Pyrabang Review: An Advertising Network Worth Joining


A sample Pyrabang ticker object

Pyrabang (disclosure – I will get a referral fee if you sign up for a paid subscription via this link) has its faults, but after looking at a diversity of options and advertising products (including Adsense) I’m happy to recommend it to people interested in developing consistent marketing that can be customized to blend with your site’s look and feel.

The service costs $5.95 per month for “Gold Members.” There are free accounts but you don’t get access to the cool features unless you pay the $5.95 per month. That money goes a long way, though, because posts on the network are only a penny each. When you sign up for Pyrabang some of the money compensates your sponsor, and $0.40 per month is converted into 400 “bangs,” the advertising currency of the system. Posts require a 10 bang investment from the author; two are taken as a transaction cost and eight remain as your “stake” in the post. Every time someone clicks on one of your links, you are credited a bang.

That means, in case you were drowsing, that you can actually earn money writing compelling, clickable copy for your posts. Read More »

Content Beats Microspamming: Niche Marketing on Twitter

The influence of Twitter as an advertising force is only just becoming known. Traditional media consulting would suggest that you should treat marketing on Twitter as any other “media buy.” However, the prevalence of bots, automated accounts, and other spam techniques suggest that the “Wild West” phase of Twitter marketing has not yet finished. Indeed, it may leave an indelible mark on the landscape: social media analyst Karl Long suggests that the . He recently re-posted that theory on Twitter, probably in response to the most recent wave of phishing that hijacked a number of user accounts and started using them to push “I made [exorbitant amount] today with [Google Adsense super system X]” messages to anyone and everyone connected to that user.
Read More »

Niche Blog Workshop Step 3: Act First, Review Later

Gracious, this took a while! I apologize for the distance between the posts. I wanted to be sure that I had something to actually show you, and to give you a sense of what it would look like as you populate your blog with affiliate clusters and whatnot. It’s important once you have a general notion of where you’re headed to just push the blog into existence. Go quickly and don’t ruminate overmuch on the grand plan – the less time you spend perfecting the idea, the more time you’ll be actually generating content and finding meaningful and relevant affiliate relationships.

So, without further ado, I give you .
Read More »