We are proud to present you our last tracking tag called goals.

This tool has been designed to help you track the efficiency of your campaigns by tracking specific actions. Indeed, you'll be able to track the users, from the moment they click on ExoClick ads to the different pages of your site they will visit...

This tracker is available in your Administration Panel > Advertisers > Goals.


It's very easy to use. For each step, one goal. You can create as many goals as you need. Give a name and an order to each one and click on Add Goal.


A short html code will be created automatically. You just have to add it on each pages of your website.

Example

You have 3 pages on your website: home, videos and billing.

Create three goals

Name : home
Order : 1
Click on Add Goal.

Do the same for videos and billing.
Click on the tag of each Goal and copy the short html code generated. Paste it in the body of each corresponding pages of your website.

Once each goal is pasted in your pages of your website, it's done! From now on, you'll be able to follow the efficiency of your campaigns directly into the statistics of your Administration Panel.


I hope this tutorial will help you analyse in details your campaigns. Do not hesitate to post your comments and questions concerning this article.

ExoClick has been reviewed by John Chow Dot Com, the famous "make money online" blog. They wrote a sincere and honnest review of ExoClick services and that kind of feedback is really helpful to improve our platform.

Thanks John Chow Dot Com for the review!

And remember we will pay you to review ExoClick, because your opinion matters.

We just released a premium XML feed with high bids for publishers having pure search engine traffic. Check our Premium Network Application for details on how to apply for this feed. Note that we accept ALL countries for this feed, as it is an international feed. However, english-speaking countries will have much higher bids than the others.

A few popular/random search terms with their current bid

This would be with USA as country.

gambling - $2.29
online casino - $2.05
poker - $0.51

viagra - $2.10
xanax - $1.09
online pharmacy - $0.41
cheap tramadol - $1.46

escorts - $0.15
dating - $0.12
sex cams - $0.07

credit cards - $0.60
home loan - $0.88
make money - $0.48
make money online - $0.63

flight tickets - $0.10
car rental - $0.18
book hotel - $0.05

mobile phones - $0.09

Check the XML Feed Documentation for help on how to integrate this feed.

ExoClick.com released a new pay per click search engine, with a clean and friendly design for users. It's a mainstream search engine with categories such as blogging, gambling, rentals, travel, computers, shopping, video games, etc...

Publishers can send traffic to http://www.loudsearch.com/?login=YOUR_LOGIN and get paid for each click on the search results.

It's also possible to send traffic directly to search results pages: http://www.loudsearch.com/?login=YOUR_LOGIN&search=travel

This is the perfect tool to monetize your search engine traffic or to add a search box to your blog or site. Example:

Search the Web:

HTML code for this search box:
<form action="http://www.loudsearch.com"> Search the Web: <input type="text" name="search"> <input type="hidden" name="login" value="YOUR_LOGIN"> <input type="submit" value="Search"> </form>

ExoClick.com is proud to welcome a new member on board! Sebastian is from Poland and will take care of our SEO publishers.
Sebastian has been doing SEO for a while, approaching all the aspects of the optimization and monetization of web sites. He will promote our services to the different SEO communities but he will also be able to understand your needs as a SEO webmaster and help you monetize your search engine traffic at 200%.

This also means we add another language to our "customer support". We had English, French and Spanish and now also have Polish. So feel free to contact us in any of these 4 languages.

You can contact Sebastian directly at sebastian [AT] exoclick.com

Mamy nowego gracza w druzynie!

Witamy nowego czlonka w rodzinie ExoClick.com! Sebastian jest z Polski i zajmie sie opieka naszymi wydawcami SEO.

Dotychczas Sebastian zajmowal sie szeroko pojetym pozycjonowaniem, mial stycznosc ze wszystkimi aspektami zwiazanymi z optymalizacja stron jak i ich spieniezaniem. Bedzie promowal nasze uslugi w srodowiskach zwiazanych z SEO a takze zrozumie Twoje potrzeby jako pozycjonera i doradzi Ci jak jeszcze lepiej wykorzystac Twoj traffic.

To wydarzenie oznacza jednoczesnie, ze nasze biuro obslugi bedzie moglo kontaktowac sie z Wami w jeszcze jednym jezyku. Poslugiwalismy sie angielskim, francuskim oraz hiszpanskim a teraz bedziemy takze polskim. Zapraszamy wiec do kontaktowania sie z nami w kazdym z tych czterech jezykow.

Mozesz skontaktowac sie z Sebastianem piszac na e-mail sebastian [at] exoclick.com

I was going to title this article "Make money online" but that was not really original. However, this is what it is about... make money online!
But the idea here is to build a stable and long-term revenue, not just work to make a quick buck. This is a bit of my experimentations in the last months, building sites and working with online communities.

