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Microsoft have had good sucess with the launch of its new search engine Bing (offcourse it also paid handsomely for advertising), and it is expected that Bing will power Yahoo search under the new deal. Yahoo meanwhile will be take charge of all advertising.

There will be upfront fee paid, according to a source close to all the action. Both companies will focus on sharing revenue. The deal is expected to be formally announced tomorrow.

Google has a large proportion of search engine queries, around 65% in the US. Yahoo is a distant second with around 20% while Microsoft is just under 10%.

Microsofts Bing has been growing around 20% a week for the past two months and recently broke into the worlds top 20 most visited websites. The merger will make Bing the second biggest search engine with a 30% market share.

Looks like google has some tough competition on its hand.

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CPX interactive | Pop under, pop-ups, banners, video cube, video pop

People I have spoken to say this is the best CPM site. The rates are one of the best in the industry.

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Credit Burner| Banners, pop-up, pop-in

This site have  a very low payout ($2.50 via Paypal, paid fortnightly), but the rates are low. Its best if you have US traffic.

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Popuptraffic.com | Pop-up

Offers only pop-ups and does it well. The minimum payout is $25 and you’re paid twice a month via Paypal or Cheque.

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YesAdvertising.com | Pop-under, pop-in banner

The minimum is $100, paid twice a month via Paypal or cheque.

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Adbrite | Banners , text ads

Adbrite does not the best CPM rates. It is to be used if you have a good click through rate as the value per click is very good. The CPM can be used as a bonus. The minimum payout is $5. They only pay by cheque in USD and so depositing in some countries can cost a lot.

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Clicksor | Banners, text ads, messenger ads
Best used on a pay per click basis, although the value is not as high as Adbrite. The CPM is very low, too low to even state here. The minimum payout is $50 paid twice a month

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Google Adsense

The best pay per click program. It does pay on a CPM basis but the rates are low. They have very strict rules about diplaying ads etc, so please read them carefully.

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Other

Adtoll

If you have a website with decent traffic you could be earning a fixed amount for displaying ads regardless of the amount of clicks, or impressions. The minimum payment is $20 via Paypal and $40 via cheque.

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Bidvertiser

I have found their click rates to be very low and their ads keep repeating, sometimes theres not enough ads available to be shown. You can however promote your Website with BidVertiser and get $20 in FREE clicks.

Many webmasters use Blogger as the their blogging platform. It has one of the easiest user interface, so much so that even a complete novice can get around easily.

Unfortunately Blogger has its downsides when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO).  Despite being owned by google, it does not have any preference on the search engine rankings. The main problem it faces is a duplicate content issue, something google really hates.  Take for example a post you just made, it can also be accessed from the archive page.   This leaves you with two pages with similar content.

How to avoid this?

There are ways in which you can avoid this. Firstly you could disable archiving if your blog is new. It can be enabled again after a couple of months.

This can be done by logging into your account, then select the settings tab and then click on archiving. Choose no archive and then click save settings.

Besides this there are other things that you would normally do to any website. One important element is choosing an appropriate title.  The title should contain atleast one of the keyword that you would like to rank for.

You can also optimise the title tag for the post to allow it to appear before the blog title on search engine results. You will need to edit the html code for this.

find this

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

and replace it with this

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;’>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> ~ <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>

These are just some basic SEO tips, remember to build links to you site. When linking to your site dont for get to place contextual links. For example if you have a site related to cars, make sure the anchor text to the link is cars or something similar (possiby a keyword) and not something like laptop or house.