Agloco Referral Hours Update #7

The latest AGLOCO hour list update. Here you go. John Chow and Saad Sogair are rocking higher this month, as their accumulated hours are running almost double of what they had last month. Yours truly has climbed up to 26 hours with 223 network members with gaining one Agloco network member per day, since the begining of July, and all of them downloading the AGLOCO Viewbar for use.

1. John Chow - 20,060 membrs, 4,433.1 Hours Get Paid Surfing
2. Saad Sogair - 7,058 membrs, 1,323.2 Hours Get Paid Surfing
3. Mike Klingler - 3,476 membrs, 578.8 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
4. Diyana Alcheva (Didi) - 2,656 membrs, 518.3 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
5. Aaron Nimocks - 2,246 membrs, 320.5 Hours
6. Heru C Rustamaji - 1,895 membrs, 292.7 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
7. Andrew - 402 membrs, 102.2 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
8. Shin(Computer Nerd) 718 membrs, 87.2 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
9. Ansar Hamza - 2,197 membrs, 29.7 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
10. Philomena Ojikutu - 223 membrs, 26.5 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
11. Eugene Estavillo - 145 membrs, 14.2 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
12. Igor Rogovic - 9 membrs, 5.0 Hours Get Paid for Surfing

So, don't forget and keep sending in the fresh updates of the screenshot of your Agloco referral network, which includes your referral membership, your Agloco ID and your Accumulated network referral hours to aglocomasses@yahoo.com, and if youhave a blog or website include it in your message so we could point a link to you. Catch ya later!

Know The Advertisers Behind Agloco

Many of Agloco network members did not know the advertizing powers that drive the AGLOCO model. In the last few weeks, I have seen so many affiliates of big organisations that have 'dragged' the name of the organisations to the AGLOCO viewbar to promote their products.

This is quite encouraging to many of us, as it signals that AGLOCO company (our company) is not lacking in 'juicy' advertising clients from diverse niches. This also gives us confidence that in the months and years to come, AGLOCO would be a great and highly competitive platform for many companies and product to showcase what they offer the online world.

With membership crossing about crossing the half-a-million, and heading for the million mark, it would be a great pleasure for many companies to have their products showcased in a million Viewbars to a million potential visitors and customers!!!

Don't forget that the AGLOCO goal is 10 million membership! AGLOCO is set to overtake the Google AdSense program, in the numerical numbers of partner platforms (websites or Viewbars) that showcases the products of advertizers.

We are proud to be part of the epoch making, transparent and accountable movement to enrich and financially empower millions on the internet. If you are already in the AGLOCO train, know that the population of internet users just crossed the 1 billion mark this June 2007. 10 million AGLOCO membership would just be 1% of that bustling crowd! If you have not joined, don't be declared missing in action- Get on board the AGLOCO train now, and download your own Agloco Viewbar and enjoy the fun of this historic movement of financial empowerment.

Below are some of the many Companies who are either directly advertising or whose affiliates are also advertising through AGLOCO Viewbar. The list is by no means exhaustive, but these have been the ones which caught my attention and compelled my attraction:

1. Yahoo! Small Business: Domain Names, Web Hosting, E-commerce ... providing products and services that enable you to establish and grow your business on the Internet.

2. Amazon The biggest online store for books and electronics and stuffs ...
Books, Music & Movies DVD & VHS Magazines & Newspapers Music Textbooks Unbox Video Downloads Clothing & Accessories Apparel Jewelry & Watches Shoes Computer Office Products Software Consumer Electronics Audio & Video Camera & Photo Cell Phones & Service Musical Instruments Video Games All Consumer Electronics Food & Household Gourmet Food Grocery Pet Supplies Health & Beauty Automotive Industrial & Scientific Lawn & Garden Equipment Tools & Hardware ..." blah blah blah

3. ShoeBuy dot Com - "Shopping for shoes has never been easier... Shoebuy has the largest selection of women's shoes, men's shoes, kids' shoes, casual shoes, dress shoes, and athletic shoes. Choose from over 400 brands, 500,000 products, the most styles per brand, the most up to date fashions, and the broadest range of materials, colors, sizes, and widths. And, shopping for shoes at Shoebuy is Risk-Free. On every order, enjoy Free Shipping, Free Return Shipping, No Sales Tax, a 110% Price Guarantee, and a 100% Secure Purchase Guarantee. Shoebuy is the one-stop shop for all your footwear needs..." blah blah blah

4. Delivery dot Com - "Food at Your Fingertips! Fast, Easy Online Food Ordering & Delivery from Local reastaurants, New York, Chicago, San Francisco ..." blah blah blah

5. Cash Advance Network "Get a hassle free payday loan today! ... Cash to you the next day! ... It's simple, (providing) payday loans and cash advances to help (people) pay (their) bills on time, have emergency cash, make needed car repairs, pay unexpected bills or for any other reason (they) may have, ... service is HASSLE FREE and FAST!!!..." blah blah blah

6. Pet Street Mall: "Pet Street Mall offers online pet supplies, online cat supplies and other online dog supplies... pet supplies store for quality Petsafe dog Fences... For all of... pet supply needs ... Online Pet Supplies Store uses advanced online internet secure encrypted ordering for (customers') safety and protection. Pet Supplies customer service staff is always ready to assist. Pet Supplies: Pet Beds, Dog Beds & Heated Pet Beds, Heated Dog Beds, Cooling Pet Beds dog, bird, cat, fish, reptile, etc. etc."

