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15 ways to generate traffic

50 TRAFFIC SOURCES YOU SHOULD MILK LIKE CRAZY

Article by Brankica Underwood - http://live-your-love.com/

Is blogging a struggle for you sometimes? I know it is a passion for most of us, and we
love doing it. But sometimes it becomes a struggle. How to get more traffic, how to
get more comments, how to come up with fresh topics…

My struggle was if I should enter the contest. My first one. I just decided to have fun
and do it. There is so much to write on the topic of traffic generation that I didn’t
want to miss the chance.

So how about me helping you by reminding you of some usual traffic sources and
telling you about some you might have missed along the way?

I will tell you about those that brought me the most traffic over the years. If you are in
a niche, don’t go away – the tips are not only for blogs about blogging.

Use video/image/other files to get traffic
Youtube.com is an awesome place to
find targeted traffic. How can you get
more traffic besides creating great and
viral videos?

• Make sure to add your blog’s URL
to an opening or closing “scene” of
the video.
• Add a link to your blog in the
description (must be related of
course).
• Create video responses to related
videos with a lot of views.

Vimeo.com, like YouTube, will house your videos. Don’t forget your blog’s URL in the
opening scene!

Flickr.com is great not only for photographers but bloggers as well.

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• Any time you use a photo from Flickr, make a comment under it and include a
link to your post. Photographers love seeing how their photos are used. I have had
great traffic results with it, especially if you use an image in a funny, non-related
way (a bunny reading a book on a post about Google PR).

Slideshare.net is a place where you can post slide shows to promote your blog and
get more traffic. Not sure what a slide show would do to get traffic?

• Turn your most popular posts into slide shows. As simple as that.

Scribd.com lets you upload documents and share them with a big community of
readers.

• Write useful how-tos for your niche and make them available for download. Don’t
forget to include some links to your blog. PDF files work great for this. All files I make
available for download can be shared and given away as long as they are not
edited (so my link is shared along with them). Great guides get shared a lot!

Wikimedia.org is a great place to find new, targeted traffic.

• Let’s say you have a great image of a travel destination (Rome, Italy, for example).
Upload it to Wikimedia with a Commons license and go to Wikipedia. Find a
project that is related to your image (Rome, Italy). Go to a project and attach
your image as a related image to the Rome page. Your photo will be a new
traffic source for your blog.

iTunes – podcasting is a great way to get fresh, targeted traffic. With millions and
millions of users this is still a traffic generation source that is not saturated as some
others.

The usual traffic generation sources
Commenting on other blogs – we all know
about this way of traffic generation. But
don’t rely only on posting a comment.
Answer other people’s questions as well.
And visit a new blog every once in a while,
don’t stay on the same ones all the time!

If you are commenting on a blog that
has Comment Luv enabled, make sure to
master the art of good blog post titles.

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Guest posting – again, a well known traffic source, but how much of it are you really
using? Are you afraid of guest posting on bigger blogs? Go to new, up and coming
blogs which are more likely to accept your post. You never know, few months from
now, one of those blogs might be “the next big blog”.

Round ups – There is nothing better for traffic than being included in a round up on
a blog like Kikolani or NittyGriddy. But you never are… If you think you wrote a great
post that deserves to be in a round up like that, contact the blogger and offer your
post. Great posts are not always discovered by themselves.

Social bookmarking sites
Digg.com – you don’t have much success with it? Stop submitting your posts, submit
and digg other people’s posts and connect with as many “diggers” as you can. They
will return the favor.

StumbleUpon.com – the best strategy is to do the same as I wrote for Digg. An extra
thing to do would be being very active as a stumbler. Seems that the more active
you are, the more “valuable” your submissions and votes are.

My biggest success with SU was a friend of mine (a pretty active one) submitting one
of my posts. Talk about 1.000 new visitors in a day (low bounce rate and long times
they spent on the blog was the cherry on top of a chocolate cake).

Reddit.com – I had great success with this site by submitting funny and controversial
stuff. Funny images will bring you crazy amounts of traffic.

Delicious.com – Although there were some rumors it will be shut down, it is still working
and bringing the traffic. Same tactics as other bookmarking sites. Great posts with
numbers in the title (like this one) often get a lot of traffic from Delicious.

Google Buzz and Yahoo Buzz allow you to share blog posts. Any kind of sharing is a
potential for traffic generation.

Amplify.com is a sharing site where you can connect with people, spark conversations
and get more traffic for your blog.

Bookmarking and voting for bloggers
There are 5 sites I use for bookmarking best blog posts and voting for them.

BlogEngage.com
BlogInteract.com
Serpd.com

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Blokube.com
BizSugar.com

I don’t submit all of my posts and I try to vote often for posts I like. Try to connect
with people and vote on their posts. Keep it real and don’t go “blind voting” for
everything on the home page.

These sites can bring very targeted traffic to your blog considering they are pretty
focused. Not to mention that once you have a great post shared on those sites (and
it makes it to a home page) you will have your blog flooded with targeted visitors.

Traffic generation by writing content for other sites
Ezinearticles.com, although hit by the new Google algorithm, it is a great source of
highly targeted traffic. The bounce rate of visitors I get from EZA is always less than
20%! Choosing a good keyword for an article can result in incredible amounts of
traffic. I have been receiving a lot of traffic from a single well written article for a year
and a half now!

I will not list other article sites cause it would look like pumping up numbers of traffic
sources in this post, but there are many of them that can bring fresh eyes to your
blog.

Squidoo.com and Hubpages.com will not only bring you targeted traffic but can also
be a nice source of income. If you don’t want to spend too much time on these sites,
you can always make a single page about your blog and update it from time to time
with links to your must-read and most popular posts.

About.com – How many times have you tried to do something and needed
instructions? You Google it and it brings up how-tos from About.com. Well, you can
contribute to this site with some of the how-tos for your niche and get traffic from it.
Additional tip – there is an About.com Forum where you can be helpful to people in
need and get additional traffic to your blog.

Never underestimate Wikipedia and WikiHow. These two sites are an awesome
place to further promote your blog and get, again, targeted traffic. Depending on
your niche, you can contribute some great tips and bring thousands of visitors back
to your blog.

One forgotten traffic generation source
The Forums – yes, I know some bloggers are telling you that you can not get anything
from the Forums, but I can prove them wrong. One example: I met one of my dear
blogging friends on a Forum way before I started blogging. She has been helping me

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since. Instead of struggling with some newbie mistakes, I skipped most of them and
went straight for success. Most forums allow links in signatures – use it!

Your niche will determine which forums you will visit, but great forums for bloggers are
Website Babble, My blog guest, Warrior forum, Blog Frog, etc.

Social media sources

Facebook.com – Do I need to explain this one? You can use your personal profile to
post about your blog, you can use groups and pages. Ask your friends to share your
blog post to their wall and groups and wait for all the traffic to pour in.