Introduction

Domain names are worth money. A well indexed domain, with a minimum of content and a small design, even with no traffic, can be worth up to $500. The older the better.

So by building a small network of clean and well optimized sites, you are building a stable and long-term income. The investment to start such a network is minimum. The most important thing you need is patience...

So here is the plan, that I will detail later on:
1. Choose a niche.
2. Find and buy about 10 domain names.
3. Write and/or buy content.
4. Make a small design template per domain.
5. Interlink your domains and get external backlinks.
6. Place advertising.
7. Forget about it.

1. Choose a niche

Select a topic that you like and know about. But also think about the monetization of that topic, you must choose one that has a minimum of interest for potential advertisers. And the demand is obviously higher for sites about gambling, pharmacy, insurances, adult, etc...

2. Find and buy about 10 domain names

Get some good names, related to your topic. Preferably .com/.net/.org
GoDaddy is a good place to register your domains and get some ideas using their name generator. You can even find some coupons to get a good discount.

3. Write and/or buy content

Write at least 10 original articles per site, with a minimum of 500 words per article.
If your budget allows it, you can buy them from articles writers. A 500 words article can cost you from $7 to $40 depending the reputation of the writer and the quality you are looking for.

From your main topic, you can have some articles or even some of your domains dedicated to a sub-topic or a related topic, as far as you remain in the same context.

You can also add some video content from sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, etc... and RSS feeds from popular news sites or blogs to add more fresh content.

4. Make a small design template per domain

Create one simple design per domain. You can buy a small header design if you want to give them a professional look.

Sites can be pretty simple and get the look of a blog, small content site, news portal, etc...

Make sure to have a clean HTML code and optimize your pages for the most important keywords of your topic.

5. Interlink your domains and get external backlinks

Link your domains between each others in a clever way. It's better if the domains you point to don't link back to the first domain. Use different anchor texts for the links.

Exchange links with webmasters who have sites covering the same topics, add your sites to small directories and top sites.

You can also purchase text links ads to accelarate your rankings.

6. Place advertising

Insert ads boxes to your pages. ExoClick.com is providing text+images ads boxes that you can integrate perfectly in your sites.

Depending on the niche, you could also use programs like AdSense.

7. Forget about it

Now forget about the site for at least 1 month. Just make sure they are getting indexed properly and nothing block the spiders to fetch your content.

Once a month, spend 1 day to add some content and get more external backlinks.

Results

After a few months, your sites should have a pretty good indexation and the PageRank should be updated.

If you did a good job, each domain should get at least 100 uniques/day, that's about 1,000 uniques visitors on your Network. Depending on the niche you selected and the ads placement, this can already generate a good revenue.

The PageRank on your sites should be between 2 to 5 and additionaly to your PPC revenue, you can now start to sell text links at the bottom of your pages and generate an extra revenue.

Your sites are now worth between $50 to $300 each, or more, depending how successful is your work and you could even sell them to "impatient" webmasters, who want domains out of Google sandbox and with good backlinks.

But if you keep them and take good care of them, it's like old wine. Its value will raise month after month.

Online Communities

At every step, you can rely on online communities such as DigitalPoint, V7N or NamePros, which can be very useful to get help, find article writers, designers, buy and sell domains, etc...

I hope you liked this article and it gave you ideas to increase your earnings online! If you make some experiments, please let me know about them. Good luck!

For publishers interested to see what's hot these days, here are some TOPs we generated based on ExoClick.com data. Some of the countries are a bit surprising.

The top keywords are not so surprising but it's still interesting to see the most paid keywords.

This data is for the first 3 weeks of 2007. I hope you enjoy it :)

TOP 20 Keywords with the Max Bid

1. cheap tramadoll
2. tramadol online
3. what is carisoprodol
4. tramadol
5. buy soma
6. soma
7. buy viagra online
8. order tramadol
9. loans
10. buy viagra
11. order viagra
12. buy tramadol online
13. online tramadol
14. purchase tramadol
15. online casino
16. debt management
17. carisoprodol soma
18. casino online
19. cash advance
20. buy tramadol

TOP 20 Keywords having the highest average Bid

1. tramadol
2. credit counseling
3. debt solution
4. hydrocodone
5. cash advance
6. buy hydrocodone
7. refinance
8. refinance home loan
9. credit cards
10. free credit report
11. online degree
12. online casino
13. credit card debt
14. loans
15. online cash advance
16. credit card
17. work from home
18. online forex trading
19. business credit card
20. hosting

TOP 10 Countries with the Max Bid

1. USA
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. Haiti
5. Belgium
6. Turkey
7. Switzerland
8. France
9. Portugal
10. Germany

TOP 10 Countries having the highest average Bid

1. United Kingdom
2. USA
3. Canada
4. Italy
5. Poland
6. France
7. Portugal
8. Belgium
9. Germany
10. Finland

I'll try to give you regular reports such as this one!

