HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

For the month of July, I’ll be working really hard on increasing traffic. I believe in order to make more money with any blog or website, that traffic must come first and then the revenue will follow. Ofcourse, the revenue will follow later on but you would also have to monetize your website a bit to reach the maximum revenue possible on your blog or website. Considering I will be working on traffic and not on revenue, I am willing to provide free ad spots on my blog! So without further ado, here are the available ad spots…

• Top Right 468×60 (1):
  This ad will appear in the top right section of the header.
• Right Sidebar 125×125 (8):
  There is two upper 100×100 buttons available a long with 6 right sidebar buttons available.
• Top Right Sidebar 98×125 (1):
  This banner is located right next to the other two 125×125 buttons on the top right sidebar.

That’s all the available ad spots currently available. I will be providing one free ad spot per visitor and it’s a first come, first serve basis so hurry while the ad spots last! One last thing, I would greatly appreciate it if you posted a link to my site anywhere on your blog or website. Probably a link on a blog post, blogroll or anywhere available.

Leave your comments below or email me using the contact form to request your free ad spots.

What can you say? It’s about time that they’ve done so but I didn’t expect for them to do so quite yet. But as you can see, Adsense and it’s publishers did do their part in introducing this ad network’s referral program. In my opinion, almost every webmaster or web publisher knows about Adsense as a CPC ad network and not a CPA network. I haven’t heard of any PPC marketers promoting Adsense and claiming that they made tons of money with Adsense Referrals program.

So here’s what their email had to say…

Hello,

Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program.
We’re writing to let you know that we will be retiring the AdSense
Referrals program during the last week of August. We appreciate
your patience during this transition and here are some alternative
options to consider:

* Google Affiliate Network: As part of the integration of
DoubleClick, the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network will now
operate as the Google Affiliate Network for advertisers targeting
users located in the United States. Similar to the AdSense
Referrals program, the Google Affiliate Network enables publishers
to apply for advertiser programs and get paid based on
advertiser-defined actions instead of clicks or impressions. For
further details, please visit:
www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork.
* AdSense for content ads: If you have less than three AdSense
for content ad units on a page, you may wish to replace the
referral ad units with standard AFC ad units.

If you currently use referral ads, either to promote Google
products or offerings from AdWords advertisers, AdSense Referrals
code will no longer display ads beginning the last week of August.
We encourage you to take the following steps before the product is
retired:

* Remove the referral code from your site(s): Please take a
moment to remove all referral code from your sites before the last
week of August, so you can continue to effectively monetize your
ad space.
* Run and save all referrals reports on your desktop: Create
and save all reports related to the referrals program on your
desktop, so you continue to have access to your valuable campaign
information

Why is this happening?
We’re constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing
and supporting features which drive the best monetization results
for our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existing
features so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be most
effective in the long term.  For this reason, we will be retiring
the AdSense Referrals program. If you have any additional
questions, please visit our Help Center:
http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=14882

Sincerely.

The Google AdSense Team

Now that puts an end to the email that was sent to me by Adsense. Most of you should already received it but it’s just a note for those who hasn’t received it or has never checked their email. Have you been getting any new sign ups lately with Adsense Referrals or are the offers not too good to make some profit out of?

When you’re about to go purchase your new domain name, you’ve got to consider the benefits in choosing the right domain name. There’s many small factors that you can put into one that can completely change how you manage your website. It can lead you to a much sooner success or it can lead you to an instant downfall. A few tips that you should try when purchasing your next domain name should be as follow…

1. Short & Simple
   You’ve probably heard this most often but in reality, it’s true. Visitors would most likely prefer to type in a ten or less character domain name rather than a fifteen to twenty character domain name. Unless you can build your brand quite well, there’s no benefits in purchasing a domain name with many characters.
2. Use Keywords
   If you’re starting out with a brand new website and have a small budget or would rather spend less on advertising, then I would highly suggest you to purchase a domain name with the good keywords that will attract visitors to your site. Won’t this not only bring in a higher quality to your site on the search engines, but it’s a very easy way to rack up many backlinks under the keywords you’re working for. Who would not want search engine traffic?
3. Avoid Dashes
   Avoiding dashes in domain names is a great way to benefit highly on ‘word of mouth’ traffic. It’s not really common for a website that receives a lot of traffic to have dashes in their domain names but if it’s a must due to special keywords being placed in it, then I’d say go for it.
4. Use Preferred Extensions
   When you’re thinking of ideas for your website, you must include your visitors. They are what make up a major percentage of your website so include them in your thoughts. Many visitors are most common with the .COM extension but if your site is targeting visitors from the UK, then you would probably want to use the .CO.UK domain extension.
5. Avoid Taken Names
   If you truly want to make your website unique, avoid taking names that are already used. For example, if the preferred domain name extension of the domain name you want is taken and it has an established site there, then you wouldn’t want to create another site with the same name. But if it is taken and the domain name is parked or something like that, then I’d say feel free to use the same name with another extension.

Now that you’ve got some useful tips on what you should consider on your next domain name, try taking them into consideration when you purchase your next domain name. Using these tips can also bring in more value to your domain name. Simply by not following one of these requirements, the value can decrease by a huge percantage.

Being the second richest man in the US sure does bring quite a bit of popularity which has been proven to us by Buffett. Warren Buffet auctions out a lunch that anyone can have with him every year and then donates the money off to somewhere. This year, all proceeds happens to go to the Glide Foundation with a record high auction ever listed on eBay of $2.1 million!

That’s some big figures for only a lunch with someone but in return, you (the bidder) can possibly get a lot from it and it sure does go to a great cause rather than his own pockets. He has enough money already so why wouldn’t want to give it away?

Do you think that $2.1 million is worth a lunch with the one and only Warren Buffett?