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Buying and selling ads without the middleman

When selling link and text ads on your site you have 2 options sell ads privately or use an agency such as linkworth, textlink ads or PPP. Their are benefits too both ways of selling advertising space on your website.

Benefits of using a middleman

Using an agency or middleman means you don't have the hassles of trying to find advertisers, telling them about your site, negotiating the price and then looking after them when they keep emailing you to say their links aren't there and THEY ARE THERE.

Ad Agencies

Selling ads using a middle man means you might have to sell them slightly cheaper, all publishers sell ads at a slightly lower price to agencies even large newspapers and TV Channels they don't have the costs involved with trying to find ad buyers. Rupert Murdoch would sell you an ad cheaper if you were an agency.

Last week I made a post about bucks4banners the ad network that pays you £5 a month to put 3 Banners on your site no matter how much traffic you receive and the fact they had not paid me or sandra from elizabeth-rose.info aswell as a few other who left comments.

The previous post was called has bucks4banners disappeared? It proved quite popular with many of you commenting to say you too had no payment and One person using the contact stubsy form.

I emailed bucks4banners about 5 days ago using the email address admin@bucks4banners.net and today they replied:) In their first email they said " Your payment was generated by the system after the last order was made and was included in the 1st order of August."

Improving my Alexa ranking is something that has been a priority for me lately? Why? Because Alexa rank is the way many internet ad companies determine the value of links and ads on your site. I like selling links and ads on my site.

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By the way I would like to say a big thanks to everyone who visited financial independence yesterday the busiest day for this site ever stats looked like this
1,076 page views | 292 readers.

Alexa Redirects whats the point

For about 3 Days I have redirected my url through Alexa on Mybloglog, Stumbleupon and DP it looked like the below which is ugly and is diverting linkjuice away from my url. http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://financial-independence.net/

I haven't seen any change in my Alexa rank at all then Lord Matt made this post SEO Basics some good points and I have to honest whats the point of jeopadising my pagerank and Search Traffic to make a few more squid from ad sales.

Thanks for making me see sense Lord Matt the Bloggers Friend who still hasn't explained to me the benefits of an ad server.

Yesterday I found a opportunity to make cash

Always looking for ways to make cash I found a site called linkworth and I like it they have several ways in which you can monotenise your blog, you can sell text links, place inline contextual ads on you site and promote their affiliate scheme.

Linkworth allow you to set your own pricing currently I have listed run of site ads on the right hand side of financial independence for $40 a month. They seem to have a very busy and active site in order to sell more links you can pay to feature your site on the home page.

You can both by and sell ads from the same account this as you know helps your seo and increase your pagerank.

I signed up last night and like the user area/control panel, somehow I've made $10 Already