Awesome marketing strategy!

[Xeon]

LOL, not an advertisement, but visit : http://www.payperpost.com

What you do is you pay bloggers to write something good about your product on their blogs! It gives huge credibility and the results will be way better than AdWords! And when fans of the blog read it, word will spread by viral marketing, which we all know is better than any SEO or banner advertising.

I'm gonna try this next month, though. :D:D

Good day,
Xeon.

[karlito]

LOL, not an advertisement, but visit : http://www.payperpost.com

What you do is you pay bloggers to write something good about your product on their blogs! It gives huge credibility and the results will be way better than AdWords! And when fans of the blog read it, word will spread by viral marketing, which we all know is better than any SEO or banner advertising.

I'm gonna try this next month, though. :D:D

Good day,
Xeon.

so, is it any good? is it better than adwords? ;)

[gp1628]

That is way cool. Pardon me if I step on it abit. I dont mean to steal the thread. But its along the idea of creative recognition programs.

I have often posted in PoD forums, and others, that the affiliate programs are automated versions with someone else doing the bookkeeping for you. They are great. BUT before that was manual affiliate programs that everyone did for themselves. There are pros and cons, especially if you have your own ideas of rates, payments, methods, etc.

Many really cool things on the net make use of standard html things. If you are running a program then the information it wants is usually passed ON the link by tacking something like ? followed by a field name then = and a variable for the field then & if you want to add more field names and variables. Take a look at the URL you are in now.

If a variable name is included in the URL which the program doesnt use, then it just ignores it.

So if I ask example.com to mention my site then I can tell him to use www.OddThotz.com?friend=example.com (http://www.OddThotz.com?friend=example.com)
which will show up in my logs. I can easily see the IP of the visitor, the time/date, and that example.com sent him to me. I can easily search my logs for friend= to get all of the sends, sort out duplicates in IP, and reward example.com for his help.

If you want to be tight and cryptic you could also make it f=ex or tip=123456 or whatever. There doesnt HAVE to be a program running to catch and process those altho that can help. The main thing is that it will show up in the logs.

This isnt an answer for everyone. Just an alternative for some creative consideration.

Gandalf Parker

[DocTrauma]

I've "played around" with blogads a little bit at this point, although I have not tried this "insider plug" service, and the main advice I have is to make sure you read the blog that you plan to use and make sure it is a very close match for your target audience, so just using the "Posties Community" to let whoever wants to write about you do so and collect a fee from you seems like a bad idea to me.

They do have the direct hire at payforpost too so that seems like a possibility, but the main issue I have with that is that they don't provide any traffic numbers for the blog. They provide a rating, which is meaningless as far as I can tell, and they list their Google PR and Alexa score, but you can't sort by them. However, there is no expected number of impressions and the sorting makes it very difficult to find something as targeted as I think you would need to get a decent CPC.

That said, I did get some pretty good free advertising from a writer's blog ad when a couple of the readers liked my stuff and added it to their various pages, so it may be worth it just for that. I'd be interested in hearing how it worked out for you...