If you are running a webmaster site, forum, blog or community, this is for you.

I want to see reviews of ExoClick.com everywhere!

So here is the deal. Signup at ExoClick.com, try our tools, services, write a serious review and post it on your own blog/site/forum. What do I mean by serious? Minimum 200 words, with real feedback, comments and information.
You must include links to http://www.exoclick.com (or any sub-pages) in your review.
Note that you MUST OWN the site where you publish that review, don't spam webmaster forums arround. This offer is valid one time per person.

I'll Paypal or Epassporte $10 to anybody that will do this. Send me the URL to the review and your Paypal or Epassporte details.

If the page where you post the article is a Pagerank 5 or more, it will not be $10 but $15 ;)

If you prefer to get 5% commission on the customers you send us through your review, then use your referal URL. (You can get it from ExoClick.com Admin area)
In this case, there is no $10 bonus.

I'm available by email or ICQ for any questions you might have on our program or this "offer".
I hope your tests will be positive and we'll get you as new clients.

So... looking forward to see your reviews and send out payments!

I just thought I'd share the forums and sites I'm reading to keep in touch with the PPC and SEO community.

DigitalPoint Forums - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
A reference. Forums about Search Engines, Marketing, Business, Design & Development... A big community with very interesting threads. More than 45,000 members!!

The V7 Network - http://www.v7n.com/forums/
Marketing and Web Development. A very busy SEO Forum. More than 17,000 members.

WebmasterWorld.com - http://www.webmasterworld.com/
Huge site, very known of webmasters. A lot of forums about search engines, PPC and webmasters news. But moderation is pretty strict and some sections are not free.

SEO Chat - http://www.seochat.com/
Lots of articles and nice SEO tools. (keywords density, meta tags analyzer, PageRank lookup...)

SEOMOZ.org - http://www.seomoz.org/
A nice site and blog about SEO.

Webmaster Talk - http://www.webmaster-talk.com/
Forum with a smaller community but growing. And interesting threads.

SEO Book - http://www.seobook.com/
Aaron Wall's blog about SEO.

Browsing forums and talking with friends, I see that question popping up very often. Is the pay per click working? Should I buy traffic for my site? Do you do money with PPC? ...

I think these questions just don't make sense at all. PPC is mathematics and marketing skills. If you have a web site generating sales, and when you buy traffic, you generate more than what you spend, then you have your answer.

It's not universal science. Your product may work on some countries, not on others. The bids for your keywords might be interesting on some pay per click engines but too expensive for you on others. If you are really serious on trying PPC advertising for your site, you should decide of a budget, and spread it in different ways. $1,000 would probably be the minimum to do a serious test.
Select 5 pay per click engines, set low daily budgets, and analyze it for a week or so. Make sure you can detect on your site the sales coming from each engine and differentiate them.
Use statistics tools to monitor the behaviour of the users. If 90% of the user are just checking the first page and leaving, you know there is a problem and you can make some improvements. Try different approaches and see if you can bring more users on your "sale page".

Eliminate from your campaigns the countries that are not converting on your site.

Competition can be tough, so you might be losing money at the beginning. That's the price to pay to understand what is working for your site. Respect your initial budget and stop the campaigns that are not converting.

Some good places to start:

- Google Adwords
- Yahoo Advertising Solutions
- ExoClick.com
- MSN Advertising
- goClick.com

Good luck!

Adult webmasters are constantly looking for new opportunities to monetize their traffic. 99,99% of adult publishers are using affiliation programs, using a revenue share model.

Competition among these programs is very tough and the adult industry is having some of the most advanced affiliation programs. When new technologies are emerging, the adult industry is very often well in advance compared to other markets. Video streaming, high load servers, innovative billing solutions... the adult business is always innovating.

PPC in the Adult Business

When it comes to PPC, the adult industry is kept behind. A few years ago, when PPC was getting more and more popular, these adult affiliation programs launched a PPC option to their revenue share model.
Today, almost all of them removed that PPC option. They were not able to control fraud and filter the traffic on the countries and niches really converting on their products. They gave up that model and stick with the revenue share system.

On the other side, with their corporate/mainstream image, the big PPC search engines of today do not accept adult ads nor adult publishers in their network.

