What is a free ad blog?
A free ad blog is a blog someone has put up where they allow other people to post on the blog. Some have more rules than others, but the basic similarity is that you can put content on someone else’s blog.
What is the purpose of doing this?
The purpose of writing posts on a free ad blog is to get links pointing back to your lens helping it increase its search engine ranking.
How does it work?
It takes a few simple steps, then you’ll be ready to post.
1. Register. Look around on the blog for a register link. This will allow you to create an account on the blog so you can sign in and make your post. Some of the register links are more obvious than others, so look around. If you can’t find a register link, look around for a link that talks about creating an account, becoming a member or anything else that sounds like signing up.
2. Check your email. You will receive an email from the blog. It may have a confirmation link you have to click, it may have your username and password, but you will get an email, so look for it.
3. Sign in. Once you know your username and password (for some you will create those, for other sites they will create a password for you), you’ll need to log in to the site.
4. Create your post. Each site is different you will need to look for phrases related to creating or posting. It may be post an article, or post an ad, submit an article, submit an ad. Just look around for it on each site.
5. Write your post. Once you’ve clicked the create link you will be given a space to write in. It may be a text editor, with the little icons at teh top, it may be just a space you type in. Most of these are wordpress blogs so you will have a text editor where you can highlight the words you want to be your link and then click the anchor icon at the top of the editor to add your url for the link. (which will be your squidoo lens)
What Do I write?
I suggest you keep these posts longer than 150 words, and relevant to your topic. Do NOT put your keywords in the title of these posts ~ you do NOT want them to rank higher than your lens.
3 ways you can create this post.
1. short product review. Talk about the product, what it does, why it’s cool, why someone would want it etc.
2. Related benefit of the product. Think of one benefit the product has, then think of two other things that give the same benefit, then write a post about 3 things with that benefit. ex. coffee maker: save money not buying coffee every day. Think of 2 other ways people can save money, then write about those three things. When you talk about saving money by making coffee at home, use your product keyword in that area and then link back to your lens.
3. Quick Tips. What are some tips people could use related to your topic. coffee maker: tips for picking the best coffee maker (find some benefits listed in the product description, use those as tips to look for) At some point use your specific product as an example of a coffee pot that meets allt hose criteria and link to your lens using your keywords.
How do I link?
These are basically like blog posts, you can link within the content of the post, you do not have to reserve your links for a “resource box”.
Make sure you use your keywords or a variation of the keyword to link back to your lens.
If you have a bunch of lenses that need links you can link to all of them from the same post. You don’t have to do a separate one for each lens.
A great way to do this is to write a “gift idea post”. You can talk about gift ideas for picky people, or gift ideas for the hard to buy for, unique gift ideas ~ (those would be the title of your post), and then write a paragraph about each of your product lenses, linking to each in its paragraph.
Do I need to write a new post for each of these sites?
If you are linking to one product and your post is only 150 words then yes. I’d write a new post for each one. If you’ve written a 3 or 4 hundred word post linking to multiple product lenses I’d mix up the paragraphs and rewrite the first and last paragraphs.
Where do I find these free ad blogs?
Some of these blogs are listed on the mindmap. But here’s alist of some of them to start with. Remember, new sites come online every day. It never hurts to Google “free ad blog” or something similar to see what else is out there. (that’s how I found most of these)
3 Step Ads (this one has an author’s RSS feed you can submit to RSS directories)
Another Free Advertising Blog (this one does not require registration)
If you have other free ad blogs you’re using, let us know in the comments, I’ll add them to the list. If you have any questions about the process, of creating these links, just ask in the comment as well. I’ll do my best to answer any questions.
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Several of the free ad blogs you linked to in this post are inaccessible in one way or another, and my Google search for "free ad blog" didn't come up with anything similar to this concept (at least not on the first page). Do you know if these kinds of sites were penalized by recent Google updates?
Thanks!
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