Recently there has been a lot of discussion regarding paying for blog posts as a means of advertising. In the summer of this year, PayPerPost, a new web startup that allows bloggers to earn by making posts about company’s products or services, was launched. Since its launch over 4 months ago, the site has created a rift in the online blogging community between those who think paying for blog posts is ethical, and those who think not.
Blog Advertising Market
YouTube Advertising
YouTube made major headlines earlier this month when Google bought the video giant for $1.65 billion. A web site worth that much money must be something. Here we are going to talk about how you can use YouTube, and other popular video sharing web sites, to promote your web site and increase traffic. Videos on the Internet are becoming very popular these days, and the success of YouTube and other video web sites illustrates that people are indeed looking for web sites that have some video content. This in turn presents an inexpensive yet effective advertising opportunity to help you increase traffic to your web site.
The Power of Digg
If you are a webmaster, you probably have heard of Digg.com, the massively popular social networking web site that attracts thousands of unique visitors each day. The web site has users who promote or “digg” stories, and those that are most popular get on the homepage. Getting on the home page of Digg is huge and can do wonders for your web site and the traffic it gets. It is estimated that the #1 spot on Digg will get upwards of 10,000 unique visitors within an hour. Many of these visitors may check back frequently and help get your new web site or blog of the ground and running.
Google in Talks to Buy YouTube?
According to TechCrunch, Google is in talks with YouTube, finalizing an acquisition deal that would put YouTube in the hands of Google for a mere $1.6 billion dollars. So why would either party be interested in such a deal?
Building .gov and .edu back links
One of the things webmasters try to do with very little success is to acquire high quality back links from web sites with a .gov or .edu extension. Getting links from these types of sites is very difficult because only reputable government or education organizations can register a .gov or .edu domain name, and these organizations tend to link to other equally reputable web sites. Hence, the quality of those backlinks from .gov and .edu are likely to be higher than that of those links from other regular web sites.
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