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Luckily for me, I managed to get a holiday today, due to it being the first week of Uni. Along with being able to finally write this paid review of Publisher Spot and the updates made to it, I’ll also try and get a post or two written for the next few days on here.

Publisher Spot is the project of webmaster Tyler Cruz – someone that most of you will have come across. Tyler runs an entrepreneur blog as well, and tends to order a whole host of paid reviews whenever major updates are made. To find out more about Publisher Spot, including my thoughts and ideas on how it could be improved, feel free to read its first review on this blog.

Although I’m not supposed to talk too much about what it is, and concentrate on the features, doing so is essential to the review. Basically, Publisher Spot is a place where users review affiliate and ad networks, meaning that you can go there if you’re uncertain on which one to join and check up on feedback, ratings etc. At the moment, there are forty five different networks reviewed – how’s that for variety.

Some of the new features include a member system where one username works for all – all you have to do is sign up once and you’ll be able to use your account to not just rate networks up or down and review them, but also comment on the blog and forum. However, the forum is currently dead – maybe some paid posting could be organized or a contest run so that more people would be apt to join.

Another feature added is the ability for you to advertise on Publisher Spot. Now most of you will not find advertising on there useful, however those of you that run or are involved in running affiliate / ad networks… that offers you the chance to feature your brand in front of targeted traffic that will convert. There are currently three advertising options – the banner above the fold on the front page, a network spotlight on the front page and featured network status, which puts you at the top of all browse and search pages.

The good thing about the commenting / rating system is that people have to be logged in to comment, which prevents networks going through 1,000 proxies and rating themselves 10/10 on each one. However, this also means that there is no incentive for people to sign up and rate networks – the general theory is that a person who is happy with a product or service will tell just one person, but a person that is unhappy will tell the world. This means that you could have only those with negative thoughts taking the time to sign up and rate networks. Although the feature is fairly new, there also seems to be few comments of networks – for example, the review of Pay Per Post has more than 100 users that have rated it, but zero comments.

How could this be fixed? A contest of sorts perhaps – giving out a cash or some other prize to a random person which has rated and commented about their rating on more than X networks (I’d say ten). Incentives always help getting people to participate, and once they get involved they may continue to do so even after the prizes stop being offered.

On the whole though, Publisher Spot is a valuable resource, one that Tyler has invested thousands of dollars to develop – all it needs is that bigger resolution and it’s perfect. Help him (and potential affiliates) out by checking out the site, leaving your ideas as a comment on this post on how it could be improved and what you think of it.

Other than that, if you prefer watching some video to take a look at the major improvements of Publisher Spot, there is a fifteen minute video you can check out with them all listed.

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