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Viral Marketing

Viral Advertising refers to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet.

Link Referral
Link Referral is a rising leader for Link Exchange service with free advertising benefits. It provides two ways to get traffic to your site
  1. ranking high in our member's site directory, and
  2. our multi-level marketing referral program, which is a hands off method to see increased traffic month after month.
You need to visit, rate and review other members' website. The higher ranking you have the greater the chance that your site will be on the first page of the list and receive more guaranteed visitors.
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Cheap Visitors
CheapVisitors provides a cheap and easy way to drive thousands of real targeted visitors to your website. They pay real people to view your website for up to 60 seconds, which is about the same length as a television advert. Targets real visitors by age, gender and region. Set visitor viewing time and advert appearance. Targets verified buyers with credit cards. It's system also features advanced anti-cheat protection (with unique IP tracking) and high speed visitor delivery.
Cheap Visitors! Less Than One Cent Each!

Pay-per-click Advertising

Pay per click (PPC) is an Internet advertising model used on websites, in which advertisers pay their host only when their ad is clicked. With search engines, advertisers typically bid on keyword phrases relevant to their target market. Content sites commonly charge a fixed price per click rather than use a bidding system.

Cost per click (CPC) is the amount of money an advertiser pays search engines and other Internet publishers for a single click on its advertisement that brings one visitor to its website.

In contrast to the generalized portal, which seeks to drive a high volume of traffic to one site, PPC implements so called affiliate model, that provides purchase opportunities wherever people may be surfing. It does this by offering financial incentives (in the form of a percentage of revenue) to affiliated partner sites. The affiliates provide purchase-point click-through to the merchant. It is a pay-for-performance model -- if an affiliate does not generate sales, it represents no cost to the merchant. The affiliate model is inherently well-suited to the web, which explains its popularity. Variations include, banner exchange, pay-per-click, and revenue sharing programs.
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Best Google Adsense Alternatives

Google may had been the best on pay-per-click advertising with regards to keyword targeting and primary protection on advertisers but there are instances when they deny your application because of the content of your site. If you're an amateur blogger who wants to monetize his site instantly, you can try the best google adsense alternatives. Some have very high entry level in relation to the amount of traffic that your site generates but there are also some you can install into your site and get started in minutes. They are very convenient and user-friendly. They have low payout and accepts Paypal instead of check alone.

Infolinks
Infolinks is one of easiest contextual PPC in the web. Once you sign up, you are asked to incorporate a script into your site and get it active after 48 hours. They have average payment threshold set at $ 50.00. If you love to write and you have quality content you will benefit most using this ad campaign. The ads are really flexible and are relevant to the content of your site. You can run this ad campaign among other PPC ads.
Adbrite
Adbrite is among the most flexible PPC ad campaigns available. Not only that if offers banner advertising they have flexible text-ad campaigns that are keyword targeted. They have also introduced the full-page ad campaign which will show on regular intervals. They offer high CPM rates and the leading PPC who innovated the Adbrite Pic. This technology have incorporated a javascript that will run on a photo in your site once your mouse hovers on it. They have low payment threshold but its advisable to set them at $50 to $100 to compensate for the check processing fees.
Bidvertiser - Received $ 10.23
Bidvertiser now allows PTC related sites to be included on their ad campaigns, now you can't run it along with other PPC ads who despise pay-to-click sites and autosurf sites. They have very low payment threshold set at $10.00 and accepts Paypal or check. They have very fast ad delivery and poor support. Take caution on using their $20 free clicks coz it only accepts credit cards so make sure you pause them before it exhausts the whole $20 or you'll find yourself crying for the amount of bills it took from you. It sends warning when you're not running the ads, but leaves you uninformed when you have run out of credits and consumes your CC limit. Bidvertiser Payment Proof.
SpeedyAds
Entireweb is the company that operates speedyads. Its the same company that offers a number of SEO tools for publishers and advertisers and a wide website directory the offers premium submission. Minimum Payout for Publishers is $ 25.00. Accepts Paypal. With an improved and enhanced overview of the system, you will have full control over the traffic and cost of your campaigns. As a publisher of SpeedyAds, you always have the latest statistics on revenue earned with the system. With a brand new, easy-to-use layout, you are able to switch between your publisher and advertiser account in just one click! Info boxes.
Chitika
Chitika is another top performing PPC ad campaign in the internet for it only markets its ad on US visitors and other selected countries for its CPM ads. The have very flexible ad formats and high payment threshold. I do love their security protocol against click fraud. It shows how much they take care of their advertisers. They have banner ads, contextual ads and introduced a new innovative way of showing consecutive ads when you have a white space portion on your site. You can only see it running if you have high resolution LCD monitor or on wide screen format.
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AdToll
AdToll is another good google alternative, excellent support group and wide variety of ad campaigns. Like chitika it only showcases its ads on few selected countries to protect their advertisers from click fraud and CPM abuse. High payment threshold set at $100 and only pays through check. If you are an international user, you get to file an income tax return and receive a call from one of their agents.