Football Directory

August 17, 2008

The football category is of course under the section sports. This category is for people with football sites, they can submit their football site to this section so a bunch of people can go there are see it.

Football is the best sport to watch ever. I get so into it when the super bowl rolls around, me and my dad pick the team we want to win and root for them the whole game. I like football because you can be really far behind and still win at the end. That is what makes it so entertaining. You think your team is going to lose but you don’t stop rooting for them and they come back after half time in the zone and they end up winning.

The Cowboys are my team. Honestly, I do not know why because they have been my team since I was little. I think it is because they are my dad’s team and I loved whatever he liked. Cowboys will probably always be my team too. It is another thing me and my dad share.

So if you have a site on football, I know my dad and I would not be the only ones excited to check it out. Football is probably the most popular sport and there are many fans out there ready to argue about who is the best team. So submit to as many directories as you can, it will be worth your while.

Football Directory

Football Directory


Shared Revenue

July 28, 2008

The next generations’ websites will those who are willing to share ad revenue with their users. The concept is not new but the number of sites is still far too low for the audience that is expecting to make money from their internet activities. The best sites I have seen with this model are hubpages.com and squidoo.com. Both sites allow you to write articles about any subject you would like to write about and then share in the revenue that is generated by the ads that are shown on the content you create.

Squidoo.com shows the ads and then tells you how many clicks were received on your content. They control everything in house which leads to their users wondering if they are getting the full benefit of the content they contribute. I believe that squidoo is fair in their reporting because their livelihood is dependant on keeping their user base happy and contributing. But there are always suspicions when things aren’t clear and out in the open.

Hubpages.com allows their members to add their own Adsense id to their account and then track the total number of impressions through their account. Their way of doing business is open and clear. There is no doubt in their user’s minds that they received their fair share of ad impressions and the account is done by each individual. There are some limitations as to how many outbound links can be sent to one site on an individual article and other restrictions that must be followed but for my money I choose hubpages.com over squidoo.com every day.

I liked Hubpages.com business model so much that I built 3 sites that are run in the exact same manner. Peoplefuel.com, expurt.com, and becaus.com all work on the same principle the hubpages.com does. When you sign up at any of those site you can put in your Adsense id and 50% of the time a visitor comes to an article you contributed on the site your ads are shown on that article. You can also place outbound links to your own sites which help them rank for the keywords you are targeting and sends traffic to your site from those links.

If you have a blog or other website to promote you should write articles for all of the sites I have listed above to help with promotion. There are no stronger links you can get to your site than exactly related articles with the right keywords and links. Plus you get the benefit of making a little money from each of the articles you write unlike submitting them to article directories. All of your articles should be original content that you wrote or bought and not copied articles from someone else. Duplicate content just doesn’t help you in the long run.