Came across a new web aggregator today diigo - its a neat format with the usual alexa and other information our listing is here

Diigo provides a browser add-on that can really improve your research productivity. As you read on the web, instead of just bookmarking, you can highlight portions of web pages that are of particular interest to you. You can also attach sticky notes to specific parts of web pages.

A great tip that many newbie advertisers miss out on is daisy chaining your income.  Nearly all ad networks i have worked with have the option of displaying a third parties ads if there is spare inventory.  By connecting a series of networks together you can maximise income and minimise the unused inventory.

Google adsense for example shows Public Service ads if nothing suitable is available, but you can insert a url for a third party e.g Chitika and show their ads instead.

You need to monitor the performance of each network regularly as each will have different advertisers at different times, and if applicable change the order of the daisy chain to ensure that the highest paying network is first in the chain.

I have found that this approach increases income by around 10%, and changing the order of the chain can do the same again.

Popular networks I can recommend are; Burstmedia, Chitika, bannerconnect and of course Adsense. There are hundreds to choose from.

One potential pitflaw to watch for is a minium level of views, as some networks particularly the premium ones, require a number of impressions per month to remain in their program.  The order of the chain may have to be flexed to ensure you don’t get excluded.  Remember that advertisers come and go and a seemingly poor provider can have a period of overperformance so you need sometimes to take a long term view.

721% increase in Chitika income!  Check it out!

This week we are featuring a success story of our own. Working with the helpful guys at www.chitika.com we replaced our existing Chitika Premium ad with a larger size and updated format.  Then we moved the location of the code from the bottom of the page up by about 2 inches so it features at the end of each article instead of the page footer. The result a massive 721% increase in income!! without any noticeable knock on effect to our other income providers.

This is the change in income during the first week of May 2009 compared to the first week of April 2009, it has been stable at the higher rate all month so far.

If you run a blog or other website and are looking how to increase monetization during the credit crunch then talk to Chitika.

Basically as a result of our above experience we can highly recommend doing business with Chitika. To find out more about them simply click the link here and see what they can do for you today.

Compete the popular web traffic comparision site has updated with April 2009 data, we are pleased to see that our traffic continues to growth, albeit at a slower pace than in recent months.

Compete is useful in that it shows your performance relative to your competitors, as with all 3rd party tools though it uses a sample of data from its sources and extrapolates results.

All the same its encouraging that the trend continues on an upward direction, it certainly compares well with the data we get from Google Analytics, which is our own site based tool which has access to the real site traffic.

Our competitiors appear to be experiencing similar growth rates, some we are ahead of others we are still lagging.  Rest assured we continue to market Article Alley night and day to get the best traffic and exposure for our authors and their work.

We are committed to getting Article Alley back to the very top performing site in the Article Marketing niche.

Yet another website information aggregator - less comprehensive than a lot of the sites I have blogged about, but nevertheless one more for the list!

Check our Article Alley on page boss

Article Alley now appears on sitelogr our listing can be found here.

Sitelogr is a free service that provides a vast quantity of valuable information to webmasters about every website on the internet. This data is gathered from various sources in real-time. A unique feature we offer is being able to give an estimate of how much a certain website is worth. We use an advanced algorithm to calculate this data. Of course it will never be perfectly accurate, but at least you get a general idea.

I blogged about twittercounter a few weeks ago, its a great tool and I really enjoy using it to monitor our progress on Twitter, assuming their stats are accurate we are already within the top 55,000 twitter accounts. Which is good progress considering we have only been tweating since March 2009!

Our twitterprofile can be found here its easy to add your own you just need to add your twitter id.

Whilst browsing around the web today I found Article Alley on howsocialble HowSociable provides a simple way for you to begin measuring your brand’s visibility on the social web.  It also has a good front end with nice pastel colours!

I have found quiet a collection of these sorts of sites now and have added a dedicated page to this blog so its easier for users to find these sites again. See our list of website information aggregators

Came across a nice little aggregator service today, that I previously had overlooked, check out Article Alley on Domain Meter It has a clean look and feel and has a unique car dashboard style.

I like sites that try to be different from the rank and file.

I am not sure if sites like this bring much if any visitors but they seem to be everywhere at the moment.