Lately I’ve been thinking about ways in which I can help my readers promote their home-based business or increase traffic to their website or blog. Through my research I’ve come across a couple of really fantastic ideas!

Over at 5 Minutes for Mom they had an Ultimate Blog Party, where you could enter your blog’s URL, your Twitter link and your Facebook link through Mr. Linky. To participate in the Ultimate Blog Party you had to place a party post on your blog as well as leave a comment on their blog. Even though the party took place back in March 2009, I still decided to participate because it is such a great idea! I also ended up spending 45 minutes over there just checking out all the other fabulous links.

Back in May, Mom Dot featured a Blog-Link-A-Thon where 330 mommy bloggers all gave link love to each other in a pre-organized link love fest. What’s so great about this idea is that because your link is included in 330 actual blog posts you receive quality inbound links to your site which in turn helps with your Google page rank, Technorati rating, as well as the exposure from all the different blogs. (more…)

By Holly Reisem Hanna

I love reading emails from readers, I enjoy the social interaction as well as the recognition, but what truly makes me happy is when I am able to help a reader fulfill their dream of working from home or becoming self-employed.

Lately I have received a lot of emails from new bloggers and website infopreneurs who wanted to know how to increase traffic to their website or blog. I have been emailing each person individually with a short and general list of things to complete, but I figured it would be more helpful if I created a more extensive list and shared it with everyone.

So here are twenty steps that I have taken to generate traffic to my blog, by no means is this list extensive, but it has helped The Work at Home Woman to achieve a Google page rank of 3, an Alexa rating of 255,484 and well over 46,000 page views per month – all within a four month period. (more…)

As a small home-based business owner and entrepreneur I know how difficult it can be to find effective and affordable advertising options.  As a way to help all you home-based business owners and mom entrepreneurs out there I have created a new monthly sponsorship opportunity.

Each month I will feature a monthly sponsorship post which will include your business image banner (125 x 125 size), along with your business name, tag-line, website address and Twitter ID, all for the low cost of $25.00!  This sponsorship post will go out to all of The Work at Home Woman subscribers, Facebook Friends and Twitter Followers. (more…)

Last week I reviewed Noelle Abarelli and Ed Gandia’s, The Freelance Mom, a low-risk plan to escape the 9-5 and launch a flexible (and lucrative) solo career.

Today Noelle and Ed have kindly offered to give away a copy of their fabulous e-book, The Freelance Mom ($49.00 value) to a lucky reader of The Work at Home Woman! Would you like to win?

To enter please leave a comment below and let me know why you would like to win The Freelance Mom.

For a second chance to win, sign up for a free subscription of The Work at Home Woman Newsletter. In your comment let me know that you’ve signed up for the newsletter. If you are a current subscriber you are eligible for a second entry too – just let us know in your comment that you are already a subscriber. (more…)

Thank you  to everyone who participated in The Duffle Your Bag Giveaway!

I wish I could give all of you lovely ladies one of these fabulous pre-packed labor bags, but there is only one to be given away.

And the winner is… Mischelle McCollum who is due in December 2009.

Congratulations Mischelle!

A very special thank you goes out to our sponsor Tanisa Groomes of Duffle Your Bag.

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s giveaway…