest service.
About 39 million blog visitors in the first quarter of 2005 visited at least one blog residing on one of the major blog hosts. Some 28 million users visited at least one non-hosted, or standalone, blog.
Of standalone blogs, comScore found that over 40% focused on news or politics, including leading blogs like FreeRepublic, Dailykos and Wonkette. Blogs about business made up just 3% of the total.
The fastest-growing blog site, according to Nielsen//NetRatings, was MSN Spaces, which was only unveiled in December 2004. Standalone sites like Gawker and Daily Kos saw traffic rise sharply over the period. Nielsen//NetRatings said that the top 50 blog sites (a list that includes both blog hosts and individual blogs) were visited by about 29.3 million people in July, up 31% from the beginning of the year.
Category: Web Traffic and SEO
NetSmarter @ 2005-08-18 10:30 (Tools and Books) Useful for: tracking adsense performance, targeting high-paying keywords, adsense format/placement optimization
Author: Jonathan Leger
Price: $97.00
Format: downloadable software, ebook and data
Link: Click here
Adsense Gold is a software/ebook package that contains: 1) Adsense Tracker, an adsense tracking software. 2) Triple your adsense CTR, an eBook on selecting the best adsense format and placement, 3) 3600 High paying keywords (with free quarterly updates) & 4) 11,194 articles on various topics that you can put on your website.
The most unique and valuable part of this package is the Adsense Tracker software. It shows you what kind of content is generating the clicks, which ad formats and color combinations work best; which search engines and/or keywords to optimize for; which ads your visitors are clicking on, etc. This information are not available from Google's Adsense site and can be very valuable in helping you make more money.
If you are serious about making money with Adsense, you should consider investing in this package.
Category: Tools and Books
NetSmarter @ 2005-08-03 04:16 (News) 
Received an email from Yahoo! Publisher Network today:
Dear xxxxx,
Today, Yahoo! Publisher Network launched a new self-serve platform that will provide small- and medium-sized web publishers with easy access to Yahoo! advertising and content. We're very excited about our new offering, not only because it will enable a broader set of publishers to generate revenue from their sites, but also because it can offer publishers access to many of Yahoo!'s other products and properties.
The Yahoo! Publisher Network self-serve platform is currently available as an invitation-only beta. If you haven't received an invitation yet, please be assured that we will be extending additional invitations over the course of the coming weeks and months. Our goal is to learn from the feedback we receive during the initial beta period, refine the platform and add new features, then open the program up to the general publishing community before the end of the year.
We're looking forward to working with you to build a strong and successful community through the Yahoo! Publisher Network.
Sincerely,
The Yahoo! Publisher Network Team
Category: News
NetSmarter @ 2005-07-01 14:20 (Tools and Books) Expired domain names can bring traffic to you. Some expired domains might have already have a hight PR or been listed on Yahoo Diretory or DMoz and it might even bring clicks to you. Finding a good expired domain name and purchasing it could be very valuable to your online business.
Although each week thousands of domain names expire and become available, it's not easy to find good expired domain names. Just found a tool called Expired Domain Express, which can automatically find expired domain names you desired. It has a number of usuful features such as Domain Name Manager, Browse for domain names, Domain Name Creator, Yahoo and Google Searches, Full Word List and Custom Word Lists etc.
Click here to check out Expired Domain Express.
Category: Tools and Books
NetSmarter @ 2005-06-28 00:45 (Tools and Books) Swap Clicking Your Way To Riches is a system to make money online. The sales letter claims that:
"This is not a promote my affiliate program to make money!"
"This is not a paid to click program!"
"You do not need to sell anything!"
This made me wonder: what exactly is it? Is it legal? For a while, because of the name "Swap Clicking", I was thinking that this might be a system where people click on the Adsense Ads on each other's page to make money. If that's the case, it will definately against Google's rule!
Anyway, I purchased the eBook and found out it's NOT the way I thought and it's completely legal and it makes sense. This method is very simple and straightforward to implement and it's profitable if you put in in action.
Here is the link to Swap Clicking Your Way To Riches
Category: Tools and Books
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