Why Put Advertising On Your Blog?

To make money!

There are thousands bloggers world wide who include ads on their blogs and make money through blog advertising.

Some reasons why you should do this:

The main source of income of a blogger is advertising. If your ads get clicks you will receive money from programs like AdWords etc… If you make several hundred dollars through your blog you can cover your hosting and domain fees and you can help your family budget, depends how much you make!

Blogs of value and quality have massive traffic. If your blog is in a position to get the necessary traffic you can make a living of it. If you establish your blog and yourself as an expert in your targeted niche, you are able to grow to a big money making business. And later hire freelancers or employees to help you get your daily work done!

You possible blogging benefits:

- A reader of your blog is in your area of interest. Therefore, the probability that he is aware that the product or service which is included as an advertisement your blog can be something of value for him, is very high. He is willing to click on the ads and you can make money.

- Blog advertising is one of the best options to address the right and targeted niche; advertisers know this also and look out for blogs willing to write reviews or to take ads on the pages!

- Blog advertising can help a product or service to hit a market in a much shorter time than with traditional media or advertising. Blog Advertising saves time, cash and much effort. Advertising managers know this too.

- Blog Advertising helps to establish authority and to create your product and brand identity.

If you have a blog right now or you want to start blogging, than I can say GO For It! This is a very good decision!

With the growth of social media marketing, demand and the awareness of marketing managers to blogs you have better than only good chances to be successful.

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Top Translation Company Interview – TradOnline Blog

Today I like to introduce you to the TradOnline Blog from Mathieu Marechal.

Mathieu Marechal  is based in Paris and he is the founder and CEO of the translation company, Trad Online (www.tradonline.fr), which has offices in Paris, Bologna and Barcelona.

He is blogging in French and English about online networking, entrepreneurship and the translation industry.

The BlogAdMonkey: Tell me a little bit about your self, your background, where are you from, what are you doing for living, etc.

I’m currently CEO of my own translation company, Trad Online (www.tradonline.fr), which has offices in Paris, Bologna (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain). We’re actually running independent offices/websites for each country (www.tradonline.es and www.tradonline-italia.it), a lot of fun, I enjoy my job a lot.

The BlogAdMonkey: What was your reason to start blogging?

TradOnline Blog: Basically, I started blogging to give my company’s news out to the world and give us a new opportunity at exchanging with the outside world. And since then we’ve been several (with for example one of my associate partners) at Trad Online blogging about our industry in general, the company and its latest developments but also more specific interests, such as Web 2.0, partnerships, networking sites, etc.

It was also in our mind right from the start that blogging would enable to reach out to new people and interact with them, and so far that’s happened and I’m very pleased about it.

The BlogAdMonkey: How long do you blog?

TradOnline Blog: I’ve been blogging for about 2 years (www.tradonline.fr/blog/), and I try to post at least every few days, but sometimes, and many bloggers surely experience the same issue, things get so hectic with work that I have to postpone the posting of new articles.

The BlogAdMonkey: What are the topics you blog about?

TradOnline Blog: Business in general, the translation industry, online networking platforms (like linkedin, Viadeo, Xing, plaxo, etc), Web 2.0 startups + a little bit of miscellaneous

The BlogAdMonkey: Which blogging platform do you use?

TradOnline Blog: WordPress So far, we’re pretty happy with it!

The BlogAdMonkey: How do you promote your blog?

TradOnline Blog: Well first of all, I try to keep the content worth reading, so I don’t post if I don’t have something of a least minimal interest to say, which I feel is in a way a first step to auto-promoting a blog.

Other than that our blog has been submitted to major search engines and to blog-specific directories, we also communicate about its existence on the numerous networking sites that I and my team are on, we also include it in some of email signatures, etc. We don’t have any SEM activity though to drive traffic to the blog (not yet! Maybe soon).

The BlogAdMonkey: What is the post on your blog that has had the most traffic in the last 12 months?

TradOnline Blog: It was a post about a new French law, http://www.tradonline.fr/blog/?p=184 which was read about 500 times, it was a big news item for a few weeks and I think we gained from the article being written are the right time and offering further info to the ongoing debate.

The BlogAdMonkey: Where did the traffic mainly come from?

TradOnline Blog: Surprisingly not only from France, although this was a very “French oriented” post. We have traffic from a little bit everywhere in the world, although mainly from France and neighboring countries where our presence and visibility are the strongest.

The BlogAdMonkey: Did you do anything extra to market or promote this post or did it just happen organically?

