There are a number of link broker sites out there: the good, the bad, and the ugly. I'm not going to name the ones I don't like for a number of reasons, but I will tell you about one that I have been with for several years and that I am very happy with and that is LinkWorth.com.

There are a lot of reasons why I not only like LinkWorth, but also have been very loyal to them. When I was contacted directly by an advertiser after they canceled text ads on our sites, I was surprised that they wanted to do this to get a discount by bypassing LinkWorth. I promptly reported them to LinkWorth and told the former advertiser that I would never take their business, no matter how much they offered us.

I did this because LinkWorth provides a good service and charges about 30% for the text ad fee. This is not a small amount, but the other sites I have seen generally charge about 50%, or 30% of the "wholesale" price. I consider both of these to be excessive, although to be fair LinkWorth does take 50% of the fees when they take care of the marketing and placing of text ads. I have not tried the full service option but it may be worth it.

Once your site is set up in LinkWorth, you can add code to your site which allows the adding and removing of text ads on your site to be automated. If you've ever added and removed links as advertisers change, you know that can take some time and be a headache if you have a lot of sites.

LinkWorth also allows you to buy text ads on other sites and has different types of advertising options. And as a publisher you can also provide a number of options for advertisers.

We have been with LinkWorth for a number of years and also run Google AdSense on most of our sites. Over the past few years the income from AdSense has decreased, but the LinkWorth income has increased and we are now exceeding the most we have ever made with AdSense on a monthly basis.

If you have a web site or a blog and are not not offering text ads on your site, you are missing out on a great additional revenue stream.

[Note: This is not a paid post and it does not contain any paid text link ads. Some links may be affiliate links and can be easily circumvented if you wish. If you want to confirm that I really feel this way, please feel to comment. I really do like LinkWorth...]

Domain Name Industry: First Community-Driven Website To Power Latest News

Social-Voting News Website Launches For The Domain Name Industry. 100% User-Submitted Content With Revenue-Sharing For Members.

Penang Island, Malaysia (PRWEB) June 26, 2007 -- Recently launched DNHour.com is the domain name industry's first revenue-sharing and community-driven niche website. Modeled after the popular social-content site, Digg.com, DNHour.com is designed for members to submit short reviews of the latest industry news with a link to the source. Using an algorithm to determine the popularity of the news, members can choose to help promote or demote contents submitted by fellow members through a voting process. With enough votes, popular news stories are promoted to the main page of the website, exposing it to a broader audience.

According to site founder Koay Al Vin, the portal is for domainers to consolidate all important industry news, compiled and ranked by the community in one central location. Instead of sifting through journals or domain forums, members can now sort for popular news in categories such as Recent Sales & Prices or Domains On Auction. Still in Beta mode, the site is aimed at domainers-on-the-go, where social-reporting will help alert them of any domains available at a steal or the next big domain on auction. Members can also network among peers by contacting fellow members within the community and comment on posts.

"The talk of the today is social-everything. In this generation of Web 2.0, we are talking about blogging, wikis and crowd clout where like-minded groups connect online and exert influence in an industry," says Koay. "DNHour.com is crowd clout for the domain name industry," he adds. "Now domainers are discovering that they can choose which news or services are popular and demote those that are not."

About DNHour.com

DNHour.com is founded by a Malaysian-based domainer and serial entrepreneur, Koay Al Vin. After missing out on some big domain name purchases, he decided to keep in the know by tediously scouring domain forums and listing sites for what is available. He founded DNHour.com to ease the process and today, all domainers can help each other by sharing those important news and events at DNHour.com.

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We just got this spam and in looking at what they do, it does not appear to be another domain transfer scam, but a "service" to help you remember to renew your domain name (as if registrars don't already send many reminders!).

But at $69.95 they charge almost 10 times what a basic renewal fee would be. If you get a spam from them, please report it to your domain registrar, the spammer's ISP, and ICANN. The domain below will redirect you to their main domain at http://www.domainrenewal-online.com.

