Just wanted to give a quick thanks to all the readers that pointed out that the Enhance offer on the Free PPC Coupons and Vouchers page now requires a $25 dollar deposit (definitely NOT the kind of Free Advertising that Kyle and I like to give to our readers :)…The info for this network has been corrected and demoted from our ‘Top Picks’ selection. Also, a friend of ours attended the SES Conference in NY this year and got us a hot new PPC Coupon from the ASK.com Search Marketing Team. This coupon allows you to get $50 in free clicks on the Ask.com Sponsored Listings page and expires on April 20, 2008. Grab this and some other great free advertising links over on our PPC Coupon and Vouchers Page to help supplement your free advertising and marketing campaigns.

We are excited to announce that adgridwork is now easier to use for WordPress users. Martin Fitzpatrick, the author of the AdSense Manager plugin for WordPress, has added support for adgridwork is the latest version (3.1.x) of the plugin. We are thrilled Martin thought to include us in his work, and we hope this makes life easier for WordPress bloggers who are interested in advertising with adgridwork. This is just another sign that adgridwork is slowly approaching its goal of total advertising domination… Ok not quite, but it is a sign we’re slightly more popular

Just to be explicit, Martin took complete initiative on our inclusion in the plugin; he did absolutely all of the work involved, so he deserves all the credit for this one. Again, we thank him for including us. If you like the plugin, check out what else Martin is working on. If you have any questions specific to the plugin, they are probably better directed to Martin, but as always feel free to send us any questions you may have regarding adgridwork.

The adgridwork team

Free PPC Coupons and Vouchers

After getting some positive feedback on the Free PPC Coupons and Vouchers that we have been giving out to our Newsletter members (you can sign up over to the right if you haven’t done so already), I decided to build a list of some of the top offers out there and give it a dedicated spot on the AdGridwork Blog. Essentially, these coupons will allow you to get free PPC clicks on major networks such as Google, Yahoo and MSN for little or no deposit at all. I plan on keeping this resource up to date with the latest coupons and vouchers so you’ll be able to easily and cheaply test out the traffic of the different search and advertising networks.

So for those of you that are interested in getting started on some search marketing campaigns, be sure to:

Redeem Your: Free PPC Coupons and Vouchers.

Nick

Reedem Your $50 in FREE PPC Clicks Now!

Just a quick reminder to anyone that hasn’t subscribed to the newsletter: The Microsoft AdCenter offer that gives you $50 in Free PPC Clicks for signing up will be closing as of tomorrow. They charge a small $5 activation fee but if you look at it in terms of investments, you’re spending $5 to make $45 profit. Not bad at all. To sign up for your account, visit Microsoft AdCenter.

From our newsletter:

If Search Marketing is something that you have been wanting to try, or you are looking for another Free way of advertising your business, be sure to check out Microsoft Adcenter by Feb 29th.

Nick

This is the first post in a new series that I plan on running titled AdGridwork Spotlight Members. These quick posts will highlight members from the AdGridwork Free Advertising Network that have been excelling in the amount of traffic and visitors that they send to other sites. So without further ado …

DoodleToo

DoodleToo, found at doodletoo.com, is a simple AJAX drawing utility that multiple users from around the world can collaborate on at once. I killed about 20 minutes on the site and played 3 games of tic tac toe, chatted with some people from NY, and ‘tagged’ a link to AdGridwork.com on the board, which coincidently drove a dozen users to the site in about 5 minutes (*We don’t condone spamming DoodleToo with your links ).

DoodleToo has generated several hundred clicks for fellow AdGridwork sites over the past couple of weeks, and has prime ad placement on the right side of the site. Its sites like these that really help everyone on the network.

Thanks DoodleToo!

2008 Gameplan - Promote those Websites!

First off, I want to apologize (yet again) for the lack of updates. Both Kyle and myself have been extrememly busy with our offline lives and haven’t had a chance to make any significant blog posts. We have, however, been working to increase the quality of our Free Advertising Network:

1. By performing manual reviews of new sites to ensure proper contextual targeting and compliance with our TOS.
2. Taking better steps to weed out adult and NSFW content and placing it in its own network.
3. Constantly tweaking our ad-serving algorithm to ensure that sites contributing more to the network (in terms of clicks, impressions and referrals) are getting the most traffic and benefit from our service.

