five (5) Important Tips to Get Approved for BuySellAds.com

BuySellAds is a popular direct advertising method which makes us easy to get Advertisers & Publishers as well.

Even though it’s pretty difficult to get our site approved for BuySellAds (BSA), I got it approved after trying a hell lot of times! Say for about 8-10 times.

There are some minimum requirements on the basis of which they approve the publishers.

Let's have a look at their minimum requirements:

• Your website should have at least 50,000 page impressions per month.
• Your website must be live, finished, and have fresh content.
• No porn, anything illegal, or even remotely "questionable" content.
• Non-english sites will not be accepted, but they will be accepted if they have high traffic.
• If you have a lot of untargeted ads on your site already, then they're not going to approve you.
• If you do not have your own standard domain like, .com, .net, .in etc. you’ll be rejected.

Although these are mentioned in their official site, I personally believe that all these are not followed. 
I think it’s enough if you have 10,000 impressions per month along with some good content and a good blog design.

As said earlier, I wasn’t approved for the first time, my site was rejected for 8-10 times. 
I was finally approved after bringing quite a lot of changes to my blog.

Now I’m going to share some tips for getting approved from BuySellAds.

Here are 5 tips that needs to be followed in order to get approved for BSA:

1. Standard Domain

It’s better you have a standard domain like .com, .net, .in etc. before applying for BSA. 
Try to get your own standard domain instead of free subdomains like .blogspot.com or .wordpress.com. 
You can also use some standard and free domain like .TK, .CU, .CC etc. if you’re not able to spend for it.

2. Quality Content

This is the most important thing everyone should follow, whether you want a BSA account or not. 
The very next thing which BSA looks after Standard Domain is ‘content’ and if you won’t be able to put up a good impression with your content on them then you will never get a BSA account approved. Quality content thus matters a lot and believe me this tip will help you a lot to get your BSA  account approved – easily and quickly too.

3. Clean Blog Design

Maintain a simple, clean and well designed template and arrange your widgets properly. 
Don't put too many untargeted ads nor mess-up your blog with too many links, pictures and stuff.

The Top-Right Sidebar should be Ads-free. 
It is the most appropriate place of selling ads!

4. Good Alexa Ranking

According to BSA terms, you can submit your website / blog only if your Alexa rank is less than 100K. 
But, you can get approved even if it’s more than 100K. So, you don’t really have to work hard on it.

But, Try Getting More Traffic (which will automatically increase your rankings). 
Try to grab at least 5,000 impressions per month so that your website can be determined as a good one.

Try to obtain a good amount of Facebook Fans, Twitter followers, and RSS subscribers so as to get approved easily.

5. Keep On Trying ***

Last but not the least; this is the very important thing that you should do. 
If your blog is declined, It doesn’t mean that BSA will not approve your blog in future. 
There are still chances that you will start irritating them and eventually they approve your account (Practically that’s not going to happen!). 
As you know, I kept submitting my site for approval for more than 10 times and in the 10^thattempt I got it.

It is a proven fact that if you will work hard, you will get desired results and same is with BSA too. If you will work hard and keep submitting your site, one day you’ll get it for sure.

After getting BSA account approved there are many more things to do which I will be telling someday later.

I think that these tips will surely help you bloggers out there to get approved from BuySellAds.  
Do you know more facts / tips about BSA? Then please feel free to share it via comments!

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four Ways to Identify Safe Websites on the Internet

On the whole Internet, there are approximately more than 150 million active websites up and running. As a result, it often becomes a real challenge for the users to identify safe websites that are trustworthy and reputed. Have you ever wondered to know the reputation of a website before placing the order? Need to know whether a given website is child safe? Well, here are some of the ways to identify safe websites on the Web.

 

1. WOT or Web Of Trust (www.mywot.com):

WOT is a great place to test the reputation of your favorite website. WOT gives real-time ratings for every website based on the feedback that it gets from millions of trustworthy users across the globe and trusted sources, such as phishing and malware blacklists. Each domain name is evaluated based on this data and ratings are applied to them accordingly. 

Trustworthiness signifies the overall safety of the website. A poor rating may indicate that the site is associated with threats like Internet scams, phishing, identity theft risks and malware. For more information on phishing, you may refer my other post on how to identify and avoid phishing scams.

 

Vendor reliability tells you whether a given site is safe for carrying out buy and sell transactions with it. An excellent rating indicates superior customer satisfaction while a poor rating indicates possible scam or bad shopping experience.

 

Privacy indicates about “to what extent the site respects the privacy of it’s users and protects their personal identity and data”.

 

Child Safety indicates whether the content of a given site is appropriate for children. Site contents like sexual material, nudity and vulgarity will have a poor Child Safety rating.

 

In most cases, the WOT ratings are found to be highly accurate. To check the reputation of any given website, just visit www.mywot.com type-in the address of your favorite website and click on “Check now”. This tool alone can tell you a lot about the reputation and safety level of a website. However, in addition to this, I am giving you another 3 handy tools to identify safe websites on the Web.

 

2. McCafee SiteAdvisor:

McCafee SiteAdvisor is a free tool that is available as a browser add-on. It adds safety ratings to your browser and search engine results. You can download it fromwww.siteadvisor.com.

 

3. StopBadware:

Using this tool, you can check whether a given site is said to have involved in malware activity in the past. To check this, go tohttp://www.stopbadware.org/home/reportsearch and enter the URL or domain name of a website and click on “Search Clearinghouse ”. If the search does not return any result, that means the site was never involved in any of the malware activity in the past.

 

4. Google Pagerank:

Google PageRank is another great tool to check the reputation and popularity of a website. The PageRank tool rates every webpage on a scale of 1 to 10 which indicates Google’s view of importance of the page. If a given website has a PageRank of less than 3, then it is said to be less popular among the other sites on the Internet.

 

However, PageRank will only tell you how much popular a given website is and has nothing to do with the safety level of a website. So, this tool alone cannot be used to evaluate a website’s safety and other factors.

 

PageRank feature is available as a part of Google Toolbar. You can install Google Toolbar from http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/toolbar/ie/index.html

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