 

 

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Kevin Ham, a Christian entrepreneur who I'd like to meet someday.
By info
A link on the web site peaked my interest, it read 'Kevin Ham: The Man Who Owns the Internet' so naturally I clicked it. I was quite impressed with Kevin Ham's story of ingenuity and bold proclamation of his faith in Jesus Christ. ...
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Dot-com is king," Goldberger said. "Dot-net is worthless."
By s(s)
Another great DOMAIN SUCCESS story. Is it just me or does it seem the mainstream press is reporting this on a daily basis since the Business2.0 Kevin Ham feature?
The Frager Factor - http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/

BP Holding Group Rebrands, Launches Media Focused Company
By Adam Strong
Bahlitzanakis and BPHG join the ranks of other domainers rebranding as developer/media companies such as Kevin Ham with Reinvent.com and Sahar Sarid with Recall Media Group. Bahlitzanakis recently teamed up with Michael Mann and ...
Domain Name News - http://domainnamenews.com

Michael Bahlitzanakis launches media company
By Dominik
BPHD Media is just one of the several media companies which are currently built around quality domain portfolios. Other companies which are busy developing generic domains are Kevin Ham's Reinvent Technology and Sahar Sarid's Recall ...
HighEndWebNames.com Blog - http://www.highendwebnames.com/blog

Now that's using your noggin
Foreign Policy (subscription) - USA
But Kovatch is just a rank amateur compared to Kevin Ham. Ham, a retired Canadian doctor and the owner of both God.com and Satan.com, rakes in an estimated ...

Millionaire Domainers
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So that is why we need your help to help us make the list. Please submit names of fellow domainers that have made it big in the comments below. Yun Ye (UltSearch) Frank Schilling (Name Administration) Kevin Ham (Reinvent) ...
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iPhone.com sold to Apple for a seven figures
By wayan(wayan)
Otherwise, major league domainer like Kevin Ham will cause them to spent more money for buying domain names. I just wonder if Cisco was also approaching Michael prior the Apple. ? source Engadgetmobile.
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links for 2007-07-04
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Kevin Ham, the $300 million master of Web domains - June 1, 2007. The man who owns the Internet. (tags: business20 webcli)
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Kevin Ham - The man that makes more money with domain parking
... money can be made with domain parking, so I thought it would be a good a idea to mention a CNNMoney.com article a came across a few weeks ago. Basically the article talks about Kevin Ham, the "owner" of the internet. Kevin Ham [...]
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Kevin Ham (Reinvent) Kevin Medina (RegisterFly.com) Lawrence Ng (Oversee) Marc Ostrofsky (Business.com) Markus Schnermann (Keyword Domains) Matt Bentley (Sedo) Michael Arrington (Pool.com) Michael Collins (Afternic) ...
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*[Note; This Blog post's title and some hyperlinks above may be satire and not be part of the original posts quoted here.]

Word To Nielsen: Brand Matters Less Than You Think

by Mark Simon, Monday, July 16, 2007
POOR GOOGLE. JUST WHEN IT looked secure as the great Web colossus, Nielsen/NetRatings changed all the rules.

Last Tuesday, Nielsen/NetRatings, "a global leader in Internet media and market research" (the company's words), announced a key change to its Top Web Brands rankings. Dropping the page view as its chief criterion, Nielsen is now focused far more on the time visitors spend on the site ("total minutes") to measure site engagement.

And for good reason. With the proliferation of Ajax technology -- around in various forms for over a decade, but now something of a new Web norm -- visitors can have deep online experiences without leaving a single page. A gamer can conduct hours of online play, and a rich media consumer can watch endless amounts of video, without ever clicking a link. The more you can do on one page, the less jumping from one page to the next becomes a relevant measurement of brand affinity -- which is why Nielsen has made time spent, not the number of pages looked at, into the new key metric of a Web brand's popularity. That's bad news for search engines, and for Google in particular. The search engine business is one of quickly farming users out to millions of other sites as efficiently as possible, a service that's rich in page views but poor in time spent with the engine. It's a page view play, not an engagement one, which is why Tuesday saw Google drop from Nielsen's No. 1 Web brand down to No. 5.

Is Nielsen's new ranking approach the right move? Yes and no. As a way to understand the value of Web brands, time spent is certainly a metric that's gotten short shrift until now. Even without considering Ajax, it makes sense that users would spend more time on the sites they like more. Which is why time spent on the site is a crucial factor in determining brand affinity.

But what Nielsen is missing lies in what it's looking to rank -- the "Top Web Brands." That's a ranking of brand equity rating. But on the Internet, brand equity only goes halfway for making brands valuable. It's not how powerful your brand is that matters; it's how you leverage that brand to interact with customers.

