Best of the Web is offering free Premium Sponsorships for 60 days. When you sign up for a premium sponsorship you will be able to feature your website or blog at the top of a relevant category and alongside BOTW search results.

So this got me thinking, How about a new small Best of The Web Advertising Case Study!

As you know I’ve done a few advertising Case Studies here on eMonetized in the past and shared those results. I thought a Best of the Web advertising case study could be interesting and what I really like about this case study is that it’s going to be FREE!

At the end of the 60 day free Best of the Web Premium sponsorship I’ll share my traffic numbers and IF it will be worth continuing. One cool thing about this sponsorship link is that it’s NOT a redirect. This means you get the traffic AND a high quality direct link. Of course I’m just placing the ad for traffic.

Some of the specific categories I really wanted had already been taken such as:

http://botw.org/top/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/
Authoring/Webmaster_Resources/Affiliate_Programs/

http://botw.org/top/Computers/Internet/

http://blogs.botw.org/Computers/Internet/Blogging/

But believe me when I say that there are still hundreds of really good available categories to choose from. In the end I ended up placing my free sponsorship ad here:

http://botw.org/top/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/
Authoring/Webmaster_Resources/Affiliate_Programs/

That category happens to be a PR4 but it was one of the more relevant categories for this blog. If you personally are after higher PageRank pages they are still some really great PR5 pages available.

http://botw.org/top/Business/Business_to_Business/
Marketing_and_Advertising/Internet_Marketing/

Note to Google: I’m not placing that text ad for PageRank nor am I purchasing it to manipulate your search engine results. I’m placing an ad on Best of the Web in a relevant category for clickthrough traffic and NO other reason. (is this what things have come to?) It won’t be long until we have to place ad disclaimers next to our ads!

About Best of The Web:

When finding links to your website links from high quality authority directories such as Best of the Web are key.

“Best of the Web” was started over 13 years ago back in 1994. To rank among the Best of the Web, a site must adhere to the strict criteria of editors who ensure that it contains substantive unique content, navigates in a user-friendly manner, contains no broken links or pictures, is up and running 24/7, and conforms to universally accepted web standards. It’s the kind of web directory Google likes! At the time of this post, Best of the Web ranks #6 in Google for the extremely competitive keyword, “web directory.”

Sign-up for your Free Premium Advertisement on Best of Web here.

I’ve been getting these VIP special offers from GoDaddy in the mail about once a month lately. Each time it’s an new offer for various discounts on GoDaddy services.

Apparently I’m a GoDaddy “VIP Member” but I have know idea if almost all their customers are considered VIP or if you have to hold a certain about of domains through them. I personally own about 75 domain names through GoDaddy although only a fraction of those are currently being used.

I have a new GoDaddy Coupon Code that allows you to save over 20% when you register, transfer or renew your .com. It brings down the price to just 6.95 per domain purchase or renewal. There is no limit to the number you can purchase with this discount. It is supposed to be good from now through September 30. If you have some GoDaddy domains that will need to be renewed soon or where planning on buying some new ones then this could be a good time.

The GoDaddy coupon code is “gdd0723d” Just copy and paste that into your shopping cart. I’m not sure how long this coupon code will last.

A humble welcome to all my new John Chow Dot Com Readers.

John Chow was kind enough to drop me an email before his latest theme was released and he gave me the opportunity to purchase a new banner ad spot. Without to much thought I took up his offer and if you are a long time John Chow reader you realize why.

These six 125 x 125 banner ad spots sold out even before the new theme was released. In fact they oversold so he added eight ad spots.

In the last couple days I’ve been thinking how to best utilize this ad space and I have brainstormed a few fairly creative ideas (I’ll be testing a few different ideas). One thing that came to my mind is how most average affiliates unfortunately can’t afford to spend $500 a month for a banner ad on John Chow.

>> UPDATE: I’m going to have to make some changes to this original contest as I didn’t realize that “raffles” are technically only allowed for charitable, nonprofit organizations. Info on some possible new John Chow Ad contests are here.

Best of the Web is offering 25% off all NEW Submissions and Sponsorship Advertising in the Best of the Web Directory and BOTW Blog Directory. It’s their biggest discount offer so far this so you might want take advantage of it before the end of August.

Be sure to enter the Promo Code: “SIZZLE25” during the sign up process and you will instantly save 25% on new directory submissions as well as sponsorship advertising products.

The 25% off offer includes:

* Directory Submissions
– Save on both the annually recurring and/or the one-time review fee.
* Blog Directory Submissions
- Save on the one-time review fee for blogs.
* Monthly Sponsorship Ads
- Discount the monthly rate for all new sponsorship ads.
* Blog Advertising
- Discount the monthly rate for all new sponsorship ads in the Blog Directory.

The promo code may be used multiple times for multiple products and services during the month of August.

Go to the Best of the Web Directory.

I’m not selling text links on eMonetized yet while I wait for a Google Page Rank update but Text Link Ads is offering a 15% discount on all orders for the rest of August.

Just enter the coupon code “august” into the coupon code at checkout and you will save 15% off your order for the life of the order.

If you are ready for an ad that can drive traffic and raise your natural search engine rankings head on over to Text Link Ads now.