7. Smug Mug "The ultimate in photosharing, online photo albums, photo hosting and photo storage, ... Unlimited photos. No ads or spam. Gorgeous galleries..." blah, blah, blah,

8. Babies Online "Learn about your growing baby with our personalized weekly calendars & birthday fun facts calculators, ALL 100% FREE! ... Since 1997 Babies Online has been helping parents like you show off their new babies (and bellies!) to friends and family around the world with our free automated birth announcements & pregnancy journal system. Your baby can have his or her own private web site (baby blog), complete with pictures, guestbooks, milestones, & more within minutes, and for free! You'll find tons more great (and free!) information, services, & tools for new & expectant parents, too ..." blah blah blah

9. OnSale dot Com "Buy Desktop computers, Laptop, Digital cameras and electronics, ..." blah, blah, blah

I hope to follow up on the other AGLOCO advertizers in subsequent posts, as I capture them from the Agloco Viewbar.

Top 20 Most Trafficked Blogs- How Much are They Worth?

Happy new month JULY! Yesterday was CANADA DAY, and in a few days' time (July 4), we would celebrate America's 231st birthday anniversary, marking the American declaration of Independence.

What Is Your Blog's Market Worth? Would You Sell?

Last month witnessed the sale of that robust and upcoming niche blog Career Ramblings by my dearly beloved and esteemed friend, Jane May. She sold it for a whopping $20,000!

This has thrown up a fresh debate in the blogosphere about the market value of blogs and whether to sell, and at what 'value'. Career Ramblings was making an average of $3,000 income monthly, at the time of sale. Normally the rule-of-the-thumb was applicable at the point of sale, which is: 'multiply the average income of a blog by 10', you would get the current market value.

Using Dane Carlson's Calculator for the worth of Blogs, I discovered that Jane's Career Ramblings was actually worth $139,441.38 That is about seven times the price paid for Career Ramblings. Carlson's parameter was based mainly on Technorati rankings, wich is more current than Google's Page Rank that was updated quarterly.

Quite some changes have taken place since the sale of Jason Calacanis Weblogs Inc. network, for an estimated 25-40 million Dollars in 2005. The MySpace, YouTube and DoubleClick have also been bought for $580 million, $1.65 Billion and $3.1Billion respectively by media mogul Ruppert Murdoch and Google. After calculating the worth of your blog with Dane Carlson's Calculator, you may head for the Sitepoint Marketplace for an adventure to offer your blog for sale if think it is worth the efforts.

Many other factors have also been imputed into the worth of these websites, prime amongst which is the terriffic level of visitor traffic to those sites. So I did an experiment with TTLB Top 20 most trafficked blogs in the world and Technorati Top Ranked Blogs, and compared their differnt worths.

1) Engadget Technorati Authority: 31,556; Worth= $17,096,529.36
2) Boingboing Technorati Authority: 24,984; Worth= $14,128,178.04
3) Gizmodo 1,355,533 visitors/day Technorati Authority: 22,226; Worth= $12,547,466.04
4) Tech Crunch Technorati Authority: 21,132; Worth= $11,150,794.08
5) Huffington Post Technorati Authority: 17,775; Worth= $10,034,698.50
6) Lifehacker, 376565 visitors/day Technorati Authority: 16,824; Worth= $9,240,390.72
7) Ars Technica Technorati Authority: 16,189; Worth= $9,139,338.06
8) Daily Kos 424646 visitors/day Technorati Authority: 12,511; Worth= $6,955,697.34
9) Post Secret Technorati Authority: 12,214; Worth= $6,648,023.04
10) Michelle Malkin Technorati Authority: 10,829; Worth= $6,113,403.66
11) TMZ Technorati Authority: 11,078; Worth= $5,980,736.76
12) Seth Godin Technorati Authority: 10,233; Worth= $5,678,707.86
13) Guy Kawasaki Technorati Authority: 8,899; Worth= $4,677,213.90
14) Kotaku Technorati Authority: 8,277; visitors/day: 521,604 Worth= $4,409,057.40
15) Pro Blogger Technorati Authority: 8,019; Worth= $4,335,667.20
16) Gawker Technorati Authority: 6,961; visitors/day: 247,575 Worth= $3,591,603.48
17) Joystiq Technorati Authority: 5,996; visitors/day: 281,752 Worth= $3,384,981.84
18) Rand Fishkin's Blog Technorati Authority: 5,379; Worth= $3,036,660.66
19) John Chow Visitors/day: 7,000+ Technorati Authority: 5,043; Worth= $2,846,975.22
20) Jeremy Schoemaker Technorati Authority: 4,653; Worth= $2,626,804.62

A few other notable blogs, (13 were randomly picked, why, I don't know), but did not make the cut-off point, are listed below.

