Virginia Breeze

Entrecard, LinkReferral and 125Exchange have become three major sources of traffic for me in the past month. I had reached a point where I was discouraged about my sources of traffic. Not you! You are a great source of traffic my faithful (paid) reader.

But everything was StumbleUpon and American Idol. And I like both of these entities but I just felt like I needed something else in my life. AI is going to be over soon and SU keeps telling me they are not a traffic source. So I decided to look for some different sources and came up with these three.

And it seems to be working out well. I only have about 200 Entrecard credits but the good thing is that I am exploring other blogs. And discovering new things in the process! Entrecard motivates me to get out there and look around.

And LinkReferral does the same thing. Plus LinkReferral gives you the opportunity to review other blogs and be reviewed. The reviews I have received have been encouraging. Every day I try to look at ten or twenty blogs there. And they don’t time you so if you see something you don’t like immediately you can leave and still get credit.

It’s pretty easy to stay in the top fifty blogs in your category. And they have many thousand of visitors per day. I get an average of about 60 visitors each day from this resource since I started last month.

If you join please use me as your sponsor and I can get credit for that too. I would really appreciate it if you did. And I will do something nice for you too. See the sidebar for a link.

But the main thing again is that I am becoming acquainted with many more blogs.

This is really the slow and steady road to success. And I am not going anywhere so why not try it? Right? And by the way you are coming with me on my way to the top are you not? I hope so. Maybe we can go there together!

125Exchange is my third new venture and it also encourages me to look at other blogs by putting attractive ads in my sidebar that I can view without going anywhere. But it is also interesting for very different reasons. Basically it is motivating me to learn how to design 125X125 banners that will be attractive and encourage folks to click on my blog.

The great thing is that they really work with you on this. I have talked to “Granny” at least twenty times in the past week as we tried different banners. It’s more fun than editing photos and I have gotten better at it. Here is my latest creation. After looking at it awhile I think maybe I should match up the colors a little more.

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It’s smaller than this of course. And I am trying out seven different banners right now for my three blogs. I bought one from Bannerszen for 25 dollars so I could compare the performance of one done by professionals with my own. Do you like it? Here is another one I am thinking about throwing into the mix.

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So far BannersZen and your blogger friend are about tied in performance I am happy to say. Actually I may be a little ahead.

So this is free traffic. You don’t have to do anything or pay anybody (except if you start buying banners) in order to benefit from it. And it’s a creative endeavor as well.

If you or someone you pay comes up with a really good banner that sends folks to your blog like moths to a porch light you are going to be happy. Right?

So that’s what I have been doing lately. It’s a new direction. And I wanted to share it with you in case you are looking for something new too.

Have a great weekend.

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