Last week I posted an interesting article I saw on Alan Gardyne’s Associate Programs blog. The article was about how to make $1,000 Online. This was actually a pretty cool article, that I thought my readers would be interested in, and enjoy reading. The author of the post is Gardyne’s partner Jay Stockwell. Now I clearly stated who the author was, and where the article came from, along with some nice “Link Love” back to Gardyne’s site. I didn’t place it at the end of the article, which is the traditional way of doing it, I put it right up front.

Here is the 1st line from the post:

Yes you can Make Money Online! This is the 1st in a 8-Part Series of Articles from Jay Stockwell. Jay is a contributing author to Allan Gardyne’s Associate Programs blog.

Now I was not surprised to hear from Allen. Most marketers have “Google Alerts” and keep an eye on what is being said about them online. I figured Allen would get notified of my post, and send me a nice comment, or thank me for the Free Plug.

I post articles from time to time from other Bloggers or other Article Directories, just as many of my 1,000’s of articles out there are picked by other webmasters and posted on their sites. This is just Old School “Article Marketing”.

Anyway, I was loging in today to make a post to the blog and found this comment from Allan. At first I thought it might be a joke, but after checking the logs it looks like it actually did come from him.

So you can imagine my surprise when when I saw this comment from Gardyne:

Allan Gardyne
http://www.AssociatePrograms.com | al@AssociatePrograms.com | 121.45.247.197

Hi Steve, I’m glad you liked Jay’s article, but publishing it on your blog without first asking for permission is blatant plagiarism. Providing a link to AssociatePrograms.com where the article was originally published does not change that. Please remove it immediately.

- 2008/07/01 at 12:11 AM

Wow, That’s Cold. Gee whiz, sorry Allan, I didn’t know I had to ask permission to publish an article. I thought that’s why people published articles, to have them picked up by other webmasters, and Go Viral!

Blatant Plagiarism, that’s a pretty Hard Core accusation!

Plagiarism is: Using another person’s ideas or creative work without giving credit to that person. The act of appropriating the literary composition of another author, or excerpts, ideas, or passages therefrom, and passing the material off as one’s own creation.

This is clearly what I DID NOT do. Oh well Gardyne must be having a bad day. I will know better than to publish any of his articles without asking permission first. (Actually it was Jay Stockwell’s article.)

Now I first met Gardyne back in 1998, when I sent him an email and asked him if he would list my Affiliate Program on his site. He declined and said no because it paid on multiple levels, and he did not recommend those Multi-Level type programs.

Is it just me personally, or would he would have complained is some of the other Internet Marketing Bloggers would have published it like ShoeMoney (Jeremy Schoemaker), John Chow, or his fellow bloggers from Down Under Yaro Starak (Entrepreneurs-Journey) and Darren Rowes (ProBlogger).

Oh well. no worries Mate, I took the article down at your request. Sorry if it offended you to have my 1,000’s of readers see Jay’s article and possibly click through to your site.

“Go Figure” - Oh well, just another exciting day in the Internet Marketing World.

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Last night on my Live V-Webcast I did a Case Study on Blog Posting. I wrote a quick article on How To Advertise Online. After writing the article I bookmarked the post and put snipets up on 2 of the BlogPros sites.

Because the Keywords How To Advertise Online are difficult to rank for, I didn’t see the post his Page one of Google right away as my posts usually do. It took a little longer, but we were up in about 15 minutes.

Now today I went and checked and we are in position 7 on Page One of Google for this difficult keyword phrase. Now with this follow up post I should get the “Indented Listing” and move up to a higher position on Page One of Google for this “Keyphrase”

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There are many ways to advertise online, one of the best ways is Pay Per Click. You can also use Search Engine Marketing or Email Marketing.

What ever you do Take Action and get started now. Ove of the best things you can do is to join IMTrain, our Interenet Marketing Training Service.

A great service to look at for Online Advertising is Adpacs. Check it out at www.adpacs.com

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A mainstay in Online Advertising for years is AdBrite. AdBrite is an Online Advertising Network.

