With the current state of the economy here in the US some of you might wonder if domaining is still a viable means of online income.  Here’s my experience.  I have a lot of domain names just sitting parked right now, but one by one, I am developing them.  I choose the best, most interesting names, develop a site, get it indexed, get some traffic and sell them at a nice profit.  All this, of course, takes work.  So many people want to just buy a domain name and sell it at a huge profit without doing anything to it.  That works for some really high-powered domain names, but for the average portfolio, it doesn’t … at least not for me.

Even if you don’t want to develop, in order to get more than reseller profit from a domain name, it’s going to take work.  In order to make a real profit from a domain name, you need to sell it to an end-user rather than a reseller.  Finding and contacting those end users takes time and work.  I’ve done it both ways … finding end users and developing.  I enjoy developing more than cold calling (via email) end users.

There’s a trend to develop mini-sites rather than park a domain.  That’s a good start, or at least a better alternative to parking sites, but I develop full sites rather than mini-sites.  It’s all about the end user.  As an end user myself, someone who purchases sites, I never throw money at “made for Adsense” mini-sites.  Number one reason is that I could throw that up in no time myself.  Number two reason, I don’t find them fun or appealing in any way.  If they make you some money … good, but people pay pretty well, even in this economy, for a well-developed and designed site in a hot niche.

Here’s some sites I’ve sold recently:

Land of Shopportunity
Anime Zoo
Dot Com Mogul

Here’s some I have in development:

eMovieTrailer
Simple Yoga

That’s just a few of them. I have more in different stages of development. Once they are developed, I get them indexed and get traffic going to them. How do I do that? Simple. I own Firestorm Forum, a social bookmarking exchange community and when I exchange bookmarks, let’s say Stumbles (that works best for me), the site is indexed within 48 hrs .. usually 24 and has great traffic stats immediately (unless, of course, the site is a real dog). It works beautifully and having the site well-indexed in Google and traffic stats to show off adds a great deal of value to the site and gives you some selling points for listing.

Where to sell?

I have my best luck selling on Sitepoint. It costs money but has been well worth it for me. One tip for selling a site on Sitepoint is to make a great sales page. Be sure to mention all of the assets of the site … how many posts, how much traffic, revenue if any, site features, potential to make money (ie … do you already have Adsense and ads in place?). Here’s one of my listings to give you an example of listing the site’s selling points.

One thing about developing nice sites to sell … you can even flip a weak domain name if you have a great site established on it … not a really crappy domain name … just a bit weak. Of course, if the site is really great, it might even sell to someone who purchases a better domain name for it.

What kind of sites to develop?

I have two favorites … Wordpress blogs and Joomla sites. Many people know how to set up a Wordpress blog, so that is probably the easiest site to get established. Joomla sites are a bit more complex and often the best components to add features to your site are commercial, so you have to sink a little money into the site. To tell you the truth, 6 weeks ago I wouldn’t have been able to put a nice Joomla site together to save my life. Then I bought one really cheap and had to buckle down and get to know Joomla in order to add value to the site and fix some problems. It didn’t take long to become a Joomla enthusiast and all in all, it was a pretty short learning curve.

So that’s it …my advice for selling domains in a bad economy. Works well for me. Hope it does for you as well.

Over 600 Anime Videos - Automated Script - Naruto, Soul Eater, Bleach and more

• URL: http://animezoo.net/
• Established: Mon Sep 22 2008
• Page views/month: 2,400
• Monthly Revenue (USD): 0
• Google Pagerank: 0
• Uniques/Month: 1,100
• Listed: Mon Nov 03 2008

Description:

AnimeZoo is a huge Anime site having over 520 anime videos, including all Soul Eater and Naruto Shippuuden episodes as well as many Bleach, City Hunters, Dragon Ball, One Piece and Sailor Moon episodes. Site is beautifully designed with custom header and has an automated script that pulls in videos from YouTube, Metacafe, Daily Motion, and Seven Load.  I also added many of the videos manually to complete collections.  There are now over 520 videos.

1. Over 520 Anime Videos

2. Easy to use Wordpress platform with custom header

3. Videos categorized by Anime characters

4. Search engine friendly URLs, Keywords

5. Automated script to pull in videos based on keywords

6. Adsense integrated

8. Cool Design matching the video theme

Many additional Wordpress plugins including All-in-One-Search Engine-Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, Wordpress Automatic Upgrade, Wordpress Database Backup, WP Security Scan, WP Super Cache and Adsense Deluxe.

The domain – AnimeZoo.net – Registered at Godaddy – Free Push

***Already installed and configured and ready to transfer ownership.  Price includes 1 year hosting.***

Revenue Details:

Site is new in September and I have been concentrating on getting it indexed and adding over 500 videos.  Site has well-placed Adsense blocks throughout that can be replaced with other ads if desired.  This site is ready to make money for new owner with promotion.

Traffic Details:

Site received 1,265 uniques since it was launched, with 2,400 pageviews and is indexed in Google.  This is a hot niche - Google returns 246,000,000 results for the keyword anime. Wordtracker for keyword anime is 65,219 per day.

With more than 64 million active users and around 250,000 new users joining every day, you can tap into the social networking revolution with a free page on Facebook for your blog or business … yes, I said free.

Previously you had to be BIG business with a BIG marketing budget to create a corporate or company Facebook account. Blockbuster Inc., CBS Corp., The Coca-Cola Co., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., are examples of well known companies that have a corporate presence on Facebook. Facebook members could then become “fans” by adding your company as a friend.

Now, this option is open to any business. Businesses can add any content they want, including photos, videos and music. Facebook users can share information about a business directly with the company by adding reviews or other information to that business’ page. Small businesses now have the advantage that only Fortune 500 companies could afford previously. It’s simple: here’s how you do it:

Creating A Facebook Business Page

1. Visit this URL

2. Choose the best category for your business.

3. Just enter your business name and then click “Create Page”.

4. Now you can add a description of your business and a website address. You can also add a photo or logo. There are sections to add more photos, video

5. Then click on your hyperlinked business name in the top left corner and click “publish this page.”

6. Finally, from your new profile page, become a fan of your business. This is important as all of your “friends” will now be able to see your page when they visit your profile and it will be shown in the news feed that “Suzanne is a fan of Dot Com Mogul”. With some social networking, some of your Facebook friends will also add your business as a friend and then their friends will see a message… and on and on.

