As I said in an earlier post blogadvertisingstore is moving forward! A few advertisers are testing our services (some of you already wrote about their products) and that’s good news.

In the next few days, we’ll release the second version of our website. The most important change you’ll observe is the design. The new design will enable easier navigation, faster loading, XHTML/CSS validation. Here’s a preview on how PP will look like:

As you know yesterday we’ve paid all bloggers who reached $50.

In your finances section is clearly stated:

Important: When your total unpaid earnings reach $50, we’ll send you a payment on the 1rst of the next month. For example, if your total unpaid earnings reached $50 during November, we would send you a payment on December 1. If your total unpaid earnings haven’t yet reached $50, they’ll roll over to the next month and accrue until they meet the $50 threshold.

Many of you asked us why we had to set a threshold.

There are many reasons. As you all know the Internet is stuffed with a lot of improper tactics. Everybody wants money but once paid, there are bloggers who uses to delete their blog entries. This is so frustrating… it’s just unfair. Having the $50 threshold helps us to control (not 100%) these tactics, and to protect our advertisers.

I am really sorry for any inconveniences this issue may cause. However, fair bloggers (we’ll implement a solution for this) will have the threshold removed after reaching a certain number of approved and paid blog posts.

What’s your opinion about the new design?

We grabbed IE8 from Microsoft Internet Explorer homepage, and begun the testing. We’ve solved the rendering problem and I want to tell you all what to do if you see some errors in IE8 beta.

It doesn’t worth much attention fixing errors, creating other CSS files (in Internet Explorer 8), until the final version of the famous browser will be released.

What can you do?

You can implement an Emulation Tag.

There are two ways to implement this tag:

* On a per-site basis, add a custom HTTP header

X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7

* On a per-page basis, add a special HTML tag to each document, right after the head tag

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7">

Implementing the HTTP header is beneficial if a site owner wants most of their site to render as it did in IE7 or if there are no plans to update site content.

The X-UA-Compatible tag and header override any existing DOCTYPE. Also, the mode specified by the page takes precedent over the HTTP header. For example, you could add the EmulateIE7 HTTP header to a site, and set specific pages to display in IE8 mode (by using the meta-tag with content=”IE8”).

Using the IE=EmulateIE7 compatibility tag is a simple way for users to continue their current experience when browsing your site until you can update with more standards-compliant content. Although adding this tag will prevent most display issues, you may also need to update your site to properly detect IE8.

Another thing we’ve fixed was a minor bug from the affiliation referral tracking system. I want to assure all of you that even if a few clicks might of been lost, there’s no problem at all because the magic happens when a referral signs up as an advertiser and creates an opportunity. But dont’ worry, because our affiliation system is also tracking (using a second tracking method) the payment button from advertiser’s account, so nobody lost eventual earnings.

Another change you probably noticed was our new live help system, (delivered in a few minutes) powered by Stardevelop. Thanks guys. The updated version is cleaner, works faster and is more intuitive. I hope you’ll enjoy it – also has a ‘Coffee time’ button.

Here a printscreen of what our support department sees:

In the near future we plan to subscribe to a phone company, so we can hear each other.

I will mention one more tine our thanks for those who wrote about us. You’re great!

I have a few announcements to make and in this post I’ll also cover a few aspects on what we’ve made in the last few days.

First of all, I want to say a big ‘Thank You’ to those bloggers who had time and will to write a few words about how they discovered blogadvertisingstore. We appreciate your gesture!

I want you to know that our prime objective is to attract advertisers, and we are doing everything we can to create best advertising network. But, we know that we’re only 1 month old, and miracles don’t just happen on the Internet, but we feel comfortable because we know that each step we make is FORWARD.

We’ve also worked hard on the SEO aspects of blogadvertisingstore, and I do believe that our efforts pays off. To understand what I mean, just search “blog advertising” in Google.

Another aspect we’ve worked on – is the payment system and it’s scheme. In an effort to cut off the PayPal fees when bloggers receive their earnings (on the 1rst of each month), we’ve decided to set a $25 threshold.

