Blogs are created everyday. Technorati estimates around 120000 new blogs created each day! That’s a lot of bloggers to compete with. A good percentage of them are just as good as you, pumping great, unique content to their blogs and marketing it every way you are. Thus, there’s never enough you could be doing to get your name out there. One great way is to offer an incentive or an alternate way of publicizing your website or brand and a great way to do it is to give away a free toolbar!
Conduit is a service that lets you build a powerful free toolbar with your brand and they make it pretty much a walk in the park! Once you sign up you get to select from an array of features to append to your toolbar, these include standard toolbar features, popular services today as well as some other interesting toolbar features. Some of them are:
This is a snapshot of the features you get to add to your toolbar:
The toolbar is hosted at [yourtoolbarname].ourtoolbar.com and lets you have a customized landing page. Apart from using the toolbar as a means of promotion and providing an alternate stream of keeping your site visitors in touch with your website, they also have a Rewards Program which pays you per install, since I haven’t extensively used the service yet I’m not aware of what the PPI (pay per install) rate is, however this thread on the forums gives a reason to be a bit skeptical.
However the service alone, without the rewards program still helps get your name out there. Backed by almost $10 million dollars of funding with 38 million users (based on the Conduit website), I guess it’s worth a try. I’m hoping to test drive this service and I’d be sure to post the results so stay tuned for that.
Another alternative service worth mentioning is iToolbar, they offer a similar service to Conduit however Conduit is the market leader for this niche. Either way comments on both the services would be appreciated below.
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This would be great facility to create own customize tool, good to have only desired add-ons in tool bar.
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very good but people don’t want toolbars. also its better that you not do this because toolbars aren’t good and people will be suspicious of you.
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iTool Bar is just a login page. No home page or registation page…even after clicking on the logo. Any ideas or suggestions?
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