The Active Family

I’d like to introduce a blogging tool to those who are just starting out, or for established bloggers who are looking for free ways to increase traffic to their blogs. You may be wondering why you want more traffic to your blog. If you have any interest in earning FREE money by writing about your everyday life, well, then you want to be marketing your blog!

One tool in particular has been working out really well so far for the girls at Chattywomen. It is www.clickthru.com

Click Thru is a web surfing site that rewards you for each website you view through their surf remote. You can earn .01 per site; sometimes get special bonuses, which you can then use to “purchase” unique views for your own site. Even better, you could also choose to use those credits towards buying items.

Here is a guide to signing up for click thru and adding your blog:

1. Surf on over to www.clickthru.com (psst…if you are feeling generous go through one of the existing chattywomen’s links…they’ll get a little sumpin sumpin for your referral)

2. In the upper left corner you will see a gray box with steps to follow. Step 1 is to sign up! Click on that link and it will take you to a sign up page.

3. Type in your email address, choose a user name and password, and then read the agreement. When you complete that, go ahead and click the “I agree” button.

4. Follow the instructions regarding the setup of your account. You will need to choose up to 20 categories. Don’t stress about this step. Just pick some categories that you would be interested in reading about. It won’t affect your blog at all.

5. Once you get through that step you come to the main browsing page. Go ahead and click on the last tab at the top that says “advertise” It will bring you to a page that says you must register a web page to access this page. Go ahead and click on that link.

6. You will need the URL for your MAIN PAGE…make sure you are not pulling the URL from one of your posts! This is very important. You will also enter your site title i.e. The Active Family, and then a brief description of what your site covers. This helps when people are deciding what sites to surf, so make it interesting!

7. Keep the Uniqueness to 1 Day. This just means that people will only see your site once a day, rather than have it cycle through and not see it for a few days.

8. Hit save changes. You may or may not get a message that clickthru couldn’t find your URL, simply click on the provided link to have them manually check. Follow the site directions to choose categories that your site will be listed under. Go broad with this; you will limit your potential views if you get too specific.

9. From here you just click all the little boxes for the keywords, and check the Untargeted Page Views box.

10. Finally, you will have the option to surf for advertising or purchase advertising. Click your choice and hit finish setup!

Your web site is now set up. See the next tutorial on how to start earning free views for your site!