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Four Easy Methods For Getting Free Web Traffic To Your Blog
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Four Easy Methods For Getting Free Web Traffic To Your Blog
A blog without readers is pretty much worthless. If you’ve been blogging for awhile now and have only been getting a trickle of readers to your posts, you need to put a free web traffic system into action. Learning how to create traffic is as much of a necessary skill to bloggers as writing quality posts is. Many bloggers are excellent at creating content however know very little about building traffic.
This is a quick guide to the four most popular (free and most successful) traffic building approaches.
- You Need To Be Social!
Social networking and blogging go hand in hand. Your blog posts can be distributed over social networking sites in many ways. Sign up for Twitter and tweet about your posts as soon as they are published to you blog. Update your Facebook status with a link to your new blog posts. Submit your posts to Digg.com, Reddit.com and StumbleUpon.com. etc… It’s also important to remember that in order for social networking to work, you’ll need to participate with other people in your social community. If you visit their links and respond to their updates, they’re more likely to do the same for you.
- Make Sure You’re Noticed!
Look for blogs in your niche and start following their posts. Always contribute informative as well as useful comments on their blog posts. Not only will the blog owner notice you and visit your blog, other commenter’s will also visit your blog to find out more about you and your related site. There’s no need overdue commenting, but make it a point to leave comments on several relevant blogs each day.
- Get Your Message Out There!
RSS feeds are a good way to syndicate your blog’s content so that it’s sent to a variety of people in their own blog readers or on their own sites. Most of the blogging systems have RSS feeds automatically included, however you can add extra features to your feed by using a free service like FeedBurner.com. With FeedBurner you can add things like sharing the feed via e-mail so it will pull in new readers and encourage previous visitors to come back to the blog again and again.
- Syndicate Your Blog Posts!
As a blogger you may think that there’s no need for article marketing. The truth is that you can get a lot of visitors to your blog simply by re-writing several of your most popular posts and adding them to article directory sites. You can convert your favorite posts as articles with a link back to your blog to many different article directories. Not only will you get valuable one-way links but your articles are often picked up by others who will publish them on their own blogs which will bring you more traffic.
These four ways of starting your free web traffic system can be used over and over again to help build traffic to your blog and increase up your readership.
7 Blog Ad Networks Worth Checking Out
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Once you’ve built up a nice readership for your blog, and you are beginning to see a steady stream of search engine traffic; one of the most important considerations is how you will monetize your blog. The good news is that there are a wide variety of blog ad networks to choose from. Let’s take a look at some of the best.
1. BuySellAds
BuySellAds is a great choice if you haven’t been successful with pay-per-click ad models like Adsense. When you sign up with BuySellAds, you’ll enter your blog information and wait for approval. BuySellAds will automatically retrieve your Alexa Rank, Google Page Rank, and other statistics to display to advertisers. Then you’ll name your price per month to display a banner ad on your site. Advertisers will be able to easily check out your website and decide if they would like to buy a banner ad. BuySellAds takes a 25% commission of the total ad cost.
2. Technorati Media
Technorati Media is the largest social media advertising network and the 3rd largest blog media property. Technorati has long been one of the top destinations for Internet users wishing to find the best and most relevant blogs on a wide variety of subjects. When you join their ad network, they’ll find the highest paying ads for your blog based on your content via a CPM (cost per 1000 views) model.
3. BlogAds
BlogAds is a relatively small network, but they represent some of the biggest names in blogging, like Perez Hilton. One of the biggest advantages to BlogAds is the amount of customization. You can specify the size of the ad you want, and you can even adjust the colors of the ads to match your site. The ads you sell will be based on a monthly fixed charge – not on impressions or clicks. You can reject any ad you wish, and BlogAds takes a 30% commission.
4. Sponsored Tweets
If you are already supplementing your blogging efforts with Twitter, then this can be a great way to get a few extra dollars. All you need to do is register your Twitter account with Sponsored Tweets and set your prices to begin receiving offers. You can charge both on a tweet-by-tweet basis and also on a per-click basis. Kim Kardashian reportedly gets paid $10,000 per tweet, so there is definitely a market here if you have a sizable number of followers.
5. Google Adsense
You may have heard about the Google Adsense network, and you have no doubt seen Google Ads on other blogs. The best part about the Adsense program is its simplicity. It is easy to be accepted into the program, and Google will immediately begin showing ads to your visitors related to the content on your blog. Depending on how valuable your keywords are, you can earn several dollars per click.
6. Amazon Affiliate Program
Another hugely popular advertising network that is easy to join is the Amazon Affiliate program. You can select products to display on your blog, or you can let Amazon choose products automatically based on your content. Every time someone buys something from Amazon, you will receive a percentage of the sale price. The best part is that you can earn even on products you didn’t explicitly advertise. If you recommend a book, someone might go to Amazon and buy an expensive flat screen television.
7. Payperpost
Payperpost is an ad network that brings bloggers and advertisers together. Once you list your blog, your statistics, your price per word, and your price per link; you’ll be able to field offers from advertisers who would like you to write a blog post about their product or service.
Every blog is slightly different, and there is no one best way to monetize it. Your best bet may be to try several of the above networks to see which one has the greatest potential earning power for your blog. Stick with the one that works, and discard the rest.
This is a guest article from James Adams, a blogger working for a UK based store specialising in HP 337 ink and other supplies. Read more of his work about print design and media on their blog, the CreativeCloud.
Monetize Your Blogs With Automated Ads – A Review
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In a previous post Expert WordPress Video Review I shared with you a free SEO ready and secure WordfPress installer that you can install in just 3 clicks.
Today I have another free service that will help you monitize your blog.
It’s the new Automated Advertising “Bot”…
It’s a system to automate your advertising by getting more traffic to the ads that are profitable for you…automatically.
This is actually pretty cool, you’re going to love it.
- What IS Automated Ads and what can it do?
It’s a site preloaded with banners for the different categories at ClickBank. You simply plug in your ClickBank ID, and the system generates banners all pointing to your affiliate link.
Once you have selected your category, size of banner, and number of banners to rotate, Automated Ads does the rest. Banners are shown based on their performance which makes your campaigns more and more profitable over time.
Another really cool feature is Automated Ads will automatically test out new popular ClickBank products as they are added to ClickBank for you.
So once you set this up, you never have to worry about which offers are converting for you or not, nor do you have to continually monitor what ClickBank has to offer. Affiliate marketing couldn’t get any easier!
- How much does it cost?
Here’s the best part…right now it’s free.
The downside to the free application, however, is that you can’t rotate any of your own banners to your own sites, or banners to sites not currently in the program.
The upside is that you can upgrade your account and have free reign at adding whatever banners you want. Plus, you’ll also get 4 other scripts and software tools that allow you to automate your traffic, and ultimately your sales!
Anyway, you can check it out here: Automated Ads