While on Facebook, I need to mention Networked Blogs. I use this application to post
my RSS on my personal profile wall and my blog’s fan page. You can also use this
application to follow other blogs in the network and rate them.

This is one of my biggest traffic referrals at the moment. You should use all possible
tools to get your blog shared on Facebook as much as possible because with so
many users, Facebook can bring a lot of traffic to your blog.

Twitter.com is one of the best ways to get your blog out there. Main thing –
communicate and connect, don’t spam. Tweet relevant and quality posts and
don’t self-promote too much. Don’t forget to participate in Twitter chats. I get a lot
of “fresh” visitors from those chats!

LinkedIn.com is a place where you can get traffic from more than one source.

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Connect with people you know and they will see your updates. If you are a good
writer and post great content, you will receive traffic from them. You can generate
traffic by joining LinkedIn groups and helping people in your niche by pointing them
to your relevant posts. Besides groups, there is an answers section. Answer questions
the best you can and point people to relevant links (your blog).

Yahoo Groups – join groups in your “area of expertise”. Again, do the best you can
to help people.

Paid traffic sources
Facebook ads are a great way to get highly targeted traffic to your blog (landing
page, fan page, what ever). Although not a free traffic source, it is a great one. The
price is not very high and I think it is pretty acceptable considering that you can
choose demographics of Facebook users that will see your ad. I had great success
getting traffic that converts on one of my niche sites.

Google Adwords is a well known paid traffic generation source. I, presonally, did
not get too much into it since it takes some learning to make it work for you. But you
can easily find coupons for $75 to try it out, so why not? Those who can use Google
Adwords well convert that traffic into subscribers and buyers in no time.

Ads on related blogs. Most blogs are open for advertising and you can always buy
advertising space on them. Choosing a blog that is related to your niche (while not
directly competing with you) and has a lot of visitors is a great way to get more traffic.

Answer sites – Why aren’t bloggers using them more?

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This is one of my favorite ways of traffic generation. Using answer sites is not only a
great way to generate targeted traffic but establish yourself as a “know it all” in your
niche.

The main tip about using answer sites is not to link to your blog every time you answer
a question. Especially if the post is not closely related to the question. Answer some
questions for the sake of answering them. You will always have links in your bio/profile,
so if you answer a question like a rock star (without a link), some traffic will come from
people checking out your profile.

Vark.com is owned by Google. Interesting, right? Last time I checked, their links
were dofollow. All you need to do is choose topics you are interested in and you will
get relate dquestions that need answers. Answer the best way you can, and if it is
convenient, point people to your blog with a related link.

Yahoo Answers is one of my favorite traffic generation sources when it comes to
answer sites. It has been one of my main traffic sources on a niche site for a long
time, even after I haven’t used it for months. The main thing is to give your best when
answering. If your answers are chosen as the best ones, you will have more respect
in the eyes of the visitors so… yes, more of them will come to check out your blog.

Google answers is one of the great answer sites you can use for traffic generation. I
mean, isn’t everything that is connected to Google something we should master?!

Quora.com is a pretty new but already very popular site among bloggers. Connect,
ask questions and answer them. Same “laws” apply like on any answer site.

Fluther.com is great in a way that it will find questions related to your expertise. After
using it for awhile, the site gets “smarter” as it learns more about you and offers you
questions related to your niche.

Other great answer sites you should start using today:

• Blurtit.com
• Wiki answers
• Yedda.com or AOLAnswers.com (same site)

A few more interesting sources of fresh traffic
eBay.com can generate traffic in more than one way. You can sell reports and
e-books you write (write some useful how-tos and sell them for very low price, the
point in this case is the traffic, not the money). There is also an about page you can
create, where you can put a link to your blog.

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Craigslist.org – Yes, you can post ads and generate traffic. Depending on your niche
the ads will be different. You have a “blog about blogging” and can’t imagine how
you could post an ad? Aren’t you offering a service? That is an ad right there.

Paper.li is a site that automatically creates “newspapers” based on who you follow
on Twitter. You can base it on Twitter lists or make other settings. When it posts to your
Twitter, it will mention one or two people who are featured in it. How about sending
tweets mentioning all the people featured in it that you haven’t connected with yet?

Generating traffic by offline promotion

You can always generate some traffic by promoting your blog offline. I can think of
many ideas, but here are just a few (depends a lot on the type of blog you have):

- handing flyers to your targeted audience (University students, high school
students, coffee drinkers…)

- buying an ad in printed magazines or local newspapers

- giving away free samples of what ever you offer on your blog

I bet there is at least one traffic source mentioned here that you have not used yet,
and I am sure there are some I forgot to mention.

So I would like to ask a favor from you. Suggest number 51 (post a comment) and
then share this post…go crazy…tweet it every day, digg it, stumble it, vote for it, tell
your friends about it. If you like it and I win a prize, I promise to write more great posts
for you. :)

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HOW I GOT 50K PAGEVIEWS FOR A SINGLE POST IN A DAY

Article by ariff - http://ariffshah.com

This post is a case study about an accidental discovery through my blog recently. I
must say that this is one of the most uniquely tested and proven methods ever known
to me with regards to generating a huge amount of traffic over a short period of
time.

The influx of visitors into a website is often associated by many with that of financial
gains or profits. While this statement is apparently not without basis, the benefits
of deriving a huge amount of traffic into a website may also include the ability to
reach such a nobler motives and social responsibilities by means of proliferating the
awareness and spreading the information by the organizing charitable institutions or
individuals.

The Case
The recent political uproar in Egypt (#jan25) had caused quite a stir to the world at
large. Since many Malaysian students, most of whom studying medicine, were residing
in the affected Egyptian cities, their safety became quite a concern specifically
to the parents of those students and generally to the nation. The situation in Egypt
turned from bad to worse when the lines of communication to the outside world, in
particular the internet, were cut down and thus instilling more worries into the minds
of the people in Malaysia.

A friend of mine who was a student over there wrote me a long message in Facebook,
asking for my assistance to spread the word concerning an allegedly real situation
in Egypt at that time. She wrote to me on behalf of her friends who were still in
Egypt and described the actual condition experienced by the Malaysian students
there. From the message she sent, she basically tried to inform the authorities that
those living in the main Egyptian cities needed immediate evacuation as public
chaos and rampant criminalities were the order of the day. In addition to that, she
specifically set up a blog to spread the word about this unfortunate political chaos.

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My Execution
Most people would, by default, write an ordinary blog post: briefly mention the
situations in their post, express the way they feel about that matter, and explicitly tell
their readers that the intention of that post is non-other than trying to get as much
visitors to the blog as possible. In my opinion, such effort would work depending on
the situation and urgency of the event but in most cases, blogposts which have
a cause will always fail to attract the masses. As for me, I do have the intention of
attracting visitors too but I do it in a slightly different way.

The usual underlying problem in traffic generation is that when people have a vague
idea of what to do to get the most out of such a scenario. In the same vein, a sense
of antagonism would be harboured by some people because they think if they were
to give this guy a retweet or share his link on Facebook, he’ll surely reap the benefits
alone.