A large brand affinity relies on striking a common ground among a wide section of the population; millions of people like Coke and Mickey Mouse, and so Coca Cola and Disney are masters of brand equity. But in today's media universe, where the plethora of choice means that everyone is looking for personally tailored results, the keys to winning financially don't just lie in brand equity alone.

Brand attracts the customers, as brand is the packaging that allows users to understand a product and, afterwards, to evangelize it to friends. But in the end, it's personally tailored results that will get users to stick. A good brand pulls people in; a personalized product keeps them coming back.

That, for example, is the genius of the iPod. The little white device is the most popular piece of fashion equipment around, which is a brand experience. But the iPod's function is to deliver whatever specific music its users care to hear -- which is a customized experience. Ditto e-Bay and Amazon, the brands considered the best places for everyone to find whatever they want, and which visitors use to find the specific items they're looking to buy.

The converse is also true. Take MySpace's recent challenges from Facebook. MySpace has fashioned itself into the Web's biggest meet-and-greet; Facebook, meanwhile, has become the place for current and aspiring yuppies to meet the like-minded. By offering a more focused experience, Facebook, the smaller brand, has been able to pose problems for its broad-appeal competitor with the larger brand.

Of course, it's that combination of brand appeal with targeted service that makes for the best of search engines. Everyone who goes to Google.com gets pretty much the same experience: they search for an item and they find it. That makes Google an easily explained, easily packaged brand. But at the same time, the individual results will change from search to search -- or, in Google's ultimate vision, from searcher to searcher. Google (or any good engine) can pull its users in with the brand, and make them into loyal customers with personally tailored results.

Which is why Google remains the king of the Web. It may not be the most treasured brand, and it may not be the place where users spend the most time. But for combining a huge brand following with targeted results, no other business on the Web -- and perhaps no other business in history -- can match it.

Of course Google won't stay on top forever. But for the foreseeable future, its users will be coming back to it for much, much longer than the duration of a page view.

Post your response to the public Search Insider blog.

Mark Simon is vice president of industry relations at Did-it, an agency for search engine marketing and auctioned media management based in New York. You can reach Mark at msimon@did-it.com. 

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[We've been using Ajax for years. We think it works much better than Comet.

And visitors spending a lot of time one one page is nothing new either. Framed sites and Flash sites are old news.

So page views may not be a great to measure site usage, but neither is time spent on a site. Who knows what the user is doing during that 15 minutes on a single page? More likely than not, with a curve adjusted for age, they could easily be:

Talking on one or more phones
Watching Youtube videos in another window
Using IM or chat
Watching as they defragging their hard drive
Napping
Watching TV
Talking to someone
Eating lunch
Reading some form of ancient printed material in it's original form
Petting a cat/dog/ferret/bunny/raccoon/Bengal/snake or other pet

And many other things that I don't do or have not seen others do (Just as well).

Since you can't tell what the user is doing, the amount of time spent cannot be very accurate, can it? So why move away from the page views? Perhaps because of bots, spiders, and off-line web viewers. I guess for me, the measure should be of BOTH metrics. How many pages and how much time spent also. I suspect that with a fair amount of data collected you could even start to have a number of "profiles" into which most of the visitors could be classified. ]

Why a Few Elite Marketers Are Keeping Hush Hush About the eBay Affiliate Program

The top eBay affiliates are quietly earning in excess of one million US dollars a year while other affiliates are happily making $10,000 every month from eBay. These people are among the very few who use eBay in a way that 99% of other users over-look. With such an openly available affiliate program, a need has arisen to look deeper into the subject to see just how this money is being made.

Wigston, United Kingdom, July 10, 2007 --(PR.com)-- eBay currently pays its top affiliates more than $1,000,000 a year and many others are earning upwards of $10,000 a month just by promoting items which are listed on eBay. When you consider the benefits of using the eBay affiliate program, it is hard to understand why other online marketers and eBay users don't use the affiliate program that eBay offers them.

Some of the obvious benefits include;

- No need to buy or stock inventory.
- No customer service worries, no shipping problems or refund hassles.
- No negative feedback to worry about
- No eBay fees

And the size of eBay, as a company and marketplace, shows no signs of slowing down either. For the past eleven years, on average, 38 new members have registered on eBay every single minute of every day, meaning that eBay now has 222 million registered users selling everything you can imagine, including a jet plane for $4.9 million

With an affiliate program of such proportions, it is near impossible not to find something that you can promote as an affiliate, but maybe it is due to the lack of publicity which causes many people to over-look the eBay affiliate program. It is clear that people want to know how to do something, how to do it the easiest way possible and in the shortest time.

