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I visit all my sponsors ever once in a while to check my stats and I notice that my Smorty sponsor got a new theme. I got interested on reading everything that is on it. After reading through several lines I notice that they got a new way for publisher to get paid for their work. No, this doesn’t works like Text Link Ads wherein you will get paid on a fix rate on a monthly basis.

How does this work?

A link will be placed on word that an advertiser wants. Once the reader points its mouse on the word you will see a box popping out and displaying the advertisement. The box looks like TExtLinkAds box. Let’s further discuss this, lets say that an advertiser place an ad on the word “watch”. The readers see it as a link and then when hovers his mouse over it he will then notice that it is an advertisement which includes that description from the site. The system will display information like the price of the item, a few descriptions of the item, and link to the item. When you visitor clicks on it they will taken to the Digxa mini store. Don’t worry about the visitor not buying the product because this is on a pay-per-click basis. You will still get paid even if your referral doesn’t buy the product.

Other than the pop-in banner you could also setup advertising on your sidebar displaying all those products with their new widget. Of course, you can’t avail of this new system if you aren’t a publisher. If you want to sign up then you may do so on the side bar.

I think that everyone knows what viral marketing is, it is to advertise your site on another blog by placing your link on their pages. This can be done by making a widget that is demandable by most bloggers, one that manage to make a success out of this is Dane Carlson. Another method to promote your site virally is to make a contest about your site. Almost every blogger nowadays are using this viral technique. This has been one of the best ways to gather some incoming links to your site.

Advantage:

The links could bring you some traffic

You will rank high on most search engines

This is a long time advertising, it means that it can still brings you traffic even if it is an old link

Doesn’t need to spend that much, most viral methods are just free.

Disadvantage

Too much viral marketing could be the cause of Google dropping your site on their database resulting to a low traffic

PPC advertising on the other hand has been used by most top gunners like John Chow and those site owners with capital. The key to have a successful campaign is choosing the right keyword.

Advantage

Your site will get traffic faster than a search engine could give you

Other might think that you are one of the top guns and will start following you

Disadvantage

If the campaign has run out of funds then they will not show your site anymore

Costly, the amount needed for a campaign is much greater than a contest

You decide

Both methods have its advantage and disadvantage. You have to know what best works for you. Remember that what works for somebody doesn’t really mean that it will work for you. Try to study your case. If you’re an establish blogger then you might consider on combining the two. If you’re just starting out then the problem arises because you have minimal budget to start up with. What methods d you believe will work for you?