To the left is a screenshot of your admin panel. You can send updates to fans of the business and there’s a link to Promote Page with an Ad. You can also use the pages’ discussion board to start topics, list events, or write on “the wall”. I’ve just added a page for my blog, Dot Com Mogul. You can see it here. (While you’re there, add it as a friend I plan to add more interesting info and a video to it, but this is the beginning page with minimal information. If you’re wondering why you should do this, just check out the Facebook statistics below, and did I mention …. it’s free.

Facebook Statistics

General Growth

• More than 64 million active users
• An average of 250,000 new registrations per day since Jan. 2007

User Demographics

• Over 55,000 regional, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks
• More than half of Facebook users are outside of college
• The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older
• Maintain 85 percent market share of 4-year U.S. universities

User Engagement

• Sixth-most trafficked site in the United States (comScore)
• More than 65 billion page views per month
• More than half of active users return daily
• People spend an average of 20 minutes on the site daily (comScore)

Applications

• No. 1 photo sharing application on the Web (comScore)
• Photo application draws more than twice as much traffic as the next three sites combined (comScore)
• More than 14 million photos uploaded daily
• More than 6 million active user groups on the site

International Growth

• The U.K. has the most users outside of the United States, with more than 8 million active users
• Canada is the third largest country with more than 7 million active users
• Remaining top 10 countries in order of active users (outside of the U.S., Canada and UK): Turkey, Australia, France, Sweden, Norway, Colombia, and South Africa

Platform

• Over 15,000 applications have been built on Facebook Platform
• 140 new applications added per day
• More than 95% of Facebook members have used at least one application built on Facebook Platform

I made a list of CPA Affiliate Networks in an earlier post. This is a list of US and International Affiliate Networks that you get commission for selling products, rather than generating leads. I’m a member of Commission Junction (CJ), Linkshare (LS), Affiliate Future US, ClickBank, PayDotCom.com, ShareASale (SAS) and MarketHealth, with MarketHealth being my best performing now, but PayDotCom.com the best in the past. Hope you’ll find this list useful when searching for products to promote. If you run an affiliate program that is not listed, leave a comment and I will add it. More information needed to choose the best networks can be found in my newest Dot Com Mogul article: Is the Cookie Monster Eating Your Commissions?

The Largest Affiliate Networks

AMWSO - Affiliate Management Consulting firm lead by Chris Sanderson, manages 20 affiliate programs from leading merchants such as Western Union, Panda Software, Shopster, GoodTimes Entertainment, Gaiam, South Beach Diet and Forzieri.

Commission Junction (CJ) - a ValueClick company, delivers performance-based online marketing solutions. Network access to the USA, UK, Germany and France.

Linkshare (LS) - LinkShare pioneered online affiliate marketing, and today runs one of the largest pay for performance affiliate marketing network on the Internet. Network access to the USA, UK, Canada and Japan.

Microsoft adCenter Affiliate Program - If your site is focused on Internet marketing, search marketing, web development or business you have the opportunity to generate revenue by referring new advertisers to MSN adCenter, via the Microsoft® Affiliate Network.

PartnerCentric - manages 40 top affiliate programs including well known brands like National Geographic, BriteSmile, Medifast, 21st Century Insurance, The Company Store, Lamps Plus, Domestications & Quicken Loans.

Performics - Now owned by DoubleClick, provides performance-based online marketing services and technologies for leading multi-channel marketers. Clients benefit from Performics´ custom approach to affiliate marketing, search engine marketing and lead generation programs.

