There are so many ways to get traffic to your blog for free. I don’t ever pay for traffic. I’ve paid for TRAINING on how to get free traffic, but not for traffic. They key is getting traffic that’s targeted to you. I teach a course on it.

You have to begin with a question. Put yourself in the shoes of your visitors and ask yourself “what does this person do? How do they make money?” If your visitors can’t answer that question by reading your about me or the first page of your blog, you are simply another blogger in the vast sea of bloggers out there. Entertainment. Nothing more.

Is that your intention? Do you blog just for the fun of it or do you want to make money with it? I have fun blogging, but my goal is to make money. Anyone who comes to my blog knows what I sell, knows what I do for a living. What do you do?

Something to think about. Good luck to you.

GREAT blog template by the way. :-)

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I’m with you. This is the 2nd time I’ve placed an ad with adgetize at $14 and have yet to reach $10. I’m thinking of eliminating it as well.

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I was just thinking about Adgitize the other day. I was thinking I was going to remove it from my blog too for very similar reasons when I noticed that the ads where down. I tried to sign into my account and I can’t get in. Apparently their server is down and has been down for 2 or 3 days. So I don’t know what’s going on or what’s going to happen. But I still think Entrecard is a better deal and way more fun :)

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The same methods work, however, how are you intending to make the money from your blogging? I see a few ads on your sidebar, but, there’s very little chance you’re making much with them.

My only point was that if you want to make money blogging, you need to be clear about how you will make that money. Paying for traffic isn’t going to make you money. Learn how to get targeted visitors. In order to do that you have to be clear about what your visitors will do when they get here. If you don’t know what you want them to do, how will they do it?

I don’t think there’s a difference at all. Your “Many Uses of Honey” ebook is a product. It looks like a great product. BUT, you need to target people who want the information. If you structured your offer correctly, you could sell a lot more of them and make more money. It’s a great order page, but you need a squeeze page in between. You could build a list of people interested in something like that by giving away a free report with just a couple uses of honey in it. Once they read a few uses (after giving you their email and name) they will be more likely to buy your book. Then you could find a similar product, set up an affiliate account and promote that to your list as well as your honey book.

There are many, many more ways that you can make money. Blog about what you want and build a list. I do it all the time. There is no rhyme or reason to my blog and people like that. It’s like a soap opera. They come back to see what’s going on today. While they are there, they click on things and some buy products and services. If you look back through my posts you will see that my blogging focus is definitely not all on making money. When I run a course, I blog about it. Sure. But I blog about a lot of other things too. Most of the people that I’m promoting my course to are already signed up to my list through my sidebar. They have opted in for my newsletter. The recent blog posts are mainly for the search engines and whoever else comes across them while I’m testing Entrecard out. I love to test things. I have the money to spend, but won’t. I test free things so I can give value to my list of subscribers. Most of them don’t have the money yet to buy traffic plus it’s not duplicatable so I won’t ever teach anyone to buy traffic. It may be right for you, but it’s not for me. That was my only point.

Good luck to you!!

Roxanne

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I have not made anything from Adgitize and half the time they are down so how can we make any money from them? I don’t make anything from Adsense because visitors to your blog are sometimes stingy (at least I feel they are). That is what ads are there for to help others out, but the world has changed so much and it seems to be people are less giving these days then they use to be, there more for themselves then helping others out. My husband and I are both laid off and he is the only one that can draw unemployment, I am getting ready to have surgery and will be down for 2 months or more. I have done everything I can think of to get people to my blog and hopefully click, which I do get traffic but they don’t click on any ads. It’s a dog eat dog world anymore, and that is sad. I spread the love if someone has Google ads, I click on one or two for them, or whatever ads they may have to bring in money, but never get any love back. All I heard was how much people were making from Adgitize and Blogging altogether, I have not made anything. If people are making big bucks with Adgitize and Adsense, I sure would like to know how, because I have not made nothing, and when I need it the most.

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Jude, you’re probably not going to make big bucks from this, but at least right now, it’s really cheap advertising with some quality blogs and a really nice forum – it’s CMF Ads at http://www.cmfads.com/. It’s run by a couple of old entrecarders – Ben (who used to be a mod in the forum, super nice guy), Turnip, and Stan from Razzball (I think he still may belong to Entrecard). I haven’t bought any ads myself – I’m going to wait until the month is up and I get the credits people paid to advertise on MY blog to advertise on other blogs, so I’m not even going to spend any money yet… I don’t get anything for referring you or anything like that – just thought it might be something you could check out for some free or low cost advertising…

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I see you still use entrecard. I think as your traffic builds up, adgitize becomes more profitable. Also it has alot to do with how many ads are shown on your page as well.

Roxanne, Im curious, why would you pay to learn how to get free traffic instead of just paying for the traffic directly? Atleast that way, some of that traffic may be returning.

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I don’t find any of the blog ad networks are making money for me. But, I’m not focused on making money from my blog. I do it cause I like the writing. Of the ad networks the only one I really put time into is CMF Ads. I like the forums for getting help with ideas or little problems that come up. Someone always helps me out there.

Well I have to chime in here. I have been with EC for quite a while now and I receive alot of traffic from them along with meeting many wonderful bloggers.

I signed up months ago with Adigitze only as a publisher and got paid about every two to three months. I decided on January first this year to sign up as an advertiser. I publish an article a day, I make my 51 drops each day and I have my ads on my blogs. It hasn’t even been a full month yet and I’ve reached what I paid for the advertising and the hits to my blog have tripled per day. So, for me it is working. I actually do alot of advertising and promoting of my blog so that probably helps as well but I am completely satisfied and happy with Adgitize.
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