Want a Free PR8 Directory Link?
Ahh damn. I’m really pissed off that Subvert & Profit sign up is broken. Even though it’s not my fault, I feel guilty for those who read my Easiest Way To Make Money Online post and then couldn’t sign up. I’ve e-mailed them and they haven’t responded yet. I guess they already know and are working on it. I’m pretty sure the “sign up” feature is pretty high on the “should be working” list for websites. I’ll keep you guys up to date and post an update once I see it working again.
In a way of weird geeky SEO compensation I thought I’d share a tip about how to get a sneaky link from a PR8 site’s directory and grab some juicy Keyword Real Estate.
The Target
Occasionally on some of my sites that I don’t deem “appropriate” to run Google Adsense on, I will opt for Adbrite as an alternative. I was checking through the backlinks for one of my sites the other day and I noticed that I had a link from the Adbrite Publisher directory. Nothing too strange about that, after all I run their ads on the site. However, what did strike me was the strength of the link…
Yahoo! Site Explorer tends to put links in rough order of importance. My site has over 30,000 links, some of which are from massive sites, yet the Adbrite Directory ranked #26. There must be some pretty nice link juice there!
A Little Investigation Work
Right, lets check this out then. If we run Adbrite through SEO Quake we can see that it has around 18,600,000 domain links and is PR8!
Excellent. Just one more thing to check. If we look at a random directory entry, we can check the source code to make sure the link is followed. Bingo. We even have some space to cram in some keywords.
How we get the link
Okay, firstly head over Adbrite and sign up as a Publisher.
I’m working on the assumption you’re not going to want to show Adbrite adverts, so you need to tweak a few things, so listen up. When you sign up you’ll be asked to create an “Ad Zone” which is similar to a Google Channel. More specifically, an Ad Zone is a page, or set of pages that you will display adverts on. So an example Ad Zone might be “Homepage – Top Banner” or “Site Wide – Footer”.
You can pretty much fly through the sign up. Make sure, if you don’t want to display adverts that you turn interstitials and inline ads off, otherwise you’ll have horrible pop-up windows appearing on your site all the time. Adbrite will ask you some fairly basic questions like what keywords you want your site listed for, what advertisers can sell to your visitors and a few questions about site demographics.
When you’re setting up your “Ad Zone Description” make sure you get your site keywords in here. The Ad Zone Description is the only thing displayed on your basic listing page, so if you can type a nice long description mentioning your keywords, you’ll skew the content of your page towards your niche, making Google think it’s all the more relevant.
At the last stage, Adbrite will give you your advert code, which will need to be pasted onto your site. This stage is required because you will not be listed in the Adbrite directory unless your adverts are getting impressions…
So take the code and stick it in a hidden div 
Add this to your StyleSheet:
div#adbriteAds
{
margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
display: none;
}
Then when you paste in your Adbrite Javascript, put it inside the “adbriteAds” div on your webpage.
The result
Congratulations! Once the impressions are registered, you will appear in the Adbrite directory and you have just nabbed yourself one juicy link + keywords!
I might do a review of Adbrite in the future as they have proven to be a good alternative to Adsense, when you are working on projects that for one reason or another would violate the Adsense TOS.
Enjoy and accept my apologies for not being able to sign up to Subvert & Profit 
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Haven’t commented on your site before– but I have enjoyed all your posts since I first came across your site– so I thought I’d say great site
I noticed the adbrite thing a few months back– it is a nice bonus to running the adbrite system
Comment by Paul
July 23rd, 2007 @ 7:06 am
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title o.us poetry. Thanks for informative article
Comment by Jakob
July 23rd, 2007 @ 9:34 am
How do Adbrite feel about their ads being hidden? Their TOS seems quite well hidden, or it’s Monday morning and I just can’t find it.
Comment by Colin
July 23rd, 2007 @ 9:57 am
Frankly, I don’t care how abrite feel about it. They are far too many advertisers to manually monitor, so I guess to stay under the radar I would enable the ads once in a while and give them a few clicks to avoid a strange impressions/click rate.
Adbrite are very scarce on the TOS side, which I mentioned makes them great for slightly more “riské” sites. I’m not complaining! Once you’ve run ads, you can switch them off and remain in their directory. So chances of success are pretty high. Making multiple accounts on Adbrite is also a sinch, they don’t have any checking. So no worries about getting a useful account banned. I make a new account for every site.
Comment by Mark
July 23rd, 2007 @ 10:33 am
Well, the directory doesn’t link directly to your website but to your description profile. And this profile page is a staggering PR0.
Comment by Mike
July 23rd, 2007 @ 11:37 am
You’re missing the point, Mike. “Authority” and popularity are two different things. PR has very little to do with effecting SERPs, more with how often and deep a page is crawled.
As I said, if you use Yahoo! Site Explorer to look at the Abrite links, you’ll find they are very powerful. I titled the post “get PR8 directory link” because I wanted people to read it and PR is what people (wrongly) obsess over.
Also, don’t forget you’re not looking at the actual PR. You’re looking at an out of date Toolbar PR. I have PR3 sites that outrank PR7 sites. Getting links on Amazon Stores (as pointed out in Eli’s guide) and Squidoo pages are also very important for rankings – yet they are PR0.
