Hello all! During the creation of BenjaminCass.com, I promised myself that I would explore the treacherous and deep sea of advertising and release the truth into the wild (i.e. to you, my readers). Although I have owned multiple other sites in the past, I found myself restricted to using mainly Adsense advertising, with no experimentation of new and (possibly) improved advertising services. This is why I made this promise. I wanted to give the middle men a fighting chance.

As you may know, BenjaminCass.com is still in the “baby stages” of its life, so please take into account that I currently have an Alexa rank of 720,601 and an “n/a” PageRank status (although I’m predicted to have a 5/10 at the next go-around). Listed below are the advertising services (and other online money-making services) that I have tried during my time spent here at BenjaminCass.com:

Google Adsense: I am trying to ween BenjaminCass.com fully off of Adsense (I have other sites that use Adsense religiously), and my stats will explain why. For the 15 days that I have used Google Ads on my site, I have had over 1,800 impressions. However, accompanying those 1,800 impressions is a 0.17% click-through-rate. If each click is averaged at about $0.25, you do the math. It really hasn’t been profitable for me.

Kontera: See all those double-underlined words in my posts? Thats Kontera’s In-Text advertising program, a.k.a. ContentLink, at work. During the 7 days that I have been using it, I have received over 1,050 impressions with a 1.39% CTR. With each click a little more than $0.10, I think you may be able to figure out a range in how much money I’ve made. Almost $2. Depressing to the core.

Text Link Ads: Because my site is new and was made after the most recent PageRank update, Text Link Ads did not accept me into their sales department (when I get my PageRank, I’m pretty sure they’ll accept me). However, I am a part of their affiliate program, in which I make money on a referral basis. Unfortunately, I have made 0 referrals to date, thus I have earned a pitiful $0.00.

Chikita eMiniMalls: I recently signed up for Chitika eMiniMalls and placed one small ad on my right sidebar. During its seven day existence, I had over 1250 impressions with a .45% CTR, making me just over a dollar.

Adbrite: Adbrite seems to be the most promising new advertising service on the market. With a plethora of different ad options and super-high payouts, Adbrite lets you control what and how content is shown on your site. See that “Your Ad Here” ad on the left sidebar? That’s Adbrite. Total earnings- $0.29 with 160 impressions.

myLot: I just signed up for myLot a few days ago, and after about one hour of discussing different topics on myLot, I made $0.24. Although it’s not much, myLot offers a lot more than just monetary benefits. The myLot community is full of exciting new people, and the payout is only one of the many incentives of being a member. Check it out if you have time.

Sold-It-Myself-Advertising and Services: This was by far my biggest money-maker. I made over $80 in one week by selling my own ad space, writing reviews, and making digital graphics for other bloggers. Again, for every blogger that hasn’t tried this, be sure to give it a shot. Read more about SIYA here.

AGLOCO: After my post and video of AGLOCO, I have received three direct referrals and two indirect referrals with a total of 7.5 hours spent surfing the net. I rank in the top 27.70% of all AGLOCO users. So what is all that worth? I don’t know, and I won’t until the end. Hopefully something .

All Summed Up:

Money made during first 2 weeks of BenjaminCass.com: $88.34

Domain and Hosting Fees for BenjaminCass.com: $95.40

Money Spent on Advertising/ Other: $8.00

Root Beers Bought for Other Sites: $12.50

Hopefully I’ll eventually make some profit! I hope this helped you out if you were deciding whether or not to use one of the services above. Contact me if you have questions about any of the ad services above!

– Benjamin Cass, BenjaminCass.com, Copyright 2007

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After yesterday’s “The AGLOCO Money-Making Train!” post, I received quite a few emails from readers who weren’t able to download the Viewbar, wanting to know how the AGLOCO Viewbar looked in action. For them , I decided to make this short video (4:36) showing the basic AGLOCO Viewbar funtions. If you didn’t read “The AGLOCO Money-Making Train!,” I would suggest reading the article before you watch the video (just to understand the general idea of AGLOCO and their new Viewbar). I’d love to hear your feedback! Sign up for AGLOCO for free here!

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CHOO! CHOO! ALL-ABOARD THE AGLOCO MONEY-MAKING TRAIN!

For those of you who haven’t heard about AGLOCO yet… it’s time for you to listen. AGLOCO is giving away shares in their company just for searching the Internet.

“So what am I going to do with shares in this company?”

The answer to this is simple. You sell them. For money. Possibly lots of money.

During the “dot com boom,” an extremely similar plan was carried out, under the alias “AllAdvantage.” It has been said that AllAdvantage was the 1st AGLOCO. During it’s time, AllAdvantage earned over $200 million in venture capital and paid out over $120 million of that to its members who ran their AGLOCO-like Viewbar. Moreover, I have read about certain individuals earning over $65,000 for using the AllAdvantage toolbar and referrals… this could be foreshadowing the future for many people.

“How do I get shares?”

Sign up here or by clicking the ” AGLOCO” logo on this blog’s sidebar. After you sign-up, you will need to download the spyware-free AGLOCO Viewbar from their site. After installation, explore the Internet like you normally would. After that, oh wait… there is no after that. That’s how easy it is. According to AGLOCO representatives, each member will receive 1 share for each hour spent surfing the net using the AGLOCO toolbar, with a maximum of 5 hours per month (5 shares per month). After you have made your five shares, you can turn off the Viewbar until the next month. However, the real money-making comes in with referrals. For each successful referral, you receive money for every hour the referred surfs using the AGLOCO toolbar. With each referral, you continue to receive more and more income for their time spent. The best thing about this is that there is no cap on the amount of shares you can receive from referral usage. There is a great guide to the referral program here.

The absolute worst possible outcome out of AGLOCO is you make money… not too threatening, is it?

Below is a picture of the Viewbar in action:

Stay tuned for my soon-to-be-released video of the AGLOCO Viewbar… I’m going to start editing my footage as soon as I finish writing this post .

To learn more about the AGLOCO, go here.

UPDATE: The AGLOCO website seems to be running unusually slow lately (most likely due to all of the sign-ups), so bear with it until it speeds up again soon!

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