In this case, you can’t really blame those people for thinking like that because the
blogosphere is a dog-eats-dog world where everyone is seemingly competing
with one another. Thus, there is always a tendency for rivalry to take place among
bloggers. So what I did in response to this was to let them copy the whole entry and
repost it in their blog (in praise of the idea of a tumblelog). I specifically told them
to copy the entry, each and every sentence of it and do whatever they could to
spread the news as widely as possible. It proved to be working.

At this stage other bloggers would think, “hey, I’ve got the latest scoop about the
latest buzz in the internet world, free content, legit and has its own cause. I should
post this in my blog to let people know what’s going on so that something could be
done.” They won’t think that I’m in this solitarily for my own personal gain because
they have a part in it.

Now here’s where the magic happened. Please note that I did not ask them to give
me credit at all but being cultured bloggers themselves, those who copied my post
have had the simple courtesy of crediting the entry back to me, by way of citing
myself as the original source. Readers of those blogs would then in turn clicked on the
link which led to my site. The process did not stop here. Other bloggers would keep
on reposting the entry, creating a long chain of reactions, so long as the matter-of-
subject was still shining under the limelight.

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Twitter
Done with the blogging part. Now how do we get loads of people to retweet this
even if they don’t read the post?

Given the circumstances that there was a necessity to urge the Malaysian government
to extend help to the Malaysians in Egypt at the quickest rate possible, I purposely
included the Malaysian Prime Minister’s tweet handle in the post title. By doing so,
each retweet published will be automatically subjected to the Prime Minister at the
same time. The tweet is good that people will hit the retweet button the instant they
read it because it brings a matter of some importance and has a reputable receiver,
that is the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

People will also be encouraged to retweet because they will then be able to take
part in the expression of a shared sentiment to a credible audience. It is as good as
it is thus gives people more confidence to retweet it as some are really concerned
about their follower counts that they carefully choose what to retweet and what not.
Again, if masses know what to do they will take action.

The Result

I got a whopping 500 retweets, at least 4000 Facebook shares and at least 50,000
pageviews for that page in the same day it was published. The blog that I was
promoting managed to get 30k fans on its Facebook page for that day.

The title says: [Latest] The Egypt Crisis – The Condition of Malaysian Student @
NajibRazak. Now tell me, who wouldn’t retweet this?

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What Now?
For the purpose of this contest and its theme (traffic generation), I strongly believe
this is one of the best ways to gain traffic. I’m not saying that this is the ultimate
success formula for all but what I’m sharing here is essentially an overview of how
to tell people what to do and actually make them think that they should do it. This
is as legitimate as it is and let us imagine if charity causes or donation drives on the
internet implement this kind of strategy – I’m sure they will be achieving results more
favorably.

What do you think? I’d love to hear your insights on this. Don’t forget to give me some
love by retweeting this, you know you want to. I really appreciate it and thanks for
reading =)

Shout out to my best buddies, Amir from Project 2074 and Yuyu for helping me with
the proofreading task and final editing. Thanks a lot!

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HOW TO DRIVE CONSISTENT BUT FREE
TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG

Article by Brian - http://www.blogengage.com/

I’ve been marketing online now for three years and managed to create an amazing
social community of bloggers that generates more then 1200 unique hits a day with
over 5.2 pageviews per visitor. I know the importance of generating traffic to your
website or blog. I created Blog Engage in order to help other bloggers promote
their blogs and generate traffic. The difference with Blog Engage and other social
communities is the traffic is real bloggers like you and me.

I’ve managed to build this community by using many free online marketing methods to
promote and market. I’ve used webmaster forums, blogs, online social communities,
social media sites such as facebook, twitter and more. Today I would like to share
with you how to take advantage of thees communities to both create value for their
community and generate traffic to your own.

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Webmaster Forums
I’m a very big fan of promoting all my blogs on the most popular webmaster forums.
I’ve been so impressed by the return on investment that I have come up with a “how
to guide” explaining how each forum can be used to market yourself and your blog.

Website Review Forums
This was by far one of my favorite forums to generate traffic. The greatest thing about
this forum is when the people visit your blog they will be viewing more then one page.
This means they have a good chance at seeing a few of your articles or at least a
larger amount of your blogs content. Every time you change a theme, banner or
anything else this thread can be bumped or even recreated to get the opinions of
the forum members once again. Engage with the forum members making reviews
on your website. Thank them for the time and respect their opinions. Try not to take
offense you have to be able to accept constructive criticism.

Domain Name Appraisal Forums
When requesting appraisals on your blogs domain name don’t be afraid to drop the
domain name in a link format. I did this and it generates tons of traffic. People like
to view the url because the site always increases in value when it has an operating
community or content of some sort.

The Freebies Forum
You know as well as I do most of the online webmaster forums have a Freebies section.
This is a great place to promote your blog. Set something up on your blog that is free
and add a link to your blogs main website. Make sure to keep your ideas targeted to
your blogs niche. The freebies forum can also be used to exchange comments with
other bloggers in some cases.

Buy Sell and Trade
This is a great forum to buy sell and trade things such as sidebar ads, link, services
and other random exchanges. This will generate tons of traffic because all the forum
readers will be visiting your site to see the quality of content and could in fact generate
return visitors. Make sure to always include your blog link during these threads. The
buyers want to view your blog for quality and content control.

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Final note on Webmaster Forum Marketing

When marketing your blog in webmaster forums be sure to read the forums rules.
All forums are different and some of these actions cannot be done. I would
suggest joining forums such as digitalpoint, webtalkforums, namepros, bloggeries,
ukwebmasterworld, warrioirforums and v7n. All these forums have the appropriate
sub forums to market using these suggestions and methods. Remember to engage
with the forum members and build discussions with them. You MUST keep your topics
live and active so they get seem by more of the forums audience so be sincere and
develop new online relationships.

Blog Commenting

I know I know you here this all the time. The reason I’m mentioning it is because I
see it done wrong more then I see it blogged about. (Which is a lot) When you’re
commenting on a blog you have to engage with that blogger. Your comment should
be of value and encourage that blogger to return and visit your blog.

I would also suggest adding comment luv. By far it’s one of my favorite additions to
my blog. I’m always following the bloggers that comment on my blog back to theirs,
commenting and tweeting. This is a must for social media marketing to work via blog
commenting. Building the relationship on a social level is key to our success.

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Social Media Marketing with Facebook and Twitter

Facebook

Creating a facebook page for your blog is a must. This facebook page spreads like
word of mouth. I set up the facebook blog engage page about a month ago and
we have 350 people that have already liked it. I should had started it long ago but
like you I’m still learning. Do as I say and not as I do, add the facebook fan page and
like button into your marketing plan ASAP.

