Indepth Look: AGLOCO Viewbar

CLICK TO ENLARGE. That image is a screen shot of what the viewbar will look like. I find it to be quite unobtrusive, especially as you have the option to minimise it at any time and it still counts as part of your 5 monthly hours! It says on one of the windows "watch the Spiderman 3 trailer". I found this quite encouraging, as I had expected boring text ads to shoved in my face, but having read a little about the viewbar and seeing this screen has totally turned me around. I really can’t wait till its release at the end of February.

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Increase Traffic: Blogger top 5 Essential Sites

I have previously talked about increasing traffic to your blog/website by using some slightly more sophisticated techniques. If feel I have missed out on telling you about the sites that EVERY blogger needs to know about to be successful.

1. Technorati This is an essential site for every blogger. It is a major blog directory if not THE main directory on the net. It is useful for a number of reasons.
1. Your ranking on it is valued by the higher paying advertisers, (like text link adds ADD LINK). You will NOT qualify to display these ads unless you have a high enough Technorati ranking.
2. It lets you know where you are. Meaning that if you only have a few, low ranking sites linking to yours, that is probably the reason you are experiencing low traffic.
3. If you have a high Technorati ranking you can use that figure to promote yourself.
4. Its ranking system motivates you to get links from AUTHORITY SITES, which directly AND indirectly increase your sites traffic.


2. Alexa This is much the same as Technorati, it is best to be on BOTH.

3. Digg This is THE main site where you can submit you articles (your longer, more in depth posts like this one). It brings you additional traffic just from posting them. If you get on the featured page it will cause a HUGE burst of traffic (we are talking 10,000s).

4. Isnare This is another major free article submission site. The submission time for free articles is considerably longer than Digg (which is near instant) but it will help bring you traffic in the long run. Isnare requires articles that are at least 300 words, but you get a 'box' at the end to display you link and advertise your site.

5. Affiliate campaigns. If you have a blog it is well worth signing up to some reliable affiliate sites because your blog is a great place to promote them for free. They can be big money earners with just a few affiliates if you choose wisely. My collection contains:

AGLOCO
Bestcashrewards


These sites a common knowledge among webmasters, they NEED to be with you as well!!

SEO Search Engine Optimisation

I have been running though the ways to drive traffic to your site for free. SEO is one of these methods. A way of achieving it is by using the right KEYWORDS. A useful tool is Google keyword tool. Using that tool (there are others) you can actually get inside the minds of people. Rather than predicting what people will type, you can actually look at the evidence and see what they HAVE allready typed. It is commen practise amoung webmasters and you MUST make it a habit.

You may think it is pointless and that you can come up with these phrases, but that is A LIE. It comes up with things like :

how to tips
how to money
how to advice

Which are all relevant to this blog, but I would not have come up with them myself.

If you have done it already, do it now!