1. Matt Cutts' Blog Technorati Authority: 4,359 Worth= $2,309,533.14
2.Autoblog Visitors/day: 343,308 Technorati Authority: 4,536; Worth= $2,184,205.26
3. Danny Sullivan's Blog Technorati Authority: 4,775; Worth= $1,173,678.66
4. Just Jared Visitors/day: 672,774 Technorati Authority: 1,243; Worth= $882,376.02
5. Ilker Yoldas's Blog Technorati Authority: 3,917; Worth= $868,262.52
6. Ms. Danielle Technorati Authority: 552; Worth= $308,238.84
7. Kumiko's Cash Quests Blog Technorati Authority: 247; Worth= $110,085.30
8. John Reese's Blog Technorati Authority: 216; Worth= $106,133.52
9. Camden Chat Visitors/day: 239,151 Technorati Authority: 111; Worth= $62,663.94
10. 20) Bless You Boys Visitors/day: 239,151 Technorati Authority: 94; Worth= $53,066.76
11. Jennifer Slegg's Blog Technorati Authority: 88; Worth= $49,679
12. Halos Heaven Visitors/day: 239,151 Technorati Authority: 125; Worth= $40,646.88
13. Overheard in the UK Visitors/day: 457,291 Worth= $11,855.34

The randomly selected blogs presented some strange results. having great and awesome daily traffic and not having a corresponding linkage on tecnorati which ultimately is the metric of Blog's financial worth.

This research and compilation is not absolute, in terms of many other sites and blogs out there, which had great traffic and linkage but were not ranked by Technorati.

This is just my simple contribution to the update of Blog's worth

Agloco Referral Hours Update #6

The Agloco hours train builds up as another member, Igor Rogovic (a.k.a Info Agloco), joins us. I am not performing badly too, as I had another lucky member pushed up my network to 220, and lifting my referral network hours to 19.0 from 16.6!

1. John Chow - 19,105 membrs, 2,715.9 Hours Get Paid Surfing
2. Saad Sogair - 6,580 membrs, 827.7 Hours Get Paid Surfing
3. Mike Klingler - 3,476 membrs, 578.8 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
4. Diyana Alcheva (Didi) - 2,656 membrs, 518.3 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
5. Aaron Nimocks - 2,246 membrs, 320.5 Hours
6. Heru C Rustamaji - 1,895 membrs, 292.7 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
7. Andrew - 402 membrs, 102.2 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
8. Shin(Computer Nerd) 718 membrs, 87.2 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
9. Ansar Hamza - 2,197 membrs, 29.7 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
10. Philomena Ojikutu - 220 membrs, 19.0 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
11. Eugene Estavillo - 145 membrs, 14.2 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
12. Igor Rogovic - 9 membrs, 5.0 Hours Get Paid for Surfing

So, don't forget and keep sending in the fresh updates of the screenshot of your Agloco referral network, which includes your referral membership, your Agloco ID and your Accumulated network referral hours to aglocomasses@yahoo.com, and if youhave a blog or website include it in your message so we could point a link to you. Catch ya later!

AGLOCO: Low Payouts for June & July

Good News! Agloco company blog has informed us in the latest post titled: "Revenue and Cash Payouts" that, due to the sheer volume of users, and the need to improve the current Viewbar revenue through, correction of the weak ads rotation, and poor connection with other networks, which may take the next five to six weeks to complete and meet expected standards:

"... revenue for the months of June and July will be low, as the current system cannot be improved any faster".

The company also promised to take off at the end of August 2007 with, additional

"... online ad auction system like Google’s AdSense so advertisers will be able to buy Viewbar ads directly".

Cash Distributions:
In order to reach profitability quickly (which is necessary to make cash distributions), the company has been prudently keeping expenses to a minimum, saying:

"... we have tried to implement the less costly improvements while recognizing that the major changes will have to wait longer... but AGLOCO needs to become sustainable and make Member distributions as fast as possible".

On the 'mother of all questions' "When will I be paid by AGLOCO?" and, ... "How much will I be paid?" The company advised us not to engage in speculations, but should revisit the FAQ section, where the questions has been fully answered before now, clearly emphasising that, early revenues will not immediately translate into cash distributions to members, until when her current revenue outstrips her minimized operational costs.

