October 22, 2009, 2:56 pm
Welcome to the world of mommy bloggers, where women work between taking care of their children and building online blogs with huge readerships. They are also women that are approached by top brand named company who battle for their attention and hope for product reviews and promotion from these powerful and influential moms. These moms have access to valuable word of mouth marketing techniques. Being a mommy blogger can mean access to free products, free trips, and endorsements are big blogging conferences.
Moms are estimated to be responsible for trillions of dollar in US retail spending so it is no wonder companies are pushing to get their attention. The most common thing for a company to do is to send out product samples that a mom can try and then review on their blog.
August 21, 2009, 11:11 am
Have you had your blog rated? If not you should look into it. Blog ratings can help you get new traffic as well as help your search engine rankings. If you have spent countless hours trying to get your blog some new traffic so that you can get your message out there as well as make some money then you will want to look at Blograters.com the number one blog rating service on the internet.
The problem is that many people will spend countless hours writing content and doing other stuff that in the long run helps but in the short term does little to nothing to bring new traffic to their sites. If the only traffic you get is the people that look at your status update on Facebook then you are making very little if any money. By taking the time to get your blog rated and reviewed you will have yet another avenue of potential traffic.