With John Reese’s announcement that he’s closing down BlogRush yesterday, and Cody Moya recently redirecting his Link2Blogs site to one of his affiliate products, it looks like the only choice left for a decent traffic widget that is worth adding to your blog is the very same one that I tipped as the best back in March when I checked out all three traffic exchange blog widgets!

You can read the original testing results post I did here: -

Traffic Exchange Blog Widget

You can read more about why John has decided to close down BlogRush here: -

BlogRush

But the most important bit is if you haven’t already added the RealTrafficeXchange Widget from Jon Leger to your blog, then go get it done now: -

RealTrafficX.com

it’s been 7 months since my last post about blog traffic widgets and RealTrafficX is still getting me around 1% ctr across a range of blogs.

I mentioned sometime ago that I was going test out one or two CPA ad networks, including NeverBlue.

Unfortunately I kinda lost track of that test and only got around to re-visiting it in the last couple of weeks.

the good news is that it’s been a “minor” success…

just over 10 days ago I picked a couple of CPA offers from NeverBlue that looked suitable for a couple of my test blogs, one in the “Dating & Romance” niche and one in the “Autos” niche.

Here’s the stats for the last 10 days: -

NeverBlue CPA Ads

now here’s the important bit, the two blogs in question are both less than 3 months old and only have content being posted to them from the UniqueArticlesWizard.com plugin, so they’re “hands free” blogs for me.

I’ve finally added my themes to the BlogTactics Themes page, you can grab them here: -

Custom WP Blog Themes

I’ve also started posting a series of videos on how to use them, although I need to re-do a few of them for the latest version of WP, which may take a few days..

http://BlogTactics.com

and don’t forget to check out the Brute Force SEO $1 trial offer while it’s still available: -

Brute Force SEO

I almost missed this…

it’s all very well relaxing and having fun with my kids, but I’ve been so busy messing around with them that I almost missed out on something that I’ve been waiting several weeks to get my hands on!!

it’s only thanks to my son taking a break from Warcraft that I happened to quickly log in to check my email and spotted the reminder…

then when I went to the site it wouldn’t come up!

I thought I’d missed out already, as there’s only a very few lucky people who will get in on this one…

after hitting refresh a few times it (don’t you hate having to do that!) did finally come up, so I’ve grabbed my copy, go get yours now…

Brute Force SEO

what ya mean ya wanna know what it is!?!

just a quick note to say I’ve found a neat free tool that allows you to quickly and easily add videos to your website or blog as some extra content.

You can target the videos to your chosen keywords to keep it highly relevant for your visitors as well, to help keep visitors on your site longer.

I’ve made a quick video showing how it works: -

and you can grab the software for it here: -

http://www.Video-Stacker.com/

I’ve been using video submitted to the top video sites to drive traffic to a number of my blogs and sites for a few months now and the results have been very good, to say the least.

As an example, at the time of writing, if you do a search in google for optimised ping list there are around 1,850,000 results and the 1st position is one of my videos on Revver that shows how to use the best optimised ping list.

here’s a screen shot in case the position has changed by the time you read this post, although I’m hoping it doesn’t anytime soon.

the only “potential” down side with this method of getting traffic to your blogs and websites is that manually submitting your videos to a wholebunch of video sites can take a LONG while, fortunatly there is a simple and unexpensive solution.

Marketers will always be happy to tell you that “the money is in the list” and I whole heartedly agree with that sentiment, but it can be a lot more difficult to find simple and effective ways of building your list.

I have mostly built my subscriber lists with article marketing, Joint Ventures, Blogging and some PPC, which does work, but I’m always looking for good ways to add even more subscribers to my lists, so a while back I decided it was time to test out two new methods which I’d heard of, but not tried: -

Giveaway Events & “Ad Swaps”

I have to say that I was so pleased with the results that I have not only added giveaways as part of my regular list building tactics, I also took the time to set up a forum and facebook group specifically for doing adswaps! [details of both are below]

With my house move and divorce finally out of the way, I can get back to doing some product tests again, the only problem now is I’ve got a pretty big backlog of stuff to test out, so I thought I’d start with an RSS submission tool that will submit your rss feed to 20 of the best rss sites to get more backlinks and visitors.

You can check out the tool itself here:

BadAssRSS

It’s from a guy called Peter Drew who has an excellent reputation for providing top notch tools that do some pretty cool stuff.

It’s also a real easy tool to use, although it does take a few minutes to get the accounts you need set up, but then it’s just a case of popping in your rss feed url and a “keyword/phrase” and hitting go.