Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Free Advertising – Adlandpro

You now have another chance of advertising your business for free.

Upon signup to Adlandpro, you would get the following for free:

1. Place your free ads in the classifieds and community pages
2. Place your free ads in Free Traffic Exchange (120,000 users)
3. Free subscription to the “Adland Digest” Newsletter
4. Obtain free leads for your business using the community system
5. Earn big money with the affiliate program
6. Participate in discussions to learn more about marketing and promotions through the Adland Digest

Signup to Adlandpro Now!

I have just signed up and yet to see how it goes. But it is surely impression when I receive a tutorial email. Yes I know it is just auto-responder, but it does worth a good read.

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Yahoo! Buzz

Create a Buzz on Yahoo! Not just another Digg type website, Yahoo! Buzz allows you to submit your favourite article and expose it to millions of readers around the world.

There isn’t a WordPress / Blogger plugin for this just yet, but surely one will come very soon.

The setup is pretty simple, just create / use your Yahoo! account, sign into Buzz, and copy & paste the code onto your post (for now).

However, to automatically pull the title, summary, category & URL off your post, you would need some customization. Detailed here http://buzz.yahoo.com/buttons.

Buzz Me :)

Publish Your Passion – HubPages

Know something? Want to spread your word?

Hubpages is where you can easily publish information on a topic you love to write about.

In the world of HubPages, a hub is like a webpage, containing an article that you can write whatever you like on your favourite topic.

To start writing is pretty simple.  After signing up, you just need to create a hub and start writing on it.  With their easy-to-use interface, you can load content, photos, video and links onto your hub.

Thousands of people interested in your topic would be able to read your hub.

Best of all, for those who are interested in some extra cash, you can join their loyalty program.  They have a traffic referral program AND you can also earn affiliate commission of Adsense, Kontera, eBay & Amazon.  You can also setup an Analytics account to track traffic information.

Entrecard Toolbar

Entrecard has released their first toolbar – runs only in Firefox 3 though.

Using this toolbar, you can:

  • Switch accounts easily – if you have more than one account, you can switch easily with a click of the mouse.
  • Quick jump menu – you can quickly jump to different pages including the dashboard, messagebox, ad-calendar, stats, linked blogs page, and buy EC credit page.
  • Favourites & EC Category page menu – link to your favourites or category pages
  • Browse EC sites – through cheapest sites, most advertised…
  • Jump buttons – jump to the next site
  • Favourites – save a bookmark
  • One-click advertising – want to advertise on a site? Just click once
  • Interaction – send message to the site owner etc.
  • Entrecard menu – including links to EC related forums

If you are serious about EC dropping, surely you should install this toolbar.  Have fun!

Article Marketing

Okay. You have your own blog. You wonder why you should still do article marketing?

Through writing articles and submitting to article directories / websites, you can:

1. Brand yourself – make yourself an expert in the field
2. Get free advertising – you can at least put 1 link on the article, that leads to your product / website or whatever you want to promote
3. Increase sales – the articles serve as information rather than sales talk. However, giving information about a product would certainly assist in bringing up sales.

If you can write a good article, and someone views it, then they would think “oh this guy knows”. Linking to your own website / relevant product does give the person more confidence in your product.

An article is typically in such format:

1. First paragraph – summary / introduction of the article.
2. Second to second last paragraph – the real information in detail. The more important the information is, the closer to the top it should be placed.
3. Present in bullet points / numbered list (like this one). It makes your information easier to read.
4. Expand your points in short paragraphs.
5. Give examples if appropriate.
6. Emphasize (but not hard sell) the benefits of using your product / service.

You should write unique contents. If you think your information is valuable and can help a lot of people, then you should consider submitting to Knol.

One last tip – properly do your search phrase research before you start.