I have been seeing a new widget in some blogs, it’s called Spottt ( yes with triple t ). I feel curious and I decide to click it, linking me to the service website.

This is a new service of the Adbrite’s people, it’s a system very similar to entrecard, you can get advertise in a blog which use this widget, everything for free. But there is a lot of differences between Entrecard and Spottt, let’s check them out:

As you can see, Spottt is not an Entrecard clone, but rather it acts exactly like Blogrush for 125×125 ads because it gives you credits based on pageviews, and automatically spends your credits to distribute your ad automatically across the net on autopilot. It’s truth that Entrecard in first instance wanted to copy the blogrush model, but they broke this idea and going upper. Spottt wants to do the same, indeed sounds better than blogrush don’t you think? A 125×125 ad is most significant that a simple link, starting because you can use the image that represent your blog.

Advertising Control

Something that I dislike from spottt is that you cannot control who advertise on your site, this mean that you can sponsor any kind of blog. Also, in the other money face, you can’t control where to advertise your blog, so as you could imagine, your 125×125 will be randomly over the web no matter the niche of your blog.

The Network

In the Spottt’s network are too many kind of websites. Spottt lets anyone in the network, including myspace profiles, affiliate stores, and more. Entrecard instead, is only for high quality blogs. This insures that any Entrecard ad you click brings you to a high quality blogs.

Also I noticed that Spottt isn’t social, you can’t view who is the network, send messages, recommend someone, participate in forums, you don’t need to drop a card or something, you only need to place the widget in your site and it will start to “generate” traffic.

About Credits

Like in Entrecard, you have credits in Spottt. For what you can use those credits? for nothing!!! you have not control of them, this mean that you earn credits with pageviews and then, they spend automatically in advertising and there is no way to know where is your widget. Instead in Entrecard is much better, you can send credits to users, spend it in the shop for SEO tips, reviews and more…

Conclusion

I will try this service but if you take a look in the table you won’t like so much. However this service is new, so I think then they will start to add new features and I will be here to notice you about it.

Hello readers and bloggers, sometime did you think about why your feedburner’s subscribers counter change suddenly? or why a day it shows 100 and the next one shows 80? you probably have the wrong idea about what this counter really shows. I found this information by looking in the feedburner dashboard, there is a “i” of information beside the statistics in your Feed Stats Dashboard. It is something like this:

So what’s about this counter? what it really shows?

Basically this counter shows the number of subscribers you got during the last day. This mean that the number that you see there, is the number of subscribers you got yesterday, and it’s delayed by a day so really you can see tomorrow how was your blog today. Thats the reason why when you are starting your blog, you see how this number variate a lot, from 2 to 30 and vice versa, because this number doesn’t shows the number of total subscribers to your blog.

Instead, if you choose in your dashboard a date range like “last 7 days” or “all time” this number will be the average number of subscribers for all of the days selected. This number provides a general understanding of the size of your subscriber base over a time period.

How this number is calculated ?

FeedBurner’s subscriber count is based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested in a 24-hour period. Subscribers is inferred from an analysis of the many different feed readers and aggregators that retrieve this feed daily. The subscribers’ number is not computed for browsers or bots that access your feed.

Subscribers counts are calculated by matching IP address and feed reader combinations, then using our detailed understanding of the multitude of readers, aggregators and bots on the market to make additional inferences.

What’s the reach ?

This is another factor related to the counter. Reach is the total number of people who have taken action ( viewed or clicked ) on the content in your feed. So if someone click over a link your counter will increase by 1.

Subscribers is a measure of how many people are subscribed to your feed. At any given time, you can expect that a certain percentage of this subscriber base is actively engaging with your content and this “Reach” measurement provides this additional insight.

Additionally, there may be people viewing your content beyond your known subscriber base. For example, they may view your content on a feed search engine or news filter site.

Reach aggregates both of these groups, providing an accurate and useful measurement of your true audience.

Learning about…

I received this question by mail and I hope this post helps to understand the basics of the feed counter. A feedcounter is one of the widgets that you can’t miss in your blog, it gives an idea to your readers about how “popular” is your blog and also can give you a percentage about how many people visit your blog daily.

Hello my readers, as you know February 14 is the Valentine day and everybody is spreading love for everywhere. You as my readers are my friend’s list and for that I want to wish you a Happy Valentine day!

I hope you have fun with your boy or girlfriend, friends, parents and every person with you crosses on this day.

Happy blogging!

 :cool:

Selling and buying links is something that every webmaster does, and now you can do it through the service that TNX.net provides.

What Is TNX.net and How it works?

TNX is a new text link broker on the scene, they help you to put your text links on up to 33 million web pages!. How they can do this?? TNX.net allows publishers to sell links from each page on their website, and for advertisers it allows to buy millions of links from other sites with few clicks, saving efforts, money and time, in just a few minutes you can have thousands of links from hundreds of high quality relevant sites linking to yours.

All that is possible with TNX credits. When you add a website to your account, you will be able to show advertiser links on your website and doing this, you earn credits which you can use for advertising, it’s simple and useful.

What you will find once you logged into the panel ?

Once you logged in, you will find at the right the tools for webmasters, advertisers and for the affiliate program.

Into the webmaster tools you will find a button to add a new site. You will need to fill some fields for this, and once you get approved ( it takes 1 ~ 2 days ) you will be able to add the TNX code to your site, which makes possible the system success. The code is quite simple of use, you only need to copy and paste a PHP, Perl or ASP code into your website and you will be showing ads and earning credits!. So as you can notice, the system is very easy to use.

