Technology Reports

Today, I came across something that is new (to me) to maximise the revenue from all of your current websites.

Now, as a webmaster anything that can get you more returns from what you already have has to be a good thing now doesn’t it!

I can honestly say I have not heard of this method before now - and that is Audio Advertising on your website. It makes you money every time someone loads a page on your site! You simply sign up, insert a bit of JS code into your page and whenever the page is loaded a short 5 second audio advert is played. The Adverts are Contextually related to your web pages and can run concurrently with all other contextual ads -as there is nothing for the site visitor to do except listen.

One of the good things is the payout will be weekly whenever you exceed the minimum payout amount, and it is via paypal or cheque.

If I have not convinced you yet to take a look at this as an opportunity to increase your revenue, then you can read more here

The program is currently in Beta and if you get in before the 1st Feb 2008 then you will be invited to join the affiliate program for free and earn even more.

Holiday times always see a huge drop in traffic to your proxy websites. It is a fact of life. The biggest users of web proxies are of course students at school or college who want to get to sites such as myspace, facebook and even gmail.

Now, during holiday times you need to think of other ways of promoting your proxy and this is the time to think about SEO. Yes, with a little bit of time and effort (just like with any other website) you can gain valuable links and potentially traffic by thinking a little differently.

Firstly, everyone knows that content is king and all proxy webmasters know that most proxies have almost no content. Time to solve this one - set yourself a challenge and write 5-10 content pages and put them on your proxy website. Target each of these articles around a keyword of site that your proxy users.

Now your site actually has some content - get a few links pointing to each content page. Write a short blog post on your own myspace or facebook will help.

You have probably already done to death the whole submissions to topsites with mixed results - so think differently. What do you do with your other sites? do you not submit them to directories? Well, take the time and do the same with your proxy. Find some niche directories such as the proxyfindr proxy directory or even submit to general directories.

Directory submissions can be made much easier with the Website Submitter - it is a semi-automatic directory submission software package that has over 2000 directories in the database and provides reports to monitor your efforts.

So, when the “normal” traffic starts to drop off on your proxy, start treating it as a regular content website and build your brand so that the Search engines can provide you additional traffic all year round.