E-Book: "Blog Traffic Made Easy"

The benefits of creating a Forum/Discussion Board (It's FREE)

To have your own forum or discussion board means to run the forum on your own. If you happened to be a forum user, you will notice that there are moderators and administrators that manage the forum. As a warm startup to introducing this method of marketing to you, let me briefly talk about the roles of moderators and administrators.

Moderators- there is at least one moderator being assigned the job of looking after the content of the forum. Usually every subforum has at least one moderator who keep an eye on the discussion among forum members so that the posts that members write do not breach the rules of the forum website. However, the extent to which moderators in the forum is subject to the policy of the administrators.

Administrator - this may be the creator of the forum himself. The forum creator is free to appoint other administrators to co-run the forum website with him. Of course, administrators may also be moderators, but this is up to the main administrator/creator. Administrators focus on the running of the whole site, rather than the moderating the content of the forums like what a moderator does. One of the administration works include managing members.

So now let's talk about a forum can help you improve your web traffic. having your own forum means having direct access to your website visitors. This allows your visitors or customers to make enquiries through the forum, thus making your website more user friendly. Besides that, you could also reach more people when you have an interactive forum. Potential visitors/customers could reach your site more easily if you have a forum that provides online users information about the area of your specialization. Through direct communication with internet users, they are more likely to have confidence on your products or services that you would later sell to them. A forum also help you to retain your customers or visitors as you can use it to announce your latest activities or products/services. In other words, it is a great advertising tool.

To create your own forum is quite easy if you are willing to go through the work of setting up the forum and later, to run it. It would be a long-term work in fact. But if you can see its benefits and want to try this method, you can always do it for free. There are many free forum hosts out there. The following list is a compilation of some of them:

1) Forummotion
2) Lefora
3) Forumer
4) ProBoards

Have a nice weekend.

Just Ping It!

There's this method of letting people know when you post an article in your blog. It's called the ping service. Funky, isn't it? The ping service help you to reach a wide spectrum of online users as it basically inform (or ping) search engines and blog directories that you have entered a blog post. It's easy for bloggers to make their latest entries widely known.

So, how does the ping service actually help you to drive traffic to your site? See, when your latest blog post is submitted to the search engines and blog directories, your blog becomes easier to search and locate. These search engines and blog directories help internet users to find articles or blog posts that are relevant to their intended keywords. So when your blog post is pinged, it automatically goes into the records of the search engines and directories. Let say if you blog about parenting tips, and when there is this Joe or Jenny searching for parenting tips, your blog post will pop up to their screen. This is how increased traffic comes to you. But of course, yours is not the only one popping up to their screen. But nonetheless, ping service still help you to reach more readers.

Ok, here's a few ping services that are free. The more well known one would be Ping-o-Matic! as it is more widely used. Ping your blog now!
PingMyBlog
Ping-O-Matic!

Earn a little cash by doing easy tasks

Do you check your emails everyday? Do you play computer games? Are you an online shopper? Or do you just have the extra time that you do not know how to put into good use??

Yep, reading emails is no longer a crap as it used to be. You might hate emails sent by strangers. Indeed, everybody does. And yep for a second time, playing games do earn you some money. Imagine yourself spending a couple of minutes a day squinting at those emails (because you don't really have to read it in details) or answering surveys that then help you to make a little money, pretty fun isn't it? You can even earn a little money by clicking links. Yes, there are people who pay to get this silly action done, believe it or not.

Here's a few membership sites that offer you such an opportunity.
RewardsCentral - reading emails, doing short surveys, clicking links, or shop online. (earn reward points that can be turned into cash or used in online auctions)

sendearnings - reading emails, shopping online, try new products, online surveys, or play games.

This is the world of internet marketing, where many crappy ideas have been turned into money-making opportunities. No matter what, internet marketing still rocks!