LinkShare affiliate program. Make money on your site!

Linkshare is an affiliate program that has hundreds of companies you can choose to advertise on your website.  Signing up for affiliate programs is a great way to make money from your blog or website!

Drive Free Traffic to your Website with LinkReferral

I recently joined LinkReferral and I have gotten more than 100 visitors to my website in the past few days. Signing up is free.  You will need to look at up to 30 other websites a day through LinkReferral, post to the forum once a day and review up to 5 websites a day.  Each action equals one credit.  Each credit equals one visitor to your website.  

Drive Free Traffic to your Website with TrafficG

I have been using TrafficG for about a week and it has driven hundreds of people to my site!  It is free.  All you have to do is look at a blog for 20 seconds and then enter the security code, which proves that you are human and that you just looked at the blog.  After you do that, another blog will pop up for you to look at.  Each time you enter a security code, your receive a point.  Each point sends a new person to your blog.  Here is the link:

Link Referral

I have found a site that drives traffic to your website for free.  It is called Link Referral.  

Here is the information I found on the website:

- Receive 100's of authentic, quality, targeted visitors per day.
- Receive valuable written visitor feedback.
- Network with 250,000+ of your peers.
- Get it all free of charge. 


I have read that you have to view a couple websites and write a review to make up for it being free, but that doesn't seem to hard, especially if it will bring as much traffic as it says!  I just signed up for it, so I will let you know how well it works after a while.  

Free Hosted Blog Software

The two most popular sites for free hosted blog software are Blogger and WordPress.  Since I am a novice, I decided to choose Blogger.

Blogger is very simple.  You don't have to know any computer programming to use it.  It is more basic than WordPress.

WordPress is a great site if you know something about computer programming.  It has a more expanded amount of things you can do on it.

Blogging for Dummies

Since I am just entering the blogosphere, I decided to read "Blogging for Dummies".  This book has helped me so much.  It covers what a blog is, how to set up a blog in Blogger and Wordpress, what goes into an effective blog, finding your niche and building your audience and making money from your blog.  I have found so many tips that I have already put into action.  This book has helped me so much, since I am a beginner in blogging.  I would recommend reading this book if you are new to blogging.

The Other 8 Hours by Robert Pagliarini

This was a motivational book about your other 8 hours.  In this book, the author shows that we sleep for 8 hours, work for 8 hours and then we have another 8 hours.  He gives a lot of great ideas of what to do during those other 8 hours to make money and do the things that you enjoy the most.  The first couple chapters motivate you to be creative with your other 8 hours and to get more out of your day.  He also lists life leeches to avoid with techniques on how to avoid them.  He shows you how to do something worthwhile with every minute of your day, even while waiting for an appointment or driving home from work.  In Chapter 5, he motivates you to stop being a consumer and begin being a creator. Chapter 8, which is almost 100 pages long, gives advice on how to make money at home in your other 8 hours.  He shows you step-by-step how to get into blogging, inventing, writing books, screenplays and music, starting a company, reselling, affiliating and licensing, taking advantages of fads/stunts, working for stock in a company, advancing or jumping careers, freelancing and turning hobbies into income.  He divides this chapter up into sections and at the end of each section, he lists websites (and what resources you can get from them) that can help you with each venture.  He also lays out a simple, step-by-step plan in each section.  Near the end of the book, he talks about scheduling your time to weed out unnecessary time wasters and to fill that time in with things you find more valuable, like spending more time with friends and family and learning new things every day.  I highly recommend this book to anyone that feels like they are not doing anything with their other 8 hours.  It motivated me to begin this blog!