Other U.S. Affiliate Networks

• Shareasale - Established in 2000, Shareasale.com began on the premise that they could provide any merchant - large or small - with high quality, reliable tracking software - at a lower cost than the industry norm - with the added benefit of being plugged into a large network of quality affiliate sites.
• Share Results USA - An online affiliate marketing network. They provide the software, support and management services to help merchants drive targeted web traffic and sales to their retail websites. Network access to the USA, Canada and the UK.
• AvantLink - AvantLink was founded in 2005 on the ideas of innovation, quality and service. They offer advanced and integrated Affiliate marketing tools including dynamic datafeeds, RSS feeds, coupon feeds, product displays, and ad syndication options.
• AdsMarket.com -Offers affiliates pay for performance programs from all over the world, including CPL, CPA and CPC offers. AdsMarket aim to try harder and outperform every chance they get to prove how sincere and earnest they are about putting more cash into your pocket.
• Advent Motive - Advent, Motive’s flagship performance advertising application, was designed to maximize publisher’s revenue, save them time and promote better user experience in the affiliate marketing space. Motive Interactive’s groundbreaking lead generation platform, Advent allows publishers to launch streamlined campaigns with easy-to-use tools. Motive also ensures that you’ll be provided with accurate and reliable payouts, exclusive campaigns, and attentive customer service.
• Advertising.com - Advertising.com conducts strategic direct-response and brand marketing campaigns that guarantee bottom-line results for their clients.
• Affiliate Commission - Dedicated to providing a low-cost, effective “Pay Per Action” marketing network. Network access to the USA and UK
• Affiliate Fuel - Affiliate Fuel is a large affiliate network, with a record for performance and service. Helping advertisers and publishers work together to create promotions that are exciting, enticing, well-managed, fair, and profitable for everyone involved.
• Affiliate Future US - One of the UK’s largest affiliate marketing networks, also active in the USA. Lead advertisers include Singapore Airlines, MatchClick, WorldSoccerShop and more.
• Aperion Audio - High Electronics Commission Home Audio Speakers.  Award winning direct-to-consumer manufacturer of home audio speakers. Pays out 4% - 10% which is very high for electronics. High-end niche (average order size $950). Datafeed available.
• Check My Stats US - An online provider of performance based marketing and sales solutions. Network access to the UK, USA and Australia.
• clickXchange.com - Provides pay for performance marketing custom affiliate programs for marketing firms, consultants and individual in house affiliate program managers. An all inclusive turnkey solution featuring, hundreds of programs and thousands of pre-screened affiliates.
• clixGalore USA - Offers five scaled levels of Affiliate recruitment and promotional services to our Merchants. Network access to the USA, Japan, Australia, India and the UK.
• CommissionSoup - CommissionSoup provides e-business marketing solutions through their performance-based affiliate network. They offer a variety of programs and a complete line of services to ensure marketing objectives are met. CommissionSoup offers marketing material to accurately promote any program, advanced tracking systems, detailed reports, multi-site tracking options and monthly, dependable payouts.
• CCI Corinthian Colleges - Online Degree & Education Affiliate Program.  Get paid up to $25 per lead for referring traffic to the CCI education portal. They offer more than 120 college campuses plus online education options for your visitors.
• Dark Blue - Affiliate network focused on providing the best affiliate programs from the top advertisers online.
• DentalPlans - High Converting Dental Insurance Alternativel.  This is one of the web’s best converting offers because up to 75% of Americans currently have no form of dental coverage. Commission $44 - $50 per sale, high conversion rates too.
• DigitalGrit - Gain access to the best merchants, outstanding customer service and most importantly, make your web properties more profitable
• Digital River - Affiliates earn up to 75% commission as participants in this affiliate network, powered by RegNow. Choose from the largest selection of software including games, anti-virus, and anti-spam titles.
• Direct Track - part of the DirectResponse Technologies, Inc. family of services. If you are a merchant looking for an affiliate and keyword tracking solution, an Agency looking for a private label affiliate and keyword tracking solution for your clients, or you are a Savvy Marketer seeking a solution to power your own Affiliate and Ad Network - then DirectTrack® is for you!
• Floppybank Network - floppybank understands the tremendous marketing opportunity that the Internet presents, and the importance of independent marketplace to allow fast and effective transactions between advertisers and publishers.
• Ice Water Traffic - Ice Water Traffic is run by AdBlink offering email marketing, lead generation and CPM based ad campaigns.
• Impression Up - Impression Up is an ad network that contains relationships with websites catering to the most sought after demographics. Their focus is as precise as their client requirements, aiming to achieve a return on investment through customer service and a track record for results.
• IncentReward Affiliate Network - Provide quality traffic to their advertisers through their affiliate base. Affiliates and Advertisers can both enjoy quality service and customer support with dedicated account managers. For incentive affiliates they provide tools in order for you to reach a high commission volume through them. They welcome anyone large or small to apply to their network.
• Kowabunga! - Part of the Think Partnership family, creates online marketing products and services for the performance marketing industry. Together with top-notch customer service, an expansive and dynamic network and world-class tracking and conversion tools, KowaBunga! enables clients to increase revenues, drive traffic across multiple channels, create partnerships with new and existing customers and measure success. See also The KB! Open Network at Kolimbo
• Lead Crunch - A highly selective advertising network providing a quality “Pay for Performance” solution to advertisers and a reliable revenue source to publishers. Lead Crunch operates on the cost per action model to ensure our advertisers get the results they demand.
• Leadhound.com - A network of affiliate sites that will promote your site in exchange for payment when you get the desired results.
• LinkConnector - An affiliate marketing network, helping merchants and affiliates increase online sales. LinkConnector offers all standard affiliate program benefits, but is also changing the face of affiliate marketing to better meet your expectations.
• MyReferer - provides tools to run and manage your own affiliate program and can provide recruitment and management services.
• NetQuote Insurance Affiliate Marketing Program - Great Commissions on Insurance Leads.  Netquote offers One-Stop Insurance Shopping for all types of insurance including Auto, Health, Home Owners, Renters, Business, Group Medical and Life Insurance.
• Netklix.com - Acting as the trusted third-party between the Advertiser and Publisher web-site, Netklix.com tracks and reports transactions generated by visitors to the Advertiser web-site resulting from advert click-throughs on the the Publisher web-site. Offers payouts in GBP(£), Euro and USD($)
• OfferForge USA - Forging lasting relationships. OfferForge have built a network based on bulletproof tracking and hosting, centralized realtime reporting, attentive account management, regular fast payouts and some of the best converting offers in the market. Each offer is carefully evaluated by their Affiliate Publisher forum to ensure suitability for inclusion. Also operates in South Africa
• OffersQuest - An affiliate network owned by eMedia Quest, operating off of a private label Direct Track solution.
• OfferWeb.com - OfferWeb is set to permeate the internet market with leading technology, real-time reporting, and deep distribution channels.
• PrimaryAds - A “Pay for Performance” network that specializes in cost-per-action advertising.
• Red Galoshes - A network focused on e-commerce sites designed, owned and managed by Red Galoshes. The network is private for their merchants but allows affiliates from all areas. There are around 25 merchant sites in the network.
• Revenue Allies - DishNetwork and DIRECTV Affiliate Programs, Plus Comcast & Vonage.  Earn industry leading commission rates on Satellite TV sales benefit from 999 day cookie tracking.
• shop4affiliates - a US focused network that is open to US publishers only.
• ThinkHost Web Hosting Affiliate Program - $100 per Sale Commission:  Promote ThinkHost, an eco-friendly web host. Pays out $100 per sale on all hosting plans.
• XY7.com - Offers you many top exclusive deals not found anywhere else on the net. Use these offers to maximize your revenues and list demographics, and never let unsold inventory go to waste.
• zZounds Musical Instruments Affiliate Program - Top Commissions on Music and DJ Gear.  Best payouts in the musical instruments and DJ equipment market place!  zZounds program offers 6% to 10.8% commission, 60 day cookies, 800 phone tracking and a FREE Datafeed.

Canadian Affiliate Networks

• Canadian Sponsors Canadian Sponsors goal is to bring Canadian focused advertising to the marketplace offering advertisers competitive rates while providing as high as possible payouts to their affiliates.
• LinkShare Canada LinkShare pioneered online affiliate marketing, and today runs one of the largest pay for performance affiliate marketing network on the Internet. Network access to the USA, Canada and Japan.
• Share Results Canada An online affiliate marketing network. They provide the software, support and management services to help merchants drive targeted web traffic and sales to their retail websites. Network access to the USA, Canada and the UK.

