Increase Your PR and Alexa Rank With Adgitize

Marketing May 30th, 2009

I’m not one to go out and spend money on advertising. As a matter of fact, the only paid advertising I’ve ever had was through the redemption of a GoogleAds coupon that I received from my hosting company. That was quite awhile back and it was spent on a games site. $50 worth of ads. $20 worth of profit. Whoop-ee-ding.

That $50 coupon taught me a lot about GoogleAds. It actually taught me quite a bit about advertising in general. I watched my Google PR & my Alexa rank rise. Then, 2 months later, when the money ran out, I watched it all plummet.

With no advertising out there, and with my low ranks, my site wasn’t showing up on search engines anymore. I lucked out by finding a domain that seems obvious to people searching for games. If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t be making a dime.

Having those high ranks did wonders for my traffic but it was a catch 22. Without traffic there was no rank. Without rank there was no traffic. And it all pointed back to not having ads out there for the world to see.

Three or four weeks ago I came across a company called Adgitize. The company specializes in blog banners. The price of participation in an ad campaign caught my attention. $14 for a full month. I was impressed but at the same time, I was very sceptical. How could something so cheap offer any rewards?

The program is really geared towards making money online. The way the program works is, advertisers sign up in hopes of gaining more readers. They submit their little 125×125 banners and the publishers put the ads on their pages. No big surprise there, right?

Then, all of the members visit the other sites in the network and they have a click-fest. Money is earned for clicking, being clicked and for posting blogs. At the end of the month, some sort of advertiser vs click ratio is figured out and everyone gets paid.

Does anyone else see the huge flaw in this program? I caught it immediately.

If publishers are just flying through sites and clicking banners to make their money each month, how does a blog owner gain readers? Simple. By having more traffic. Remember, more traffic means higher PR and Alexa rankings. And slowly, you can scoot to the top of search engines.

With that train of thought, I signed up for Adgitize and used my personal blog as my guinea pig. Within a few hours of my ad being published, my visitors and page views started increasing.

Within a week I saw a change in my Alexa rank. In two weeks I went from 1.5 million to 412,000. I see an increase every single day. Then a couple of days ago, my Google PR went from PR2 to PR3. Talk about uber happy!