Thursday, July 31, 2008

Does anybody need a 100% FREE webpage?

I did, until I found out that EVERYBODY who has a g-mail account can create a webpage for free. There aren't any hosting fees either, these pages are hosted on Google servers for FREE! Every g-mail user gets up to 100MB of space for his pages.
All you have to do is to
1) sign up to a g-mail account here http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html (if you haven't one already);
2) go to http://www.pages.google.com/
3) and start creating your page using Google Page Creator!
The process is very easy, everybody who is able to write a blog should be able to make his own googlepage too. There is a good "about" section also, which (at least in my opinion) explains everything very clearly.
You can choose between various templates. You can insert links. You can insert pictures. You can change fonts and colors. You can preview your page. You can publish your page with one single mouseclick. Your url will look like http://yoursitename.googlepages.com
Don't wait any longer, your 100MB are waiting for you!
P.S. If you wish to see my first creation, go to my profile - I added it as "My webpage". It is a review of a program I'm promoting.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

TE Toolbox and my first splash pages

Traffic exchange experts are saying, it's better to use splash pages than original pages on traffic exchange sites.
For those who don't know what a splash page is - according SearchSOA.com it's an initial web site page used to capture the user's attention for a short time as a promotion or lead-in to the site home page.
A splash page is loading quickly. Most traffic exchanges have 10 - 15 second timers. During this time a surfer has to understand what the site is offering. I.e., the splash page has to go right to the point.
Traffic Exchange Toolbox is a great splash page creator. It's free to use (when one want's more he can upgrade any time), there's no need to buy a domain, pay for hosting, buy scripts etc.
On TE Toolbox everybody can add created pages to the rotator, and everybody can see the stats. It's important, because that way an user can find out which splash pages are making more click throughs, and improve or delete the not effective ones. I guess I will delete the first splash page I ever made. Next two are performing better.
Dear reader, feel free to take a look at the second and third splash page I made in my life. Perhaps you can give me some advices;-)
Below is a link to the splash page I made for a MLM program called Freebie Force. I tried to make it as funny as possible (I have a solid squeeze page for it too but it is made by profis and therefore not a subject of this post):

http://www.tetoolbox.com/splash/4905/

The splash page for My Power Mall I tried to make as classical-looking as possible:

http://www.tetoolbox.com/splash/4908/

On the Freebie Force splash page the text is a bit too small but I couldn't do anything about it. If I'd made it bigger it were too big for the screen of my laptop. I wanted to make it to fit.
There are funny images on this page. TE Toolbox offers over 6000 clip art images, and they are free to use for everybody. It is also possible to upload an image from the web, as I did for My Power Mall splash page.
TE Toolbox is easy to use (I can say that after making my third page LOL!) but at the first time I had some problems, though. I looked for help and found a great tutorial video on Tim Linden's blog. Tim Linden owns TE Toolbox and StartXchange, which has over 38,000 members, delivered traffic since 2001 and worth to join (if you aren't a member already!). I also recommend to sign up to Tim's blog, or at least to bookmark it. It is very (I really mean it, VERY) informative.
OK, enough said. I better go and make some splash pages more!