Back when I started publishing websites, Clicksor was one of my main sources of revenue. It was a great network which helped many sites earn revenue and I’d have to say that small sites in particular. I owned a very small site and couldn’t seem to make or even get paid much sooner than I would with Adsense and so, I parted with Clicksor for a while. I’d highly suggest you to join Clicksor today, if you would like to receive payouts much sooner. With the payout being at $50, you can easily get a payout much sooner from them rather than Adsense.

Over the past couple of years, they’ve made major changes to their network which looks pretty good. Their template is looking amazing and they’ve customized their ads a bit more to make them more unique. You can find all banner sizes, full page ads, pop unders and much more through their network. Being able to support all these ad types helps you in maximizing your revenue.

The best thing about them is that they pay every 15 days! Now with all my experience, I haven’t noticed another network as big as them be able to compete with that kind of payout. I’ve just recently placed their ads across a site of mine and reached their payout in just a matter of days. The check has arrived as well!

If you haven’t joined them yet, take part in their network today! Your missing out on something good! This is my personal opinion on them and I’m simply discussing with you my experiences with them.

I’ve just started a new thing with this blog which is a weekly link roundup. I usually stop by a few blogs a week and check out their content and some usually have some interesting topics. These weekly blog posts will ping you in some interesting topics so I hope you enjoy them!

• Contest Over At EnkayBlog.com!
  EnkayBlog has a contest currently running which is to end in ten days! He has some great prizes that you’ll definitely enjoy so I’d participate in his contest if I were you. Market Leverage is the company that’s sponsoring his contest and is a great company if you’re looking into affiliate marketing. Prizes consist of a brand new Asus EEE Laptop PC, a $50 AMEX Rewards Card and 3 2GB USB Pens!
• Help! My Affiliate Manager Sucks!
  Zac Johnson details how you can tell if you’re affiliate manager sucks and how it can be improved. Having a good affiliate manager when working with PPC campaigns is definitely a plus and is a must have. Zac is a super affiliate himself!
• He Made A Blog Worth Millions!
  Alborz Fallah has brought up a blog about a year and half back and has made it one of the top Australian blogs in any category. His blog basically reviews cars out there and receives a great amount of visitors to his blog daily. You can read or listen to his interview over at Entrepreneurs-Journey.
• With Adsense, Less Can Be More
  Scott Wainner discusses how you can really improve your Adsense revenue after testing his method out. It’s a great read considering most webmasters uses Adsense and can probably help bring in a little more cheddar to your pockets.
• Being Transparent
  Many companies are willing to let their consumers go behind their scenes and show you what they are up to behind close doors and that’s exactly what Bob Buskirk discusses. He shows us how a company can be more transparent.

Hope you enjoy your read through these blogs! If you’d like to for me to link to your interetsting posts, then feel free to contact me or comment about it in any of my weekly link roundup posts and I’ll be sure to include you in the next available update.

I’d say that when it comes down to what type of websites we prefer having, everyone has their favorites. Whether it be the niche or whether it be the kind of work you do on a website. There’s really a website for almost anything nowadays. The huge differences of websites I’d say would be the high maintenance websites and the low maintenances websites. Wheter it be either one, both of these type of websites has their benefits to any web publisher.

High Maintenance Websites:

• Requires to be updated very frequently.
• Takes up more time maintain.
• Provides higher quality content than low maintenance websites.
• Visitors are usually more engaged in discussions.

An example of an high maintenance website would be a blog. Blogs requires some time to be updated on a frequent basis, requires some time to engage with users interactivity and also requires a lot more work/effort to promote. These type of websites are generally worth a lot once you’ve gained much reputation/popularity and have a nice base of readers.

Low Maintenance Websites:

• Most are easy to build and can only take a couple of hours to set up.
• Usually needs updates but can updates can usually be made automatically.
• Usually established and then later on sold for profits.
• Ability to purchase one already established for a few bucks.
• Many are started with turnkey scripts and are turnkey websites.

You can easily start these type of websites and start making money instantly with little effort. For most, you can purchase an already made script and have it up in a flash. Little HTML knowledge is usually required but it’s a great way to start out for new publishers. While playing around with it, you can gain quite a bit of knowledge on many aspects of maintaining a website.

I enjoy working with both type of websites but I’d have to say that low maintenance websites can be a great way to make money much sooner off of. I currently run both type of websites and it’s quite different the way you promote them. The niche of the site definitely plays a huge role though therfore; you shouldn’t conclude that all low maintenance websites would make you instant profits off of. The more type of websites that are out there that are similar to yours in your niche, the easier it is to grow in my opinion. It’s only the matter of communication with the other webmasters.

What are your opinions of these type of websites? Which one do you prefer to work with?

Contests are proven to be a great way to gain traffic and statistics to your site if it’s done well. After a long contest that Tyler Cruz had a few weeks ago, he decided to do another one with better prizes. If you’ve never been to his blog before, then it would be great to check it out.

In this contest, you are basically in a competition to make the most revenue possible with Market Leverage. Now this may be hard for many people because everyone has different skills but it would be also nice to try it out and see what you can do. After all, the prizes are great! Prizes includes Dell 22″ Widescreen Monitor with Built-In Webcam, Sony PSP + Secret Agent Clank, Mino Flip Video Camera, iPod Nano, $100 Prepaid Rewards Card and 2.0GB USB Storage Pens!

Tyler’s equipped with a whole ton of goodies for you so what are you waiting for? Participate in his contest today!

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?