GameFly campaign on Hold

GameFly has paused their campaign so if you are currently sending traffic to
this campaign, then please log into your TrafficSynergy account and find
another campaign to divert the traffic to.

Get your cell phone questions answered

We have a fantastic campaign starting today but unfortunately although the
website can be used by everyone around the world, the advertisers want to
start off by only paying for South African registrations...

What is the offer?

Mobile-QandA.com is a message board for people to ask questions about
cell phones, and get an answer for FREE. It's that simple. There is also
cell phone reviews, previews, and news.

How do you get paid?

When a visitor living in South African registers to become a free member on
www.Mobile-QandA.com, you get paid $0.80

What should you do?

If you have traffic from South Africa, then send them to Mobile-QandA.com.
There are not many affiliate programs in South Africa so this one is going
to do well for any publishers with South African inventory.

Pixel Power with HalfMillionDollarPicture.com

Hi,

If you haven't heard about increasing traffic from pixels, then you must
have been hiding from the Internet over the last few weeks.

Since the first pixel website was launched a few weeks ago, pixel sites have
sprung up all over the place.

It's a simple but clever model. The pixel sites place your tiny ad on their
site, and then they drive traffic to the site and give exposure to all the
advertisers on the site.

Our pixel merchant is HalfMillionDollarPicture.com - they have 10 thousand
blocks which they are selling at $50 per block (effectively $0.50 per pixel
with a minimum purchase of 100 pixels - otherwise it would be too small for
even the eye to see).

HalfMillionDollarPicture is already in the top hundred thousand sites in the
Alexa rankings, and they are expecting it to go even higher.

They are paying 40% per sale, and many advertisers purchase more than 100
pixels (one block) so we expect the EPC to be high on this campaign.

There is a great banners suite, and if you are looking for further banners
to promote this campaign, HalfMillionDollarPicture says they are happy to
create more banner sizes.

Happy promoting.
The TrafficSynergy.com team

keeping up to date

From today ongoing, all emails which are sent out will be added to the
TrafficSynergy blog so that you can ensure you are ALWAYS keeping up to date
with all the TrafficSynergy news no matter where you are.

In addition, we are going to be using the blog for discussing online
marketing ideas, so if you have any sections on internet marketing you want
us to discuss on the blog, then drop us a mail to let us know.

And if you hear any internet marketing related news that you think will be
of benefit to everyone else, then email us, and we'll post it on the blog.

Lets start helping one another all be more successful.

The TrafficSynergy.com team

another day of great campaigns

Well, thank you for all the emails that you are sending to the TrafficSynergy team. We love speaking to each one of you so keep those comments and feedback coming through.

 

Let us know more about yourself – how you do your internet marketing (without giving away any internet marketing secrets), and which campaigns you are looking to promote (and if we don’t have a specific campaign that you are looking for, we’ll make every effort to get it for you).

 

 

the richjerk's copy

For those affiliates who are building websites, one of the most important elements is copy. Copy has 2 major objectives.

 

Firstly, the copy will result in a visitor who spends more time on the site and who meets the requirements of the site. So if you have the right copy, the visitor will be grabbed by the headline which draws you into the site, and then the copy will close the visitor so that buy whatever you are selling, or click on whichever link you want them to click on.

 

Secondly, the right copy gets the search engines to rank you higher on more keywords which results in far more traffic to your site. If you don’t have enough copy on your site, the search engines won’t know what your site is about, and if you haven’t written the copy in a search engine friendly manner, then the search engines won’t know which words are the most important words on your page.

 

So it’s a round circle, as the better you write the more visitors you will get from the search engines, and those visitors (and the other visitors you are driving to your website) will convert even better.

 

Now, a new site called the richjerk has launched – click here to see the site – the richjerk site has turned the rules of copy on its head. The objective of the copy is to insult the visitor so that they feel compelled to purchase the eBook that the richjerk is selling. The richjerk site looks professional, and many hours, (or days) must have been spent analyzing the words on the richjerk site. This isn’t just a case of lets insult the visitor and everyone else in the world – the richjerk site has been carefully planned to extract an emotion from a visitor. Sure, some people will find it offensive and will leave the site immediately, but others will take up on the challenge to purchase the eBook and see what the richjerk knows that they don’t know.

value of building an affiliate website

It has been reported on a number of sites that a UK affiliate site, Empire Online potentially being sold for £700 million pounds.