Into the advertiser tools you will find some options to create campaigns and view your current campaigns. This two options are very powerful, specially to create a campaign: you can choose the number of Yahoo Backlinks and Google Pagerank sites where you want to your link appear on. The link price will be more higher while the pagerank of those sites increase, but the links can go from $0.00134 to $6.7.

And how do you pay that mount? by using credits! Current price of 1,000 (one thousand) TNX-points is $0.73 – 1.46 depending on the quantity you buy (basic price is $ 1.48), discounts start from $50.

Why To Use TNX ?

This system is quite new, indeed it’s beta. But no matter if it’s beta or not, This system is growing so fast, you can notice it by looking the statistics.

• Actually they have 44188 users (daily growth:+0.41%)

• Links in the system: 30132529

• Links created in last hour: 233556

• Number of pages indexed by TNX: 26067524

Imagine how faster is this system growing and all the benefits you can get with it. You can improve your google pagerank by using TNX, Google says: “In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages. ” and that’s exactly what TNX.net does, but they can guarantee nothing. They just offer a convenient tool that is used for mass non-reciprocal link placement on websites. Service is not intended to be used for PR growth, but to get more targeted traffic from websites and searchengines. Search engine results do not depend on the PR of your website, but on parameters of other websites that link to yours. So, results of your ad campaign depend on parameters of your campaign and your link anchors.

In general, being a publisher or advertiser you will always win, exploding your traffic as advertiser and earning cash with the tnx credits as publisher, and if you don’t want to sell those credits, you can use them for advertising in millions of sites, so how can you deny this offer??

Buy and sell text links with TNX.net and start to explode your traffic!

What is a canonical URL? I was reading something about that in some forums, so don’t worry if you don’t know, I also didn’t. Around Google, canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages. Canonical essentially means “standard” or “authoritative”, so a canonical URL for search engine marketing purposes is the URL that you want the visitors to see. Depending of how your web site was programmed or how your tracking URLs were setup for marketing campaign, there may be more than one URL for a particular web page.

For example, most people would consider these the same urls:

• www.example.com
• example.com/
• www.example.com/index.html
• example.com/home.asp

Technically all those urls are different. A web server could return completely different content for all the urls above. When Google “canonicalizes” a url, try to pick the url that seems like the best representative from that set. The problem of most search engine marketers run into deals with domains and sometimes if a domain is not setup properly, the domain URL (domain.com) and the www domain URL (www.domain.com) are considered as individual web pages, websites completely different but really both are the same and that’s a big error from the search engines side. Since both pages maybe indexed by Google, you could get hit for duplicate content and at the very least you would be splitting your link popularity.

An easiest way to protect your site is to redirect all forms of your domain to one “standard” URL, a canonical URL. To do this, you need to have some code lines in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

With that lines, I’m forcing to search engines to load http://mrjavo.com/ when someone type www. or http://www., you can try by typing some of those links on your browser and you will see how http://mrjavo.com/ will load, that’s because all those URL are technically “the same”.

Every blogger has him own way to manage him blog: its appearance, posts and singularity. But sometimes, the bloggers forget something very important, that they are writing to other people, and what they do in their blog will create an image of them in the visitors. What that means? that simply means that everything you do in your blog will reflect your personality, and if you do wrong things your readers possibly will get a wrong image about you and they will start to leave and go away !. And what are those things that ruin your blog and make your readers go away from it ? I create a little list of things which will help you to be alarm when you’re blogging.

6 Things which ruins your blog and make your readers leave forever!

1. Repeating your posts: this is very common with promoting posts. I had seen blogs promoting the same service 2 or 3 different times, just because they want to earn money. That only has a name, desperation!! come on who wants to read over and over again the same information?. If you want to make a *reminder* of your promotion, you can make another post promoting a similar service and link them from there, but posting the same information you won’t get anything, just make your readers leave your blog.
2. Having so many banners: exist people who think on creating a blog just for put on it N banners and “get more money”, but they are doing nothing. Putting a lot of banners on your blog will make it hard to read, also slowest to load and that it’s just annoying for the readers. If you have too many sponsors you want to promote, you need to consider the best ones and discard some of them, making your blog more clean and fast for navigation.
3. Colors/Look/Appearance: ok may be I’m not the best to critique this, everybody has different tastes. But how is possible to have fun reading a blog with an orange background?? I saw that these days and the first I did was close the window, I lose the interest immediately. So try to care your blog’s look, it’s very important, remember that a good look can attract more readers to your blog!.
4. Copying Posts: If you have not a topic to post about it, just don’t post anything! is better to wait some days before publishing something which is not yours. Copying posts ruin your reputation and you shouldn’t do it over any circumstances.
5. Blogging Unattended: when you think on creating a blog, you need to know that you should maintain it periodically, not everyday but just with some frequency. If you forget about your blog for a month, all your readers will leave it because of you! you have to give them new content and information which they could read and enjoy.
6. SPAMMING: definitively the worst one! you never should spam with emails, comments or posting for a wreck purpose. Spamming won’t help you to nothing, instead it will help you to get listed on the blacklist of spammers. If you want to promote a service just post about it, but don’t start to send mails for who don’t want them.

There are too many bloggers who made some of that list and they don’t get slapped by their readers, that’s because that blogger has some many time blogging and doing a good job on the website and the readers simply will understand it like a mistake and anything will happen. But if you are a new blogger and you are getting new readers constantly, doing whatever you need to attract more and more visitors you can fall on the sins listed and you could lose some of you readers. By avoiding those six actions listed above you will conserve your readers and attract more and more visitors daily, just don’t desperate to expand your community and chill out.