Monday, August 9, 2010

Moved to Wordpress and customized domain !

We decided to move our blog to Wordpress platform and customized domain,

you can find us at

http://www.freemakemoneyadvice.com/

Enjoy and come to visit us !

Thursday, June 10, 2010

ADVICE n.7 : Advertise your blog for Free



Even if you have a good blog, with high quality contents and updated posts,


you may face against the low traffic issue.




Let's see some tips for advertise your blog online, for FREE :


  1. submit your blog to some of the thousands Topsites and Blog Directories (for example Bloghub , Bloghints.com Directory , Blogsitelist , Blogcatalog , Blogsrating , Marketing Scoop, Bloggapedia, Blog Directory - Find It! ,blogarama.com, Submitblognow.info, Blog Directory, Technorati ), Finance Blogs - Blog Rankings );
  2. visit other blogs and leave comments, they may return the favour;
  3. join and participate to bloggers forum and portals;
  4. submit your blog to Search Engines;
  5. ping your blog (you can use for example Pingoat );
  6. join and submit on Public Bookmarking sites (Social Bookmark Blogadr.com);
  7. join exchange link programs;
  8. join free advertising forums;
  9. post your blog in Social Network sites (for example Facebook);
  10. submit to RSS Directories;
  11. mention your blog wherever you can, as in e-mail signature, when you post on forums or just tell to your friends.

More tips here : Click Here!



Things done well need time.

ADVICE n.6 : Amazon as Affiliate Program


Once you have launched from a while your blog,
you can think about choosing Amazon as your Affiliate Program.



Here you find some suggestions :

  1. gain as much traffic as you can in your blog;
  2. help your readers to redirect trough your content to the concerned products on Amazon;
  3. your readers have to trust you/your blog for wanting to buy from your Affiliate Merchant;
  4. find products to promotes that match with your topics;
  5. people will buy if they know other people are buying trough your blog;
  6. Amazon is well reputation site where a good percentage of people redirected from your blog are willing to buy something;
  7. try to promote Amazon product link trough your contents;
  8. most of readers will want to go on Amazon by clicking on textual links, not image links;
  9. promote discounts and promotions of your Affiliate Program.

ADVICE n.5 : Affiliate Programs


After create a blog and achieve a good quality level,

you can think about joining affiliate programs.


The Affiliate Program is an agreement in which you promise a Web merchant to sell or advertise their products and then they give you a commission based on the sales you generate.


You have to choose your Affiliate Program between thousands offers and the features are varied.


Here you have some tips that will help you to finalize your selection :

  1. avoid merchants that will compete with you;
  2. look for affiliates programs that sell unique product in this present saturated market;
  3. seek for high paying rates;
  4. look for programs that have growth potential and offer products in expansion;
  5. choose clear pay structure;
  6. make sure you selected affiliates programs have good tracking system, marketing support and community support.

Here an example of good Affiliate Programs : GoDaddy.com .

Things done well need time.

ADVICE n.4 : Improve your blog quality


Once again, there could be a lot of resources around (and above all NOT for free) where to find out how to improve your blog quality.


Here they go some free suggestions :

  1. try to build a good design and layout, use a readable type of character and the right proportion of size and column;
  2. make clear titles for your posts;
  3. use images and links if you think it is useful, but do not abuse, in order to not weigh down the loading of the page;
  4. do not write very long posts;
  5. try to provide original contents;
  6. update regularly your blog;
  7. link external to other blogs, they will probably return the favour;
  8. use internal links to help readers find something in your blog;
  9. test the power of video blogging (preeminent example is Mr. Darren Rowse with his Problogger;
  10. do not publish too much advertising (place correctly Google Adsense);
  11. interact with your readers (when you will have some);
  12. you can use a Blog Editor to help yourself;
  13. last, but not for importance, USE YOUR BRAIN.