UK Affiliate Networks

• LinkShare UK LinkShare pioneered online affiliate marketing, and today runs one of the largest pay for performance affiliate marketing network on the Internet. Network access to the UK, USA, Canada and Japan.
• Affiliate-Advantage Core business is managing the relationship between affiliates and merchants so that affiliates can trust that they will earn money from promoting merchants.
• Affiliate Commission Dedicated to providing a low-cost, effective “Pay Per Action” marketing network. Network access to the USA and UK
• Affiliate Future UK Provides a comprehensive range of merchants interested in advertising on affiliate websites. Also active in the USA.
• Affiliate Window One of the United Kingdom’s foremost affiliate marketing companies, with an emphasis on providing cutting edge technology and tools to maximise the return for on-line marketing programmes.
• Buy.at An advanced affiliate network connecting major UK retailers and merchants with the leading UK affiliate marketers.
• Check My Stats UK An online provider of performance based marketing and sales solutions. Network access to the UK, USA and Australia.
• clixGalore UK Offers five scaled levels of Affiliate recruitment and promotional services to our Merchants. Network access to the USA, Japan, Australia, India and the UK.
• Commission Junction Commission Junction, a ValueClick company, delivers performance-based online marketing solutions. Network access to the USA, UK, Germany and France.
• DGM Affiliates Dealgroupmedia was founded in 1999 as the UK’s first affiliate network provider (now dgmaffiliates). In 2003 the company extended its portfolio of performance-based marketing products, launching its online advertising network and merging with leading Search Engine Marketing specialist Web Gravity. dgm is now one of the market leaders in performance-based multichannel commerce.
• Online Media Group An ideal option for leading merchants and affiliates seeking to maximise their returns from the internet on a Pay for Performance basis. Selecting only top performing merchants and affiliates, developing sound relationships which deliver high volumes of sales and maximise revenue online. Network access to Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom
• Profitistic Is dedicated to delivering successful affiliate marketing campaigns on a Pay for Performance basis. This is achieved by providing cost-effective solutions for merchants and offering quality offers to its base of affiliates and website publishers.
• Qwertytrade QwertyTrade.com and many of its merchant web sites are owned by Spectra Ltd. Affiliate programs are pay per click ssytens that pays web affiliates for every unique visitor referred from their web site to a merchant site.
• Share Results An online affiliate marketing network. We provide the software, support and management services to help merchants drive targeted web traffic and sales to their retail websites. Network access to the USA, Canada and the UK.
• TradeDoubler A leading European provider of online marketing and sales solutions, TradeDoubler can offer a broad range of solutions from technically advanced and hosted management tools, to efficiently administered products within performance-based marketing. Network access to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland , Swizterland, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom
• Zanox UK A market leader for performance-based multichannel commerce. Among others, zanox offers recommendation and affiliate marketing solutions as well as search engine management products. Network access to Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Danmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom

European Affiliate Networks

• Commission Junction Commission Junction, a ValueClick company, delivers performance-based online marketing solutions. Network access to the USA, UK, Germany and France.
• Cibleclick
• Online Media Group Germany
• Online Media Group France
• TradeDoubler A leading European provider of online marketing and sales solutions, TradeDoubler can offer a broad range of solutions from technically advanced and hosted management tools, to efficiently administered products within performance-based marketing. Network access to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland , Swizterland, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom
• TradeDoubler
• Zanox Europe A market leader for performance-based multichannel commerce. Among others, zanox offers recommendation and affiliate marketing solutions as well as search engine management products. Network access to Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Danmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom

Australian Affiliate Networks

• dgmAustralia

A wholly owned subsidiary of Deal Group Media Plc. The Company’s principal activity is delivering ROI focused strategies through affiliate marketing, search engine marketing and display inventory either as individual channels or as a complete solution. Globally, dgm provides services to more than 250 blue-chip clients and agencies with over 100 staff. Utilizing powerful software, dgm has the ability to trace a consumer’s activity online to a specific advertisement placed on a specific channel. Therefore, regardless of the pricing model or channel used, dgm can report on the direct correlation between advertising spend and consumer take-up. In Australia this is the most complete performance based online advertising model available.

• Check My Stats Australia An online provider of performance based marketing and sales solutions. Network access to the UK, USA and Australia.
• CoProsper CoProsper was founded by a group of marketing executives who had been in the ‘affiliate game’ since the late 1990s. By being involved on all sides of the fence, as merchants, affiliates and affiliate program managers we were exposed both to the successes of affiliate programs as well as their shortcomings. The knowledge of what merchants and affiliates require, has enabled them to develop CoProsper.
• SiteLink Established in online affiliate marketing within Australia. Partnering with online merchants and publishers as well as providing unique Outsourced Affiliate Management services and Affiliate Marketing Consulting.
• Commission Monster A well established company hosting large numbers of quality merchants and affiliates. Are a recognised leader in performance based marketing solutions and operate on a pay for performance model.
• clixGalore Australia Offers five scaled levels of Affiliate recruitment and promotional services to our Merchants. Network access to the USA, Japan, Australia, India and the UK.
• WallCann WallCann’s process involves market research, understanding of promotional media and delivering prequalified leads to a pre-close page on your site.

Asian Affiliate Networks

• Lucky Pacific Lucky Pacific has a fast-growing network that includes more than 25 million users reached through affinity websites, ISPs and large local affiliate groups. The network is used to provide the first, professionally tracked affiliate network in Greater China, backed by DirectTrack to ensure that client’s marketing goals are met in a fraud-free environment
• Click Value One of the most professionaly run Chinese affiliate networks in China. While still a young network the company understands the difference between bloated numbers and real numbers, making them a good first choice for opening a program targeting mainland China
• Adbank AdBank provides performance based online advertising and lead generation to business in South East asia, specifically Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hongkong. Advertising rates are normally run of network CPM, CPC, CPL and CPA based. Their ad technology currently provides a network of regional sites with relevant advertising based on IAB formats. AdBank works direct with advertisers and with international agencies looking for exposure in the region.
• Allyes.com Chinese language CPA network focused on mainland China only. No English language version.

