As part of the December initiatives I am purchasing a review from the SponsoredReviews site and service. Once the review is posted, at a cost of $77, we will determine after a month how much traffic and other benefits are derived from the review.

Take a look at the Sponsored Reviews site to order your review. You can easily search the sites in their network, many are available. You can choose to search in the topics of the sites to obtain reviews from sites that best match your subject matter.

Technorati is a site to track blogs and media through tagging. They currently track 107.3 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media, as of the writing of this article.

Tagging is done by you and as long as you use their required code you will be submitted to their system. You may tag your post with keywords that you believe are relevant to your post. As Technorati is so large now you want to be found in their system. Some sites make their decisions on whether or not you can participate in an advertising campaign or even make your services available in their directory look at Technorati as one of the deciding factors, such as ReviewMe.

Here are the steps to get started:

• join free here
• enter and claim your blog or site so Technorati may validate you own the blog, all you do is create a post with a code they give you. Once you are validated you may then delete your post.
• you will have a main account with a bio and other information, which is about you
• next you will enter general tags for you
• most importantly, you will never be found in Technorati, you need to enter tags for every post you have

Now you will be found in the Technorati directory. Their metrics include a Ranking, Authority and a Favorite metric. To assure you are in the directory you need to use the following code: which they calculate, and a favorite rating.

Tags will assist in bettering your Technorati rank. To place a Technorati keyword on your post, below is the code for tagging your content: vc news

Code for tags:
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/VC%20News" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/technorati.com');" rel="tag">VC News</a>

Favorite buttons such as this, get the code from Technorati, allow users to Favorite your site

Code for favorite button:
<br /> <a href="http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add=http://www.longest.com" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/technorati.com');"><img src="http://static.technorati.com/pix/fave/tech-fav-1.png" alt="Add to Technorati Favorites" /></a>

Technorati Tags: wordpress, technorati, website traffic

I had a Facebook Application for Agloco built to test utilizing a contractor to create a Facebook application. If you are not familiar with Facebook, it is a very nicely done social network. You may join groups, find friends, and use various applications. Facebook Applications are growing in popularity. Here is what it looks like:

The Agloco Application for Facebook allows you to install with the click of a button. You may either go to my Facebook Page Here and click the “Add Widget” button, or go directly to the application page here.

The power of this simple application is gaining referrals and:

• you only need to click a button to install it on your Facebook page
• you enter in your Agloco ID when you install it
• the next person that installs, after seeing it on your Facebook page, can join Agloco and it uses your referral ID so you gain another referral
• when the application is installed it asks you to tell your friends, you can select who you would like to send it to, therefore it spreads quickly so others will join
• it acts as a simple advertisement and has a button to join Agloco (with your Referral ID) and a button to Add the Widget so it will spread and increase your referrals

Here is a screen shot of the what it looks like on a Facebook page (it will be a little lower on the page but you get the idea):

First: Join Agloco Here
Second: Install Facebook Application for Agloco Here

Technorati Tags: facebook application, facebook agloco, agloco, affiliate program, network marketing

One of the best ways to get your word our about your site and increase your website traffic, as well create links back to your site, is to request other bloggers to write about your site and link back to you. You can spend your time asking others to write about you or use a marketplace such as Review Me to find bloggers.

As an advertiser you pay these bloggers to write about your site. There are multiple ways to obtain exposure from the bloggers and through Review Me you may choose one of the following:

• Marketplace Review : pick the top blogs and ask them to write about you;
• Advertiser Offer : you create a campaign by setting a price per review, total number of reviews, and allowing anyone to accept the offer; and
• Advertorials : you choose the top blogs and you also remain in complete control of the article.

The main differences are that you may choose who writes about you in the Marketplace Review and Advertorials but not for the Advertiser Offer, and with the Marketplace Review and Advertiser Offer the blogger will follow your guidelines but write the article themselves whereas you have complete control over the content if you choose Advertorials.

The benefits are twofold, you will have bloggers write about you to their audience which chooses to read their blog and therefore has a certain level of trust and/or respect for the opinions of the blogger, and the stories are permanent with a link back to your site thereby assisting in search engine optimization. Both of these options will help increase website traffic.

You may Join Review Me Here and start your campaigns.

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