Twitter

We all know twitter is am amazing marketing tool. Add a follow badge to your website
or blog and start marketing your articles with their community. Follow your readers
and build relationships with them. In return they will eventually market and tweet
your articles. When one of your blog readers or followers tweet your article be sure
to return the favor. It’s important to give back and not always be the one receiving.

Blog Engage

Blog Engage has a lot of great people in the community that are waiting for you to
share your content. The point of the site is to submit your written content, members
vote on it and if it’s engaged enough your article is published to the front page.
For the record I am the founder and owner of Blog Engage so if this sounds bias it
just may be. Blog Engage is a social networking community for bloggers and blog
articles only.

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BloKube

Dev is a dedicated member at Blog Engage and has started his very own social
media marketing community. I recommend joining and participating. You will see
many familiar faces there and again it’s a community full of blogger like you and
me waiting to help share and promote with one another.

Feedback and Discussions

Let me know your thoughts on the topic and suggestions. Are you already doing
this to promote your website or blogs? Have you been developing your online
relationships using twitter and facebook? Do you have some other ideas we can
add to the article on how to generate traffic from forums?? I would love to hear your
thoughts I’m always open to a great discussion.

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HOW TO BEAT THE CHANGES TO ORGANIC TRAFFIC
GENERATION RULES

Article by MAVIS NONG - http://www.iblogzone.com/author/mnong

We all know that organic traffic generation is one of the more effective ways to attract
unlimited and good quality visitors to your site or blog. After all, if your blog ranks well
in the search engine results, you’ll see an influx of visitors from search engines looking
for some information about your particular niche or business.

Achieving that kind of ranking on the major search engines used to be based on
choosing your keywords, tweaking your on-page SEO and getting plenty of quality
backlinks pointing to your site.

The Result?
Now, this gave rise to far too many ‘content farms’ swiping those high-ranking positions
in the search results. These are the sites filled with barely legible content that is over-
stuffed with keywords just to get a decent position on those search engine results.

And people searching for real information and valuable content about different
topics don’t like these spammy sites. So, Google decided it was time to do something
about this, to encourage and reward quality content and to make their searchers
happy.

They’ve recently changed the rules a bit about how the ranking algorithms work in
an effort to get rid of those useless sites and replace them with authority sites instead.

Google’s Changes To Organic Search – Facts and Figures
According to Sistrix, larger content farms such as Suite101 lost as much as 94% of
their previous visibility on the search engine results. When checked on Alexa.com,
Suite101’s traffic numbers had also dropped by more than 19% since those new rules
came into effect.

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As you can see from above, even the prominent article directories frequented by
article marketers have suffered, with EzineArticles losing 90% and ArticlesBase losing
94% of their previous high-visibility status.

Yet when you compare these results to those of eHow since those changes, you
soon notice that eHow actually gained more visibility and increased in ranking for
thousands of keywords across the site. This is Google’s way of rewarding those sites
and blogs containing high quality, well-researched, unique content that offers value
to visitors searching for real information.

So, what does this mean to you? How do you deal with Google’s new changes and
still be able to grab high search engine rankings?

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Here are some effective ways that you can implement to beat the new
Google ranking algorithms and attract more high quality organic visitors
to your blog:

1. Content Really IS King
I know, I know – you’ve probably heard this cliché 1001 times, but it is so true. It all
starts with great and quality content. What’s the point in generating traffic to your
site if your content sucks?

Most webmasters already know the importance of having good quality content on
their blogs. People who visit your blog expect some kind of helpful, useful, enlightening
and entertaining content about the topic they were searching for, so be sure you
give it to them.

This means spending a bit of time researching your choice of keywords and then
delivering the goods on the information you provide.

Just be sure your content doesn’t go stale. Google still tends to give preferential
rankings to those blogs with fresh, unique content that is updated regularly. It is
important to have a blogging schedule that you can stick to so that you can produce
new content at least 3 times a week.

2. Make Your Blog Sticky
With the changes to the way Google works out search
engine rankings, it’s no longer enough to throw a few
keywords around your posts and get a few backlinks
happening. Google is now looking closely at other factors
relating to visitor activity on your blog.

These include monitoring time-on-site and pages visited on your site.

So it’s not enough to generate traffic to your blog, sign them up on your opt-in form or
page and then send them on their way. You need to make your blog sticky enough
that visitors will want to hang around and read what you have to say.

You’ll also want to encourage them to dig deeper into your content archives and
see what else they can learn from you while they’re already there.

Not only does this keep those people on your site longer, but it also increases your page
views at the same time. These are both about to become important considerations
for how Google views your site, so keep them in mind.

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3. Deep or Internal Linking
One effective way to encourage readers to learn more information is to add deep-
links to your content. Deep linking is simply linking to another page on your blog from
the current post you’re writing.

Not only does deep linking encourage your visitors to click deeper into your site to
find out more, but it also has the double benefit of helping the Google spiders to
index more pages from your site more easily.

The next time you create a new post, think about how many related posts you may
have written in the past that could enhance that topic and link to them using anchor
text for your keyword(s).

4. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) IS Imperative
Traffic generation from search engines
in the first place still relies on getting
your SEO tactics right.

This means checking your title, your
tags and your content for inclusion of
the right keywords.

It should also mean keeping your
keyword density at reasonable
levels so those search engines don’t
misinterpret them as being spammy.

A general rule of thumb should be that
your primary keywords or key-phrases
should be at around 1.5%-2% of the
total content amount.

Search engines are also very aware of the value of Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI),
so you can give your existing keywords a bit of a boost by adding some synonyms for
your chosen keywords.

Not only will this make your content more readable in the eyes of your visitors, but it
will help to keep your rankings at high levels in the long run.

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5. Promote Your Content
Of course creating amazing content is not the only thing you need to do to improve
your search rankings and traffic generation.

You need to boost your SEO efforts by promoting your content to put it in front of as
many eyeballs as possible. Social media is red HOT right now and it offers free “word
of mouth” advertising. Take advantage of that and create a buzz on your blog.

The more people share your content on the social media sites, the more it will get
massive exposure and the more quality backlinks you will create.

Creating a lot of Twitter and Facebook backlinks will help you to increase your
rankings since Google added these social media sites to their algorithm and use
them in their rankings.

Next, let’s take a look at Article Marketing…

What’s the Verdict For Article Marketers?
Before the new Google algorithm was released, most traffic generation tips focused
heavily on the benefits of article marketing. This really did give blog owners a great
way to generate traffic quickly by submitting dozens of low quality articles to the
article directories and linking them back to their primary blog or website.

Unfortunately, it appears the rules for article marketers will now have to change to
suit these changes.

While there has been a spate of bloggers pointing out that article marketing is about
to die a quick and painful death as a result, this doesn’t have to happen. In fact, it
seems quite logical that if Google is rewarding well-researched, unique content, it
stands to reason that they’ll reward those marketers who comply with this.

I think article marketers should consider taking more time to create better quality
articles before submitting any old garbage en mass to as many directories as they
can find.