Indian Affiliate Networks

• Affiliate Curry India’s First Affiliate Network. Affiliate Curry is a marketplace to bring Merchants and Affiliates together.
• clixGalore India Offers five scaled levels of Affiliate recruitment and promotional services to our Merchants. Network access to the USA, Japan, Australia, India and the UK.
• dgm India Launched in 2007 dgm have moved into India now and have a small selection of India focused merchants signed up, expanding their marketing reach from United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
• Matri-Money The Matri-Money Affiliate Network, owned by BharatMatrimony.com, covers 14 Matrimony sites offering up to 50% commission on paid registrations.

Japanese Affiliate Marketing Networks

• LinkShare LinkShare pioneered online affiliate marketing, and today runs one of the largest pay for performance affiliate marketing network on the Internet. Network access to the USA and Japan.
• Value Commerce ValueCommerce operates the first and one of the largest Affiliate Marketing networks in Japan. They pioneered the affiliate industry in Japan and have been instrumental in helping customers and media partners to manage, scale and generate sales and revenue from their online channels.
• J A Net The J A Network has around 2000 merchants. Offering a range of affiliate marketing tools and services focused on Japanese affiliate marketing
• Amazon Japan Affiliate Program
• clixGalore Japan Offers five scaled levels of Affiliate recruitment and promotional services to our Merchants. Network access to the USA, Japan, Australia, India and the UK.
• Zanox Japan A market leader for performance-based multichannel commerce. Among others, zanox offers recommendation and affiliate marketing solutions as well as search engine management products. Network access to Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Danmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom
• Rakuten Affiliate Network for the Rakuten shopping mall. Merchant access is through opening a store within the Rakuten mall. Commission are paid in the form of Rakuten “Super Points”, which can be used as virtual money in Rakuten mall.

African Affiliate Marketing Networks

• OfferForge South Africa Forging lasting relationships. OfferForge have built a network based on bulletproof tracking and hosting, centralized realtime reporting, attentive account management, regular fast payouts and some of the best converting offers in the market. Each offer is carefully evaluated by their Affiliate Publisher forum to ensure suitability for inclusion. The first and only South African currency affiliate network, built on years of experience in the SA market.Offering ZAR (South African Rand) payouts to affiliates in South African Market. Also operates in the USA

Business to Business Affiliate Networks

• LinkShare B2B LinkShare is the marketing solution for the online business-to-business marketplace. It’s designed specifically to serve the market in which the ultimate buyer is a business, rather than a consumer.
• Reach 24 Clients are business to business companies for whom a single new client can mean tens of thousands of pounds. Offers a strong partnership based approach with their affiliates and work hard to ensure that what our affiliates want and need is what they actually get.

One of the top ways of monetizing websites is lead generation. Here’s how it works. Becoming a CPA affiliate is fairly simple. You sign up with numerous CPA Networks, drive traffic to the custom landing pages they provide or make your own landing pages, and get paid whenever a site visitor fills out and submits a form. One of the best ways to drive traffic to your CPA Offers is through PPC program like Adwords or Yahoo.CPA networks are clearinghouses bringing advertisers and publishers together. The advertisers provide custom landing pages and forms, pays the network commission for making it available to affiliates, and affiliates are paid for driving traffic and generating signups.

CPA stands for “cost per action.” The action is the site visitor filling out the form. Compared to traditional affiliate marketing, it is often a much easier and more lucrative way to monetize a website.

Traditional affiliates have a tougher job. They have to get the traffic, presell the product, and send visitors to the vendor through an affiliate link, hoping to generate something like 1% to 5% sales. Conversions are highly dependent on the vendor’s sales letter and product. If the vendor does a poor job of selling, or has an overpriced or poorly received product, the affiliate has spent a lot of time, and perhaps money, for very little return.

A CPA affiliate also has to get the traffic, either by paying for it, or by putting together a well-optimized site that gets good search engine placement for certain key words. The site visitor fills out a form requesting information, rather than making a decision to purchase at that point. All it entails is that the visitor “request free information” and provide his or her name, email address, and maybe a physical address.

The CPA affiliate gets paid for providing a lead, rather than a sale. Many businesses pay well for leads. They plan on maximizing the long-term value of their customers. For instance, one lead can generate a commission of thousands of dollars to a mortgage broker. An insurance or credit card account is worth recurring commissions potentially for many, many years and even a ring tone lead has a long-term value, since the vendor will continue to market to that person over and over again, selling them many times what it cost to acquire them as a customer.

CPA is one of the best ways to monetize your websites. To really do well at CPA, you need to learn how to use traffic generation methods like Google Adwords effectively, and to build search engine optimized landing pages, but in the long run, CPA can be more lucrative than traditional affiliate marketing. The following is a list of CPA Networks that I’m a member of. I listed NeverblueAds because thus far, that is my best performing network. I recently signed up with the brand new Pepperjam Network and it looks very promising.

• NeverblueAds
• Copeac
• ROI Rocket
• Max Bounty
• Pepperjam
• AzoogleAds
• Affiliate Future

More CPA Networks

• Advaliant
• ClickBooth.com
• ClickSpeed
• CPAffiliates
• CPA Empire
• CPA Storm
• CPAUniverse.com
• CX Digital Media
• DirectLeads - Make Money!
• eAdvertising.com
• Monetizit.net
• FineClicks
• FluxAds.com
• Hydra Network
• LeadFlash
• Level Click
• LinkConnector Network
• Market Leverage
• Motive Interactive
• OfferForge US
• Offer Fusion
• OffersQuest.com
• Partnersedge.com
• Partner Weekly
• PrimaryAds
• Rextopia
• RoWise
• SaleFlurry.com
• ShareResults
• SureHits (Insurance & Loans)
• XY7.com

“The awful truth about marketing is that it broadcasts messages to people who don’t want to listen…. much of business communication is written in contrived and artificial language, supposedly designed to impress, but actually signaling just how impersonal the firm and its professionals are.”

