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January 25th, 2012

Will GiveAways Really Increase Your Followers?

In the New Year, I decided to give myself a small marketing budget to increase the number of followers on each of my blogs.

From dismal numbers probably totaling all together 100 followers, let’s look at my numbers now.

For now, we are going to look at my Facebook Followers although my Google Plus Numbers are increasing as well!

The Giveaway Car now has 867

The Good Buy has 548.

Sass Class has 66.

Amablogger has 30.

Earness has 27.

VoucherList has 23.

Singed Wings has 19.

MoneyTrina has 19.

My Spoiled Self has 15.

What increased my numbers so exponentially on TheGiveAwayCar and TheGoodBuy.net.

GiveAways!

A giveaway that I sponsored myself for a mere $10 Paypal saw my first  leaps in followers once I started marketing the giveaway on various contest sites.

For another $20, I entered my blogs into giveaways being hosted on other blogs.

As soon as those giveaways launched, another flood of followers came into play.

At first, I was sending them to TheGoodBuy, which is why the numbers on there are so high, and a few went to SassClass.

But then I decided to switch to sending them to TheGiveAwayCar because clearly the people entering the giveaways liked to enter giveaways.

And The Give Away Car is all about giveaways.

And most of the giveaways on The GiveAwayCar will also have options to follow my other blogs for exta entries.

So, I am feeding them back to all of my blogs…more bang for the buck!

Did I lose you? I hope not…makes sense in my head?

If I did, just leave a comment asking me to make it more clear and I will work on that.

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January 25th, 2012

Review Opp: Nature’s sleep

Nature’s Sleep is seeking bloggers to review the Visco memory foam pillow

Please fill out this document.
You can follow Nature’s Sleep on
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/naturessleep
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NaturesSleep
Gplus: http://gplus.to/NaturesSleep
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/naturessleep/
Make sure you give them a shoutout so they can follow you back!
You can also to enter a $2000 Memory Foam Mattress here.

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January 12th, 2012

How To Run A Coupon Sites

I am always impressed with the generosity of the ladies at Affiliate ABCs Affiliate ABCs.

This time they have released transcripts of a podcast on how to run a coupon site entitled Best Practices For Coupon Sites on NightFire Publications.

It is a round table discussion featuring Affiliate ABCs hosts Deborah Carney and Vinny O’Hare joined Kim Salvino, Amy Ely, and Jeannine Crooks of buy.at

They released this podcast because of the influx of coupon sites using standardized scripts and wordpress plugins (guilty! gulp!) and all of these our coupon sites are looking quite cookie cutter.

They discussion ranged from making sure that your sales and coupons are up to date and merchant approved.

They even make mention of a coupon aggregate that pulls all of the dead coupons for you!

They also discuss the value and methods of contacting a merchant directly to see if you can get a discount code the is very specific for your website (as well as issue cautions on “borrowing” a code from another site unless you truly do like handing your competition a commission.

Do you know how a Click To Reveal works and how to use it effectively?

Have you heard of Offer Central or know what it does?

Is there value in having a niche coupon site?

How do you blend coupons into a non-coupon site?

These questions are definitely answered.

You can purchase the podcast transcripts on Best Practices for Coupon Sites (ABCs Plus Basics for Websites) from
Amazon.com as well as enter to win your own eBook copy of Best Practices For Coupon Sites.


a Rafflecopter giveaway

I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

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January 11th, 2012

GiveAway LinkUps For More Followers

My previous way of doing things was to try to use traffic to get me followers.

But this year, I am trying something different.

I am using followers to get me traffic.

Backwards, I know…but stay with me.

If you visit as many blogs as I do, then you have seen all of the linkups.

But lately, something new has arisen in the bloggersphere….

Giveaway Linkups!

For a usually modest fee ($5 – $10), you can have your blog linked up in a grand prize giveaway.

Hundreds of Dollars.

An Amazon Kindle Fire.

Apple iPad.

And the wonderful thing is that you do not have to come out of pocket or go begging for the prize yourself.

Instead, the giveaway is funded by your entry fee (minus a small administration fee) and the fees of other blogs hopping on board with you.

This is quite a boon for those of us with very limited advertising budgets.

So what is the ultimate advantage of entering giveaway linkups?

Well, one obvious advantage will be the increase in your followers.

And hopefully, I will be able to convert those followers into regular readers and commentors.

The second advantage will be the freebies.

Have you ever signed up for a product review company such as Tomoson.com?

The one thing that all of them have in common is that they like stats…

RSS Subscribers

FaceBook Fans

Twitter Followers

And, coming soon I am sure, Google Plus Page Circles

To sum it up, the higher you numbers, the more freebies you qualify to review.

Good, yes? YES!

So, how do you find these giveaway linkups?

Well, you could always google them.

However, if you are feeling lazy, I will be soon making a page dedicated to these events.

I will also be writing post marketing them so be sure to sign up with the subscribe buttons in the sidebar.

What do you think of my marketing strategy 2012?

 

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January 10th, 2012

Adgitize is Closing

Adgitize is closing.

Yet another good program has bitten the dust.

If I had either the money (or let’s face it, the talent) to run CMFads or Adgitize, I would have made an offer to buy them.

Because it was all about the traffic to my other sites for me.

Making a profit would have been a secondary goal.

Not a criticism, by any means, just thinking out loud from my own perspective.

