Why use tinyurl when you can use adf.ly?

Get paid to share your links!

Here's a pretty cool service. It allows you to share a link. For example, check out this one. It takes you to our new domain name, which currently houses our portfolio, as well as some side projects. http://adf.ly/463TV

My favorite part about adf.ly, is how much they actually pay. It's very simple to earn money with adf.ly.

Another tweet program?

Yeah, that's right. There is another tweet program option. Tweet Adder, while absolutely amazing, is pretty pricey. Enter, Social Oomph!

Even has a free version!

Okay I'm not going to lie to you. Tweet Adder can be quite expensive. At $55 for the basic, it's a large investment. Especially for the small net business that it's going to help most. However, Social Oomph has a free version (granted, not as much functionality as the paid version). Now, it doesn't do as much for twitter as Tweet Adder does, but it also works with facebook fan pages, which is what I use it for. 

I would definitely recommend giving the free version a try, it makes using twitter and facebook to grow your website so much easier than trying to get by doing everything manually. 

Never underestimate the ability to schedule tweets. In marketing terms, this is incredibly valuable.

YouSayToo

Typically, I prefer to test out every new potential income source on a blog-by-blog basis, as what works for one blog may not work for another. However, YouSayToo is immune to this standard of mine. This is because of the way it works. YouSayToo is a content rehosting service. Whatever you post, is duplicated to the YouSayToo website, where it is shared with a great number of readers - more than your blog can reach on it's own.

Not only does YouSayToo share the revenue with you from the rehost, but they also send you tons of traffic. I've implemented it on one of my blogs so far, and it's increased traffic dramatically. I really enjoy their service.

Don't you deserve more from your blog?

To leep or not to leep?

Shouldn't be a question if you're a blogger.

Is a great advertising network

I've recently discovered 2leep, and have just started using it as a test on our most popular blog in the network. It's highly customizable, and will help both your earnings and your traffic. For every click your blog generates on a non-monetary link, your blog will receive one in exchange. You then have the option to sell a percent of your displays. Clicks on the monetary links will generate you money. You can use it in unison with any other ad network (even adsense), and the increased traffic will help your bottom line with the other publishers as well.

If you'd like to see what it looks like, check out the latest post@ That Politics Blog. Under the content, before the comments, is their widget.

Golden rules of Advertising.

If you want to make money online, there are a few things you must remember. You blog or website isn't going to sprout into a full grown money tree overnight.

If you don't have traffic, advertising with you is useless.

There are plenty of ways to build traffic. You could advertise, but do you really want to invest in your money sapling? Nah, not when you're in the budding stages. What you really want to do to build traffic is gain exposure through natural means.

1) Social networks. Have a like button, have a tweet button, maybe even a dig button. Could even go as far as a stumble button. This allows people who like what your site has to offer a way to easily share it, and it reminds them to do so.

2) Build your search engine ranking. Links to your blog, your posts, anything about you, will build your ranking here. Everytime you post (or at least the good ones) tweet it, share it on facebook, Google will notice, and you'll be higher on the search rankings for it.

3) Comment on other blogs (this was my main form of advertising in the super early stages) commenting on other blogs, especially small ones with low traffic, will cause that blogger to take note of you. s/he'll become curious who you are, and check out what you have to offer. Don't be so blunt as to ask for an exchange, but genuinely interested in what he has to say.

4) Forums and other. Answer peoples questions related to your blog topic on forums, or other website (yahoo answers is great for this). Provide the best answer, then tell them they can read more at one of your blog posts and provide a link. You can gain a life-long reader.

Keep in mind, none of those things will directly earn you megabux but the money won't come without the traffic, and traffic won't come without exposure.