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New: Outdoor Link Exchange Message Board
Author: Wade Sonenberg 05 16th, 2008We couldn’t find a place for owners of Outdoor related websites to get together and trade links, banners, and blogrolls…. so we just created one. Everyone is welcome, and it’s of course free for all outdoor webmasters.
Trading links with relevant websites is a great way to increase your traffic and search engine rankings, so come on over and start trading links today.
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Outdoor Link Exchange Message Board
read comments (1)8 Ways to Monetize your Hunting or Fishing Website
Author: Wade Sonenberg 05 16th, 2008
Internet advertising revenue is exploding across the web, while print and traditional media advertising is losing traction. Want to be part of the party? Here’s eight ways to earn cash by advertising on your hunting, fishing, or outdoors related website.
- Pay Per Click (PPC) Ads
Google Adsense is the grandaddy, but Yahoo and Microsoft offer PPC programs as well. Pay Per Click advertising works by displaying contextually relevant ads on your site, and allowing advertisers to bid on keywords. Once a visitor clicks on an ad on your website or blog, you get a percentage of the earnings. - Direct Placement
A simple advertise here link or button where the ad will be placed can do the job. This can be easy as an agreed dollar amount per month, or more complex such as setting up an ad-server to track impressions and click-throughs. - Sponsored Posts or Reviews
Yes, you can paid to review products and services on your website or blog. Disclosure and ethics are a topic for another day, but if you’re interested check out: PayPerPost and SponsoredReviews - Text Link Ads
Surprisingly, text link ads can be a big money maker due to their value in search engine optimization. And it’s really simple to do, just insert a link into an article, page, or and get a monthly fee. See TextLinkAds and LinkWorth - Sell Products
You can now sell products through your website that you never have to see, touch, or ship. You don’t even have to handle credit cards. Popular setups include selling some of Amazon.com’s millions of products through an Astore (do a search on fishing lures, there are tons of them), or selling everything from hunting or fishing related T-shirts, coffee cups, and mouse pads from CafePress.com - Affiliate Programs
Affiliate programs work by you placing affiliate links or ads on your site. If a visitor clicks on the ad and ends up buying something, you get a commission on the sale. There are many, many general affiliate programs out there, but here are some Outdoor Industry related programs:
- BassPro Shops
- Cabelas
- Associate Programs (Outdoors)
- LandBigFish.com - Donations
Doing good work, or have something really worth reading? Simply create a paypal donations button. Remember - if you don’t ask, you don’t get. - Newsletters
Got a newsletter with a good circulation? Add a sidebar or banner advertising for fishing or hunting related products. Get advertisers by sticking an “advertise here” link on your sign up page or in the newsletter itself.
How much $$$?
Traffic amounts and the competitiveness of your site’s niche will largely dictate whether you’re making beer money or enough for a new boat. But remember, there’s nothing wrong with beer money…
read comments (0)Does Your Website Look Good? Are You Sure?
Author: Wade Sonenberg 05 8th, 2008
Unfortunately, websites display differently on different computers. What may look perfect on your setup, may look horrible on others. The obvious problem with this, is that many of your customers may be running any of them. Websites layout differently due do different browsers, operating systems, as well as the actual website encoding itself. Some computers support a million colors, some support sixteen. Even valid XHTML/CSS designs will jump all over the page in Internet Explorer 6.0!
While diagnosing and fixing problems may or may not be easy, discovering a problem is very easy.
Enter BrowserShots.org to the rescue. BrowserShots allows you to check your web site’s appearance on literally dozens of browser and operating systems for free. You can then either view or download JPG images of how your site lays out in all of them. It usually takes 15-30 minutes to load them, but you can go do something else while it loads.
An example of AmericanVagabondPhotography.com in the Netscape Navigator browser on a Ubuntu Linux operating system. It’s not important that I don’t know what either of those are, what’s important is the site looks clean in whatever they are….
24 Fishing and Hunting Directories
Author: Wade Sonenberg 04 27th, 2008
Submitting your guide service or outfitter to directory websites is a good idea for two reasons:
First, because many of these sites come up in major search engines for a variety of phrases, which can lead potential clients to your website. Second, it can help build your search engine rankings by giving you high quality, relevant inbound links to your charter or guide website. Most are free, and some require you to link back to their site from yours (reciprocal linking), but all offer web links as well as contact info pointed towards your business.
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