I found this at buzzpop. I thought I give it a try.
According to "The Blog Readability Test" they read, analyze and classify your blog based on content. Here is what it said about mine:
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Increase Traffic to your blog- Community building- Link Exchange and Surf for Traffic
There are many ways to increase traffic to your blog.
After signing up you place the Link2blogs box on your blog. Every reader that clicks on blogs listed in your Link2blogs box will earn you get 1 credit. The credits you earn become new visitors for your blog. Your ad will be shown in other blogs of Link2blogs network, in the categories you chose.
You must stay for about 30 seconds on each one then enter a number code in the ‘Blogmad surf bar’ that signifies that you are actually there. Earn credits and move on to the next one. No download is required for use of the bar.
Placing banner ads is one more way to generate credits with Blogmad. You can also show other blog ads on your blog. For every 270 page views you will earn a credit.
Blogmad is registered with textlink ads. You can place the textlink add banner on your blog. When someone clicks on it you get a commission in the form of credits. It’s not a bad idea to do so especially if your traffic is relatively low and you can’t get a direct textlink banner in the first place.
Simple flash games that will pay you credits to play.
Hope you find this list of services available helpful
There are many more things about there that can help increase traffic to your blog. Feel free to subscribe to my feed for updates.
I joined Entrecard the other day.
It is the new advertising phenomenon that is entirely for bloggers.
Entrecard Widget- The Card Holder
After signing up with a valid e-mail adress, copy and paste the code on an appropriate place on your blog. The code is for the Entrecard "card holder". You should place this code on an easily accessibly location on your blog. Place the code, the widget, above the fold of your page. This way it will be easier for Entrecard visitors to see it and drop their card. When they do, you will get one credit. Initially, and when no one else is advertising on it, it will display your card.
Entrecard Design
You will be asked to design a card. Ideally, you want to use an eye catching design, with perhaps a few words that will intrigue viewers and make them want to click on it. Your card will display within the community, the list of blogs in the category you select to place your blog and in other users drop box every time you drop your card on their blog.
Once enough credits are collected you can use them towards advertising on other members’ blogs.
Keep in mind that it costs credits to advertise on other blogs As more visitors drop their entry card on your blog, the cost for advertising on your page increases.
Entrecard is an excellent way to boost your traffic! Wanna learn more? Check out some Entrecard tips.
I have changed my blogs layout with a template I found at Webtalks. They have 3 column versions for all the blogger beta templates. The one i got works fine!
I really like the extra space. Found it just in time for Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Increase Traffic to your blog
Community Building-Social Bookmarking and Networking
There are a few things that you can do to increase traffic to your blog.
To achieve high volumes of visitors, readers and subscribers does take time, it won’t happen over night, but it’s not impossible. Even if you have great content you can’t expect readers to flock on your pages. Having good content is one thing however there is much more to it than just posting articles.
Even if you have the best product in the world, best value, good price etc. how can you expect that people will find out about it? You need to let people know about your blog, join or create a community around the topic of your blog before you increase you traffic.
To increase traffic information must flow freely.
To inform, educate, compel and attract readers you must increase the chances of being located.
Getting your blog listed in directories is one way;
Other great ways of increasing traffic are:
1. Social networking
Myspace and Facebook (I think Facebook reached over 60 million users the other day), work fine in letting people know you have a blog and presenting them with the option of visiting. However, there are a few more services that I came across and seem to be friendlier towards the blogging crowd.
I have found that MyBlogLog is an excellent way for someone to start building, or become part of communities. There are countless communities on thousands of topics and it is really well set up. It has excellent real time features that allow you to find people interested in exactly the same things you are. You can keep track of all your statistics and communicate with other readers and bloggers.
Entrecard is the new advertising phenomenon that is geared entirely for bloggers. You place the card on your blog and other Entrecard members click on it to “drop their card”, and you as well as they, gain advertising credits. Once enough credits are collected you can use them towards advertising on other members’ blogs. As more visitors drop their entry card on your blog, the cost for advertising on your page increases and so do your visits. There is an argument to be made about the quality of the hits you get, but in the end the more people visit your page the more chances you will have to get a few good repeat visitors.
HubPages is another interesting and well set up community based information portal. It differs from MyBlogLog in the sense that you can’t integrate your blog you but can post your articles as part of their system and link to it. It could qualify as a bookmarking service but I think it falls better under the networking class since it has enhanced community features. What HubPages excels at is that they allow members to post adds from google on their articles as well as affiliate links from Amazon and Ebay. You can follow the following link to a sample article I posted; an article from this blog My HubPage.
1. Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a good way to increase traffic. The following services allow you to bookmark articles and have readers go through them, rate them or follow the links back to the source your blog. There are two kinds of social bookmarking sites.
Ones that require downloading a tool bar and ones that don’t.
The ones I found require downloading are StumbleUpon and Delicious.
Although I downloaded the bars I haven’t used them enough so I can’t say how well they work.
Then there is Digg and Furl that don’t require downloads and work fine.
Digg offers the option to install a rating button on your blog that allows readers to express that they “Digg” your articles. Doing so increases your articles popularity and is ranked better in their lists. A similar service is offered by PlugIm which seems to work like Digg but is smaller.
