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“Free Advertising” - sounds good doesn’t it. A lot of so called free advertising is free for a reason, and that is that it’s useless. There is however a number of programs and methods out there that deliver top quality traffic to your site, all 100% free.

The following is a list of what I believe are the best sources and methods for obtaining that wonderful thing called ‘free advertising’.

1) BlogRush

It’s no secret that I love this program - I think it is one of the best things to hit internet marketing in a long time. It’s really simple and very effective.

2) Real Traffic Exchange

This is somewhat similar to BlogRush - not as good in my humble opinion, but certainly good enough to be worth your time.

3) Conquer Your Niche Forum

This is a free forum run by Russel Brunson. You get all the usual benefits of forum posting (i.e. the link in your signiture tag that points back to your website), but you also get to post ads that run along the top of the forum. The amount your ad shows is proportional to your activity in the forum - each forum post gets your ad shown 1,000 times.

4) InstantBuzz

This tool has been around for a while now and has really proven itself. It is a toolbar that installs in your browser and rotates ads (within the toolbar itself). As your surf, you generate impressions for your own ad, which is shown on other peoples browsers. I’ve personally found this tool very effective.

5) Article Marketing

This is a very effective method of generating links and visitors to your site. Basically you write an article (or have it written for you) and post it to the article directories e.g. EzineArticles.com. In the author’s biography box, you add a link to your site, and ‘hey presto’, you have a back link and potential visitors. This gets really good when other people start putting your article on their sites, generating more links and visitors.

One resource I highly recommend on article marketing is the bummarketingmethod.com

I hope you find these resources useful - I certainly have

CK

Recently I read a blog post entitled something like, “Sorry Mr Reese - No Good”.

Is was a review of the recently released BlogRush program - a program I thought was fantastic, so naturally the article got my attention.

Overall it didn’t give many good reasons to think badly of BlogRush at all, but it did recommend a program that was apparently ‘better’ than BlogRush.

This program was called ‘Real Traffic Exchange‘.

Naturally I had to check it out and see if the hype was accurate or just more ‘internet marketing hype’.

Here is the breakdown of my experience with it so far:

Good Points

• It’s free - but most similar programs are, including BlogRush.
• You can credit for referrals - but, again so do most programs like this.
• You earn $$$ if your downline purchase advertising credits..
• Ads are targetted by category - just like BlogRush.
• Ad appearances are customizable.

Bad Points

• The ads look less appealing than those of some competitors (such as ….)
• The main signup site is less appealing than BlogRush. This could potentially limit your downline growth.

Overall

Overall, the only area Real Traffic Exchange convincingly beats BlogRush is in the fact that you can earn $$$ from your downline. It is still a worthwhile program to use alongside BlogRush however, so I recommend them both together. If you have to choose though, I would side with BlogRush.

CK