I've been looking at Plug Boards and Plugs. I'm not sure if you have seen them but they are websites where you can place free adverts in the form of buttons or banners.As an example I have started a Plug Board myself: Add Your Ad For Free where you can enter a free advert and this will go live straight away.
Now I can't tell you if these Plug Boards will bring you much in the way of referrals but I'm testing them out and have been leaving my ads all over the place.
It's really going back to my blogging philosophy from when I first started blogging. I reckoned that one of the ways to get traffic was to leave my URL absolutely anywhere possible. So I hit the Blog Directories, Forums, Free Ad Places, Profiles and so on and so on. If I could leave a link I did.I didn't, back then, realise that links were also useful for things like PageRank but remarkably Mikes Money Making Mission soon got a PageRank5 because of me doing this. My PR has been thumped since them because Google doesn't like the selling of links which I was once, innocently, doing. But that's a whole different story.
Anyway, back to Plug Boards. The only problem with these might be the fact that you need banners and/or buttons. However this is easily overcome by going to a website such as Banner Fans where you can create free buttons and banners within minutes. They will even store your banners for you and provide links, again for free. (The buttons illustrated on this post were ones I knocked up in about 30 minutes.)I'm sure that big established bloggers will sneer at the thought of Plug Boards. They will talk of writing articles and other ways to get traffic and links.
I'm sure these 'other ways' are probably more effective but a link in is a link in.
Don't forget to place your free plug on Add Your Ad For Free.I'm away now for about five or six days on business so, until then, happy plugging!
Good luck,
Mike.
