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Hey online money makers, I thought I’d write a really simple trick down for those of you who like to maximize your online earnings.

How many of you publish your entire blog posts to your readers via RSS? Ah yes, I can see many hands in the air – Don’t worry, I do it too.

So what does this have to do with AdGator? Well, as we all know, you only receive revenue from AdGator when impressions are incurred, so if people are reading your blog via RSS feeds, they won’t be creating impressions and therefore your earnings won’t reflect what they should be.

Here’s my advice – Publish a little less than the entire feed to your subscribers and provide a button which says “Read More”, thus creating a click through to your website and in return, an impression on your AdGator adverts.

My Test Results: An increase in R20.00-R30.00/day

Not shabby!

The Cape Town Web Designers just pointed out to me that Afrigator has just announced the launch of AdGator, an advertising network which will reward hard working bloggers for all their efforts by displaying adverts on their websites.

As a South African online marketer, the biggest problem for me is that most affiliate and advertising networks require PayPal accounts, which as you know is a problem.

In true AfriGator style, the dashboard is crystal clear and easy to use:

The concept of Adgator is simple. Sign up as a blogger, insert a piece of code into your blog theme and we’ll go out and find advertisers who are willing to spend money. Each time a blogger sees one of our ads on their website they know that they’ve made money. Initially we’ll be sticking to a CPM model because that’s what advertisers understand and we will share 50% of the revenue with bloggers.

This model means that a blog serving as little as 2,500 page views a month can make R300 for doing nothing and if you’re lucky enough to be a high-traffic blog your earnings could be as high as six figures. Our aim with Adgator is to be as transparent as possible and all blog owners will have their own access to our system so they can track their earnings in real time. In our reporting we break down cost, revenue share and total income so the blogger knows exactly who’s getting what. via

Interesting, “2500 page views resulting in close to R300″ – that’s not bad, iMod gets well over 100,000 page views a month, so that would total R12,000.00 if my math is correct – this is going to be interesting :) Although, I’ve had over 8 years experience with online marketing and website monetization and doubt that my blog will earn revenue like that, but let me stay optimistic!!!

Perhaps Adgator will bring more revenue than Adsense for me? Hmmm

I will be creating my account this evening and testing everything out – I look forward to it!

Hehe, I had a good laugh when I thought about the title, but it’s not even a joke. My Adsense checks cover my rent and my monthly car payments, can you believe it? You better!

This isn’t my record yet, I managed to break R6000 in Adsense last month, so keep an eye open for that posting :)

If you’re an Adsense junkie like me, please leave a comment, I’d like to start something new with a few people! Please, don’t waste time if you’re not earning at least a couple thousand a month, I really need people who understand the concepts and preferably people who have Search Engine Optimization knowledge..