AdBrite, known as “The Internet’s Ad Marketplace,” connects Advertisers with Site Owners, to generate Traffic and Ad Revenues. The Adbrite system allows advertisers to target keywords and choose specific sites to advertise on.

AdBrite has a sophisticates “Intelligent” ad serving platform which gives advertisers a number of ways to setup highly targeted ad campaigns.

Adbrite determines demographic data for visitors to network publishers via a cookie and reverse IP lookup. They grab U.S. census data based on the zip code of the visitor, which gives them data on ethnicity and income level.

Adbrite also looks at Comscore data for each site that user visits, which gives them reasonably good age and gender data. Once a user visits enough sites, Adbrite has a very good idea of the age, gender, ethnicity and income level of that particular user. Advertisers can then choose to target their ads to certain users.

Adbrite claims they have 491 million impressions a day available on 72,188 sites in the network. The AdBrite Network boasts some well known high traffic sites, including:

* Ebay
* Lycos
* Digg
* Yahoo
* Pure Volume
* Womens Day
* CMT
* VH1
* and 1,000’s more

Can you generate Traffic from AdBrite, Yes! But, it’s up to you to convert it. A common theme among users is The are getting plenty of traffic, but not many conversions.

I ran across this short tutorial from Joe LeKostaj of www.escapejobhell.com

Adbrite is a finicky beast. Here’s the method I use:

-find an offer with *good* banner creatives and a great landing page
-pick a couple broad demographics that might like the offer
-target all the preferred sites in that demo
-set a fairly low CPM (less than 50 cents)
-make sure you have a method to track which site converts (your aff mgr can place a pixel for you)
-set it to $10/day
-let it go for 3-4 days
-go in and look at your stats
-calculate your ROI for each site/creative/placement
-pause the unprofitable ones
-crank up the budget

Also, if you find a site that really converts well, contact the owner about private advertising. Most of them are running ad rotators anyway. It’s more profitable for them to eliminate adbrite as the middleman anyway.
Some good advise there, thanks Joe!

So can you Make Money Online using AdBright. Like Pay Per Click or any other Internet Marketing Strategy, Adbrite will get you Traffic, then it’s up to you to convert that Traffic to Dollars.

I will run a campaign on AdBright and get back to you with the results. This might be a good one to test my Tattoo Design Affiliate Marketing site (TattooSmart).

Steve Renner is an Internet Marketing professional, Author, Blogger, Speaker, and Trainer. Steve is the Founder and President of V-Media Marketing and the iNetGlobal family of companies. Steve is available for Speaking Engagements For Bookings and Information contact: Jonathan Neil (612) 460-4797

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Continuing our series on  How To Supercharge Your Blog we will begin to explore plugins. Here is a cool Redirect plugin available for Wordpress Blog called (appropriately enough) Redirection. It’s available over at Urban Giraffe. This is a useful plugin for your Affiliate Marketing

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation. New features include:

• 404 error monitoring - captures a log of 404 errors and allows you to easily map these to 301 redirects
• RSS feed for 404 errors
• Custom ‘pass-through’ redirections allowing you to pass a URL through to another page, file, or website.
• Full logs for all redirected URLs
• All URLs can be redirected, including ones outside WordPress
• Redirection methods - redirect based upon login status, redirect to random pages, redirect based upon the referrer!

Existing features include:

• Automatically add a 301 redirection when a post’s URL changes
• Manually add 301, 302, and 307 redirections for a WordPress post, or for any other file
• Full regular expression support
• Apache .htaccess is not required - works entirely inside WordPress
• Strip or add www to all your WordPress pages
• Redirect index.php, index.html, and index.htm access
• Redirection statistics telling you how many times a redirection has occurred, when it last happened, who tried to do it, and where they found your URL
• Fully localized

Download - Installation

Installation is just like any WordPress plugin:

• Download redirection.zip
• Unzip
• Upload to redirection directory to /wp-content/plugins on your server
• Activate the plugin
• Configure options from Manage » Redirection

You can find full details of installing a plugin on the plugin installation page. Note that you must have a permalinks structure setup through WordPress. [tags] access blog blogging blogs directories directory feeds giraffe local locals logs map news permalinks referrals rss statistics url wordpress

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