Why You Should Submit Your Projects to CheapThriftyLiving

Perhaps the number one reason to share your project on CheapThriftyLiving is to drive traffic back to your blog. By sharing your project with us, you include at minimum a photo, description, and link back to the project on your blog. This means our readers need to click through to your blog to learn how to make the craft. This is a great opportunity to drive traffic to your site!

Are you new to the blogging universe? Maybe you've been blogging for a while, but you're looking for new avenues to grow your reach. Every time you share a project with us, your name and blog name are in the byline. Our readers have the opportunity to get familiar with your projects and if they love your work, you might gain new subscribers and followers from sharing your projects with us. At the very least, you'll be getting that traffic. With millions of monthly page views, we have many users on our site who may not be familiar with your blog!

What do I mean by compound traffic? Not only will you gain traffic from our site visitors viewing your projects and clicking through to your blogs, but your project might be featured in our newsletter or other places on our site for added exposure.

For example, if I write a collection page of homemade candy recipes (like the one below) and we feature your project, visitors browsing that collection will see it. We write our collection pages for SEO, meaning we're pulling in organic visitors---a whole new audience for viewing your project.

Over the years we've worked on improving our User Submitted Articles process to make it friendlier than ever! With only a short form to fill out, the user submitted process should be a given when you set out to promote your content (in addition to newsletters, social media, etc). Check out the process for yourself here.

Maybe you don't make a targeted effort to make sure that pattern you wrote in 2012 is still getting seen. When you share these projects from the archives with us, you have that much more of a chance of getting eyes on content that hasn't seen a lot of traffic lately!

Now that you've read a plethora of reasons you should share your projects with us, now's the time to start! Pick a project from your blog, new or old, and submit it today. We can't wait to help you grow!