This could mean rewriting original content prior to submitting it to different directories.
It could also mean being more selective with the directories you choose to use.

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Key Takeaway
I’m sure that you’ll agree with me that you need good quality and properly optimized
content to generate an influx of organic traffic to your blog.

You’d be turning your own site into an “authority site” that Google is more likely to
view favourably, especially since the new algorithm makes it very clear that the site
with the best content for a given keyword will be the one rewarded.

So, what do you think of Google’s new changes and what’s your plan of action?
Please leave me a comment below to share your thoughts.

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FACEBOOK ADVERTISING KILLED GOOGLE ADWORDS

Article by Faissal Alhaithami - http://www.faissals.com/

Hi everyone, I’m Faissal Alhaithami. I’m going to share why Facebook advertising
killed Google Adwords! I’ll share the secrets in Facebook advertising necessary to
generate massive traffic, and the endless opportunities that this system offers that
Google Adwords doesn’t. However, this doesn’t mean that Google Adwords is
useless or that using Facebook advertising will make you satisfied. As a mater of fact,
you will still be in need of Google Adwords.

As you know there are Facebook fan pages that Facebook offer, and this pages
are really like an opt-in pages. let me explain more, when you create an ad you
have the option to send your visitors to your website, your capture page or you’ve
a chance to set what we are called landing page, I will be explaining more about
it, and as you know internet marketing and generating traffic is all about leads and
relationship which Facebook is the best place for that.

Specifics
Before I start, please keep in mind the “more” rule:

( more specific = more leads >> more leads = more traffic >> more traffic = more money )

One of the wonderful things about Facebook advertising is that you can be ultra
specific. Users provide Facebook with an abundance of information about themselves.

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We’re talking about their favorite books, interests, religion, political views, favorite
quotes and so on. All of this information is gold to a potential advertiser.

When setting up your advertisement
campaign, you’ll be able to choose whom
you want to see your advertisement by
targeting specific demographic information.
You can target by location, keywords,
likes and interests, language, education,
workplace, birth date, age, connections,
friends, and relationship status.

For example, if you wanted to target all of
the single women ages 25-30 in New york,
it’s an easy task.

It’s important to be specific about your audience when creating an advertisement.
It helps you produce specific copy. For example, you could create an ad for single
women, one for married women ,and one for divorced women. This specificity helps
you boost click through rates and maximize your budget.

With more than 550 million active users ranging from pre-teens to senior citizens, your
audience is likely present on Facebook. Before you begin creating your advertisement,
you decide specifically whom you’re going to target. You can always create more
than one ad, so if you have a large audience, brainstorm on how you can use the
Facebook demographic options to narrow your focus.

Facts : research says people between the ages of 35-45 are more likely to click on your ads.

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Facebook Double lead strategy

Here is the best about part about the Facebook advertising system: you can generate
2 leads at the same time!! With the double lead strategy, you can get an Email and
a like.

When you create a Facebook page, you will have the ability to set a landing page.
In addition, the landing page is where people or the visitors go when they click on
your ads. Furthermore, you can design this landing pages as you like, so you can
design this landing page to truly capture leads. Moreover, when people land on this
page you, can ask them to take 2 actions. Firstly, to like your page. Secondly, to give
you their name and email to get your E-book or what ever you have promise them in
your ads. You can generate 2 leads with 1 price.

Building relationships
You all know that social media has largely
effected the way we do internet marketing
due to it’s ability to help us build a relationship
between us and the prospects. Furthermore, this
task is really easy when your page visitor clicks
on the like button, because you will have the
ability to send updates to their Facebook news
feed. This helps Facebook advertiser sto build a
strong relationship with the prospects very easily.

In a nutshell, we conclude that Facebook is
playing with the cord of specificity and the
double lead strategy. They are the #1 social network for helping advertisers to
generate massive traffic and build relationships more easily than ever.

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HOW TO GENERATE TRAFFIC WITHOUT
SPENDING A DIME

Article by Stacy Claflin - http://growwithstacy.com/

Every blogger, whether new or seasoned, wants to know about traffic generation in
order to bring the most traffic as possible to the blog. There are always new strategies
to learn and old strategies to unlearn because they don’t work anymore.

Many new bloggers are intimidated by the process because it seems like a
monumental task as there is so much to learn. Often, they feel that they don’t have
enough money to generate any real traffic because all they hear about are paid
methods.

You can pay for all of the following:

• Hire someone to optimize your blog
• PPC Advertising
• Traffic generation tools and products
• Hire a mentor
• Purchase an ebook on the topic
• Affiliate products recommended by other bloggers
• Hire someone to optimize your Facebook page
• Autoresponder
• Much more – if someone can think it up, they will sell it

But the truth is, You don’t have to spend money to generate traffic!

There are many ways that you can bring in new traffic on a budget, even if your
budget is free until your blog is bringing in enough money for you to purchase the
paid products that you desire.

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When you give an honest effort at the following free methods ,you will see real results!
I suggest you take a screen shot of your Alexa ranking and site statistics before you
start. Then you can compare the results by taking another screen shot every month
or two.

Blog Commenting
Commenting on other blogs is a very effective way to bring traffic to your blog. If you
follow some basic rules, you will find others drawn to your blog from your comments
on other blogs:

• Leave valuable comments by adding value to what the author has written. When
people see that you have a lot of value to offer they will want to see what other
gems you are sharing on your blog.
• Respond to the post content. If you haven’t read the post it will be obvious to
everyone who reads your comment. You will look bad, and people will be repelled
from your blog.
• Be respectful with your tone and words, especially if you have a differing opinion
from the author – it is acceptable to disagree.

If you are serious about generating traffic, you will want to comment at least 8-10
times a day or at least 40-50 times a week. Comment on blogs in your direct niche
as well as blogs that are in similar niches. You want people to recognize your name
and your face!

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Be sure to get around to different blogs, not always commenting on the same ones
day after day and week after week. Though it’s perfectly fine to have regulars – that
is a great way to build relationships with other bloggers. You want to have a good
balance between regulars and new or less frequent blogs.

Join Social Networks
Join as many of the social networks as you can keep up with. Try some new ones
,because they all offer something different and you may end up really liking one that
you didn’t want to try. If you find that you really do not like one then try another. Use
the ones that work best for you! Social networks are a great way to promote your
posts and meet like-minded people.

There are many that you can join. Some of the bigger ones are Facebook, Twitter,
Digg, StumbleUpon, and LinkedIn. Look around. There are a lot of social networks
that you can join and many niche-focused networks are becoming popular as well.

Voting sites are a great way to network with others as well, and they often offer a lot
of ways to build community. Two voting sites that I really like are Blokube and Serpd.
Both offer voting buttons that you can put on your posts so that your readers can
vote for your post. They also offer commenting on the site and a sense of community.