Anywho, you will be proud to know that Adgitize went out like the true champ that it was and refunded everybody’s money.

My initial payment was a prorated refund for the two ads that I had in the system.

My secondary payment was the money that I had earned (that I usually just turned into to credits to advertise).

Good bye and Godspeed…

I, for one, will miss you…

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December 20th, 2011

Review: The $7.95 Marketing Plan

Stop! Don’t buy a domain name until you read this book first.

Ok, so that was a little melodramatic…lol…but this is a good, quick eBook on how to jump start your thinking on the perfect domain name for yourself, your business, or the business of a client.

The $7.95 Marketing Plan by Jim F. Kukral is a vehicle that will teach you how to build your brand for less than the cost of a pizza.

After all, besides having an already known brand name such as Pepsi.com or McDonalds.com, there are ways to make even the domain of your website memorable.

So… What’s In The $7.95 Marketing Plan?

Well, not an actual marketing plan for one.

Instead, the author discusses the value of a good domain name, how to come up with a memorable name, gives examples of domain names that you can’t forget as well as just plain fun domain names, and domain names that make money.

And this blog itself is a good example of the amount of thought that I put into a domain name before clicking the Buy Button.

Want to hear my thought process?

Ok…

“You are sooo the opposite of a problogger…so what should you name your blog.”

“Hm. AmateurBlogger.com is already taken. Darn it!”

“Ama is three letters. Pro is three letters. I may have something here.”

“Oooh. AmaBlogger could mean AmateurBlogger and I Am a Blogger. Score.”

Click. Buy. Done!

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December 15th, 2011

How fast is your website? Run this test and find out!

Speed can kill.

No, not the narcotic.

The speed in which your website loads.

Ask yourself how many times you’ve hit that back button when a website took entirely too long to load.

And anything on your blog can affect its speed.

From header size to the amount of plugins in your sidebar.

One way that I have found to check my webpage load speed is with WebsiteOptimization.com.

This website checked my speed on all modems from the old 14.4k to the supersonic T1′s 1.44Mbps.

In addition it told me that I am doing excellent work with the total number of HTML files on each page (Ok, no clue what that means but thanks! lol.) but gave me a warning that I have to many “objects”  and images per page. But I like images….~whine~…lol.

All in all I had six big red Warnings, one yellow Caution, and four green Congratulations.

Guess that means that I have some work to do…~sigh~….

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December 14th, 2011

Plugin: Keyword Luv

A plugin that I have on most of my wordpress blogs but that I am kind of confused on the purpose of is Keyword Luv.

English: Forums and Minerals, the new Internet...

Image via Wikipedia

Yeah, so I just basically jumped on the bandwagon without really knowing where it was heading.Lol.

As far as my limited reasoning can tell, the purpose of keyword luv is to give anchored text  backlink.

Anchored text is important for seo because it tells the search bots what your blog is about.

For example, the blog is about blogging.

It is not about amablogger.

Amablogger is the title of the blog but it means less to nothing.

How many people are really searching for the term “amablogger”, right?

According to Google Keyword tools that would be a big fat zero..nada…zilch! Lol.

But a cool one million people are searching for “blogging” monthly.

Still don’t get it either?

Me neither. Lol.

But a really nice advantage of having Keyword Luv is that your commentors will leave their name rather than the name of their blog.

Would you rather I leave a comment with Amablogger or a comment that reads Katrina from Amablogger.

It is just more personal, you know…

So, even if you do not completely understand all of the backlink stuff (me neither!), it is worth it to make the comments on your blog more reader friendly.

If I haven’t given you enough information on keyword luv or I have given you so much that your mind is blown and you have some follow up questions, feel free to leave them below.

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December 13th, 2011

Finally Working! My Entrecard/Adgitize Drop List

Do you use Entrecard?

How about Adgitize?

Adgitize your web site.

Do you have both the Entrecard and Adgitize box above the fold?

Ie, no scrolling at all to do a double drop!

Well, then, I want you added to my drop list.

I finally have taken the time to work on my drop list.

I am not the brightest pebble on the beach so it took me awhile to figure out to add the number 2 to my code to have to fully functioning list.

Hand meet face palm.

Lol.

Mostly, I am adding blogs as I drop them but sometimes I forget to add or just plain ol’ miss your blog altogether.

To see what I mean, feel free to visit  sites already listed Amablogger’s Drop page.

The first list are my own personal blogs but the other lists will consist of other blogs (but mostly because I don’t have 300 blogs…yet! Lol.)

To have your blog reviewed for compliance and added to the list, just leave a comment below.

Again, only if you have Entrecard and Adgitize at the very top of your page will you be added to this list.

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December 8th, 2011

Review: The BackLink Syndication System

I recently had the opportunity to review The BackLink Syndication System by Danial Tan and I was very impressed with just how fast a 1000s of back-links can be built.

Often within 2 – 3 weeks of following the system.

And the instructions are so simple that you will be surprised.

Now, per the terms of the review, I am not allowed to tell you exactly what you need to do to get the top of Google’s pagerank but I will taking this for a test run during the beginning of 2012.

Just drop me a comment to remind me to let you in on the results.

Y’all know I can be so absent minded! Lol.

Or, you could purchase your own copy.

I think that he is building a website for it but you can get it right now on the Warrior’s Forum.

And no, those are not affiliate links because, well, I couldn’t find any!

Anyone use The Backlink Syndication System?

What were your results?

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