This article was originally published June 30, 2009 on Blog Diyiin Bi (BDB), and has been moved from there to Christian Internet Resources (CIR) in keeping with the new ministry-only orientation of BDB. Not all of the links and advertising widgets mentioned as being in place on BDB have been installed on CIR yet, and all were removed from BDB when it was migrated from b2evolution to Wordpress. After they have been added to CIR, some will also be re-installed on BDB.
Today, we will talk about a few more resources for advertising your online business and getting traffic to your website. All links in this article open in a new window.
Advertising is an absolute requirement for any business to survive and grow, both for traditional brick-and-mortar businesses and for online businesses. Some advertising methods will work for both, and others may be suitable only for one or the other.
We are constantly looking at different ways to get more website traffic, especially to this blog. A blog is a great way to advertise an online business, which was one of the main reasons for starting Blog Diyiin Bi. When it was decided to make BDB a ministry-only blog, CIR and The Go Light were started to take the advertising that was on BDB. Some advertising will remain on BDB in order to be able to keep it online. As of right now, the only advertising on BDB is for our Amazon.com associate store, created specifically for BDB. It advertises only books that are on Christian topics. The associate store on The Go Light and the ones we will soon be placing on CIR and John’s Joint will advertise many more items. In fact, the associate store on The Go Light already advertises computers.
Some of the links that were designed to increase website traffic will be put back on over the next few weeks, as well as being placed on John’s Joint, CIR, and The Go Light.
Having said that, there is now yet another advertising widget on Blog Diyiin Bi. This one is a combination of paid advertising and website traffic generation. Look for “Recommended Posts from LeadsLeap Blog” near the bottom of the sidebar. LeadsLeap is a program (free to join, and with a pro upgrade option) that is designed to build your mailing list and get traffic for your websites. We just joined that program this morning, and so a future post will comment on how well it works. Sign up for the free program, and if you can afford it, you might want to take advantage of the one-time upgrade offer. ($19.90 as of this morning…and yes, we did…so we are pro in LeadsLeap.) LeadsLeap looks like it might be a pretty good program. The normal cost to upgrade to pro is $27/month, but with the one-time offer they had this morning, there was a rebrandable eBook for $19.90 (sells for $27 in the LeadsLeap members’ area) and as a bonus, the first month of pro is free, with the one-time offer locking in a discounted $19.90/month thereafter. If you want to upgrade to pro in LeadsLeap, you need to think fast – when 5% of their members have upgraded to pro, they disable further upgrades until there are more free members. However, their membership is growing rapidly, and so there will be ongoing, if limited, opportunities to upgrade.
For a couple of weeks or so now, we have had a “Christians Unite” webring widgit at the bottom of the blog. (This one is strictly for generating traffic to the blog.) Blog Diyiin Bi has finally been approved as a full-fledged member of that webring. Please check out the other webring members’ websites by clicking on the various links in the widgit (or here: random, prev, next) and, if you have a Christian-oriented website, consider joining by clicking on the “Join Now” link from Blog Diyiin Bi. It is free, and should increase traffic to your website.
In a previous article, we recommended “GDI Income Team” as a way to promote your GDI business. We no longer recommend that one, due to problems with some of the advertising and traffic generating programs that are part of it. If that should change for the better, we will once again recommend “GDI Income Team.”
We still highly recommend GDI Star Team as a way to promote GDI, as well as the other programs mentioned in the Blog Diyiin Bi article where these programs were mentioned.
There is one more method of advertising to mention before closing…you couldn’t help but notice the slide-in ad – unless you have javascript disabled, in which case many features of this blog will not work. The slide-in ad is one of the tools provided by LeadsLeap. We may not keep it on this blog, because too much advertising is worse than not enough. Or we might simply put it on one of the back pages (maybe the Links from “Pastor Marv Recommends” articles page.) Or, we might remove another ad widgit and leave the new slide-in ad on the main blog page where it is now.
It is similar to a popup window, but current popup blockers can’t block it since it is part of the main page. If you use FireFox and have the noscript plugin installed, you can disable stuff like the slide-in ad while allowing other client-side-scripted items to display normally. It will probably be a very effective form of advertising for some time, and when it ceases to be effective, something else will be invented to take its place. Right now, it is still fairly new, and LeadsLeap has the best implimentation of it. TrafficPython also has a similar advertising tool. (This is our referral link for TrafficPython, which we also use.) If you want to see the TrafficPython slide-in ad in use, go here. (And sign up for our free teprofits report about making money with traffic exchanges!) Traffic Python’s slide-in does not display properly in the FireFox browser, but it worked OK in Internet Explorer 7. Not sure about IE 8.
May God richly bless you,
Pastor Marv
links in this article:
LeadsLeap
Join Christians Unite webring
GDI Star Team
GDI business opportunity
TrafficPython
Free Report: Make Money with Traffic Exchanges (and Traffic Python slide-in ad example)
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3. Paste the HTML code into your webpage
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