When your total unpaid earnings reach $25, we’ll send you a payment on the 1rst of the next month. For example, if your total unpaid earnings reached $25 during November, we would send you a payment on December 1.

If your total unpaid earnings haven’t yet reached $25, they’ll roll over to the next month and accrue until they meet the $25 threshold.

As most of you saw, we’ve also introduced an easy affiliation system. Our affiliates earn $15.00 for each advertiser that creates a campaign. Many of you already registered as an affiliate and much will.

Another checked line from our ‘to do’ list is the Live Chat support. Tested and works like a charm. Our next goal in this area is to implement a tool free phone number and 24/7 support.

We’ve approved hundred of blogs, but unfortunately we had to reject about twice more blogs than we accepted. The common reasons were described here: How to submit and verify a blog at blogadvertisingstore?

In the background we are thinking to re-design a bit some parts of the website. Any suggestions? Colour theme?

These being said, I wish you a nice day/evening.

I will tell you why.

A “get paid to post” network is just a platform where bloggers are connected with advertisers. Blogherald is stating (here) that the number of blogs now exceeds 50 million worldwide. Can you imagine that? Of course, there are webmasters with more then one blog. Everything is fine, so far. A weblog is an online journal, where people express thoughts, write about them, about their family. They can also write about products they like, services and so on.

But for those who want to advertise their products and services on these blogs there is a criteria that must be accomplished: the number of visitors a blog receives.

You see, If you would like to promote your product, where would you go to present it? In a place where live 50 people or in a highly populated place? The answer is obvious. You have to have audience, interested people in what you are selling. This is… advertising.

How Blog Advertising Works?

Since the advent of the Internet, Internet advertising has been very popular. Many companies, groups and businesses have taken exploit this opportunity and you can see displayed on each Web page you visit. Each consumer can search using search engines and type the keyword in relation to what they are looking for, then press search, and they are numerous. It is a fast and cheap publicity.

It is really easy for all Business-to-one personalized website, with which they promote, directly interact with the client more information about their products and services. Regular newsletter, discounts can be inserted on the ground, in the interest of website visitors.

I know blogger networks with 100.000+ bloggers subscribed. When advertisers create a new opportunity they look after two main factors:

1. PageRank
2. Alexa value

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set.

Alexa rankings are based upon only Alexa Tool Bar users who visit your site and then used to calculate and estimate the traffic.

To check your site’s Alexa ranking, visit alexa.com and click the “Traffic Ranking” tab near the top of the screen. Then enter the web site URL. The next page should show a screenshot of its home page, its popularity ranking, trends regarding traffic increases or decreases, which countries it is the most popular in, and other information. While ratings like 450,000 or 873,000 may seem poor to people unfamiliar with Alexa, they are actually fairly good;

There are blogs with no visitors and Pagerank 3 or 4. But we DO NOT sell PageRank, blogadvertisingstore isn’t a SEO company but an advertising company. And we want advertisers to actually advertise on blogs.

We are receiving each day hundreds of blog submissions but unfortunately we disapprove about 80% of them. But there are still good quality blogs.

The most common rejection reason is the lack of articles/posts. I saw hundreds of blogs with… one (1) post, and that’s all.

As we stated in our TOS:

Blogs must be live for a minimum of ninety (90) days, counted from the date of the blog’s first post, with at least twenty (20) pre-existing posts written in the 90 days prior to registration with the blogadvertisingstore Marketplace.

Another common reason is the excess of outgoing links, blinking (annoying) pictures. Usually these kind of websites can be compared with a Christmas tree. Would anybody see a spot hided between the brenches of a Christmas tree? I wouldn’t. Most of the visitors wouldn’t.

Got the idea?

We want to deliver traffic, interested customers, buyers. Bloggers get paid for sending once in a while these visitors to the advertiser’s websites.

So, we are sorry for all blogs with no visitors but a few. These blog owners can attract visitors by:

• Writing unique content posts
• Keeping a clean website
• Optimizing the Meta Tags in order to get better rankings in Search Engines
• Submitting your blog to relevant web directories

You will see that following these simple tips in a few weeks visitors will knock at your door. And then you can tell them about a great product you saw somewhere…

Cheers.