Content Ads Guide

Last 23th November on Queluz took place the first Google University event in Portugal. Some local publishers and advertisers were invited to a full day event covering manly Adsense and Adwords. The idea behind the event was to help publishers get the best from Google tools and increase the revenue through more effective ad serving. Advertisers had special focus and the Google team promoted the internet advertising through Adwords. Other products like Google Analytics and Webmaster tools were included on the agenda. The new Adsense features had the focus on the end of the event.

Amazon announced that aStore is now out of Beta with a number of great new features. Included in this new release is the ability to build multiple stores under the same Associate ID, create custom categories containing products from multiple Amazon.com categories, populate product categories from Listmania lists, and much, much more. For those of you not familiar with aStore, it gives you the power to create a professional online store that can be embedded within or linked to from your existing websites. With no programming required, you can keep visitors on your sites longer and provide a full shopping experience complete with checkout on Amazon.com. you have to try!

Amazon.com also anounce that between November 14, 2006 and December 31, 2006 you can earn up to $1,000 in additional referral fees using Omakase and aStore! During that time the Associates program will pay an additional 4% for items referred via Omakase or aStore.

A new service was launched recently. ReviewMe should have great interest  to all bloggers. Just get your blog accepted and review the reviewme.com site and start earning cash and get a feel for the system. ReviewMe is giving away $25,000 USD to help get the word out. With this system, bloggers get paid to review products and services on their sites. Bloggers will be paid $20.00 to $200.00 for each completed review that post, depending of several factors. To be accepted into ReviewMe, a blog must meet a minimum number of citations, subscribers, and traffic. One thing that makes ReviewMe different is that you are paid based on your blog’s Alexa, Technorati rankings and other traffic statistics. If your blog is rejected, you may want to return in a few months’ time and submit again.

A new ad network called Turn has launched, and it’s hoping to bring some new technology to the contextual advertising space. With $18 million in VC backing and more than 1,000 advertisers and 30 publishers already in place, Turn offers a unique twist on a channel that is dominated by Google’s AdSense.
Turn is led by search and advertising industry veterans from AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Overture, and Yahoo who know first hand what it takes to create a revolutionary advertising platform for publishers.
According to the Turn website, here’s some of the technology that makes the difference:
• Automatic targeting. Whether you’re an advertiser or publisher, all you have to do is submit your ad or URL. Turn will automatically analyze it and select the most relevant and effective placement. Turn eliminates the complexity of manual targeting and managing keywords and bid prices with technology that automatically selects the best graphical or text ads for any placement.
• Blended targeting. Turn uses sophisticated algorithms to blend more than 60 relevance variables rather than just one or two, the common practice of most networks.
• Bidded CPA pricing model. Turn lets advertisers pay only for the actual performance they want.
Take a look at Turn.com and sign up.