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You may have been trying so hard to advertising your site in everywhere like forum, blog directories, and so on. But you feel that its still not enough and you need more ways to advertise even you have to spend a little dime of your money. So here i'm going to give you the list of site to advertise by spending a dime.

1. Google Adword
This is the most popular service site that you could ever use. After you create an account, be sure to add lots of keywords that relates to your site and set the maximum Pay-per-Click (PPC) rate at $0.01. After that, raise the rate by $0.01 every week or so until you're getting the desired amount of daily clicks. You'll soon notice at lower bids, the keywords will be reported as “Inactive for Search”. You don have to worry about this, it just means that your ads will not appear on the search engine, instead it will appear on the websites of people that use AdSense.

2. Adbrite
Unlike Google Adword, Adbrite has an option to advertise your site either by using Text-Link ads or Full Page ads. Now what i'm going to say about this is the use of Full Page ads which may cost you $10 for 1000 visit. Full page ads can be the most powerful ways to advertise. You'll get numerous visitor from other site that support Adbrite but this only works if the site has dozens of traffic. So how do you advertise? whenever you find any site that support Adbrite and they load the full page ads, click on the link that says Your Ad Here and start advertising it

3. Your Ad Here
Whats the meaning of this is that when you found a site that has PPC ads and you see the options to put your ads there, you can try to advertise your site by using PPC ads.

4. Advertise on This site
Whenever you find any blog/site that has good traffic and stats, you can try to advertise on that site by giving your banner ads. This requires a blog that support Wordpress script. I have found out that its difficult if you are using Blogspot because blogspot doesn't support to make a new Blog page instead the main page only.

5. Text-Link Ads
Like PPC ads, Text Link ads is another attempts to increase your search engine ranking. If you're using famous keyword to advertising your site, then this one will bring huge traffic to your site. However you have to make sure that the keyword you're using must be relates to your site. If you need more Text Link ads site, then check out this page

6. Blog Traffic Exchange
Another common ways to advertise is by using Traffic Exchange. In Traffic Exchange site, you can buy certain number of credit and use it to advertise or you can surf other people site to earn it. This works the same as if you are advertising in PTC/PTR site. There is another Traffic exchange that you could use like Blog Explosion, Blog Soldiers and Blog Advance. But this time you surf other people blog, no business program, no affiliates program, just their blog

7. Sponsored Reviews
Having your site being sponsored and reviewed by other people site is the best way to get more advertiser, subscriber and reader at the same time. You can either pay a low price from small sites that doesn't have much traffic to get a large number of reviews or you can get reviewed from popular blog which definitely has large amount of traffic but only require you to pay high amount of money and which is also can charge you from several hundreds to thousand dollars for a single review. Several site that allowing you to do this is SponsoredReviews.com, ReviewMe, Smorty or PayPerPost.

8. StumbeUpon Ads
Have you ever thought that you can actually promote and advertise on Social Bookmarking site such as StumbleUpon?! In StumbleUpon you can advertise your site by using Stumble Upon ads. You are also able to deliver your website directly to those "Stumblers" which cost you $0.05 per page delivered, but since the websites that appear on StumbleUpon usually can be submitted for free, so it is most likely that advertising using the Stumble Upon ads can be meaningless.

Keep in mind that this will require you to spend a dime and in case you're looking for a free ways, then you can find it here. If you like my post or have more thing to add, please don hesitate to leave feedback :)

Comment are the support for the blogger, without comment, most blogger will have less interest to make a post. But how if your readers wont leave comment even though you'd try your best? This post will teach you several ways to get more comment from your readers

1. Ask Their Opinion
You can ask your reader about their thought or ask if there is any question regarding your post, that way will surely encourage them to ask and commented. The best way to ask this is when you ask their opinion at the end of your post.

2. Just Get to the Point Please
Most readers hate long brief article because not all readers will have enough time in reading the entire of your post especially when you are trying to extend your post by giving the full description and tend to went way off topic which is also confusing them from finding the meaning of your post

3. Give the reward for the Top Commenter
You can give the reward for the top commenter by installing top commenter widget or you can write up a monthly top commenter on your blog post

4. Do Not Write Full Post
If necessary, try not to write full post or description so that will encourage your reader to ask. The more comment and question in your blog post, the more readers will come and see. This will surely increase the popularity of your blog post as many other readers will curious to see what other people are commenting.

5. Make Blog Contest
Contest are one of the best event that most people will love to participated because in contest, you're giving them a reward such as money, item, coupon, premium themes for wordpress, anything.. And this is the most obvious reason why people will commenting. But ensure you have the best traffic records in your site stats.

6. Advertise More
A wise man always told me that if you want your site to get more comment, you'll have to get more traffic and drag your visitor from the search engine index. So start by advertising your site either by using Adword, Adbrite, Text Link ads, YouTube or using Blog Traffic exchange such as BlogExplosion or BlogSoldier.

7. Join Blogger Community
Submitting your blog at certain site wont make your readers to leave comment. It will increase your PageRank but not with the comment. So it is essential to build a relationship and network with other blogger. The best and powerful way to do this is to joining the Blogger community. If you have made a new friend at Blog Catalog or MyBlogLog, then you can ask them to commenting on your blog. You can also make a friend through forums and social media site

8. Get Closer to the Blog Owner
Sometimes when people are visiting your blog and do commenting a lot. They, the Blog owner will curious to see whats your blog will looks like. So its not just be a temporary commenter but try to be the active one. I'm sure if you do that thing, the blog owner will do the same thing for you. Moreover they could link back to your site and put your site in their partner link and be a friend.