Some of you may have noticed that we have slowly begun rolling out a few complimentary products to help you further increase your traffic, marketing campaigns and site promotions. These products are all outlined below:

The AdGridwork Free Web Directory

We launched our Free Web Directory back in December 2007 as a way to allow webmasters and site owners to easily get a backlink from AdGridwork. Since launching, over 500 sites have taken advantage of this opportunity and submitted their links into the Free Directory. We include a Free Advertising link back to AdGridwork with our Ad Code, so we hope to return the favor with this directory

The AdGridwork Free Advertising Newsletter

Many of you have gotten the recent opt-in email that we sent out regarding the new Free Advertising and Marketing Newsletter that we are starting. This newsletter will contain exclusive info, promotions and tips for AdGridwork member’s that will allow you to take your Advertising and Marketing efforts to the next level. The newsletter format is great for breaking news and information as it will allow us to instantly communicate and share ideas with the community. As of today, we have already sent out a handful of mailings and have seen a very positive reaction from our members. If you want to check out the newsletter and take advantage of this information, simply use the subscription form at the top right of this blog. And as always, we will never sell or spam your personal information.

The AdGridwork Free Advertising Blog

Last but not least, we plan on completely revamping this blog. Our plan is to become THE Free Advertising Portal and Resource on the web. Aside from the new redesign (Nick would love to hear your thoughts on the look), we plan on offering the following:

• Weekly reviews of top AdGridwork users. This section will highlight sites that have been performing especially well on the AdGridwork network and help say ‘Thanks’ for the traffic that they have generated for others.
• Free advertising ideas / Marketing tactics / Tools. There are hundreds of ways to get free traffic and visitors to your site (on of the very best being the AdGridwork Free Advertising Network). We want to create a community of users interested in collaborating and sharing ideas. This will include reviewing new web services, traffic generation techniques and out of the box marketing tips. We also plan on sharing some of the ideas that have worked for us when developing AdGridwork so that you can apply them to your own business.
• Guest Posts & Interviews. As mentioned earlier, both Kyle and myself get caught up tweaking what goes on behind the scenes at AdGridwork. Thus we want to open our blog up to our readers and fellow marketers. Have an exciting service launching that will help our members drive traffic? Know of a good method to leverage social networks to increase blog readership? Share it on our blog! As of today, over 400 people have subscribed to our RSS Feed so your product, content and links (which you’ll be able to include in every guest post) will be read and seen by a large number of fellow bloggers and marketers. If you are interested in writing a guest post, feel free to Contact Us Here.

So there you have it … AdGridwork’s 2008 Gameplan … a month and a half late. We look forward to hearing your thoughts on these ideas and look forward to creating the predominant Free Advertising Network and Resource center on the web

Nick Mazza & Kyle Johnson
AdGridwork.com

First off, Kyle and I want to wish all our members a Happy and Safe Holidays. We have seen a tremendous growth of our service this past year and are looking forward to helping thousands of webmasters and bloggers continue to freely and easily promote their content and services in 2008. We plan on continuing to being the premiere Free Advertising Network on the web.

Also, with all of the hustle and bustle of the holidays, we didn’t notice that the AdGridwork.com domain was down for the past 2 days. The reason for this was that we initiated a domain transfer to a new registrar and apparently the updates to the new DNS servers didn’t propagate as smoothly as we would have liked. But as you can see we are back up and running: New servers and new name servers for 2008. It’s also important to note that our Ad Server (mediagridwork.com) did not go down yesterday as it is hosted independently of the AdGridwork front end. Therefore all of your impressions, clicks and conversions were correctly recorded and your ads were served as usual

Anyways, thanks again to everyone who has participated in our great service over the past year and we hope to continue to grow and thrive into the new year.

Nick & Kyle
AdGridwork.com

Hey everyone, sorry for the delay in posting, but hopefully people have noticed that adgridwork is functioning smoothly as before. We finishing switching our web host on Friday, and so far we’ve been with the performance. Hopefully this change will make the server problems a thing of the past. Please email us if there are any outstanding site performance issues. Otherwise we will focus on working on new features instead of worrying about servers

As many of you have probably noticed, adgridwork has been experiencing some major technical difficulties recently. Our current web host has been failing repeatedly, so we have decided to switch hosts. We have purchased new hosting and are in the process of migrating the adgridwork website to its new home. Also, it is ONLY the adgridwork website which is effected by these failures. Our ads are hosted separately and have not been effected. We will post again as soon as we complete the transition. We would like to apologize to our users for this inconvenience, we hope to have this resolved within a couple of days.

We are happy to introduce the latest new feature to the adgridwork service, campaign languages. Now, when you submit your site to the adgridwork network, you can select the language of your site. This way, you can further target your campaign. Your ad will be shown on other sites of your language, and the ads shown on your site will be mostly other sites of your language. Initially, we are testing this new feature for just English and Spanish; we will expand to other languages as demand and quantity dictate.

As with all our new features, we do our best to test that everything is working smoothly, but there could always be small issues here and there. If you notice anything that doesn’t seem right, have any questions, or you just have some feedback on the language feature, please contact us.

The adgridwork team