Here are just a couple of quick updates as to what I have been adding and trying out at my main site www.weightlossweapons.com as well as here on the blog.

I have added a new page called Strength Training. It basically outlines the best exercises to build strength using just your bodyweight. I am a big fan of bodyweight exercises mainly because anyone can do them, you don’t need to go to a gym and they get results. So check it out and let me know what you think. 

Increased Traffic

The Traffic on the blog has picked up quite a bit since I added the FREE Blogrush link widget.

The idea behind this is that you show blog posts from other sites on your related subject (here would be health, weight loss and fitness related posts). You earn credits based on the amount of traffic you have.  Every credit you earn means that one of your posts will show up in the widget on someone else’s blog. This can really increase your sites exposure.

The best part is the referral program. If another blogger adds the widget to their site using your referral code, you will earn more credits based on how much traffic they receive as well. It goes 10 levels deep.

I’ve had a couple of people sign up under me already which is great, but I can always use more. If you want to add Blogrush to your site you can sign-up here.

New Advertising

Now I’ll admit that I didn’t start this site/blog to make money. My financial goal has always been to make enough just to cover the hosting and domain costs. Allowing me to write about what I love for free. That being said, the Google ads just aren’t doing it for me. My click through rate (CTR) is decent but as Google looks to make more money for them and payout less to the publishers I need to experiment with other forms of advertising.

Over the next few weeks I’ll be testing some new CPC providers. The first will be WidgetBucks which should appear at the end of this post. They have a huge advertising network and will hopefully bring some products and services that will prove useful to my readers.

Bonus, it’s free to sign-up and they will actually give you $25 just for using them. Can’t beat that.

The other ad system is FAN (Fair Ad Network) that will show later this month. Another CPC ad network. They also offer targeted ads relating to health and fitness.

Affiliate Programs

None yet. I haven’t found anything good enough that I would recommend to anyone yet. I won’t post any links unless I’ve tried it and it actually does what it claims to do.

Remember if you have any questions about weight loss, or anything health/fitness related either leave me a comment or send me an email. I’ve received a dozen or so in the past couple of weeks and I’ll be posting some of the better ones later on.  (I will never give out your email or other personal info)