It nevertheless assured us that all our accumulated hours will not be wasted, saying: "... both overall hours and monthly hours will be used in determining distributions to Members".

It further reminded us of what the FAQ section and previous blog posts stated that: we are building a sustainable business entity in the long term. It therefore counselled us not to expect immedite checks until "... after the first couple of months".

Alexa Viral Train

I was searching for Sohemoney's SERP scripts on Google, when I stumbled on a freelance web-designer - Darjan Panic from Slovenia, who joined an Alexa viral, link and after reading the piece, I felt that it is worth giving a try in order to improve my Alexa ranking (Agloco Hours blog is currently ranked 603,159). It is important so that we would be able to measure, in the next few weeks and months to come, if this Alexa train is really working.

The Viral Feeds and the Viral Tags really worked for my two blogs. The last three weeks has really improve the Technorati ranking and authority of my blogs. Telenovela Love Garden inched up from 19 to 31 while Agloco Hours leaped from 34 to 89.

I would be watching to see in the next one to three weeks, if this Alexa viral experiment would take my Alexa rank from the present 603,159. In the blogosphere, Alexa ranking is a major metric used by many advertising networks to determine how much money to pay you for participating in their projects.

The blogosphere has exploded with a buzz of ingenious link-building strategies in the last three months. The reason for this is the urge by bloggers to make more money with their blogging activities. Such monies would be bigger if they have higher rankings- Tecnorati, Alexa, Google page rank, etc.

Today names like Carl Ocab, the 14-yr old whizkid blogger, Gary Lee, Andy Coates, Jimmy Huen, Ilker Yoldas are all synonymous with viral trains, either, of the Technorati, Alexa, Icons, Tags, Feeds, etc. I am once again jumping into this Alexa Viral train through this post.

According to Carl:

"The idea is to make a list of bloggers with an Alexa redirect link to their
blog. We all know that if you go to a site through an Alexa redirect, the visit
is recorded by Alexa and it adds to your rankings! Cool"

To participate, just follow the rules:

~Start Copying Here~


Alexa Redirect Train by Carl Ocab

1. Write a short introductory paragraph about what and how you found this Alexa Train, and the benefits that would accrue to any blogger that participates in it.

2. Start copying from the “~Start Copying Here~” above, and all the things listed without removing the links (Of course, the train would be no use without those links)

3. COPY the Rules and ENTIRE List below and post it to your blog. Please, don’t change the links of the blog

4. Move all the sites labeled “Newcomers” to the list labeled “Oldies”
Add as many sites that you want to include in the train and make their link like this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.example.com then invite them to join the train.

5. Visit all the listed sites! (That’s not much work! Remember, if you plant good seeds they will also grow good) and look at your high Alexa ranking next week!

Newcomers:
Agloco Hours
Telenovela Love Garden
She RamblesOn
Nice4Rice
Affordable Graphic Design
Tyler Cruz
Nehemiah Resource Center
Legal Counselling

Oldies:
FunnyMunny
Wmhaven
Make Money Online 2.0
Nate Whitehill
Jozzua
Grow your Writing Business
CultureShiok
Gary Lee
Smart Wealthy Rich
TechZi
Make Money Online with a 13-year Old

~End Copying Here~

Agloco Referral Hours Update #5

Still growing, another pair of Agloco activists joined our winning ranks yesterday with their Agloco hours figures and and link. Also, another member joined my Agloco network yesterday and another 1.5 hours ticked into my account raising my referral hours to 16.6 from 15.2 hours. What about you? What is your experience like?

1. John Chow - 19,105 membrs, 2,715.9 Hours Get Paid Surfing
2. Saad Sogair - 6,425 membrs, 705.2 Hours Get Paid Surfing
3. Mike Klingler - 3,476 membrs, 578.8 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
4. Diyana Alcheva (Didi) - 2,656 membrs, 518.3 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
5. Heru C Rustamaji - 1,895 membrs, 292.7 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
6. Aaron Nimocks - 2,190 membrs, 251.1 Hours
7. Andrew - 402 membrs, 102.2 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
8. Shin(Computer Nerd) 718 membrs, 87.2 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
9. Ansar Hamza - 2,197 membrs, 29.7 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
10. Philomena Ojikutu - 219 membrs, 16.6 Hours Get Paid for Surfing
11. Eugene Estavillo - 145 membrs, 14.2 Hours Get Paid for Surfing

We welcome two new Agloco activists: Eugene Estavillo a.k.a AGLOCO CANADA, and Heru Cahya Rustamaji from Indonesia, for coming on board.

Pls don't forget to send in the screenshot of your Agloco referral network, which includes your referral membership, your Agloco ID and your Accumulated network referral hours to aglocomasses@yahoo.com, and if youhave a blog or website include it in your message so we could point a link to you