As you may have noticed, I removed the contextual advertising on my post already (Adsense, Bidvertiser, etc).  For the past 5 months or so, this blog earned a less than 10 US dollars! What a pathetic earnings, isn’t?

Contextual advertising doesn’t wok at all (pay-per-click model), at least for this blog.

What went wrong? Are the ads not beautiful enough to attract the readers? Am I not getting enough traffic?

Here are some hard facts about BlogDeManila:

• BlogDeManila’s first time visitors (unique) has an average of  1,929 per month only!
• Yahoo search engine brings more than 50% of my organic visitors.  Organic visitors are what you call natural or traditional visitors who stumbled upon your blog because of the keyword or set of keyword they entered into a search engine.
• MONEY is my topmost keyword! This is the word that people led to my blog when they search the web. Bing.com actually is bringing more visitors due to this keyword. I thought  BlogDeManila is a blogging resources for bloggers? How come “money” is the keyword that search engine are showing? I guess I need to utilize this word on this site …ahem

From these 3 hard facts alone, probloggers like ShoeMoney, Problogger, Jensense – who are earnings thousands if not hundred thousands a month in Google Adsense (in U$ dollars),  are absolutely correct that a blog for blogger should not have a contextual advertising specially Google Adsense!

The Reason?

Bloggers are blind! They don’t see a thing in your blog. Bloggers are reading your content and they can’t see the ads in your site. Their eyes can scan your entire blogs without seeing a single ad. Why?  They have perfectly trained their eyes, subconsciously, to ignore anything beyond your content. Unless you put some pretty and sexy images near your ads

They have this what I call “selective blindness”.

Am I discouraging you to avoid contextual advertising? Not at all. If you’re site is about food, travel, family, gadgets, personal diary and others, except blog for bloggers, then by all means monetize your blog using all the available contextual advertising out there.

Am I not going to use contextual advertising on BDM’s post anymore? I’m currently looking for a good network advertising company that will provide the best CPM (cost per thousand of impressions) instead of PPC (pay per click) model.

I stumbled upon Smowtion which focuses on display ads and banners. They will pay you based on the number of times the ad has been shown on your site. They are still in beta  but I guess it’s worth trying.

Until I can find the best alternative advertising company for this blog’s posts, you won’t see a single PPC ad If you see an advertising link within the post, I assure that it’s either a direct ads that I’m adding or a CPM ad.

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Entrecard, the free blogging network that launched a virtual economy for bloggers has been acquired by ZipRunner Inc.

According to Graham Langdon, the founder of Entrecard, that he chose ZipRunner among a number of potential suitors because he believed that ZipRunner Inc. has the resources to dedicate to Entrecard.

ZipRunner Inc., a Los Angeles based company have “exciting” vision for Entrecard’s future but they haven’t revealed any concrete plans yet.

What does this mean to Entrecard’s community? I don’t know yet.

Graham is urging all bloggers to a more bigger and better Entrecard. He will now act as an advisor and will help the new team of ZipRunner Inc to take Entrecard the next level.

Graham, just recently started a new blogs about being an entrepreneur and if you want to get in touch with him, you can find his blog at Ontrapranore.com.

Since Entrecard has been bought off already, I wonder what will happen Entrecard now. As of this time, I don’t have any idea. Will ZipRunner Inc. change the rules of the game?

For now, everything is wait and see.

I registered another new domain today but before I did that, I checked my emails which I got from GoDaddy. They have special promo by way of offering discounts using a promo code when registering or transferring a domain.

As you can see from the picture above the normal price of .COM domain name is $10.69 but currently they’re giving it away for $9.99. The good news is, you can still get MORE Discounts if you will use their discount code. Just like what’s you can see on the image below, but if you read further I’ll show you the hidden supercodes that domain buyers are using and keeping all the profits to themselves.

Here are the two promo codes that I received from them via email:

• fbfDom10 - get 10% OFF* our regular prices on .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, and .US domains.
• fbgdhome20 - get 20% OFF* your order of $75 or more. This special offer expires 7/13/2009, so start shopping now! Based on my experienced, this code actually never expires.

TIP: Most Go Daddy coupons are only valid on NEW domain registrations or on domain transfers. Therefore, buy multiple years upfront to save!

More SUPER Promo Codes

Since GoDaddy is sending emails to their customers regarding their promo, I decided to google around if there are other people out there posting their promo codes. Lo and behold, I’ve found some gems lying around ready to be pick-up.

For Renewals

These codes will give you $6.95 for renewal of your domains.

1. ZINE3
2. goxtgi200c
3. steve
4. gaze3

New Domain and Renewal

Here are the additional promo codes that you can use if you are want to get a better deal from GoDaddy.

1. ZINE5 - will give you 10% off any purchase.
2. ZINE7 -will give you $7.49 for each domain instead of $$9.99
3. ZINE25 - receive instant 25% off any purchase of $100 or more

GoDaddy Super Promo Code

The best promo code that I’ve used in registering a new domain is FACEBOOK5. I only paid $5.20, which translates to $5.00 off on domain registration!

TIP: To make sure you are saving the most amount of money, try all codes in your shopping cart. Use the code which one gives you the cheapest domains.

Whether you want to build a Web site for your business, create your family blog, or share photos online with friends, use GoDaddy promo codes today and get all BIG SAVINGS.

Most of the codes that I’ve posted here are working for years already. Saving money is especially important to people these days. Please feel free to share this code to all your friends, post them in your blog, tweet, write them on your facebook status and share in your other social network.

Update (August 16, 2009): This special offer expires 8/29/2009, so start shopping now! Use source code fbgdhome20 to get 20% OFF* your order of $75 or more when you order online at GoDaddy.com

Let’s admit it, Entrecard is now the “currency” of most bloggers. It’s being traded like a real currency. Most of the online contest are also using EC as their prizes.

Entrecard (EC) is first and foremost a free blogging network that truly brings visitors to your blog.  You can earn EC credits which allows you to display an ad of your blog on other blog sites within the community either by “dropping” or clicking the EC “drop” button.

The formula is More EC drop = more visits = more credits = more friends = more links = more traffic!

The  more traffic your blog site is making, the more Mr. Google and Ms. Alexa will love your site. The more adorable  your looks to them, the more you’ll get candies too!

Alright, not the sweet candy but the potential moneys your site can generate. Money? of course! How? Just browse around this blog site and you’ll find the treasures that I’m telling you.

Let’s go back to our the topic. Yes, EC can generate a lot traffic for your site BUT it can cost you money too and this is one of the bad things of Entrecard (EC). How? It happens when a dropper (someone who clicks on the EC “drop” button) clickk on  the button and leave your blog or website right away.

These droppers are what we call “Power Dropper”. They visit blogs solely for the sake of dropping EC cards in order to earn 300 credits in the shortest possible amount of time.  These power droppers can increase your bounce rate which can COST YOU MONEY.

The bounce rate is defined as the percentage of visitors who turn around at the entry page and immediately leave the site. Such visitors “bounce” out and never see additional pages.

With high bounce rate, the traffic that EC droppers gave on you is useless. Google does punish for a high bounce rate, and droppers contribute to a high bounce rate. This is the problem with Entrecard, all this “card dropping” just to get the same crappy traffic back is a waste of time.

BUT, there is still hope. Watch for my next topic on how to best use EC for your benefits.