Advertising Wraps, Should You Try Paid To Drive?

Given that financial crisis is looming over many people these days, finding new ways to make extra money is worth looking into. One way to make a fairly large amount of income without having to make changes in your regular routine is to either drive a free advertising car or have your car wrapped in advertisements. This is type of "work" is in high demand, but if you have what the companies are looking for, it may be right for you.

That said, I will also say that there are hundreds of sites that will sell you a list of companies that wrap cars. They charge from about fourteen to thirty dollars for access to the list. Your chances at getting accepted may in fact, be lower on these listed company sites because the competition is going to be very high. If you bought the list, how many others did the same? Your best bet may be to take the road less taken and contact advertisers in your local telephone directory. Call diversified advertising companies and see if they are looking for people to wrap their cars. Also look for auto wrap service companies and find out who they are wrapping ads for. There are also a few advertising companies that are online and that are free to apply to. I will provide these links at the end of the article.

First things first, what are these companies looking for? It is important that you are able to meet the requirements of the advertiser. Most companies want someone who puts a lot of milege on their car. If you drive hundreds of miles every month, your chances are good at getting accepted. However, sometimes where you drive is more important than miles driven. Some advertisers want people who drive to big events, city centres, malls and other populated areas in a city. They want their ad seen and if you park on a busy street everyday, that's a good thing. The type of car you drive may also factor in whether you are accepted or not. A Volkswagen Bug or Hummer is going to attract more attention than a 1980 Honda. An SUV may be more acceptable than a compact car. That doesn't mean you don't stand a chance if you have an older car. You don't know until you try.

How much do they pay you to wrap your car? The amount you can get paid goes anywhere from fifty dollars a month to about four hundred a month. There is usually a contract for a specific time period that your car will need to be wrapped, anywhere from a month to twelve months. During the time you are under contract, you need to maintain your vehicle according to their regulations and keep the wrap in good repair. Find out the details when you apply.

What will be rejected instantly? Anyone who has a conviction for traffic violations, driving under the influence should not apply. Anyone under the age of eighteen will not qualify.

Wrapping your car in an ad is a great opportunity to gain regular extra income and there is no loss in applying to do it. Just think carefully before you decide to pay for a list as this may be a waste of time if you don't have the right driving record, car, or if where and how much you drive is not what they are looking for.

For online applications that will not cost you a cent check out:

www.ad-wraps.com
www.adsmartoutdoor.comdriversreg.htm

For Canada, check out some advertising companies like:

www.vehiclewraps.ca

Also search Google for "car wraps Canada" or look in your local directories.

(although this one does not have an online application, you can try contacting places such as this to see if they are looking for drivers).

Adding Title Tags & Keyword Tools, Fine Tuning Your Blog

There are many little things you can do to help make your blog get indexed by search engines and improve your rankings. Many of these things are very important and make a big difference in the amount of traffic you get from Google, Yahoo and MSN. In this article I am going to get technical so you can get these things done, step by step.

Here are the technical issues I have experienced and resolved:

Adding a title tag to your blog. Title tags are what show up in searches and are therefore, very important. Your post titles shoud be relevant to optimal key words. In blogger, how do you get these to show up? You should have your titles enabled under your settings tab in blogger to begin with. This is what shows you the title of your post on each post on your page. This however, may not show up in searches. You need to add a tag into your html to get the title of each post showing up in searches. This is how you do just that if you are using Classic templates ( Layout templates should have a title tag inserted automatically):

First go to your Template Tab.

Click Edit Html.
Select and copy your Template html. (highlight to select, right mouse click to copy)
Paste this onto a blank word document.
This will make it easier for you to find what you are looking for in your Html.
Find the first tag.
Somewhere under the first tag, you will find this line:


<$BlogDateHeaderDate$>


Under this line, put in this Use < and > to enclose each phrase:

BlogItemTitle
$BlogItemTitle$
/BlogItemTitle

Now preview your page and you will see the title of your post show up under the date of the post. This will also show up in search engine searches. Success!
Now that you have a title tag, you need to research keywords for your titles. You want to try and find keywords that have low competition and high search queries. To do this there is a free and very good tool you can use:


https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

You can use this tool when deciding on title phrases as titles are very important to search engine results.

Another important step you can take is to submit a sitemap to Google. To do this:
Go to your Google account and sign in.
Click on Webmasters
Click Add a Sitemap
Put in your url, example http://yourblogname.blogspot.com
On the next page you will see this url followed by a blank box. in this box put in: atom.xml
Then click Submit Sitemap.

Google will verify your sitemap and index your site.

These little changes can make a big difference so don't be afraid to try them and see what results you have. If you find that you are experience limited results after doing everything you know to make your blog search engine friendly, you may want to try Deep Trawl. This wonderful tool you can download (there is a free trial with no obligation) immediately. It will go through your site and search for errors that cause problems for search engines. It will find dead links, missing meta tags and other html errors, spelling mistakes, and it will do customized checks. It is very easy to use and when the problems are found, it is easy to fix them because Deep Trawl shows you exactly where the error is in your html. You can edit it from there. The free trial is really worth your time:

http://www.deeptrawl.com/