The Big Adsventure

With all the blogs around advertisers are seeing new opportunities to market their service or product. Of course you see AdSense™ ads on many blogs, but lately there’s a new trend in blog advertising: advertisers paying the blogger to write a blog entry about their service or product.
The good thing about this kind of advertising is that the visitors will think it’s a normal blog entry and not an ad, and so they will be more likely clicking on the link and visit the advertisers site. On the other side this type of advertising could also diminish the overall quality of some blogs, where they will be posting an ‘objective’ review of a service or product while they only really posted it to make some quick bucks…
One site acting as a link between bloggers and advertisers is Get Paid For Blogging

Now that the summer holidays are over traffic is picking up again. During the holidays a lot of people go on vacation and spend more time outside, working on their garden or house. I can really see this in my sites page views and AdSense™ income. Still my income is growing and this month has been good for almost $25.
So, why is the income growing while there is a drop in page views? One thing I’ve been trying out is different ad colors, so the ads blend in better with the site. I’ve also been busy submitting my sites to web directories, which I think has resulted in more targeted visitors to my sites. A highly targeted visitor is one that is interested in your sites subject and is more likely to click on an ad for a related subject. I also noticed more relevant ads showing on my sites (instead of those public service ads that don’t earn you anything when clicked) This is probably because more of my pages have been indexed by Google…