Since 2004, Michael Sherriff, propriteor of L M Marketing, has studied the eBay affiliate program and when realizing the problems faced by most people who wanted to learn how to use the eBay affiliate program, released 'Auction Affiliate Secrets', http://auctionaffiliatesecrets.com

Michael Sherriff said, "What a lot of people don't realize is that eBay actually provides a great number of niche markets and even sub niches". He continued, "Rather than trying to promote every possible item on eBay as an affiliate, affiliates are much better positioned to make money by concentrating on a niche instead. By breaking down the eBay market of categories, anyone can quickly drill down and find a niche topic that matches their own interests and it is this method of using the eBay affiliate program which makes it so easy to understand and use.

Upon its release, Dave Bromley of UKAuctionLine.co.uk said, "As someone who spends much of his working life dealing with subjects related to eBay I could not understand how I missed this obvious goldmine. I can tell you within minutes of finishing the book I was making changes to some of my web sites and have already started making money from the ideas in eBay Affiliate Secrets".

The eBay affiliate program can be used by anyone after creating a free account via Commission Junction who administer the program for eBay. Inc. With a global acceptance, geographical location is not a barrier.

Contact Michael Sherriff for more insights into this topic. Email: Michael@auctionaffiliatesecrets.com Other helpful information regarding the ebook mentioned here, can be found at: http://auctionaffiliatesecrets.com/press/

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To Each Their Own? Depends...
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I just had a rather disturbing email from a company advertising a new service called Buy Blog Comments (no follow tags used) promoting a new service offering to leave comment spam on blogs for those wanting to increase their SEO ranking ...
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Would you 'Buy Blog Comments'?
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Buy Blog Comments Lets You Buy Spam. So Not Cool.
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Spam in blogs, Spam Blogs, Spam Posts, Spamming blogs, and Comment Spam
Spam in blogs (also called simply blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamdexing. It is done by automatically posting random comments or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis, guestbooks, or other publicly accessible online discussion boards. Any web application that accepts and displays hyperlinks submitted by visitors may be a target.

Adding links that point to the spammer's web site artificially increases the site's search engine ranking. An increased ranking often results in the spammer's commercial site being listed ahead of other sites for certain searches, increasing the number of potential visitors and paying customers.

Buying Blog Comments
A new website came out where spammers can now purchase blog comments from legit writers. People write the blog comments and use their username for the anchor and the URL for their spam site. The main site is Buy Blog Comments but there have been some more popping up in other places..

Pay Per Post

PayPerPost, Inc.
Founded         Orlando, Florida, USA (June 30, 2006)
Headquarters    Orlando, Florida, USA
Key people      Ted Murphy, CEO & Co-Founder; Paul Lewis, Co-Founder

PayPerPost (PPP) is a website which helps content creators such as bloggers, videographers, podcasters and photographers find advertisers willing to sponsor specific content. The advertisers create opportunities ("opps") that describe the content they are looking for (e.g. feedback, reviews, buzz, creative, video). The bloggers (sometimes referred to as "Posties") then choose opportunities in their area of interest.

Once the blogger has written a blog post or posted a video that matches the requirements, PPP then reviews the post against its requirements (e.g. topic, tone, length) and PPP terms of service (e.g. disclosure required, no adult content), and handles payment.

The company recently (as of April 2007) introduced a segmentation system whereby advertisers can limit which bloggers qualify for their opportunity. The system uses criteria such as Technorati rank, Google Page Rank, Alexa rank, blogger quality rank, and blog categories. They can also exclude blogs on certain domains.

The company sparked controversy in its first year, with critics claiming that sponsored blogging was unethical. It has received sustained criticism from technology blogger Michael Arrington and sustained support from technology blogger Andy Beard. Some supporters claimed that sponsored blogging helps "blue-collar bloggers", and PayPerPost members claimed that there is room for all views in the blogosphere.

PayPerPost was founded by Ted Murphy, who also founded the interactive agency MindComet and the "BlogStar Network", designed to connect advertisers with bloggers in a manual, non-marketplace fashion.