Create a Free Report
A quick way to make a free report is to gather some of your best material from your
blog and combine them into an ebook. Put links to your blog into the book and give
it away on your blog, sharing the link on your social media sites. You can also add
your ebook to one of the many free ebook sites which accept submissions.

Learn Basic SEO
Learning basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is not nearly as intimidating as
learning all the ins and the outs of SEO. Once you learn the basics then you can
move on to learning the more complicated and intimidating aspects.

Use the Google Keyword Tool to research your keywords for free. Use the free SEO
plugins that are available in your WordPress dashboard such as the All in One SEO
plugin and the Clean SEO Slugs plugin. Using these plugins will help you to optimize
your blog for SEO simply and easily until you learn more about it.

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Forum Marketing
Establishing yourself as an expert in your niche through the use of forums or message
boards can be a valuable tool in bringing people to your blog. You should have
the goal to start one new thread a day or five throughout the week in addition to
replying to other posts.

If the forum allows links in your signature you can have a link directly to your blog, but
don’t blatantly promote your blog in the posts. You want to instead establish yourself
as an expert through the posts that you write. Direct people to your signature which
should have not only the link but a little blurb about yourself and your expertise.

Other Free Generation Methods
• Create videos on Youtube
• Write guest posts on similar blogs
• Join a tribe
• Link to other blog posts in your posts
• Answer questions at Yahoo Answers directing to blog posts
• Join a blogging challenge

I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments and don’t forget to share this
with your followers! Thank you!

To Your Success,

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USE FACEBOOK TO DRIVE TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE

Article by James Johnston - http://www.evolutionarydesigns.net/blog/

One of my favorite parts about generating traffic and managing an online community
is using social media. Some will say that building traffic with social media isn’t all that
great or you can not get a large increase in traffic because of social media. I have
to disagree with this thought. With social networks such as Twitter with its 200 million
users and Facebook with its 600 million active users, a website owner/business would
be crazy not to tap into that.

When I first started out building and designing sites, I had no clue what SEO and
social media marketing was and thought I didn’t need it. I thought all I needed was
good content and a great design. After I started working at my first design firm, I was
asked to learn SEO and social media marketing. After a basic crash course in SEO, I
started researching and teaching myself SEO. I found the research alone took up a
good part of my scheduled day. So adding social media marketing was really out of
my reach and besides I am not trained marketing.

At some point, I realized that I was going to need to learn social media marketing,
but I wasn’t sure where to start. So when I first started out with social media traffic
generation, I had no idea how social media would work for me. After some research,
I came up with a game plan and jumped right in.

After a few months of working on my first traffic generating case study, I found that
creating good content and SEO wasn’t enough. SEO is great for steady traffic, but its
not good enough if you want comments on your blog and people purchasing your
products and services. Through research and testing I found social media seem to do
better at converting readers into clients and customers.

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My History With Social Media

Before I got into social media as another avenue to generate traffic, I had only
used Facebook and LinkedIn for personal use. After some time I added Twitter and
Facebook as my main tools for traffic. At first I could see why people say social
media doesn’t bring traffic to a site. After a few months of research I started getting
traffic from Twitter and after reading Twitter Dummy, I learned that you have to have
engage with your followers. So I took that advice and used on several other social
networks. Within a few months, I saw a dramatic increase in traffic from these social
sites.

Now I use a variety of social media sources to get traffic. I use social media bookmark
sites and micro blogging sites along with other social media networks like Facebook
and Twitter to get traffic from. But my favorites social media networks are Facebook
and Twitter.

Using Facebook To Generate Traffic

Since there is so much talk about Twitter how to get traffic from that site, I decided I
would talk about my second favorite place to get traffic from and that is Facebook
and Facebook fan pages.

Facebook – Personal
As I mentioned before, I mostly used Facebook for personal use and did not mix it
with business. After some research and getting to know how Facebook settings and
privacy worked, I started using Facebook as a way to generate traffic.

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First thing I did was let the world know I use Facebook. I sent out messages on different
social media sites, I added my Facebook profile links to whatever profile allowed me
to add it, and finally I add links to my Facebook profile to my sites. At one time, I
use to have a message letting my readers know they could connect with me on
Facebook.

Once I started getting more bloggers added to my list, I created filters (groups for
friends) so I could seperate family/personal/work friends from my blogging and
networked friends. I found very quickly that your friends and family may not be
interested in your niche blogging promotions as your network friends are. So I setup
the filters to only let certain status’s be seen by certain people.

After getting all this setup, I started engaging with my followers. I responded to status
updates with useful and helpful comments, add likes to any link that I Liked, and I
shared content from my sites and some of my favorite articles I read through out the
day.

Once I started engaging with my followers, I started getting traffic to my sites. I do
not engage as much as I use to and I can see the difference. I still get the traffic, but
I do not get that many comments and likes as I would like. So its important to keep
up with your Facebook friends. Some of them like communicating with others. Just
dropping links to your sites and others is not being social. Eventually you will loose
your blogging friends and your traffic.

The one draw back to Facebook personal, at least for me, is that my privacy is set
so only friends can see my information and wall. I do this to keep unwanted eyes
from seeing what I am sharing. But at the same time, it keeps others from finding and
seeing my content that I am sharing.

Facebook Groups

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Another potential place to generate traffic is from Facebook groups. Facebook
groups are still pretty new and a lot of people do not like them. I think its mostly
because setting up this new feature where anyone can add any of their friends to
a group even if a user doesn’t want to join that group, could be a new to spam
people. Also, I found it very annoying getting hundreds of update emails from these
groups. But once I figured out how to remove myself from these groups and filter out
these emails, I started liking these groups.

Although I am still testing this traffic building method, I see a fair amount of traffic and
some of it is from the groups. My recommendation is to look for small groups such as
cool bloggers, that was Setup by John Sullivan, and was setup for bloggers to share their
content and to hang out. If cool bloggers isn’t your thing, look for groups that match
your niche or groups that might be interested in your content and join those groups.

If none exists, then create a group for your niche. Do not invite everyone to your
group without asking them. Send them a private message and explain to them what
the group is and ask them if they want to join. Second, when sharing content in your
groups, only share your best content, keep the asking to a minimum, never double
post an article, and always reply and send out tweets, diggs, and stumbles whenever
possible. When not helping out with others, try and engage with the group, and
spend some time on there.

If you want to join cool bloggers, join my network on Facebook and just ask, I will
invite you.

Facebook Fan Pages

When working with Facebook to build to traffic, do not overlook Facebook fan pages.
When I first started out, I did. Because of that it has taken a little bit of time to build up
fan page fans and I am still working on getting more. But with the 130+ facebook user
fans current as of March 30th, 2011, I am getting a good amount a traffic from this site.

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Since my data is a bit limited, I am working on projection and a gut feel that the
fan page is going to be great way to build traffic. From everything I have read and
major corporations creating and being active with facebook fan pages, I can see
the chance to get traffic from the fan page.

