Networks and blogs

We recently received a box of fortune cookies from an online social network that we contribute to occasionally. The site is HubPages.com and they have a great network of people where you can write your own Hubs and then they share the traffic and revenue that is generated that are produced for your articles. It is not like getting paid to blog, but rather joining a large social community where you can write and comment on each others writings and life’s lessons. The idea behind the fortune cookies were to give out to friends and family as they had a great little message about Hubpages.com and also my very own referral link that if they sign I can receive a certain percentage of traffic that they generate to their hubs. Great idea and it looks like we will be having chinese for dinner tonight with some of the neighbors.

Aiming to be Europe’s largest advertising source bloggerwave is blazing the trail in helping companies to generate buzz around their products using bloggers. The world of online advertising has been in a states of flux with reports that PPC advertising models may not be getting the return on investment that they once did. Many people are less likely to click through ads than they are a product mention on a blog. Blogs have been exploding over the last few years and are even threatening mainstream media as a source of news and information. Bloggerwave helps to create the union between advertisers and interested bloggers to create a force to challenge any media or advertising source. IQDivision owns bloggerwave and also offer media and online marketing services. They are in the stages of launching ReviewWave which is still in the construction phase but looks to add another layer of advertising to their clients.