Hosting a free giveaway?
- Leave us a link all week long! This list will be refreshed every Sunday.
- Please be sure it links directly to your giveaway, and not your homepage.
- Please put the date the giveaway ends, example: (1/24).
- Add our button to your site.
Looking for other sites with giveaway linkys? We also have a complete list is of all other sites giveaway linkys and the day of the week they are posted on here.
Hosting a free giveaway?
- Leave us a link all week long! This list will be refreshed every Sunday.
- Please be sure it links directly to your giveaway, and not your homepage.
- Please put the date the giveaway ends, example: (1/24).
- Add our button to your site.
Looking for other sites with giveaway linkys? We also have a complete list is of all other sites giveaway linkys and the day of the week they are posted on here.
Here’s part 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 if you are new to the Wanna Be A Blogger series.
This will probably be my shortest post in this series. Linking is so simple, yet so many newbie bloggers make the mistake of linking incorrectly. Make sure to link correctly.
Which is correct?
- Go here for a Hot Fritos Printable coupon
- Hot Fritos Printable coupon
- Hot Fritos Printable coupon, click here
Option 2 is correct. When linking to anything, you should have the link include the name of what you are linking to. This way, Google and other search engines rank you and the site you are linking to higher for the words in the link.
The video is very low quality -just skip to .57 seconds – WHY does the walmart employee even try to scan the home-made coupon?!?!?!
She even says “I don’t think it’s going to work…”
That being said, I feel sorry for the Walmart employee having to deal with that childish girl. No wonder Walmart employees don’t like couponers!
Every Friday I kick off the weekend with a video about being frugal/saving money/couponing. Please leave a comment with a link to a great video if you have one you want featured next week! View previous weeks here.
We are currently looking for Deal Contributors for this store!
If you don’t currently run a blog, you can still contribute deals – I’ll teach you how to do it and get paid at the same time.
If you do run a blog, you will get a link back to your site at the top of the post, as well as use your own affiliate links. Please email deidre(AT)cuckooforcoupondeals.com if you’d like to be a deal contributor for this or any other store!
Check your emails! My friend Amy at Savvy Shopper Deals just got an email from Right@Home that included a link for a FREE Glade® Scented Oil Candles Tin Holder. It is email specific and her link didn’t work for me, but hopefully you’re signed up and get the email as well!
This video claims to be a parody…
Leave a comment with the link to your favorite Coupon video (preferably a funny one!) and I just might feature it on Fridays!
The Coupon Bloggers Dilemma: The Duplicate Content Issue
Straight from Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team: You don’t want duplicate content within your own site. You may notice, on my Pampers codes posts I don’t copy and paste my explanation of how the program works on all new posts. I link back to my Pampers page.
Also, as Matt Cutts explained, you don’t want too much information on one page because Google won’t know what that pages main topic is. I used to have all my store’s policies on one big long list. Now, if you click on Store Policies on my menu bar, it goes to a page with a list of stores, and you click on them to go to each individual stores policy. It’s easier for Google to index this!
What about duplicate contect across sites? There’s a reason people do press releases and submit their articles to article submitters – they want their content pulled up on search results, even if it’s not from their page, because when someone clicks on that page it will have a link to their page – “the second link”. I have read multiple articles on Google Webmaster, the official policy source from Google, that iframes do not deteriorate your rankings unless they are used in excess. And duplicate content is fine as long as the content links back to your site. And the duplicate content is not within your own site.
Now you don’t want to copy people’s content word for word! Don’t get me wrong – you want to have your own voice on your blog and be unique. But if someone out there puts your content on their site, as long as there is a link back, you are fine. This is a “hot” topic – many people will disagree with me. I am just stating what I’ve found from my research and what’s worked for me – if you don’t believe me, look at the search I did in Wanna Be A Blogger (Part 3) when I searched for Shopko.
Be an authority!
Choose something to do better than everyone else. If you are a blogger who does Joe’s Supermarket store deals & match-ups, do them better than anyone else. Create deal scenerios on top of matchups. Then when people think of shopping at Joe’s, they’ll go to you because you are the best. If you are a blogger who eats at a new restaurant everyday, take pictures, do interviews with other people at the restaurant, do everything in depth and the best possible.
Get the word out that you are the authority.
If your blog has a 5,003,003 alexa ranking, and you aren’t getting any traffic, just posting the best deals won’t get you into the number one spot on a Google search. Why? Google is going to put information from highly rated blogs/sites first *my opinion- I couldn’t find this on their webmaster site*. So until you can build followers and traffic (part 5 of this series), how do you get people to view your amazing deals?
I do (or used to, before I became to busy!) Shopko Deals & Matchups. I just did a Google search for “Shopko Deals” and here’s what pulled up:
Lot’s of “Big Blogs” come up. That is what people are going to click on – but wait! I supplied those deals to those sites so alas, when you click on a “A Thrifty Mom”, the first line says “Thanks to Cuckoo for Coupon Deals for these…” as shown below:
You can get coupons 4 ways:
1. Printed Online:
How do I find printable coupons?
Next to each match-up on our site we list what coupon to use, and have a link of where to print it from, normally one of the following 3 reputable sites:
Coupons.com
SmartSource.com
RedPlum.com
Target.com
How many times may I print each coupon?
You can print nearly all coupons two times per computer by using the back browser (the little < sign in your toolbar). Hit the back button and then click “resend” to print the coupon a second time! Some printable coupon sites, you have to manually go back and reselect the coupon a second time.
What does IE or FF mean? These are the 2 most recommended Web Browsers for printing coupons since you CAN’T print coupons using Google Chrome (please email me if you find a way to print from Google Chrome)
IE= Internet Explorer
FF=Firefox
When printing coupons from (bricks.coupons.com) the url is different for those browsing in firefox than it is for internet explorer. Click the link next to IE if you’re in explorer or FF if you’re in firefox. You can’t print twice from both.
Deidre is a married mother with 2 girls, ages 1 and 3. 