I know I hinted at this on the blog last week, but it is time to officially announce that with thanks to Blogger & Podcaster Magazine, we have the opportunity for everyone in the fuelmyblog community to showcase their blog (or/and podcast) on the USA Today Homepage Blogger/Podcaster Guide (scroll down their homepage and you’ll see the guide) FREE for one month. The traffic the USA Today homepage gets is enormous, over 10.4 million uniques per day!
To feature in this guide normally costs $49.95 per month, so, by my calculations, if everyone on fuel took them up on the offer, that would make this a nearly $50,000 give away! We have also negotiated a 20% discount should you wish your blog to stay on after the first free month.
UPDATE 18th March 2008 – THE FEE IS NOW JUST $5 PER MONTH, YOU WILL NOT BE CHARGED THE $39.95. See here for more.
AND..If you want the chance of winning 6 months FREE, write a blog post about us/them, leave your link in the comments section, we’ll pull TEN names out of a hat and each will win 6 months FREE!!!
The instructions are quite simple:-
Go to bloggerandpodcaster.com/usatoday
Select “New User” and go through the 6 step registration process
IMPORTANT: In “Step 2″ be sure to enter ‘Fuelmyblog’ (exactly as typed here, case sensitive) in the Coupon Code box under Option #4. Without this code, you’ll be charged – You will also qualify for the 20% discount should you wish your blog to stay in there but only by entering ‘Fuelmyblog’.
Information you should have handy to register is:-
Blog/Podcast Name
The URL (web address) of your blog
Description – Detailed (400 characters max)
Your RSS Feed URL – see here for more help should you not be too sure.
Up to 10 Keywords related to your blog/podcast: This is used for search and placements as relevant material on USAToday.com
Logo or Avatar
It only takes 5 minutes if you have the above information prepared in advance.
Any questions, please ask in the comments below.
One final thing, only blogs on fuelmyblog qualify, we’ll be getting a daily report showing the URL’s!
UPDATE: There is a system problem on the blogger&podcaster sign-in. I will let you know once back up and ready. Sorry for the confusion, worked just fine one hour ago.
NEW UPDATE: All OK now, the problem is fixed, feel free to go back and get your Free submission. Phew!
There is no such thing as free. I never saw a step 2 for coupon insertion. I only got a credit card window asking for my financial information. Doesn’t look too free to me.
Bill