Forums
Forums can also be a great way to increase the inbound traffic to your blog. Replying to comments or posting your own comments with your URL (in your forum signature) can be a good way to attract readers on your page. The ones that I have come across recently, and created accounts for are: EarnersForum, Powelly, and Articleinfor.
Keep posting new topics, keep writing, and focus on the blogging community.
Increasing traffic to your blog is not difficult.
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Does it pay to have an opinion?
Can I say what I want, write about what I think is interesting, point to what I feel is cool, talk about what I want to talk about and actually bring in enough pennies to sustain this process. Is what I have to say, what you have to say, what you are interested in, what you want to read, actually worth any money?
Since I am in the process of making money, or better hoping to make money I will try not to spend any money.
Well here is my blogging Strategy
After creating a blog, this blog, I started snooping around for information, for advice and any kind of direction regarding what course of action I should take.
By reading one or two of the tons of sources of information that are widely available online, just google your question and u can pretty much find what you need, I came across many articles that pretty much suggest two things (to sum it up):
1. Write interesting- write often, and
2. Get the word out.
Regarding writing interesting articles… that’s something that I won’t take in consideration because of the nature of this experiment, which is:
Write what I feel like writing about!
However, I will suggest tips regarding compiling work for the novice blogger as I become more knowledgeable, hopefully in the near future.
Getting the word out
Here is what I have done so far:
I have suggested this blog to the directories of Yahoo and Google for free.
For yahoo visit yahoo.com and at the bottom of page click on “Suggest a Site” and follow the process.
And for Google follow this link:
http://www.google.com/addurl
What happens then is the search engine ‘crawls’ your site (your blog) and based on what kind of material you have on there, you get incorporated. I think I did. It takes a day or two.
However that is not enough because there are countless of other sites out there and even when you search in the engine your site won’t show up.
What is suggested by most blogging gurus out there is that you register your blog with the different databases-programs out there. What I have done successfully is register with:
technorati.com
dir.blogflux.com
blogrankings.com
bloggingfusion.com
globeofblogs.com
blogher.com
blogcarnival.com
For some of the above you will have to create and account. Also, for when submitting your blog you will be asked for the title, the url, key words, and brief description. You will be better off if you open a text or word file and have it all ready. That way you can copy and paste and thus do things a bit faster.
I tried some other ones as well but with no luck. I was turned down because I either didn’t want to pay their fees or because my blog is new and doesn’t have enough hits.
For example, Text link ads did not accept my site due to low traffic.
Setting things up for revenue
Then as you can see, if you scroll down my page, I registered with Google AdSense.
It is the service by Google that places related ads on your page and then pays you when people with different IP’s click on them.
So this is what I have accomplished by now. I am thinking that my next post should be about what else I have tried; ads affiliate programs to give this blog the potential to become profitable. At this point I am determined to try everything to make this work. Till next time….
Pyramid scheme?
In regards to the site, it does not appear to be a pyramid scheme since it does not meet the characteristics of other online “money making” -join and become a millionaire projects.
Although for growth the website relies on referrals, (see link bellow), it does not require members/users to pay for joining.
http://www.moola.com:80/moopubs/b2b/exc/join.jsp?sid=4d6a55744e4449784d673d3d-2
It is primarily geared towards people who like playing short flash games. The catch is that you have to watch a short advertisement before you actually play the game. I don’t know how feasible it is to actually double the initial penny, they will offer by joining, 30 times to over 10, 000, oo0 but from using the site I have brought my balance up just over 4 dollars and 30 cents. It’s not something I would quit my job over but it is something that has gotten me thinking.
Congratulations to the people who have come up with the idea.
But how feasible would it be to turn this idea into profit? From a business side of things:
Cost… The website looks like someone has put a lot of work in making it and it looks that it might cost a lot to maintain and update.
I read on their site that it is a world wide patent pending concept. What are they looking at, I am not a lawyer but I would think that to register something for world wide patent protection you would need a few hundred thousand dollars? If not more?
How far will their product go, what are they selling? Entertainment? Or are they trying to tap into to the ever present characteristic of greed and the hopes of people who will be willing to watch an ad and then play, and then watch and play again and again. How long will people, their customers be willing to use it if there is no hope to make more money?
Anyhow, although I will keep the moola thing going there is another thing that I think will be interesting to examine
I want to see if I can make this blog grow, have people read it at least…What are the steps what is the process of actually make something like this work?
Here is what has been keeping me 'busy': http://www.moola.com:80/moopubs/b2b/exc/join.jsp?sid=4d6a55744e4449784d673d3d-2
Moola
It seems like an excellent way to kill some time online and make some change. It’s a site with games, with an extra clever way of doing things for free-a patent pending way I must add.
Watch short video advertisements play games and earn a few cents here and there. Great for those who think they can become millionaires, with only one penny.
Will this set a marker for the future of internet advertising? Maybe, maybe not.
Nevertheless, Its pretty straight forward and I could say its fun at times.
How it works?
You sign up (invite only) then you get a penny. You bet an amount, one or two pennies at first and you try to double that amount.
With submit eaze I can submit my site to over 300 directories in under 15 minutes. High approval rating as well. It has a list of 4000 directories. Catch me if you can!!
Try it out for free.