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I was surfing the web yesterday when I have chanced upon a site selling a $7 report on how bloggers and site owners can take advantage of Craiglist to increase their site traffic without spending money.

The Logic
Craiglist is among the most visited sites in the internet today. The site actually accommodates free classified ads for jobs, housing, services, etc. Thousands of site visitors find jobs, clients or products via craiglist.org. Posting your link in Craiglist, I believe, can indeed drive traffic to your site most especially if you make a post that is appealing enough for product and job hunters.

Unethical
Before you head on to utilize Craiglist to drive traffic to your site, however, it also pays to ponder on some points. First, it is quite unfair to post a job listing with the sole intention of leading job hunters to your site that has no employment opportunities at all. While looking for additional online jobs, I came upon several job postings in Craiglist saying "XXXX company is looking for a writer. Please see "XXXX.com" for details of employment" only for me to check every page of the website and realize there is actually no job vacancy.

Craiglist is not a directory. I hope that more bloggers will see the importance of keeping Craiglist safe from frauds and abuse.

My goal this week is to learn how to improve my site's traffic and how to increase my PR ranking in the next few months. I blog hopped and found several free useful tools that can increase my PR ranking.

Free directory submitter. Submitting your site in directories can increase back links. Going through manual submission, however, is a daunting task. Thanks to this free directory submitter, you can submit your site to over 100 directories for free and without sweat.

Free keyword selector. Good keywords can help bring more visitors to you site. The keywords that you use will be used by google and other search engines to index your site.

Free article submitter.Submitting articles with links to your blog can also increase your blog visibility. Submitting to article directories, however, is more time consuming than submitting your site's url to blog directories. You can, however, submit articles to article directories with much ease when you use a free article submitter.

I will add some more soon.

Well, obviously I am not using wordpress but since I am planning to switch to it in the near future, I found this article informative:

While Wordpress itself is a robust and complete blogging system, to really maximize the software and make money from Google Adsense you'll need to install and use a couple of Adsense "plugins".

Most of the plugins can be found by doing a search on Google, and installation is simple and straightforward. All you need to do is upload the plugin to your web host using an FTP, and activate the plugin inside your Wordpress administration area.

1) Adsense Deluxe Wordpress Plugin

The first and most important is a plugin called "Adsense Deluxe". While this plugin will help you to display Adsense ads on your blog, it also serves other purposes. You can use this plugin to insert Javascript, PHP and almost any other type of code into your blog posts.

The Adsense Deluxe plugin will allow you to insert Adsense ads into your blog posts by including a simple code like this:

You can create multiple ad formats in the plugin's settings page, and you can always change these later without having to modify the individual blog posts. This makes it easy to test different ad formats over time, and also to replace your Adsense codes with other ads if the need arises.

2) Adsense Injection Wordpress Plugin

Unlike the Adsense Deluxe plugin, the "Adsense Injection" plugin will insert Adsense codes automatically into every blog post, including older posts.

This is great if your blog already has a lot of existing content, and you don't want to insert codes manually into all of them. As the name suggests, when you use Adsense Injection you "inject" your Adsense codes automatically and randomly into all previous and future blog posts.

Thus, you will not have to worry about what's called "ad blindness" as your Adsense blocks will appear in different positions within your content. You can also randomize different ad formats and different alignments to make sure that no two pages have the exact Adsense codes on them.

Unlike the Adsense Deluxe plugin however, the Adsense Injection plugin cannot display other Javascript ads or PHP codes.

3) Adsense Beautifier Wordpress Plugin

The Adsense Beautifier plugin just makes your ads prettier. By adding an image on top or next to your Adsense codes automatically, the plugin can help you to achieve a higher CTR (click-through) and ultimately higher Adsense earnings.

The images are generic so you can use them with any type of content. You can also create and upload your own images to be used with the Adsense Beautifier plugin. If you do this however, make sure you check with the Adsense support team as you don't want to violate any of their terms of service.

Gobala Krishnan is the author of the best-selling "Wordpress Adsense System" and also a niche-blogging specialist. Discover how you too can master Wordpress as marketing weapon now at http://www.EasyWordpress.com

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