yarvinen

Yes, I have a blog, it's mostly a personal diary now, though sometimes I write about business and Internet advertising: https://yarvinen2.wordpress.com/. Well, gaining audience and improving positions in Google search is a slow process, but I believe that one day it will pay me very well. I focus on building a personal brand rather just producing SEO-optimized content.

I have an experience of advertising my opt-in page on traffic exchanges and here are the sites who gave me at least one subscriber: EasyHits4U, LeadsLeap, Hungry for Hits, Traffic AdBar. For banner advertising can recommend TrafficG. In general, traffic exchanges with a longer timer give better results.

I have some experience with this program, used it to advertise my custom banner and get more visitors for a blog. Well, it delivered some clicks, unfortunately, I didn't get any referrals for now, so it doesn't work as effectively as it can. But totally can recommend this thing.

Can agree, from all websites where I post my banner, the highest CTR is on TrafficG. My custom banner for a blog currently has CTR of 1.2%, I got 12 visitors after 1100 impressions.

Safelists work. I'm saying it as a person who got some list subscribers from Jerry Ianucci's "Mister Safelist". Yes, you need to do some work like write your ad the way it will make people interested, but this work pays.

I'm currently doing what every beginner affiliate marketer does: I build my list and promote a blog. I use SendSteed for list management, my opt-in page is built on LeadsLeap and I use active traffic exchanges like Traffic AdBar to promote it. Also I have a lifestyle blog on Wordpress.com. Here my main promotional tools are regular posting (one post every several days), linkbuilding and free banner advertising on sites like TrafficG.

Blogger is easier to promote: you can add your site to Google manually and traffic sources are visible in a free version. So, if you want to earn as fast as possible, Blogger is for you. Wordpress (if we are talking about Wordpress.com) has a great community and social features (my favourite one is daily prompts), but SEO is a bigger pain here, from my experience.

Keys2Traffic is a free email advertising platform created by Maryanne Myers. Basically, it's a regular credit-based safelist, but with some gamification, for example, credits are called "golden keys". You receive 50 golden keys after registration. Each one allows you to email one member of the website once. If you need more keys, you can earn them by reading emails from other members (you should turn on this option into your account settings, it's turned off by default) or buy a paid membership. This membership, bought once, will give you free keys monthly without any requirements or obligations. Now about their affiliate program. If you refer a person and they buy a "Key basket 1" membership, you receive $15. If they buy a "Key basket 2", you receive $25. Payout methods are CashApp, Bitcoin, Skrill, Zelle, Wise, Venmo and Amazon gift cards. More info on program's website: https://keys2traffic.com/yarvinen