Keep in your mind that the comment are the support for the blog owner, without it your blog are nothing even with the best pagerank. Do answer their question if your reader are asking something or you can respond to every comment from your blog's reader. And thats all from me, i hope this tips will help you to generate more comment and not just traffic :)

General reason why people will subscribe is because they found your site useful and have great content. Other depends on what they likes e.g your layout, attitude, and so much more. They, the subscriber are more like comment, where it supposed to be the support for your blog. This article will define and outlines a few thing that you could do to get more subscriber

1. Get Big RSS icon
Most people will feel lazy to click on the subscriber link that you are giving on your post, but if you give them big RSS icon either in your sidebar or in your top bar with the announcement to subscribe, they will probably subscribe.

2. Show RSS Icon in Every page of Your Blog
What i mean by saying this is that you don have to put as many RSS icon as you want in every page. All you have to do is to make sure that you put RSS icon in the appropriate place. Because only that way will prevent your reader from accusing you spamming your blog with your RSS icon.

3. Use Email Subscription
Make your reader to subscribe to your RSS by not just giving them the RSS icon but email as well. The best part of this is that they will get notified by email every time you make a new post. This works the same as if you join forum and make a post reply. When you had any intention to get notified everytime there's new reply under you, you might consider ticking the 'subscribe to this thread' option

4. Content is the King
Content are always the king, if you have made good post like sharing your tips, tutorial and so on, people tend to like your blog and they will probably bookmark it

5. Put a Link to Your RSS Feed in Every Of your Blog Post
You can put a small word/icon at the end of your blog post to asking your reader to subscribe. Make sure you use some encourage word like "We could be more grateful if you can subscribe to my RSS" or "Was this article useful for you? If yes, please consider subscribing to my RSS"

6. Use most Popular RSS Reader
Not all people recognized RSS Feed icon and if they do recognize it, they don know what it is all about. But you can take advantage from those people by giving only the most popular RSS feed, e.g Add this to My Yahoo icon or Add this to Google and a lot of unique popular icon

7. Post Frequently
As with that said, you have to publish and frequently updating your blog. The bottomline is, you make a new post and the reader wont get bored to come and visit your site. This is important if you want to keep your reader from visiting your site oftensugg.

8. Try Different Thing
You can try to post different thing than normal as you used to be. If you used to share your blogging tips then its time for you to try something new like making a tutorial about how you can setup your domain hosting to GoDaddy for example and a lot of thing that you could do to encourage them from subscribing.

9. Ask Them to Subscribe
There is a time when you need to ask your reader from subscribing to your RSS feed in your blog post. You can either do asking this at the end of your post or in the middle of your post.

10. Do Mentoring People
If you have good experience and the story of becoming the successful blogger, you can share that one up by asking them to subscribe to your newsletter or sign up on your site and do pay monthly to become member. One of example that were doing this method is CopyBlogger, they're offering a program to teach people how to sell content online. This is probably the most effective attempts that you could do if you want to get more subscriber but only require you a high-tech of knowledge to perform this

11. Sell Your Ebook
If you have ebook, you can sell it either by asking them to subscribe to your newsletter. If you don know how to make newsletter, try to using autoresponder service such as Aweber or Sendstudio NX. Check this post also to see how you can make e-book and sell it

12. Offer a Prize for your Subscriber
This probably works the same as Blog Contest but this time you're giving them a reward everytime they subscribe to your RSS email feed. How to check the number of your email subscriber is by login to your Google FeedBurner Account and see their email address from your email subscription list.

13. Write a single note on your Profile
If you have an account at such certain social bookmarking site or Social networking site like MySpace, Friendster, or Facebook, you might want to submit your RSS feed link on your profile or ask them to subscribes.

14. Do Not Monetize your RSS Feed
Some RSS Feed site like FeedBurner can monetize your rss with ads but i really suggesting you should not take advantage from your RSS feed as your reader might dislike it.

15. Subscribing is Free
Not all people have knowledge about the use of RSS Feed, they may think that subscribing is not free. I have to tell you that i have this opinion when i was a noobie, at that time i really had no idea or even heard of RSS Feed before, so educating them about the use of RSS feed is the most essential thing that will prevent them from misunderstanding about the real use of RSS Feed

16. Submit to RSS Directories
You can't never expect what is the best way to promote your RSS feed but to submit it. Check out this list from Robert A. Kearse.

17. Put your RSS Feed Link into Comment URL
I really don suggest you to do this but sometimes it works perfectly when you do commenting on other people blog. But keep in mind that not all blogger will approve your comment when you put your RSS link instead of your Site link.

18. Subscribe to Comment
Same as post feed, you can ask your readers to subscribe to your comment. But make sure that all the comment are worth and not a spam.

19. Make Subscribe Page
If you own Wordpress blog, you can make a new page about Subscribe but ensure that you have good testimonial and opinion from your readers. Collect all the good comment, put into your subscribe page and ask them to join.

20. Have Good Layout and Font
Having Good layout and easy-to-read font is a must. This is important because if you want people to subscribe, you have to make sure that your reader know what's your content is all about.

I have list down all the good tips from my experience and from other people opinion as i learned on what they're commenting. So here you have it, 20 Ways to Gain more Subscriber!

First of all i would like to apologize for not giving update to my blog because i'm so busy preparing my new wordpress blog. I have registering this .com domain into GoDaddy but the problem is, i have to wait until 21th February 2009, the reason for that is because i'm using the .com domain that has already been registered for a week. Until then, i will keep blogging using this free host.

One more thing, I'm planning to host my other blog to GoDaddy. But unfortunately i don have much money in my Paypal and if i did to have that money, i'll have to wait until February to get my next payment from other site. Anyway i just wanted to say thank you for all the feedback, be sure to see my next post :)