I am going to let you in on a secret. I have taken multitasking to a new level. I can surf at least 6 Traffic Exchanges at once! I’m not kidding. I wouldn’t kid about something like that. Anyway, the secret is use Fire Fox to surf. This site allows you to open several sites and surf them at the same time. When one Trafic Exchange site is still counting down, you simply move to the next site. I racked up about 300 credits in an hour using this technique. Here’s how I did it.

1. Use your current browser to open up the surf for credit page for each of your Exchanges. Copy the URLs in Microsoft Word, the Wordpad or the Notepad.

2. Download Fire Fox Internet brower.

3. Now, copy and paste your first URL into your FireFox browser. Save the site in your favorites, putting it in a new folder.

4. Now, copy and paste the next URLs, and save that in the same favorites folder as the first page.

5. When you are finished, all of your links for surfing for credits should be in one bookmark folder.

6. When you are ready to work go to Bookmarks and choose Open All in Tab.

Posted by Claudine as Make Money at Home at 10:12 AM UTC

No Comments »

Are you blogging for money or just for the fun of it? It doesn’t hurt to get paid for your writing, and having a steady flow of traffic is key. At the present, I have about 135 incoming links to this blog, but I could use more! Incoming links help to raise your search engine position, which raises your blog’s value. Even if you are just blogging for the fun of it, you will want people to be able to locate your blog in search engines so they can read what you have to say. Those of you who are blogging for serious money will see a steady rise in page rank (that’s how high you place in search engines) once you have a ton of incoming links. I found a fun an easy way to get incoming links without begging for them! Go to Link and Blog Challenge. Here’s how the site works. You will find a word to write about. Say, for instance the word is television. You will be challenged to include that key word in your blog post. You place the link of your post on the Blog and Link Challenge page and then, someone else will link to you, commenting on what you had to say. It’s sort of like a chain. You link to someone in your post using a keyword and then someone links to you. It’s a great concept, and I am trying out that blogging concept with this post. Can you guess my keyword?

Posted by Claudine as Make Money at Home at 12:35 PM UTC

No Comments »

I think that I’m addicted to Traffic Exchanges. I spent the entire afternoon surfing on TE sites today. Traffic Exchanges are an awesome way to drive traffic to your site. The downside is that most of your visitors won’t go beyond your homepage. The positive point is that your page rank is likely to move up due to all of the new traffic. I am a member of Traffic Hoopla, and I have seen a major increase in traffic. Traffic Hoopla is NOT a Traffic Exchange; it’s a downline builder. I have about four times the traffic that I had before signing up with the traffic exchanges on Traffic Hoopla, and I received some new traffic the same day that I signed up and began to surf for credits. In case you don’t know, here is the gist of how Traffic Exchanges work. You go to the Traffic Exchange sites, and register, usually entering your name, username, a password and you list the URLs for the sites that you would like to drive traffic to. Then, you click on a link, somewhere on the Traffic Exchange site and begin to surf other websites. The sites will have a timer so you don’t click too fast. Normally, you will have to stay on each site for at least 15 seconds. You earn credits for every site you surf to. The number of credits you earn, translate into the number of visitors that you’ll get on your own site. Traffic Hoopla isn’t a Traffic Exchange site, but it helps you to keep track of the TEs all in one place. Traffic Hoopla also tracks your referrals. The good thing is that people can sign up for more than one program under you through Traffic Hoopla.

Hit Safari is a great program for beginners. The site has video tutorials to help you navigate the site. The videos will help you overcome the learning curve tremendously. I also received several hits from Hit Safari the first day that I signed up. I also got a referral the same day that I signed up through Hit Safari. This is my first referral ever!

I have also been successful with Traffic Syndicate 25, or TS25. I noticed that people who surfed my blog from TS25 visited my site longer than they did on Hit Safari. TS25 requires you to spend at least 30 seconds on a site before you surf to the next one. Surfing TS25 was fun! There’s a game you can play while you are surfing. Basically, while you are surfing you may hit a site which gives you a letter in the word SURF. I took me a couple of hours of surfing to spell out the word, and I was rewarded with 1,000 credits. You may earn more or less than I. That’s probably how I got addicted. I didn’t want to go to bed until I spelled out that doggone word!

I used Traffic Hoopla to sign up for five Traffic Exchanges initially. Traffic Hoopla lists the best exchanges to join. There is a possibility that you can get more than 10,000 hits per day after a year.

Oh! Don’t use Traffic Exchange sites if you are using Google Adsense. They will cancel your account!

Posted by Claudine as Make Money at Home at 8:19 PM UTC

No Comments »

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

The cartoons by Dave Walker can add interest to your blog. People may come back just to see them!

Posted by Claudine as Free Business Start-Up Resources, Make Money at Home at 8:27 AM UTC

No Comments »

It’s really important to chat it up on boards related to you area of interest. That’s probably one of the best and most fun ways to get traffic to your blog. Try to find the most heavily trafficked boards and post a useful comment. The key word here is useful. Only spammers post nonsense or information that has nothing to do with the board’s comments. It’s a very good idea to read the board, visit it and get a feel for what people are talking about and the various personalities there. Your goal is to become a useful member of a community. Please, please, please, remember to include a link to your blog in your signature. Keep your signature simple.

Posted by Claudine as Make Money at Home at 9:14 PM UTC

No Comments »

Age doesn’t matter. An accident can happen at any time. When you are trying to reduce debt, there are just some things that you should not do without. Life insurance is one of those things. In fact, I believe that you should keep up all of your insurance. In this day and age you must always be as prepared as possible. I’m sure that you want your loved ones to be prepared for the inevitable. We are all going to see the end of this life and be judged. Why not give the people who love you a legacy? Some of you may have life insurance through your employers, but if you are a contractor, a stay-at-home mom, a freelancer, or otherwise not employed or not covered, I urge you to look into insurance. You can get free Life Insurance Quotes.
Health insurance is a biggie, but I know that there are thousands of adults and children who do not have health insurance. I went for a while without having health insurance myself. I ended up contacting a major health insurance company; Actually, I contacted several health insurance companies and got some estimates. I think that I paid around $250 a month for insurance as a single person with no children. There are probably policies which are more inexpensive than the policy I chose. Like the commercials say, insurance can protect you and if nothing else give you peace of mind.

Posted by Claudine as Make Money at Home at 3:51 PM UTC

No Comments »