I learned from research and testing with my fan page to back up those findings, you
can easily get traffic from the site. You need fans that are interested in your company,
website, or services and good content to get users interested in your fan page and
website. If you do not have the fans or content, your fan page will stay a ghost town.

The first thing I did was update my fan page information. I made sure to add keywords
and topics and services offered on the website. If you haven’t already created a fan
page, think carefully about what you name it. I have seen some sites that have the
company name and then they add keywords after the name.

Looks like: Your Fan Page | social media | SEO | Blogging | Design | Services and
Resources. But I haven’t found any evidence that this helps. Just make sure to fill out
all of the basic information fields and make sure to add your keywords so the search
engines and Facebook search can find your site.

Next, I started adding content to my fan page. Originally I just feed in my own blog
articles, and I got a small amount of traffic but not worth the mention. So I decided
that maybe if I started adding articles that would be interesting and useful to my fans,
this might get more traffic back to my site. I started small and got a small increase.

After realizing that I adding useful content from other blogs to my site was helping me
get more fans and more traffic to my site, started looking for ways to add more
content. I realized real fast, that I could not physically add all the great content to the
site to the fan page without help. So I found a service called Dlvr.it to feed content
into my Facebook wall. Dlvr.it uses a website’s RSS post links to the Facebook, Facebook
fan page, Twitter and several other social networks as well.

Once I found Dlvr.it, I configured ten of my most trusted and favorite sites that has
a great track record of producing killer and useful articles feed into my Facebook
page. I ended up sharing articles in design, SEO, social media, and blogging since my
niche is new media and I have a mixture fans that like only a few of the topics I feed

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to my blog. Having a variety of useful articles to read will attract more fans, just keep
those articles related to niche or would be helpful resources for those in your niche.

After selecting my favorite blogs, I configured Dlvr.it to share links from each site only once
a day and grab the latest article. I then set Dlvr.t to check the site once a day and some
to check every 12 hours and post the newest link if available. On several of the more
important sites, I configured them to post links at the high traffic times for the fan page.

Now all you have to do is monitor your fan page for activity and respond to any
comments, shares, and likes.

The last thing I did was create a welcome page for the site. This is actually pretty easy
to do, but if you do not have the design skills to create your own welcome page,
you can always look for a Facebook fan page welcome page theme. Then add the
code to your fan page. For me, I could of use Dreamweaver to create the cod to
posted it Facebook.

But, Francisco Rosales of SocialMouths created a great tutorial on how to create a
basic welcome landing page for Facebook even if you are not a designer.

Basically all you have to do is come up with the welcome page image and head
over to image-maps and create an image map. Once you have the code for the
image map copy the code over to your Facebook page.

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Note: When creating your welcome page, make sure to add call to action buttons
and links to your website other important social media profiles. Please refer to the
article for the complete tutorial.

After completing your welcome page, you may want to create resource list to
niche related freebies and premium resources. Although I haven’t implemented this
feature yet, I have seen several sites offering resources only to those that “like the fan
the page”. I think this would be a great way to get new facebook users to like your
site and become a return visitor that also visits your site.

Facebook is always adding new features to personal profiles and fan pages. So
always check Facebook and your favorite social media sites for the latest news and
features for Facebook.

Final Thoughts
There are so many social media networks out there and I use quite a few sites. I use a
lot of different social media network types, everything from social bookmarking sites
to reblogging sites such as Posterous and Tumblr to share content and build traffic.
But out of all the social media sites I use, Twitter and Facebook are the best.

What social media sites are you using and what are the best sites for you and niche?

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ZEN AND THE ART OF WEB TRAFFIC

Article by Khalid Hosein - http://www.gizmosforgeeks.com/

What do the philosophy and teachings of Zen Buddhism
have to do with web traffic? Everything and nothing.

We’ll start with nothing. Nothing, because there is obviously
no direct link.

But everything, because if you can calm and clear your
mind, you can approach any problem with clarity and
purpose of thought. And whether it’s Zen or any other school
of thought, meditation has been repeatedly proven to give humans an edge—even
arguably a significant advantage—when it comes to any of our endeavors.

A Metaphor
Take Phil Jackson, the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, for example. He practices
Zen and apparently applies it in his coaching methods as well. Perhaps you’ve seen
a Lakers game where they’ve been struggling and instead of calling a timeout, Mr.
Jackson has let his team play through these moments. Many a commentator has
said that this is an example of his Zen approach to the game. Maybe. Maybe not.
And what does it have to do with you? More specifically, what does it have to do
with web traffic?

What Mr. Jackson has done (that is not obvious when you watch one of his teams
play basketball) is mapped out a strategy for victory and prepare his team well for
the contest ahead. After that, the game is but a matter of putting that strategy and
preparation to the test. Tweaking the strategy in the middle of the game is allowed,
and sometimes encouraged, but when you see him apparently ‘doing nothing’, he
is merely letting the chosen strategy play out. Is this the right approach? Does it result
in wins? Not always, but it does more often than not, and the proof is that he has the
best coaching record in NBA history.

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But what about Web traffic?

Let’s take a page or two out of Mr. Jackson’s book.

Strategies and Tactics
First of all, you need a strategy. What that strategy is depends on a few factors: what
type of website you have, what type of content you have, what type of audience you
either hope to draw in or will visit, how much time you have to devote to implementing
the strategy and its associated tactics, whether or not you are prepared to pay for
any of that traffic, and whether you plan to pay anyone else to implement any of
your tactics.

Secondly, you need to implement that strategy, putting in the hard work while having
patience for the results. In the case of Phil Jackson, putting the strategy into practice
is the actual basketball and the hard work is done by his players on the court. In your
case, you will be performing actions (tactics) such as blogger outreach, commenting,
guest blogging, article marketing, social networking, buying PPC and/or other traffic,
reaching out to the media, social bookmarking, building your mail list, etc.

So, which of these tactics do you employ? Sit down for an hour or two or however
long it takes to ask yourself and decide on the factors that will drive your strategy
(outlined above). Is your website a blog or a sales page for a product? Is your
audience young and male? Older? Students? Music fans? How much time per day
do you have to spend on traffic building? Ten minutes? One hour? Four hours? Do
you have a budget to spend on paid traffic?

Write it all down. Mindmap if it’s not
coming to you easily.
Now you need to decide on a strategy, which is really
a combination of tactics. Your general strategy may
be a combination of social networking and building a
mailing list, because perhaps you are selling a product
on how to become a social media expert. Or perhaps
it’s using paid traffic in conjunction with infrequent
blogging to drive people to your sales page. Whatever
it is, start with a list of possible tactics, rank them by
effectiveness and appropriateness, then estimate the
time it would take per day to work on each, and fit
them into your daily time budget.

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And remember, all traffic is not created equally. The quality of the traffic is something
vital to be aware of at all times when you’re deciding on your tactics and methods.
Why? Simple – if your visitors don’t convert very well in the way that you’d like (buying
product, for example), then that traffic may as well be near zero.