I see so many of the long, hypey big red lettered sales letters and still wonder how that type of marketing can be successful. I know that many “gurus” use them and make money, but in my opinion, you aren’t reaching a large part of the market through this method of communication. Basically, you’re reaching an audience who is looking for a “dream in a box” solution and willing to believe anything that promises that.

To me … and maybe it’s just me, I find those type of sales letters to be more annoying than persuasive. It’s packaged marketing, spoken in a fake voice and often uses scare tactics and unfounded promises to reel their customers in. Many marketers see marketing as a one-sided dialogue … nothing more than a propaganda campaign. This type of marketing rarely answers any questions I might have about the product.

The marketer that is able to reach his market in a real voice and engage his audience in a two-way dialogue is the marketer who is going to be able to build trust and relationships that convert into sales. In the offline world of marketing, where you meet your prospective clients, you have a greater opportunity to employ Conversational Marketing. Instead of giving yet another boring presentation, you can have a question and answer session. In a personal one-on-one presentation, you can give your prospects a handout and then instead of launching into a one-way dialogue of your capabilities and contract issues, see if you can engage your prospect in a conversation to determine what his problems and needs are.

That is what marketing is all about, really … finding a problem or need and offering a solution. If you want to deepen your existing business relationships and build loyalty (and generate additional business), you need to have ongoing conversations with your clients about the things going on in their business or life and how you might help them to solve their problems or meet their needs.

Having conversations with prospective customers when your business is online

Instead of making your website little more than an electronic brochure, turn your website into an interactive media offering advice, ideas, and commentary on trends. You can also use “how valuable was this” buttons and surveys to engage your readers in a conversation and get their ideas and opinions.

Some other ideas for adding interactivity to your blog and encouraging reader participation are:

1. Allow Readers to Be Experts
Choose readers with an intelligent posting history to become category experts, answering reader questions on their topic via email and, in return, give them a link back to their site on your “experts” page.

2. Schedule Group Chats
Schedule a weekly web chat using the chat medium of your choice.  Set aside a time and make sure you let your readers know what timezone you are in for international readers.  Good for getting to know your readers.

3. Allow Commenters to Guest Blog
Select the month’s best commenter (you can even choose by poll) and allow the winner to guest post.  This can encourage readers to post intelligently and more often.

4. Ask Your Readers
Instead of always providing information for your readers, ask your readers questions or ask for tips on a certain topic.  They submit their answers and tips via commenting. You could then post the results with all of the best tips and comments provided.  You can also have your readers suggest topics that they would be interested in reading.

5. Add a forum to your blog
It’s simple to add a forum to your blog using one of the free online forums available.  It’s a great idea for building community and going into more depth on topics than your blog allows.  Also a great way for you and the readers to get to know each other.

Instead of a newsletter, use a blog to share your ideas on topics relating to your target market. It’s much more interactive than a newsletter. Critical to a blog’s success is a feature that not only allows, but encourages people to post replies. Reply to the repliers and analyze which topics are being read the most.It’s really hard to sustain a conversation, especially on a blog, when you don’t have anything interesting to say. Don’t just blog about the same things everyone else is blogging about, regurgitating the same rehashed info that you can find on hundreds of other blogs. It’s boring and it’s basically, just filler. Sit down and think about your topics and write something unique that isn’t hyped all over the Internet … and yes, I said write. That doesn’t mean copy from elsewhere and reword to avoid duplicate content … that means write, in your own voice with your own personality shining through. When all is said and done, that is the way you are going to build a successful blog and a successful online business.

The secret’s out!

What would you say if I told you how to get free publicity, targeted traffic and more sales for your online endeavors? It’s instant, easy and affordable.

How? With well-written articles, distributed to content-hungry web publishers for reprint. Your article’s “About the Author” box builds your expertise in the field, and builds backlinks to your website.

The viral effect of distrituting your content across cyberspace is unparalleled in the field of internet marketing.

An Adaptive Marketing Plan

The advantage of article marketing is that a marketing campaign can be implemented on the fly. It’s as simple as writing a new article. And with an unlimited subscription to an article distribution service such as Article Marketer, there is no further cost. Let me repeat that — no further cost to target an entirely new market niche.

By going with the flow of the market, a affiliate is in a better position to exploit these unexpected marketing opportunities. Identify a trend, write an article, and capture that moment of perfect relevance. This kind of “in real time” marketing can enhance your current article marketing plans perfectly. Experts recommend submitting two articles per category per week for the most impact and greatest benefit. Keep a close ear to the heartbeat of popular trends in your specific industry, and be able to spot trends and identify potential changes at a moment’s notice. My article on Cashing in Google’s Hot Trends is perfect example of “going with the flow” of market trends.

If you see a new niche for your business, begin a new article marketing campaign. Always keep an open mind when it comes to your article marketing plan. The market can be volatile, constantly changing, and full of surprises. This is what makes affiliate marketing so exciting! And, it’s what makes article marketing such an efficient, and affordable, way to keep on top of the market.

I just launched a new Article Directory … Article Buzz … specializing in high quality free content for your website, ezine or newsletter.

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Here’s a list of my favorite Wordpress plugins … a couple of these are worth mentioning, but I no longer use them. I noted the ones I’m not using and why. If you have any to add, just comment.

From Unwords … Definition of schizzle :.
(sh?t-z?l’)
1. (n.) A non-profane version of shit

Adsense-Deluxe 0.8
Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. Requires WordPress 1.5 or higer by Acme Technologies. I love this plugin. I don’t use Adsense on this blog, but you can use this plugin for easy insertion of other scripts and codes into your posts. Instead of placing the Adsense code in the configuration blocks, place your other code (I have several Chitika Mini Mall scripts configured in mine) there and adding the script to a post is as simple as adding <!–adsense#ShopCloud–> or <!–adsense–> to your posts where you want the script to be placed. You can configure as many of these scripts as you want or need and change them in all of your posts at the same time just by editing the script in the plugin screen.

