Showing posts with label pagerank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pagerank. Show all posts

How to Earn Money with Text Link Ads

Have you heard about Text Link Ads? It’s the premier targeted traffic and link popularity ad firm. They specialize in placing static html links on high quality, high traffic websites. You can see them here on Novak’s Blog in sidebar’s Recommended section.

To get text link ads you have to create your account by submitting some personal info. Most links are placed within 48 hours of the order being received. New ads require publisher to review and accept the ad.

What’s the price of the ads?

Text Link Ads are priced at a flat rate per month per link. Their pricing algorithm factors in a website’s: traffic, theme, ad position, and link popularity when setting the flat ad rate per month. Text link ads are based upon your Alexa rank (which is not that smart if you ask me), the higher your rank, the higher the payment.

What is Alexa rank?

Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website that provides information on the web traffic to other websites. Alexa collects information from users who have installed an “Alexa Toolbar,” allowing them to provide statistics on web site traffic, as well as lists of related links.

Alexa rank is the number which represents your web site’s popularity. Lower numbers have more traffic (Yahoo.com is #1, Ebay.com is #8, Novak’s Blog is #129,263).

SEO - Link Building Series: The role of Keywords in Links & on page

Having touched upon the importance of linking in the last post, I am going to talk about keywords today. In order to improve your web pages’ rating and visibility in the eyes of Search Engines you have to not only link well but also use the right material in your links. Yes, we are talking about various properties of the link itself!

Structure of a link in your HTML

A link in your HTML page or blog post would look something like this.
< href="http://www.dollarshower.com/" title="Blog Money" rel= "nofollow"> Blog Money < /a>

Of course there could be other properties for the link (anchor) tag but rel, title and the actual anchor text are of utmost importance to us in SEO.

Alexa Rank Update Problem and Workaround

Most of you must have noticed that your Alexa rank widgets and toolbar data are not getting updated for the past three weeks or so. Even the Alexa website’s traffic details query is showing data that was frozen three weeks ago. As it seems, Alexa is doing another upgrade to their ranking algorithm, just like they did in April 2008.

There is a work around available, if you are so keen on knowing your latest Alexa rank, at least until the toolbar and widgets start displaying new ranks. It takes a couple of minutes but worth the wait, if Alexa rank matters so much to you.

Get your latest Alexa Rank

The only updated rank data, that is available right now (using the new algorithm?) publicly, is their Top 1 million sites list.