ExoClick penetrated that market, and with its large experience on the adult traffic, provided lucrative programs for adult advertisers and publishers. ExoClick counts with a set of carefully selected publishers and a wide network of advertisers in the adult market.

What are the advantages of the PPC for adult webmasters?

- There is a term well known in the adult industry: shaving! This word is used when affiliates see some sales "disappear" from their account. Or simply not granted in their statistics. Some affilation programs might be dishonest and remove sales to make some easy bucks or it can simply be a technical problem. With the pay per click model, no more shaving is possible. Each click is paid, no matter how many sales are done.

- Because each click is stored and paid, results are immediate and conversions ratios can be calculated very fast. Using affiliate programs, the sales can sometime be very long to come and earnings projections are difficult to make in these conditions.

- No more need to find alternative affiliate programs for certain countries or niches, the PPC engine is doing it by itself!

- No more need to rotate promotional pages or change the marketing to try to make more sales. Using PPC, this is managed by the advertisers directly!

What are the advantages for the advertisers?

Or: What are the advantages for Affiliation programs owners?

- Targeted traffic. Why get traffic that will not convert on their product? PPC allow to target by country, language, niche or keywords.

- Full control over the incoming traffic and the costs. The advertiser decides of the traffic evolution and volume.

- Affiliation programs could spare the efforts of managing affiliates and use those ressources to improve the products and conversions.

To learn more about ExoClick products and check adult pay per click, visit ExoClick web site.

Ok, so that was just the easiest and funniest fraud detected! Still getting surprised on the Net...
Have a look at this chat transcript...

Benja: Hello
song: hello
Benja: How may I help you?
song: how can I make money?
Benja: Are you a publisher or an advertiser?
song: publisher
Benja: Can you tell me about your traffic?
song: when I can get my money?
Benja: End of each month
Benja: Sent through Paypal or Epassporte
song: paypal
Benja: ok, good
Benja: You did a signup some minutes ago right?
song: no Minimum?
Benja: $10
song: ok
Benja: Can you tell me about your sites/traffic?
song: no website
Benja: But you have traffic?
song: i can let my friend to click?
Benja: no you can't
Benja: That's fraud
song: i know
Benja: ...

Pay Per Click (PPC): Advertising model based on a fix cost per click. Medias can be text links, images or even flash movies. The advertiser pay a cost per click and can target its ad to specific countries, languages, categories or keywords.

Bid: The maximum amount that an advertiser is willing to pay for a click.

Budget: The amount of money that an advertiser sets aside for an advertising campaign. Different publishers allow for advertisers to set daily, weekly or monthly budgets.

Clickthrough Rate (CTR): The percentage of clicks on a link. This is usually a percentage based on the total number of clicks divided by the number of impressions that an advertisement has received.

Conversion Rate: The relationship between visitors to a web site and actions considered to be a "conversion", such as a sale or request to receive more information: the percentage of people whose clicks have resulted in a sale or desired action in relation to the total number of clicks on an advertisement.

Cost Per Click (CPC): The cost or cost-equivalent paid per click-through to an advertiser's website.

Cost Per Thousand (CPM): The amount an advertiser pays for one thousand advertisement impressions, regardless of the consumer's subsequent actions.

Advertising Campaign: Configuration of an advertisement with all its parameters. Ad link, link text, CPC, duration, keywords, countries...

Banning: Action from the pay per click service provider when a publisher or advertiser disrespect the rules.

Geo-Targetting: An advertisement targeted at a specific geographical region, area or location. Geo-targeting is done based on the IP address of the visitor.

Impressions: The number of times an advertisement is viewed by web surfers.

Keywords: Search terms or phrases targeted by the advertising campaign.

Landing Page: The specific web page that a visitor ultimately reaches after clicking an advertisement. Often, this page is optimized for a specific keyword term or phrase.

Linking Text: The text that is contained within a link.

Rank: How well a particular web page or web site is listed in a search engine or advertising results.

Return On Investment (ROI): The percentage of profit that results in a marketing or advertising campaign. Naturally, advertisers want the amount of money made to exceed the money spent.

Other terms

Paid To Read (PTR): Program where members earn money for reading email and visiting advertised websites. ExoClick does NOT tolerate these programs, any publisher using PTR will be banned immediately.

We created today a blog for ExoClick.com and here is the first post! We will obviously talk about ExoClick products here, but we also want to post valuable articles for advertisers, publishers, webmasters or SEO experts, whatever if you are using our services or not.

About us

ExoClick.com is a PPC platform developed from scratch to match advertisers and publishers demands. It was built by SEO experts, for SEO experts. Stop looking at conversions, switching affiliate programs and trying new marketing pages. Take care of the traffic, we take care of conversions!

Services for advertisers

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