There is a new kid on the block!

ViralBlogAds.com has partnered with Simon Emery (creator of OIOpublisher) to form a new blog advertising program.

ViralBlogAds is a Pay-Per-Click image ad network for blogs. Their focus is on producing a robust and easy to use advertising platform. At present only 125×125 and 468×60 banners are accepted in the usual jpg, png and gif format. You can see my ad on the left of the Entrecard banner just to the right.

Once released publishers will be able to sell advertising space on their website. Publishers will be able to add up to 3 free ads to exchange with other users. All active publishers are also eligble to use our blog ad exchange to increase their own site’s exposure; not to mention a chance to win a share of our monthly bonus jackpot.

At this stage, ViralblogAds is in pre-launch stage but you can sign up here and win a prize from the pre-launch competition fund.

Upon joining ViralBlogAds.com you will be given a unique referral link with which to start earning commissions. And the commission? - How does 15% of earnings of all publishers that you refer, for life sound! The commission is 20% for all who sign-up during pre-launch.

As an advertiser, I am not to sure how this works until ViralBlogAds.com is officially released. They do state on their website that prices are market driven, utilising an easy to use bidding system. They also offer an ad check feature to gauge the coverage of a campaign across the network.

Statistics are broken down into a daily archive, enabling advertisers to drill down to the stats of specific domains. Analyzing and tweaking the performance of a campaign has never been easier.

A couple of interesting features mentioned are the Blog Ad Exchange. This feature allows publishers to advertise their own blog(s) on the network, if there is no inventory available at the time. This way, they can make sure that publishers receive exposure in a mutually beneficial manner.

Another feature is the VBA Bonus Fund. The fund is a publisher incentive program, designed to reward those who actively participate on the site with a larger cash bonus. At the end of each month, the fund will be split between several eligible publishers, who will be selected using random.org.

Once officially released i will write an update post on some of the features ViralBlogAds.com have for both publishers and advertisers.

As mentioned previously, ViralblogAds is still in pre-launch stage but you can sign up to ViralBlogAds.com here.

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It is only Day 2 into The Thirty Day Challenge and already there is problems.

Market Samurai - the much hyped, latest and greatest keyword research tool, available to the 30DC users for a month, seems to have a few issues.

I know i was warned that a lot of users of Market Samurai would have issues, but honestly, if they knew there would be issues for 1000’s of users beforehand why offer this product, if you also know most of the users are beginners?

The Thirty Day Challenge is supposed to teach you how to make your first dollar online. So here is an idea. I will make a product and try to market it. But you know what, i will make it so 1000’s of users won’t be able to use it. How much do you think i will make? Now is that a good image for the 30DC to be putting out?

Another thing i don’t understand is Market Samurai’s system requirements. You need a 2GHz or faster processor and 1Gb or greater of ram. Again, if this challenge is mainly aimed at beginners, how many beginners can afford a set up like this? My 1.6GHz with 640mg ram had major issues.

And do we receive help from the 30DC forums? No, moderators just direct you to the Market Samurai support and forum (sound familar Entrecard and SezWho members). Guess what? Another forum i have to join

But to be honest who cares, i can’t use it anyway because of my modem.

Apparently Market Samurai disconnects you every two minutes. So off to the support forums. And guess what?

Answer: Unfortunately, the nature of Market Samurai requires it to request a large amount of data in a short period of time. There is no way to avoid this at this point in time.

And the comedy continues,

Siemens Speedstream modem (which most Telstra users will be using)

In this case, you will need to contact the manufacturer or supplier (possibly your Internet Service Provider) regarding this fault.

My Answer: Yeah right, ring Telstra and explain this problem to them. By the time i actually speak to a real person i could have got the same research results using the old methods.

First thank you all for your comments on my last post Twitter Plugin. From some of the comments left it seems there is still a few who do not understand the full potential of Twitter.

Originally i was going to write a follow up post on some of the advantages of using Twitter but in my weekly scan of my favourite blogs i came across a post from Soren Jordansen titled Twitter In Plain English which couldn’t explain it any easier. Here is just a sample of Soren’s post,

Twitter is also a very powerful way to get noticed by leaders in your industry. You want to seek out people in your industry who are more successful than you are, and add them to the list of people your are following.

When they post at Twitter, you can reply to their tweets and they will be able to read it. Don’t spam them, you need to add to the conversation, offer your help on something, or post an intelligent question. If you do this the right way these “industry leaders” will start to notice you, and remember you - and trust me that’s a great thing.

Also sometimes these “industry leaders” will reply to you, and that is where the fun begins… All their followers will see that they have found you worth talking to, and they now have the chance to go check out your Twitter page and start following you. You are in other words becoming “famous by association”, and you can really pick up a lot of new Twitter followers this way.

Now you see what potential Twitter has?

If you have never read Soren’s blog you can check it out here, and make sure you subscribe to his feed or newsletter. I am glad i did, as it was how i found out about his great new Twitter plugin Tweet My Blog and receive fantastic IM tips as well.