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I know you’ve heard it said before. There’s one thing every website and business needs, and that thing is: traffic.

Every webmaster wants to know… “How do I get more traffic to my site?”

The important thing to remember is that traffic is not just “traffic.” It’s people. Traffic is useless if it’s just search engine robots. In the last 24 hours alone, I’ve had exactly 1,091 Yahoo! Slurp Spiders visit my Google Forum. That’s not the kind of traffic I’m trying to build.

I decided to take some time to create a comprehensive list of the 5 best sites to post ads for free. These free advertisements are a good (free) starting point to getting your website noticed in the competitive Internet landscape.

Every one of these sites has been personally tested by me.

Te 5 Free Ad Sites 

1. InetGiant - Links in ad text aren’t live. (example ad)
2. Hot-Web-Ads - Does ads for 90 days. Redirect link is live. (example ad)
3. FreeClassifiedAds -Does ads for up to 365 days. (example ad)
4. Kingdom Classifieds - Limited to 3 credits. (example ad)
5. USNetAds - Ads expire in 120 days. (example ad)

Take a minute to announce your site to all of these free sites, and you’ll be well on your way to getting noticed online.

Bonus: Rejected Sites
I tried these sites and they did not live up to expectations. Some don’t allow links for free.

1.  USFreeads.com
2. 1second.com (1AmericaMall)
3. Yahoo! Classifieds

If you’d like to suggest another site to review, leave a comment below. Let me know which of these sites did and didn’t work for you!

1. People want freedom.
2. Be careful about offering services.
3. 2008 is all about Web 2.0 and social media.
4. There’s no such thing as passive income.
5. Your mindset is crucial. Eliminate dreamstealers.

What is Web 2.0?

• A design and usability standard.
• Brighter colors.
• Light backgrounds.
• Pictures.
• Simplicity and elegance.
• Ray Edwards endorsement: Useit.com by Jacob Neilson, “the guru in the world of web usability.”
• Interactivity and conversationalism.
  • I bought conversationalism.net. Want to help me build it?
• Conversation around my blog.
• Social bookmarks. You’ll develop affinity for certain people and sites.

What’s going to be big in 2008?

• Personal broadcasting.
  • Ray is a fan of Art Bell and Larry King, but “the golden age of radio is long, long, long in our past.”
  • Replaced by podcasting and videocasting online.
  • Get started today because it’s going to be huge.
  • By creating a podcast, you can have your own radio station.
  • Ray Edwards endorsement: Podcast Secrets Revealed by Jeff Mills, PodcastSecrets.com.
• Baby boomers seeking second incomes. They want freedom. How do you help them get freedom?
• The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris
• Continuity income.
  • Subscription income on a monthly basis. Continuitize your income in 2008.
  • Ray is moving everything toward a continuity model.
  • Instead of big $1500 products, continuity.

The Revelation of FLF

SM + K + T + P * C = FL
Starting Market + Knowledge + Traffic + Products * Copywriting = Freedom Lifestyle.

Ray Edwards: Declare Your Freedom In 2008

Have you considered website flipping?

While home flipping is getting harder and harder, website flipping profits are increasing.

There’s a new book called “Flip That Site” which explains exactly how to do it.

Some advice: scour SitePoint for deals in the $200-$600 range. Build it until you can sell it for about $2,000.

Also, to make sure you’re not getting ripped off, use SEOpen, a Firefox add-on.

Picked these up for future use. Clearly, it’s for a site designed for Internet Marketing Newbies, or Internet Newbie Marketing. Want to partner to put this together?

Leave a comment.

Many years ago, I was a member of a service called AllAdvantage, a company that created a software toolbar which displayed ads while you were surfing and paid you a portion of the advertising revenue. I earned about $30 from them before they folded in 2001, apparently because web advertising dried up in the dot-com bust. Today, a new company called AGLOCO is hoping to do the same thing. “AGLOCO” is supposed to stand for “A Global Community,” and the company will be “100% member-owned.” I think that, because the web advertising market is much better today than it was in 2001, they could very well have a chance. AllAdvantage went through some $2 million [Update: AllAdvantage “paid out over $160 million to its members” (Wikipedia)], and if an 11-year-old kid like me could make $30 with it, other people were certainly making a lot more.

The Agloco team includes some of the same leaders of AllAdvantage, and the model is nearly exactly the same. They show advertising on your screen, and pay you for it. There are some small tweaks, such as offering a better price on Amazon.com when you’re looking at a book on Barnes & Noble, and getting a referral fee out of that sale. Supposedly, 8 Stanford MBAs are on the team, which is shocking to me, because the company’s blog makes it look almost like a scam. They’re losing money and think that it will take 12-18 months to beta test their viewbar! (To see the Company blog, click here and then click “Company blog” at the bottom, in the footer.)

One interesting aspect is that you can refer other people to the Agloco network, and it’s totally free for them to join. There’s no reason for them not to, and you get credited for up to 5 hours per person, 5 levels deep. They don’t lose anything for joining up as your referral. They have just over 1 million members now, whereas AllAdvantage had about 10 million: so there’s a lot more growing to be had, assuming that nearly everyone who signed up for AllAdvantage will sign up again for Agloco. It’s definitely beneficial to get in at this early stage, in case they do really well. Remember, I made about $30 with AllAdvantage when I was 11, and that only took me about a month. Yes, the Agloco links in this post are referral links.

Agloco is being more conservative about payments this time. I remember AllAdvantage promised something like 50 cents per hour, which was just crazy. I believe they had a referral program too, so it kind of stinks that they’re not able to rollover their membership database. But I guess sometimes it’s best to start fresh. There’s a chance for the “get paid to surf” industry, and if it succeeds, you’ll want to have gotten in at the ground level. So sign up for free– it only takes a minute.

Today I signed up for a $1 trial of the Ask Database. I have tried them before, but now I actually have a fresh, eager subscriber list from which I should be able to get some insightful responses. If you have used the Ask Database, please comment below on how it went for you.