Just wanted to let everyone know of the recent changes, and upcoming changes.

Article Tags
First off I will start with the article tags feature, which shortly will mean that you don’t need to enter keywords for your articles any more, as we have built a system that automatically picks the most relevant keywords from your article, and will post them as tags, which will
1. help visitors find your articles
2. increase the keyword density of those keywords, to make the pages even more SEO optimized.

Revenue Sharing
ZapContent over the next few weeks will be gearing up to start revenue sharing with our authors. We believe that without your articles, well simply put we wouldn’t be here, so its time to reward you for your efforts.
Initially it will work like this:
Revenue Sharing Rules
[Article Counts]
1-10 30%
11-25 40%
25+ 50%

[Author Referral]
20% of their percentage on their articles
Example: you refer an author who has posted 9 articles, that means that when readers are viewing his/her articles your ad will be shown 6% of the time

[Own Page Reader Referral](Counted from previous month on all referrals)
Total Percentage Increases
1-100 2%
101-500 5%
501-1000 10%
1000+ 15%
Example: You have posted 15 articles so your base percentage on your articles is 40% of the time, but you also referred 600 readers the previous month, so your total percentage will be 50%. Meaning that now your ad will be shown on your articles 50% of the time.

[Other Page Reader Referrals](Counted from previous month on all referrals)
1-100 9%
101-500 12%
501-1000 15%
1000+ 18%
Example: The previous month you referred 600 people, so on every page that someone that you referred visits that is not one of your pages, your ad will be shown 15% of the time.

The details are likely to change a little, and if you have any questions or suggestions feel free to post a comment here or send us an email thru the contact page.

Thats all for now, but keep your eyes open and check back often.

Mike Miller

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ZapContent.com
AffordableMethods.com

We will be creating a new contest soon that will allow you to gain even more publicity, as well as earn some cool prizes that will help you with your marketing efforts.

Stay tuned for more information.

Mike

We just completed a homepage upgrade that allows you to click on a main category, and it will display the subcategories. We initially didnt plan on showing the subcategories on the homepage due t the space they take up, however due to many requests to make the homepage show the subcategories without loading another page to get to them we changed our mind and they are now there. You can also click on the “Show All” to show all the categories we have , and “Hide All” to hide them.

We have added yet another new feature that we believe will be helpful to many of our users. You can now double click on any word in an article that you don’t know the meaning of, and if it is in the dictionary we will give you the definition. At this point it is in beta so sometimes it comes up with only the word and no definition, but in testing 99% of the time if the word is in the dictionary it will give the definition. Right now the definition is given by means of a popup, however we are working on making it show up in page next to your mouse to keep it easy;)

We have been working for a little while on a feature we call “Send Me Articles”. From now on when your view the list of articles in a category, you can check the check box next to the title, and then scroll to the bottom and enter your email address and the format you would like the articles to be sent in, and they will be emailed to you as attachements.

As many of you have noticed ZapContent is sporting a brand new look. We decided it was time for something a little different, and something more suited to a directory of our size. All the basic parts of the site are still there, they just look a little different.

Over the past couple months we have been working on a way to make sure that all the articles at ZapContent are truely unique. We have come up with a solution. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been asked, many a times, by people whether it’s possible to start and build a successful business online.

My answer is a definite YES, however, I’ll like to preempt you that it won’t happen overnight as success in your internet business is a journey, not an isolated event.

It takes passion, a willingness to learn, apply and test what you’ve learnt (from credible sources as a matter of course), commitment, hardwork, time, money, and last but not least, persistence and determination in order to succeed — but it can be done…

Here are my golden rules to starting and building a successful and sustainable internet business:

1. Develop a viable business plan

2. Model someone successful

3. Focus on a niche market

4. Differentiate your business

5. Spent your funds wisely

6. Superior customer service