Comment by Mark
July 23rd, 2007 @ 11:58 am
Sorry, newbie question. When pasting the adbrite javascript into the hidden div how does the order go?
div#adbriteAds
{
var AdBrite_Title_Color = ’0000FF’;
var AdBrite_Text_Color = ’000000′;
var AdBrite_Background_Color = ‘FFFFFF’;
var AdBrite_Border_Color = ‘FFFFFF’;
Your Ad Here
margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
display: none;
}
Cheers
Comment by Chamonix
July 23rd, 2007 @ 3:34 pm
Hi Chamonix,
You add the CSS in the article into your CSS stylesheet. You then call it in page with:
< div id="adbriteAds" >
adbrite code here
< /div >
Comment by Mark
July 23rd, 2007 @ 5:18 pm
Aha, that makes a little more sense. Many thanks.
Comment by Chamonix
July 23rd, 2007 @ 8:23 pm
So i take it if i eventually remove the ad in the future my link will be removed too?
Comment by Allan
July 25th, 2007 @ 5:45 am
Hi Allan,
I removed an ad a week ago and I’m still listed, however I imagine they will remove it eventually. Saying that, since you’re never actually showing the ad, why would you ever need to remove it?
Comment by Mark
July 25th, 2007 @ 9:59 am
I would like to see how quick a page loads with and without the javascript even hidden, I will check it out later. Good tip
Comment by Scot Smith
August 4th, 2007 @ 10:09 pm
You seem to know what you’re talking about. I don’t. My blog is with Orble so I guess I am not free to do as I please there so I don’t think this is for me.
I liked your blog.
Comment by katyzzz
August 5th, 2007 @ 1:00 am
I don’t think that tiny bit of javascript is going to make an awful lot of difference to load times, especially, if like me, you’re a Firefox user running noscript
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Comment by David Bradley
August 8th, 2007 @ 5:29 pm
Great tip. I have not tried Adbrite yet as this gives a great alternative to Google. My site is very new, so I hope to see the impact.
Thanks
Comment by BenC
August 10th, 2007 @ 2:46 pm
I would like to see how quick a page loads with and without the javascript even hidden, I will check it out later.
Comment by Bank zdjec
August 16th, 2007 @ 11:33 am
Wow..I can get a pr8 link now! My dream will come true because of u. Thanks a lot man! I will try it now. If I encounter any problem, I will post it here.
Comment by Louiss
August 16th, 2007 @ 3:47 pm
Thanks for the great information!
Comment by Anime Girl
August 20th, 2007 @ 6:37 am
Great stuff, as are so many of your articles.
Comment by Cay Cole
August 20th, 2007 @ 7:40 pm
Wow this is indeed a precious info. I’ll be able to get a new alternative to Google too.
Keep the good info coming. I really appreciate it.
DAnnY
Comment by Dan
September 14th, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
this was first posted on digitalpoint:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=389385
you have a great blog but it would have been nice if u gave credit to the person u took this idea / information from.
thanks.
Comment by Darksoul
September 26th, 2007 @ 7:35 pm
@Darksoul
1) I’ve never seen that thread before
2) I’ve been doing it for months. I don’t just blog about stuff immediately when I think about it.
It’s a nice coincidence though!
Comment by Mark
September 26th, 2007 @ 10:34 pm
So can you use this with adsense enabled as well?
Comment by residnt
November 4th, 2007 @ 9:55 am
It looks very nice but I didnt get the link yet. Well see
Comment by islam islami sohbet
December 12th, 2007 @ 4:20 pm
you have a great blog but it would have been nice if u gave credit to the person u took this idea / information from.
Comment by
December 19th, 2007 @ 10:34 pm
@ sharp.
I would, but it was my idea…
Comment by Mark
December 20th, 2007 @ 2:16 pm
Great information , I have not done it but will later
Comment by ELDS, INC
December 25th, 2007 @ 7:50 pm
Really have a great blog. This article explain an interesting alternative to Google. I will try this technique. Thanks.
Comment by Tomelloso
January 20th, 2008 @ 11:24 pm
It looks very nice but I didnt get the link yet. Well see
Comment by Sohbet
March 2nd, 2008 @ 11:22 am
Great tip! I have a site for contents insurance quotes that could benefit
form that idea.
Comment by home-contents-insurance-quote.com
June 1st, 2008 @ 8:39 pm
Gr8 tip.
Comment by ketan
August 11th, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
Cheeky idea. I have done it as well but with project wonderful. I will try with adbrite.
Comment by Alex
September 3rd, 2008 @ 2:35 pm
@ Mark
Do you think it will still work?. Or any body who has tried this and it still works?.
Comment by Kuber online
September 7th, 2008 @ 9:01 am
@Mark
I checked the site displaying adbrite ads, they are listed in site directory but the backlinks don’t show in any tool. I guess no link juice here.
Comment by Kuber online
September 13th, 2008 @ 1:25 am
@Kuber online
There was.. Over a year ago when this was posted
Comment by Mark
September 13th, 2008 @ 2:16 am
True. They must have made changes.
Comment by Kuber online
September 13th, 2008 @ 3:25 am
Great!
Comment by rezaul
September 28th, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
great article
Comment by Blackpool
January 29th, 2009 @ 9:16 pm
Great article. Wish it still worked.
Comment by Online Money Making
March 24th, 2009 @ 12:32 am
Great tip!!!
Comment by webreklama
April 10th, 2009 @ 7:01 am
@ Sohbet you too
Comment by froni
February 9th, 2010 @ 6:37 pm
Always wondered why I did so good with Adbrite I had never run it through any SEO to figure out what was going on. Oh hey and they paid pretty good to if I remember right.
Comment by fish
April 13th, 2010 @ 12:17 am
wow adbrite long time not hear the news, thanks for reminding
Comment by harga sepeda
March 30th, 2011 @ 12:23 pm