There are two things you need to get signups. You need traffic to your blog and you need to give your readers a reason to sign up. There are tons of ways to get traffic like SEO, paid advertising, article marketing, etc. To get sign ups, present you self as a knowledgeable authority on something. I have become quite good at SEO lately so I often post on that. Find your own niche and learn everything you can about it.

What is ZNZ? I have seen that around lately?

The just make money site is a little busy. My eyes keep being drawn away from the the text box on the left, which seems to be the focus on the page. Also even at a high resolution your page was too wide for my screen ( I use firefox, it may matter). As a general rule, I won't even look at the part that is hidden.

Content looks good but design needs some cleaning up.

Hope that helps.

Brannon Send me an email at tony.manifold@webhostingforprofit.ws and I will give you all the help you need.

if you were brand new to network marketing. Here is the question for some of you experienced people here. Say you are new to network marketing and you have set up a blog and done all the free stuff you can think of. Since you don't have a lot of money, you decide you can spend $100 to further your business. Looking back, what would you do? Would you buy leads? pick up a particular piece of software?

I'm curious. I am sure a lot of you were at that point in your online career and were confused but looking back you think, hey $100 dollars spent here would have been just what i needed at the time. I would love to hear your answers and I am sure that it would be educational for a lot of people on this forum.

Not bad. Not bad at all. I might darker up the font just a touch. I found it a little light to read easily. Other than that it looks well done.

I'm not from Ontario but I am Canadian. I'm currently in gagetown, nb. I got some good buddies who are originally from Sardinia. Nice to meet you.

Nice to see another canuck  on here. Hope you realize your dream. I'm not much farther along that you are but if I can be of any help, with your website or blog, let me know.

I ran into a great free resource the other day. It is aboutus.org. it was originally a site where they collected info on websites from their About US page (hence the name). But it has some really cool free tools. It has a home page analysis which will help you make your homepage more search engine friendly and it also has a web presence report that can tell you how you online presence is fairing. For example: http://www.aboutus.org/Website.ws#web-presence- The website.ws page has 159 backlinks on google and 3607 on alexa.  It has an Alexa rank of 5764. They have a huge presence in google groups, and no presence on digg.

I gave a detailed rundown in my blog which is linked to my profile but if you are looking for a simple seo tool that doesn't cost anything give it a shot. Your site may not be on there but it will find it and rank it. This isn't an affiliate program and I get no compensation from this, it is just a cool site I ran into the other day.

Hope this helps
tony

I wrote another blog post about how to choose topics for your blog. Here it is:

In my previous post about writing for blogs, I talk about how blogs are a crucial part of success for network marketing. However, one of the biggest challenges for new network marketers is coming up with good topics to write about. If you browse the blogs of successful network marketers, you will see lots of blog postings about how they have succeeded in various aspects of the business. But when you are new to the business, writing about your success is impossible, unless you lie which sadly a lot of people in this industry do every day. So what can you, as a new network marketer, write about?

 

Well one option is to do what I am doing, that is take an aspect of the business you do know about (in my case writing or coaching) and write about that. You can use your insights from your success in other areas and apply them to network marketing. This will give you some meaningful posts that can help people in the industry while you build you own positive experiences to share latter on. However, what if you don’t have any skills that easily relate to network marketing? What can you write about then?

 

If you are like most people in this industry, you have failed with many systems in the past. A common number thrown about is that 97 percent of network marketers fail to make even 10 dollars from their businesses. What about looking at those failures as a source of blog articles? Human beings learn by failing, we gain experience by attempting something new and that often leads to failure. Failure is not a negative thing if it leads to success in the long run. So what have your failures taught you about network marketing? Where have you gone wrong and how can you help people from making the same mistakes?

 

People will read your blog if it gives them some insight in to questions they may have or motivates them in someway. In my experience, the people who never fail are of very little use to me as either motivation or examples to learn from. I want to see how people failed and what they did to overcome it because I know that I will fail many times in life and how I overcome that failure will be what defines me, both in business and in life. So embrace you failures and turn them in to successes by using them as topics for quality blog posts.

 

Hope that helps,

Tony

I was wondering how long post moderation lasts for. I am trying to contribute to the forum and use it as the tool it is but is takes days for my posts to show up. It is really frustrating. Is it a time thing, a number of posts thing? Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks

I agree with you. All my upline are filipino so chances are we don't speak the same language and I have never been able to get in contact with them. I talked to GDI and they say I have cancel my account then wait two weeks to re up under a worthy sponsor. There has got to be an easier way. I understand they can't let everyone jump ship to the big dogs but there should be a process where you can change sponsors without losing your work if you can show lack of support or possibly even a real person in your upline.

I always just use windows explorer as my ftp program and it works fine with the GDI server. I also just use the standard dns. All you need is your ip address as well as your username and password.

Here is the article:
http://webhostingforprofit.ws/?p=50

One of the best tools you can use to drive traffic to your affiliate sites is a blog post. Many people get scared or intimidated about the prospect of writing because they think, "How am I supposed to write a blog? I don't know how to write."  So they never write anything and maybe repost some form article. Check out most affiliate program blogs and see what I mean. They contain the same articles over and over. Heck, I've been there and I have done it too. So what if I told you that good blog writing is as simple as following a formula?

There are two main ways to structure any article. The first is to go from a wide focus to a narrow focus. That is what I am doing in this article. I am starting with a wide topic of blog writing and narrowing it down to specific tips about blog writing. The second way is to take a specific instance and move to a broad topic. These are really great for taking aspects of your daily life and turning them in to informative blog posts. You take something that happened to you or that you witnessed and you draw some conclusion from it.

The beauty of blogs is that they do not have to be huge articles. 200 to 500 words are ideal lengths of blog posts. Pick a topic and spend 10 minutes writing about it using one of the two formula's above and save it. DO NOT PUBLISH IT RIGHT AWAY! If you are writing for a business, you need to be professional. No professional writer ever publishes his first draft. You shouldn't either. Grab a coffee, take a break and come back to it. Spell check it and look for awkward phrasing or idea flow. Now you can publish it.

Congratulations! You have now become a blog writer. Do this once a week and you will begin to drive traffic to your site.

Hope that helps,

Tony

I have wrote a post on my blog helping people who have no writing experience write a blog post. Just basic writing tips. My blog is down for maintenance right now or I would give you the exact link but the website address is http://webhostingforprofit.ws I will be posting another blog writing tip tonight or tomorrow. I hope to add a number of writing tips in the coming weeks. Writing is one of the things I can really help people with as I have been published a number of times for a couple of different publications. I will add the links when I can.