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Usfreeads is a site that allows it’s members to get free classified ads, and has been around for 9 years now, and  i have seen tremendous buzz about it around the web since i started blogging, which was over a year now.

The buzz about usfreeads is how it will help a common user to make money placing classified ads. It seems that thousands of users are taking advantage of the supposed benevolent way google looks towards usfreeads pages. It seems, that a well written ad  will most likely to perform well on google search ranking. You can look around and you will see that many “praise the gods” and “worship” the service provided by them.

Well to me, all that is a bunch of crap even if it is true (don’t take me wrong :p). The only thing the reviews made me do is to try it out for myself. Check the results of my experiences (yes another experience) and see if a common guy, with no special skills like me can make something positive out of this. So about 3 months ago a registered for a free account to give it a try round.

Ok, the first obstacle i found was the free account. It totally sucked. You were only allowed to make 2 ads, with no html, images or links to the product you want to sell!!! Point being: They want you to buy a premium membership. So free ads my ass (pardon my french lol).

I even bother to try and write an ad with this circunstances. Total waste of time, it wouldn’t bring me nothing extraordinary and in the end it was rejected. So i left my account getting dust until i could get some time to experiment. So today i subscribed the premium membership with one week free trial. After that, it will be $9.99/month.There is also a gold membership for only $10/year but to say the truth, if you see what premium gives and what gold gives, you will choose premium.

Ok, the tools are set, and i just need to choose some products and write some ads. I think my experiment will last a month, probably more and the success or failure will depend on the amount of ads i write, the quality of them and off course on how good usfreeads perfoms on delivering targeted traffic.

So the experiment will involve two types of money making programs:

1- My newest Bans Store. One that i have put more time to develop and the first one that i can call a real store. The other one were just “experiments” lol;

2- Affiliate programs from several CPA ad networks.

Now, do you want to try for yourself? Then just join Usfreeads and get a premium membership and i invite you to share your experiense here. (yes is is an affiliate link, im weak lol)

IF you want to see where this goes then subscribe my rss feed to keep easier to track the evolution process.

This weekend i read a post from Custodio, that i have found very useful. The post is in portuguese, so i have decided to adapt the text to english (hope you don’t mind custodio :p)

Well, probably, the majority of you have used adwords, or similar ones, to try and sell something. If this is the case, then you don’t want to drive loads of traffic to your selling page. You want to drive traffic that actually will convert. You must remember, that using campaigns with adwords for example, you will pay per click, and high PPC with low conversion ratios, will sometimes, if not most of the times, ruin your campaign and make you loose money.

Well, for this, microsoft has a free tool called Online Commercial Intent, OCI for short. This tool analyses determined keywords that have high chances to convert into a sell. This way you can eliminate the keywords from adwords that don’t convert well, saving you a few bucks ;).

OCI has 2 options for you to use. You can choose to check web addresses or keywords only which is what we want to check in this case. Let’s pick some keywords from a mini-site that i have: Wii Finder.

Using OCI for the keyword “wii availability” i will get something like this:

As you can see, the keyword has a commercial intention of 0.91

What does this mean?

This tool, gave a value from 0 to 1. Being 0, the lowest intention (no chance of selling something), and 1, meaning that it has a high probability of selling. So, i can say that this keyword has a good chance of selling. This makes me want to invest sometime on some affiliate links

Now, what i have to do now, is run this tool to my keywords, and eliminate all the “non converting” keywords. With this i expect to save some bucks.

Well, i usually don’t plan to write about my monthly earnings (has some bloggers do, even if they aren’t worth the mention :p), and this is only because i want to show you something i can brag about. lol But this month, i decided to show the blog statistics and earnings of the previous month. I think this was the right time to show you some more info about this blog.

Probably, march was the worst month of this blog in terms of earnings, contrasting with February, which was by far the best month so far.

So let me show you how blog.dahh.net performed in terms of statistics:

This blog failed to reach by a thin number (800) the top 100,000 in alexa ranking at the end of march. But, right now the domain is ranked at 98,616! hehe. Of course, this blog is in a subdomain, and the alexa rank is influenced by the traffic going to the main domain: dahh.net which is a portuguese forum community. Nevertheless, this subdomain is responsible for 50% of the traffic source.

The peak of the RSS subscription was 36. This is an aspect it really needs to evolve. (want to help me?)

1832 absolute unique visitors

3645 page views

Average time on site: 2min and 07 secs.

Bounce Rate: 75% thanks to entrecard

Traffic Sources:

Search engines: 48.03% - i received a great deal of traffic from long tail keywords

Referring sites: 39.81%

Direct Traffic: 12.16%

My major traffic comes from United States, followed by Portugal, Canada, India and United Kingdom

Now for the profit:

The results from the total from my 2 main sites.

Using third party publishers: $58.43

Reviews:$36.95

Affiliate marketing: 12,08 - Definitely, an aspect to improve!

Total: $107.46 revenue

Now for the losses:

Bought OIOpublisher: -$37 (this is a great buy! i recommend it!)

Bought BANS -$97 + taxes (haven’t got enough time to develop decent stores.)

Advertising in other sites such as Buckserv or Moneybites: - $37

Total losses: -$171

March total: -$63.54

This is the first month with losses. But i don’t see it in a negative point of view. Some investments were needed, and they were made thinking in the future. In order to produce better results some investments are required, don’t you agree?

Off course, the results for april will depend on my time (final exams month), the quality of visitors and your participation and i count with your help