More Traffic For The Year 2008

Happy New Year to you and belated Merry Christmas. I have been busy during Christmas so haven't got a time to greet you. It's better late than never, right?

For the holiday spirit, I have a small gift for you. I would like to tell you that my account with TrafficSwarm.com has been successfully giving me free traffic (Please see my topic about it at Traffic Tip 3: Free Traffic From TrafficSwarm.com). But it didn't give what it promised of 1,000 daily unique visitors. Today, I've got only 10 unique visitors from it. It is only 10 but for me it is better than none at all. To think that I am only starting with it, the 10 visits would be rewarding on a small effort that I gave on doing it. I believe that that 10 will increase gradually in the next few weeks. I just need to surf consistently a few minutes a day and of course, I need to give TrafficSwarm.com new referrals to increase my credits.

So as I've said, this is a little gift that you can only receive if you will jump into the bandwagon. Why don't you join us now by just clicking the link below to register.

http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?752155

By the way, to get the traffic, you need to submit your site's URL and wait for the "Active" status approval. Failure to do so will just bloat your credit points.

Thank you in advance for joining. Once again Happy New Year to you and may you have all the blessings in the new year to come. May your traffic get doubled by the next month :).

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Blogging Startup Step 7: I hope Simpleology.com can make it simple

I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I'll let you know what I think once I've had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it's still free.

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Blogging Startup Step 6: Free Blogger Templates

Do you like my new look? The car is not mine :). I used this free blogger template to remind me of my objective to earn money from blogging. I want to have this kind of car in the future and I will work for it. I hope you don't mind if I admit it to you that it's one of my motivations. At least, I am honest :).

The new template is to make my blog site looks more professional (I hope it does look like it :) ) for the new year, 2008. Yes, if you are just starting to carry out your blogging career like me, one of the things that I've learned and I should have done it when I started this blog, is to make the site as professional as possible.

It makes sense to me. When I started this blog, I treated it as business. In a traditional business, a company should have a nice office and the people working in it should be dressed professional too to gain customers' trust. Of course some of you argue that layout is just cosmetic and not everything. Good content is still king when it comes to blogging and to get customers, which are the readers, interested with it. But it is better to have both because good impression last and you should make your site aesthetically pleasing.

Did I mention that I've got this new blogger layout for free? The template was taken from finalsense.com. The catch is simply to maintain a link from this blog to them. I don't mind at all. Imagine how much would it cost me to have this if I hired someone to design something as professional as this? A lot; I am sure about that. A link is just a very small fraction of it.

So if you want to have the same professional look, get your free blogger template from finalsense.com and choose one from a variety of layouts. All of them are for free.

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Make Money Step 3: Get Paid Every Time Your Website Is Seen

This kind of advertisement is new and it's not running yet. But they are now accepting, registration so that in future product launching interested publishers can easily installed it in their site. I was some kind of hesitant in trying this but when I heard that there's no alteration will be made to my blog layout then It piqued my interest. Yes, it is true. Your pages will be intact and layout will be displayed as is.

The new ads technique they will do is to play a 5-second sound ads to your webpages. After the 5 seconds, it will stop. It will play again on the next visit to another page. Sounds cool but I'm not sure if visitors will not be annoyed by this. Anyway, it's new and never been tested. I want to be the first one to try because if this becomes successful, I will be the one to benefit.

Did I say that you will earn instantly with the 5-second play? Yes, you read it right. Every time the ads is played, you've earned. Meaning, whenever someone visits your site, the sound is played automatically then you earn automatically. There's no need for your visitors to click anything for you to get the money. It works like the radio or television. It is called Pay-Per-Play or PPP.

If you want to be the first one to have this once it is available, click the link below and register:

Pay-Per-Play Registration

If you don't want to register and just want to know more click the link below:

Pay-Per-Play Information

If you want to be updated on future development, click the link below:

Pay-Per-Play Follow-up


The code will be available soon before the first quarter of 2008 according to NetAudioAds

Why don't you try it now, there's nothing to lose but when it's good, we're gonna gain big.

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Blogging Startup Step 5: Analyze Your Site Traffic With Google Analytics

Now is the time to implement a method on counting visitors, knowing their locations, knowing the operating system they use, the keywords (yes this is true and possible) they used to discover your site and other ways of traffic analysis. This method is called Google Analytics. It is a free web tool that webmasters and bloggers can use to discover valuable information about the characteristics of visitors' traffic. This method reveals a lot. And the most important, as I've said, it's free.

Yesterday, I already installed the Google meta tags to this blog so data gathering can be displayed by Google anytime soon. I need to have this to have a proof that traffic generation methodologies that I implemented with this blog is worth to try or not.

If you are new to Google Analytics, you can register at www.google.com/analytics using your Gmail email account. But don't enter yet directly your email account to the "sign in" fields. You have to click the "Sign up now" to register first.

Once you are registered, you can click the "Add Website Profile". A page is displayed to enter the URL of the website that you want to monitor. Another field, Time zone country, should also be filled up and then click the "Continue" button. A javascript called "Legacy Tracking Code" will be given to you and you need to put that in your blog site. As for blogger.com, it is easy, just include that snippet to one of the "HTML/JavaScript" widgets that you have in your blog's "Layout". Or, you can create one, if you don't have one yet. The snippet will not display anything when your page is run in the browser so you don't have to worry about the look of your page.

Once the code is saved to your blog, go to "Website Profile" and click the "Check Status". If your code is included correctly, Google will verify that and indicate in website profile that you've done it good.

The next you do is wait then in a few hours or days you will see statistics of your traffic. Below is an example of the charts that you can see in Google Analytics; click it to enlarge:

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