Akismet 2.0.2
Comes with the Wordpress installation and everybody has it so I won’t go into any detail.

All in One SEO Pack
This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for Wordpress SEO. While it gives you many options the defaults reflect the settings the author recommends using.

AntiLeech 1.8
By Owen Winkler. AntiLeech helps prevent content theft by sploggers. AntiLeech does not prevent the splogger bots from accessing your site. It produces a fake set of content especially for them that includes links back to your site and sends it only to them. When they steal this content, it appears online just like normal, except now you’ve turned the tables on them and have provided them with useless content.

Author Highlight
Author Highlight is a plugin that prints out a user-specified class attribute if the comment is made by the specified author. It is useful if you would like to apply a different style to comments made by yourself.

Bad Behavior
A whole new way of keeping your blog, forum, guestbook, wiki or content management system free of link spam. Bad Behavior is a PHP-based solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it..

Buy Me a Beer 1.3
Allow your blog visitors to buy you a beer by sending you money through PayPal. By Sherief Mursyidi. I just deactivated this plugin because nobody bought me a beer … lol

Comment Luv
Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog, adding the dofollow plugin is one way to reward but why not place a link to their last post under their comment, with CommentLuv, you can do that automatically! This is an excellent way to promote comments from your readers.

Permalinks Migration Plugin for wordpress
With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t affect your search engine rankings.

Democracy 2.0.1
This poll plugin is easy to use, install, and manage. It uses AJAX to load data, making it quick and fun to use. Add

{democracy:*id*}

to your posts to include polls in your posts, where *id* corresponds to the ID of your poll. By Andrew Sutherland. I love this plugin. Adds interaction to your blog and engages your readers into the conversation. You can make as many polls as you want and it’s easy to insert them in your posts or on your sidebar.

Democracy Widget 1.0
Adds a sidebar widget for use with Andrew Sutherland’s Democracy Poll widget. By Andrew Sutherland.

Digital Fingerprint Beta 0.2
This plugin enables you to easily and quickly search the web for potential cases of plagiarism and content theft. It works by adding a customizable “digital fingerprint” to your RSS feed in posts that you select (or all posts if you wish). You can then easily monitor the blogosphere for your digital fingerprint in the hopes of finding potential content thieves and scrapers abusing your content. By Kirk Montgomery.

Do Follow - disables evil no follow attribute on comments

FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. By FeedBurner.

Feed Footer
Feed Footer is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add footers under all your blog posts in your RSS feed. With this nifty plugin, you can:

1. Copyright Your Feed!
Add copyright notices under all your Blog Posts in the RSS feed

2. Monetize Your RSS Feeds.
Show and rotate ads under your blog posts in the RSS feed (maximum of 10 ads can be rotated.)

3. HTML Enabled Footers
Any HTML code can be shown in your footers! You can snazzy up your footers with banners and images! You can make your text bold or italics or underlined.

4. No Word or Line Limit.
Your footer ads and notices could be 200 lines long if you so desire!

Google XML Sitemaps 3.0.3
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page By Arne Brachhold. I love this plugin. So easy to generate a sitemap for your blog and then it pings Ask, Google and MSN to tell them that you have a new sitemap. Great way to help you get all your pages indexed.

Got Banners 1.0
Got Banners is a simple plugin for rotating banners (especially 125 x 125px) like on TechCrunch.com & GotChance.com. Unlike other banner rotators, Got Banners rotate all of the banners putting them in a random order each time. By Shrihari Sankaran. I just downloaded this plugin but haven’t gotten around to implementing it yet. Looks interesting and useful.

IM Online
A neat little Wordpress plugin to show your current online status on your blog, with Widget support for those that use them. The plugin is powered via onlinestatus.org and supports most IM services including AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber (inc. Google Talk), Skype and ICQ.

MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad 1.0
A new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog. By MaxBlogPress. I downloaded this then decided I don’t want a stripe above my header. Annoying to me, but a lot of blogs are using it.

Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers Plugin
NUS is a neat plugin that fetches all the subscribers who have not yet subscribed to your feed verifying themselves by clicking on the verification link in the email FeedBurner sends them. Many users simply do not verify and thus leaving a lot of readers who do want to read your feeds cannot due to the verification email going unnoticed or landing in the spam folder. NUS asks you for your FeedBurner username and password and fetches all those unconfirmed subscribers allowing you to send a personalized email to them asking them to verify their subscriptions.

PopShops.com 0.2
Affiliate tools that everyone can use. Put products on your site and earn money. Choose from the largest catalog of affiliate products — over 20 million! By PopShops.com. Just blogged about these two … Popshops and PrestoGifto. I like both of these and am using them on about 5 of my blogs now.

Popularity Contest
This plugin will help you see which of your posts are most popular. Views, comments, etc. are tracked and given configurable point values to determine popularity.

PrestoGifto 0.9
Now WordPress users can add Cafepress products to their blog by querying millions of products from the CafePress marketplace. By PrestoGifto.com.

RSS Footer 0.5
This very simple plugin let’s you add an extra line of content to articles in your feed, defaulting to “Post from: ” and then a link back to your blog, with your blog’s name as it’s anchor text. Turns the tables on scrapers. You get a link back from the content sucking scrapers. By Joost de Valk.

Social Bookmarks 4.0.64
Adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts that allow your visitors to easily submit them to about 50 different social bookmarking sites. Allows you to choose which ones you want to display. By Apostolos Dountsis.

Theme Test Drive
Theme Test Drive Wordpress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one. It happens completely transparently and they will not even notice you run a different theme for yourself.

Trackbackers
This plugin displays a list of the domains that link to your blog the most By Michael Wales.

What Would Seth Godin Do Plugin
Seth Godin advocates using cookies to distinguish between new and returning visitors to your site. By default, new visitors to your blog will see a small box above each post containing the words “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!” After 3 visits the message disappears. You can customize this message, its lifespan, and its location.

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade 0.8
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Thanks to Ronald Huereca for making the plugin run in automatic mode. By Keith Dsouza.

WP-SphinnIt 1.0.1
Adds SphinnIt (a “make money online” sort of social bookmarking site–for affiliate marketers) button to your WordPress blog posts. By Michelle MacPhearson.

