Increase Blog Traffic and Web Presence with BlogUpp!

You are not satisfied with the rate of your blog exposure to blogosphere and WWW? You want to attract more readers? You have space on your blog sidebar for extra widget? Try BlogUpp!

How BlogUpp! Can Help You?

Enter your blog URL in the form on the BlogUpp! Website and get your promotional widget. It is easy like that. No need to register and sign up, no need to pay or fill any mandatory offers. Note that all submitted blogs are analyzed individually and approved manually in a timely manner. There are not accepted adult, gambling, and illegal or inappropriate content websites. As indicator of the approval status is the color of widget bar with BlogUpp! logo. Hence Grey stands for pending, Blue - for approved, and Red - for denied. Is the strict approval procedure good or bad? Depends… If you have an adult or spam site, this solution is not for you. But if your blog has legitimate content, you need to trust your partners, and be sure your page will be exposed to something inappropriate.

So, how that works:

• BlogUpp! snapshots each blog and reads its RSS on a regular basis;
• For every 10 blogs shared in your widget, yours is shared in 9 others;
• The widget shows interactively the blog image and its latest post;
• The blog clicked in the widget opens a new window, not closing yours;
• Approved blogs get also listed in blog directory for more blog promotion;
• And all this is completely free and with no effort whatsoever.

 When you get any freebies you want to understand why that is free, and where is the catch. With BlogUpp! it is clear and transparent, since every 1 of 10 feeds on your widget will be substituted with ads.

What makes BlogUpp! different?

• FREE. No Sign up
• Dynamic blog targeting
• Handpicked quality blogs
• Cheat-proof and fair sharing
• Blogspot, Wordpress and alike friendly
• Welcome bonus for every approved blog
• Best de facto exchange ratio (10:9).

 Developers’ website: http://www.blogupp.com/

Free E-cards System Embedded in your Blog

Competition for the readers’ hearts and minds in the world of blogging is quite severe. Every blog owner asks himself multiple questions on how he can differentiate his site from other and gain competitive advantage over the rivals. There is no single way to become a winner, each one choose the trail that fit the site owner personality, expertise, site character and content.

KangarooCards free services might be a great assistance for some sites to provide additional incentives to their visitors.

At KangarooCards it is possible to add a free e-card design and delivery system to any website. You need to set up your own e-card account at KangarooCards.net, install the provided unique scrip, and your visitors will be able to send e-cards from your website all around the world. Because it is fully customizable you can integrate it perfectly into your website.

Main Features:

• Good integration into your website.
  
• Add your own e-cards.
  
• Add cards from our public e-card database (25000 e-cards).
  
• Services are free of charge. You can use this system on your own website and send as many cards as you like to as many people as you want without any costs at all.

See an example of the KangarooCards system use - make your own sample card.
I created the card through this guest link - click to enlarge:

KangarooCards

Developers website: http://www.kangaroocards.net/

Spice up your blog with free cartoon

How to make my site unconditionally attractive? How to add interesting and catchy content to encourage my visitors come back again and again? How to make my readers stay longer on my pages?

I bet, you ask yourself all these and similar questions, when you try to tune and enhance your blog. And answers might be completely different. In this publication, I want to present a single way to spice up your blog and make it more attractive. It might not work for every site and every blog, but I am sure for some of you it will be a good solution.

Free daily cartoon add-on is a good way to add automatically high-demand content and liven up any page on your site. Simply cut and paste the code below into your website or blog HTML. When your readers click on the thumbnail, a larger version of the cartoon appears.

Users rules from the content developer

1. Feel free to change the code's fonts, colors, etc to match your website or blog, but please keep the text and links "as-is".

2. Cartoons archiving on your site is not permitted.

3. If you find cartoons you'd like to use, please contact the author for the aforementioned reasonable quote.

4. Adult websites are not allowed to use the free content.

Business Cartoons:

DAILY CARTOON
click to enlarge

Cartoon by Andertoons

14 Ways to Promote your Blog Offline

Are you sure you are doing everything possible to promote your blog wherever you can? When I explored recent Darren Rowse offline blog promotion techniques, I realized that I do almost nothing for the offline promotion for my blog. I will list briefly the provided opportunities to let people know about your blog existence in the blogosphere:

1. Conferences and Conventions - if there is a conference that relates to the topic of your interests you can come, try to attend. Be proactive, make friends, and distribute promotional materials if available.

2. Business Cards - make the cards with interesting, attractive appearance and all contact information you want to share with potential readers.

3. Bookmarks - bookmarks use is similar to the business cards. The advantage of the bookmarks that they can be used for the practical bookmarking purposes as well, and are not easily lost.

4. Blogger Meetups - look for a local social network of bloggers in your area, and attend their events. With constant expansion of the virtual communication, face-to-face contacts between the blogging fans become even more valuable.

5. Stickers - make nice stickers as part of your blog promotion materials portfolio. Use them at all places where they can attract public attention (your office, car, bag, etc.) and distribute them between people, where they can substitute business cards.

6. Gifts - Everybody likes freebies. Prepare some inexpensive gifts with your logo, blog URL, and brief encouragement to visit you blog.

7. Media - If you have or can get contacts with any kind of public media, and you can get the journalists interesting in you and what you are doing - it is great! You can get a huge boost to your blog exposure.

8. Internet Cafes - Using Internet Café approaches can be different: make a deal with café owners on making your blog a starting page on their PCs, or place pack of your business cards near every computer, or distribute posted notes or pens (everybody needs them) with your printed data.

9. T-shirts - Wear T-shirts promoting your blog can largely reinforce your brand and credentials. Giving it away means spreading your advertising even more drastically.

10. Workshops and Teaching Opportunities - Attend and actively participate in any educational activities where you can spread a word about your wonderful blog.

11. Advertise - Online advertising is used by many established blogger. But why not going further, advertising your blog in the local newspapers, magazines, or newsletters.

12. Notice boards - Put you flyers or business cards in the permitted for advertising spots at public places.

13. Talk About It - If you conversation might be benefited from reference to your blog, do not hesitate and mention that, supporting your point of view or giving an interesting information on the topic of discussion.

14. Library - Visit local libraries, locate books on the topic of your interest, and place your business card inside. Let the interesting reader find it later.

Additional Reading:
http://www.scribefire.com/2008/05/27/offline-blog-promotion-techniques-part-1-of-3/

http://www.scribefire.com/2008/06/01/offline-blog-promotion-techniques-part-2-of-3/

http://www.scribefire.com/2008/06/10/offline-blog-promotion-techniques-part-2-of-3-2/

http://www.johnchow.com/offline-blog-promotion-ideas-its-all-about-branding/