TradOnline Blog: All of traffic is organic, we haven’t yet launched any post-specific communication except as a relay to press releases etc. So our 500 visitors for this post came thru Google and other search engines

The BlogAdMonkey: What can we as bloggers learn from the success of this post?

TradOnline Blog: Give regular interesting content and your blog will be visible in search engines when people look for content related to what you’re saying on your blog

Thanks for taking the time to interview and all the best to you and your readers

To find out more about us, please feel free to visit us at www.tradonline.fr or on linkedin : www.linkedin.com/in/tradonline

Great thanks to you Mathieu from TradOnline Blog for taking the time to do this interview.

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FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials

Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the FTC Act.

The notice incorporates several changes to the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, which address endorsements by consumers, experts, organizations, and celebrities, as well as the disclosure of important connections between advertisers and endorsers. The Guides were last updated in 1980.

Under the revised Guides, advertisements that feature a consumer and convey his or her experience with a product or service as typical when that is not the case will be required to clearly disclose the results that consumers can generally expect. In contrast to the 1980 version of the Guides – which allowed advertisers to describe unusual results in a testimonial as long as they included a disclaimer such as “results not typical” – the revised Guides no longer contain this safe harbor. Read the full release here.

Find here the Text of the Revised Endorsement and Testimonial Guides

Read also my previous post: FTC Wants To Fine You $11,000 Per Post

Take a look here also how your disclaimer can look like!

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Do You Know Squidoo? But You Should!

Do you know Squidoo? No?

Squidoo is a social media site that enables users to create so called lenses.

You can create lenses about your areas of expertise. As a business owner you can use Squidoo to promote your business, your products, and your services for FREE!

Yes a steady stream of FREE traffic to your business!

Keep on reading!

Squidoo is very easy to set up and to use.  It takes about less than ten minutes. Wit Squidoo you can use various promotional tools and Plugin o generate targeted traffic to your lens.

In my opinion the most on of the most powerful Squidoo tools is the RSS feeds integration feature.  This RSS feature updates every time when you add something new to your blog/ website or receive a comment. This RSS feed is sent to all Squidoo users and pings various networks and users which have subscribed to your lens RSS feed, that you have an update on your lens. This drives them back to your lens and to your blog/ website!

With the various set of additional Squidoo tools you are able to do surveys, include videos and photos to your blog or business website and to make it more sizzling and interactive!

Because Squidoo is highly ranked by Google and further major search engines, every lens that is published will be indexed very quickly by the search engines. Means … guess what …?

Yes, you right FREE traffic to your blog/ website!

You can optimize your lens keyword by include your targeted keywords and to promote it through further social media sites to achieve best traffic results.
At Squidoo you can create lenses for EVERY product or service separately you wish to promote.

When you create a lens for each product separately, you can produce a steady stream of targeted traffic that directly points your product or service landing page. Means … guess what …?

Yes, you right again! FREE traffic to your blog/ website!

Here you can take a look at the BlogAdMonkey lens! Than go ahead and start set up your first lens! No excuses!

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Do You Know Squidoo But You Should?
Do you know Squidoo? No?
Squidoo is a social media site that enables users to create so called lenses.
You can create lenses about your areas of expertise. As a business owner you can use Squidoo to promote your business, your products, and your services for FREE!
Yes a steady stream of FREE traffic to your business!
Keep on reading!
Squidoo is very easy to set up and to use.  It takes about less than ten minutes.
Wit Squidoo you can use various promotional tools and Plugin o generate targeted traffic to your lens.
In my opinion the most on of the most powerful Squidoo tools is the RSS feeds integration feature.
This RSS feature updates every time when you add something new to your blog/ website or receive a comment. This RSS feed is sent to all Squidoo users and pings various networks and users which have subscribed to your lens RSS feed, that you have an update on your lens.
This drives them back to your lens and to your blog/ website.
With the various set of additional Squidoo tools you are able to do surveys, include videos and photos to your blog or business website and to make it more sizzling and interactive!
Because Squidoo is highly ranked by Google and further major search engines, every lens that is published will be indexed very quickly by the search engines. Means … guess what …?
Yes, you right FREE traffic to your blog/ website! 
You can optimize your lens keyword by include your targeted keywords and to promote it through further social media sites to achieve best traffic results.
At Squidoo you can create lenses for EVERY product or service separately you wish to promote.
When you create a lens for each product separately, you can produce a steady stream of targeted traffic that directly points your product or service landing page. Means … guess what …?
Yes, you right again! FREE traffic to your blog/ website! 
Here you can take a look at the BlogAdMonkey lens! Than go ahead and start set up your first lens! No excuses!
http://www.squidoo.com/BlogAdMonkey

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