WP-Security Scan

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WP-Auctions
WP Auctions is a revolutionary plugin for WordPress which allows you to host auctions on your blog and to sell ANYTHING, completely fee-free!

Problogger also has a huge list of Wordpress Plugins here.

Tell me what your favorite plugins are. Include the link if you’ve got it.

You probably already know some good methods for getting a lot of traffic to your site(s), but in my opinion, buzz marketing ranks at the top, and the best part — it’s Free! If you aren’t using buzz marketing, you are missing out on an avalanche of links, swarms of traffic, and yes — even fame and fortune!

What is Buzz marketing?

Buzz marketing is the art of creating a “buzz” or generating excitement and making your audience hungry for more. With buzz marketing you can be featured on some of the major sites and go viral, without buying a paid review or link, resulting in a swarm of visitors to your site. How would being on the main page of Digg, Propeller or Reddit impact your business? Your traffic would skyrocket and people would link to you creating even more traffic (you might even get so much traffic that your server will go down)

What is Viral marketing?

Viral marketing is the art of creating a message that will be spread voluntarily by others for free.

Benefits of Buzz and Viral Marketing techniques

I can explain this in just four simple words: links, traffic, name recognition and money. As webmasters we all want links and traffic as these lead to money in the long run. Without traffic our sites are dead in the water.

Step-by-Step Buzz Marketing Methods

Here are some topics that are crucial if you want to create a buzz for your articles, websites or blog posts.

1: Your Information Needs to Have Broad Appeal

You all know what the meaning of “niche”. This might come as a surprise to you, but niche-specific articles often don’t have the mass appeal and are more difficult to spread virally than content that has a broader appeal.

Here is an example: Let’s say you write an article on Digg, a popular Web 2.0 site and your title is “Digg Censors Content.” With a dull title like that, you could have killer content but not create a buzz or get linked to or even read. Most likely, readers will be skimming titles and pass that one right up.

To make this article have a broader appeal, change the title of this article from “Digg Censors Content” to “Ding Dong, Digg is Dead”, as Problogger did. Now that is a headline that will certainly stir up controversy and curiosity, create a buzz and get linked to and spread virally. In one simple step, you can increase the probability of this article being a success simply by changing the headline and topic to one with broad appeal and one that makes people curious enough to read it.

2: Be Negative and Go Viral

Notice also that the article, “Ding Dong, Digg is Dead” is a negative article about Digg. Content with a negative slant will get discussed more than a positive slant! Search engines are very adept when it comes to finding information, especially reviews. Many readers out there search for the negatives of a product, website or even a person or event.

Bad news travels faster and farther than good news, and you can use this to your advantage. Have you noticed what proportion of the news is bad news? It is a huge percentage.

Negative topics cause controversy. Readers will comment agreeing and disagreeing with you, and that creates great content and buzz and spreads virally.

Look at the buzz stories of the past several months and here are some of the articles you will see:

o Mortgages/Foreclosure (negative)
o Gas Prices (negative)
o Britney Spears stories (negative)
o George Bush/Politics (negative)

How many headlines do you think Britney Spears would get if all the Paparazzi had to say is that she was a glowing example of motherhood, she was at the top of her career, and her marriage sound? Not many, is my guess. Trust me, a negative slant always has more chance of creating a buzz.

3: Resource Lists

People love lists! Resource lists, Tips and Tricks, Helpful Hints, “Best Of” lists — readers love lists. Anything in list format is a guaranteed winner. To create interest, simply add a number to the headline. As an example, using our “Digg” topic, you might use “Ten Reasons Why Digg Sucks. This combines both a negative slant and your list technique — easy but deadly!

4: Be Unique

This trick applies to both your headline and your content. The Internet is a very crowded place, and everyone is trying to grab some attention. So if you want to get noticed, you must provide interesting, unique content that stands out from the crowd.

Think creatively, don’t be afraid of controversy, be edgy or even weird, - try it all. Put some personality into your posts and articles. You can never be too creative!

5: Curiosity Killed the Cat and Gets Readers Attention

If you want to create buzz, arousing your reader’s curiosity is a dynamite method. Use a teaser in your headline and you’ll create a headline that makes people want to know more.

Looking at the existing Digg front page content today, there are some articles that attract curiosity:

Here are their titles:

5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do

The Science of Toga Parties: Are Belushi and Animal House to Blame?

The 5 Best Foods That Will Kill You

Wouldn’t you want to read those stories? Notice that not only do they use a teaser in the headline, but they also use the list method.

6: Packaging

Your website template and overall appearance are crucial too. Something as simple as adding an image in your blog post that brings your topic to life visually can make all the difference.

7: Shifting the Focus From Me to You

Shift the focus of the article from first person “me and I” to second person “you”.

Example: Do YOU want to know how to make ….

Doing this puts the focus on the reader, involves them, and helps to keep their attention. How do you feel when you are talking to someone who only talks about themselves? Pretty boring, isn’t it?

Summary

Above are seven methods I use to create buzz. I have personally seen thousands of people swarming to an article after bookmarking it, using these techniques.

Most would agree that links are one of the most valuable assets of any website or blog. They drive traffic and help to increase pagerank. This, in turn, makes your web property more valuable and better able to sell text links, paid reviews, and affiliate products. They also help you to rank higher in Google which can bring a huge amount of traffic daily.

Is the Traffic Targeted?

I’m not going to pretend that the traffic from a winning buzz marketing campaign is highly targeted traffic. If you want laser targeted traffic, you can always run a PPC campaign. The point of these techniques are they are FREE. Anyone, regardless of budget constraints, can use buzz marketing to get traffic and search engine ranking.

So How Do I Make Some Money With Buzz Marketing?

Think of buzz marketing as a launching pad or your 15 minutes of fame. It is a way to get noticed. Always follow up successful buzz campaigns with more interesting content or your new found readers will quickly lose interest and move on. Use the attention you get, the traffic and links, your opt-in email subscriptions and feed subscribers to monetize the success of your buzz campaigns.