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Consumer Reports Survey of EBAY Users Reveals Online Auction Seller Deception and Pitfalls Can be Hard to Avoid

Consumer Reports August Issue Tells How to Bid Smart and Play Safe with Steps to Avoid Auction Fraud

Yonkers, NY July 2, 2007 -- With 100 million items on sale, eBay is the king of online auctions. But almost half of the eBay buyers that Consumer Reports surveyed encountered deceptions, according to a report in the August issue.

Buyers indicated that some sellers took their money and ran, failed to disclose key details about the merchandise, or overstated the item's condition. However, deceptions weren't the only pitfalls for folks to avoid when participating in an online auction. Although eBay prohibits trade in illegal goods, buyers can end up with unsafe products. CR's secret shoppers had no problem buying lawn darts, a game banned in the U.S., and they tracked down car seats, strollers and other child products recalled for possible safety defects.

"Ebay has 2,000 staff members policing its site around the clock, but with 6.4 million new listings per day, their employees can't find all the iffy auctions and shut them down instantly," said Tod Marks, Senior Editor for Consumer Reports. "Buyers must take precautions and learn as much as possible about who they are dealing with."

To help online auction buyers play it safe and win, the Consumer Reports National Research Center recently asked more than 2,500 subscribers to http://www.ConsumerReports.org about eBay purchases in the past year. Among the findings:

•Despite their complaints, 70 percent of those surveyed were highly satisfied overall when buying on eBay. About 90 percent of purchases arrived on time, were accurately described and were perceived a good deal. Nearly half of respondents characterized eBay as an excellent source of hard-to-find items.
•Forty percent of survey respondents termed eBay fair or poor for help and customer support. Most victims of unscrupulous sellers tried to fight back, but of those who tried to settle problems with the seller directly, which eBay recommends, only 38 percent were successful.
•PayPal, owned by eBay, was by far the most popular payment method and was used for 89 percent of the purchases in Consumer Reports survey.
•Complaining directly to eBay authorities satisfied 60 percent of survey respondents who took that action. But the most effective way to deal with dishonesty was among the least used: filing a formal complaint with PayPal. Although only 23 percent of unhappy respondents took that step, 66 percent of those who did said it worked.

A site for sellers:

•Sixty-four percent of the 700 survey respondents who sold on eBay in the past year were highly satisfied with their transactions.
•Twenty-seven percent of sellers said their auction ad cost far more than expected.
•Only about 10 percent of respondents said their freight costs exceeded those computed by the site's shipping calculator.

Avoiding Common Pitfalls:   
Online auction aficionados can't eliminate the risk when dealing with strangers, but they can lessen it. Consumer Reports offers the following tips to protect folks from traps and pitfalls:
Check Feedback. The most important step buyers told CR was to check feedback. More experienced buyers did extra research requesting more photos from the seller. EBay recommends trading with members that have a high positive feedback score. Look for at least 99 percent.

Avoid Shady Sellers. Go beyond the screen name to verify seller's identity by email and confirm address and phone number. Before bidding buyers should determine shipping cost, understand auction terms and return policy, and check whether the seller has changed identities. Only 13 percent of survey respondents said they always take this precaution.

Comparison Shop and Read Between the Lines. To determine if a new item is a real bargin, consult Web sites such as Shopzilla and Yahoo Shopping. Older collectables generally have at least one reputable source for information. If needed, consult an appraiser. Insist that the seller provide proof of authenticity and condition. Some sellers might dangle words such as "genuine," but look for terms such as "inspired by," indicating the product is a knockoff.

Bid Smart. Establish a top price and stick to it. Survey respondents cautioned about overbidding, reasoning that the object of their affection would probably turn up again. Proxy bidding can make it easier to stick to a budget. It may have helped the 40 percent of respondents who said they lost track of an auction deadline during the past year.

Keep your reputation. A bid is binding. Retractions by buyer or seller are allowed only under special circumstances. Those who back out of deal could have their accounts suspended and their feedback reputation damaged.

Don't bite on phishing schemes. E-mail messages that appear to be from eBay and ask for sensitive information are designed to hack into your account. Don't click on any link and don't respond. EBay never makes such e-mail requests and the site provides Account Guard downloads to help folks avoid getting stung.

The complete report, with more helpful information for online auction buyers, tips for eBay sellers, and advice on the best ways to pay for items you've won is available in the August issue of Consumer Reports, on sale July 3. A portion of the story is also available at http://www.ConsumerReports.org.

August 2007
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