The business of Empire Online is described as follows in the Guardian Unlimited:

“Empire operates as a "skin", or white-label, poker and casino site and is the most successful of this new breed of online gambling companies.

In effect it is a marketing business that recruits online gamblers and then directs them to third-party websites, such as Party Poker and 888.com, where the poker and casino games are played.

Empire makes its money by claiming commission from the host operators - in some cases, this commission is thought to be over half the revenue generated by individual players. Payments from PartyGaming represent two-thirds of its revenue.”

This is good news for affiliates developing websites rather than doing ppc, contextual, or email marketing as it means the affiliate is building long term value from the site in addition to the revenue they make on a monthly basis.

Interesting though, all the sites mention EmpireOnline.com or EmpireOnline.co.uk as the acquisition. Having looked at both of these sites, they are both redirecting to the same content based movie and music review site owned by the eMap group. So I’m wondering whether there is truth in the rumour that an affiliate site got sold for such a large sum of cash, and if so, what the url of the affiliate site is? Any one know?

 

comment spam update

Well, sure enough, a few minutes after I posted the last comment on the trafficsynergy blog about comment spam, there was another posting which was a comment spam. Now, I can’t believe that someone would read the posting about comment spam, and then comment spam the posting! So I looked at the composition of the comment spam posting.

 

It read as follows:

 

“Your blog is thorough If you have a weight issue, I'm sure you'd be interested in xenical diet purchasing xenical diet”

 

It suddenly hit me that the comment spam was computer generated. I’ve looked at blog software before for generating blog postings, and it is useful in very specific cases, as you don’t want to create blogs with meaningless information. But this is different – this is software that creates comment spam on new blog postings. So I’m assuming what it does is it finds a list of blogs with new entries, and then adds a preformatted message like the one above (I took out the hyperlink from the comment spam above, as I don’t want it to gain any page rank).

 

Anyway, I’m now testing a new feature on the blogger software called “word verification” which means that you have to type in a sequence of letters and numbers before you can post your comment – this will prevent automatic scripts like the one which I believe is being used for the above posting from “littering” the traffic synergy blog with meaningless comment spam. So any comment spam which now appears on the traffic synergy blog will actually have been entered by a real live human being!

 

 

comment spam

I’m amazed. I posted 2 comments on the trafficsynergy blog in the last few hours, and already there is comment spam on the last 2 postings. If this trend continues, then I’ll have to suspend comments, and if visitors want to comment on the postings, then they’ll rather have to email me the comments, and I’ll post them on the traffic synergy blog.

 

For those who are not aware what comment or blog spam is, it’s simply the method of adding a comment to a blog with the only objective of getting your site mentioned and your url hyperlinked. This results in an incoming link to your site, and if done from the right site, it is good for getting extra traffic from the search engines, as the incoming links results in good search engine optimization practice, which results in your site being listed higher in the search engine rankings.

 

I’m honoured that people believe the trafficsynergy blog is good enough to comment spam on (I guess it does have a rather attractive page rank) but unfortunately comment spam does nothing to add value to the many visitors who read the traffic synergy blog on a daily basis.

 

Therefore, I’ll have to watch over the next few days, and see whether there is any further blog spam – if there is, then I’ll have to consider stopping comments from being posted on the traffic synergy blog (which is a pity as it was meant to be an interactive blog), but I’m thinking that perhaps it’s also a good idea to have a forum for people to discuss issues related to the traffic synergy affiliate network and internet marketing in general.

 

 

baidu being accused

An interesting story has been reported on a number of affiliate marketing message boards and forums, that Baidu, which is the large Chinese search engine, one of the owners being google (I recall that they own about 2% of the company), has been attacking the servers of a chinese e-commerce site, 8848. Baidu recently ipo’d for a huge sum of money, and it will be interesting to see how they respond to this accusation.