Now you have a strategy and a plan. Your plan is a set of tactics you are going to
perform each day in conjunction with how much time you will spend on each item.

Have patience. Set yourself a window of time to let the strategy play out, then review
it. Evaluate the results, see what new tactics and/or markets and/or vectors have
appeared since you started, and determine whether you should adjust your strategy.

What strategy, tactics, and time commitment you use is dependent on you and your
website. There is no one-size-fits-all recipe. Think about the real world for a second.
How does Coca-Cola’s approach differ from that of Facebook? Or Microsoft’s from
Google’s? None of them have the same approach, and they have the successful
results to show for their varying strategies and tactics.

Final Thoughts
Without traffic to your website, you may as well
have no website at all. Surely, you built it to either
generate some revenue from it and/or to get
noticed. You can’t do either if you don’t have any
traffic.

One final Zen ponderance — can you meditate
your way to more traffic? Yes and no. Yes, if your
meditation helps you think of working strategies,
tactics, and methods that can generate traffic.
But sadly no, if meditation is all you do!

May the Universe be with you.

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TRAFFIC GENERATION: USING THE OLD AND
BORING HOOKS CORRECTLY

Article by JANE | FIND ALL ANSWERS -
http://www.iblogzone.com/author/janesheeba

We all want traffic. That is the whole point of this traffic
generation contest. Our blogging success is measured
by our traffic. The money we earn, the popularity, the
number of sales we make- all depend on one thing –
TRAFFIC.

That is why people from successful blogs are conducting
this contest by offering their time, effort, hard work,
support and money – for us to learn the best traffic
generation methods out there, put them to work and succeed with our blogs.

Every blogger is looking for new tips and techniques everyday to generate web
traffic to their site. But in this process they either completely forget what they already
know or they are not interested in doing the old stuff! That’s pathetic.

So what you already know about Traffic Generation methods?

1. Provide quality content – you have probably heard (or read about) that a million
times at various places, but is still the King of all tips in this direction.

2. Do a social promotion of your blog posts – This again is the most commonly talked
about and the most boring tip, but works.

3. Network with other bloggers – A potential tip, not only for traffic generation, but for
your overall and long term success.

4. Do guest posting on big blogs – Again, a very potential tip to consider.

5. Comment on other blogs - Most of you will be already doing this. Good for traffic,
networking and building backlinks.

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Well, I would say that every blogger would know all of these (and even more) for
traffic generation. But the point is, if you are one of those bloggers who knows these
well-known tips for generating traffic, are you doing them with your blog? I am sure
you will do some but not all of them. And, even if you are doing all of them, I am not
sure if you are doing it correctly.

In the following I am going to tell you certain things that you either

(i) probably don’t know already (or)

(ii) already know them, but are not trying them out (or)

(iii) you are not doing them correctly.

For (ii) the reasons may be that you are busy or lazy, in other words, you may be
afraid to try something out new, you may not have the expertise to do them and so
on.

I can help you out with (i) and (iii) in the following. I am going to give you an inside
scoop. Fine, now before telling you the hooks that work, I want to explain the
correctness of certain things.

Comment on Other Blogs:

I know what you are thinking. You are doing it already. But are your doing it correctly?

So you have a list of interesting and potential blogs in your niche, which you read
everyday and leave comments on them on a daily basis, very sincerely. But on what
basis do you choose blogs to comment on?

You have to make your choice based on the following factors:

1. The blog is quite big or has a very big readership.

2. The blog has a very good PR; well, that is old and many are not happy with the little
green thing on the toolbar. Neither am I. Even with the actual PR at the Google PR
checker page. What you can look into is the Mozrank for a blog. A good mozrank
= an authoritative blog, I can say that much.

3. The activity throughout the blog. Number of comments, tweets and other social
shares.

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4. The accessibility of the blogger. The blogger should be friendly and at least return 1
in 1000 of a favor leaving a comment at your blog or press the Tweet button once.
You know that’s a lot of traffic when the blogger is having a big social background.

So commenting on such blogs should return you a lot of traffic. I just say “lot” because
it depends on how frequently you comment and how regular you are at it. But I can
guarantee that it will be a lot.

Deep Linking:

Deep linking your blog posts is very important for SEO. For traffic? Yes it is important for
search engine traffic. The more you deeply do your internal linking the more pages
get crawled by the bots, the more authority and more visibility in search engine results
pages (SERPs).

You can do deep linking in two ways:

1. It is a must that you should relate any blog post of yours to at least a couple of
previous posts in your blog. This way you see that almost all the pages are linked
and none of the pages are left abandoned in a rusted cupboard.

The plugins SEO Smart Links and Insights will be of great help.

Word of caution: Don’t overdo this! If you supply too much links within post pages,
every page has a drain of the link juice (even if it is to another page of your site). And,
it is not good in the eyes of Google! So a couple to a maximum of 4 links per post is
fine.

2. Use CommmentLuv Plugin for deeplinking your own blog posts. When you leave
a comment on your blog, don’t forget to choose from any of the recent 10 posts
and leave the link. Do this for all your comments and you have a nice pitch. Again
the word of caution applies here too! If you have the habit of replying to every
comment on your post, you might be at risk.

Provide Quality Content:

Your content needs to be unique, cutting edge stuff. This will automatically attract a
lot of traffic. And your posts will be easily promoted by word of mouth (or clicks). Make
sure you are not writing theories always (although you can write some occasionally).

Give practical and usable tips (ya I have underlined “usable” to emphasize it). Help
people to solve their issues, revisit a problem. More importantly, find your own writing
voice. And this will brand you among the crowd.

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Remember quality should go hand in hand with uniqueness; that will help you
generate a lot of interested traffic and fans.

Provide Findable Content:

Provide findable content or concentrate on search engine optimization, in other
words. If you don’t know about SEO, you gotta learn it. You cannot leave your blog
posts without optimizing them for search engines. If you do so, you are not producing
content that is findable.

If your content is not findable, how could you expect the traffic to come in? I am not
going to tell you the basics or details of SEO; that is a separate topic. But that needs
a mention here.

So what are the old but valid hooks when it comes to
traffic generation?

Hook 1:

Quality Content

- the type of content as I have explained above. So the
saying “Content is King” is still one of the vital aspects for
traffic.

Hook 2:

SEO

- Ya you need to make it easier for people to find your content. Don’t lock your
content down a pit and expect people to find it. You need to do interlinking, build
backlinks and do all nifty things to optimize your posts for search engines. I think I
don’t have to mention about keyword research!

Hook 3:

Social Promotion

- Ya the same boring stuff still works great when it comes to traffic. You may be sick
of hearing it, but it works! So you gotta do it!

Apart from doing the promotion yourself, you have to make it easy for your readers
to promote your stuff too. Make sure you embed Retweet, Facebook Share/Like and

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any other potential social sharing buttons. If you are into videos, create some and
distribute them via the various video streaming sites available.

I auto tweet the post once immediately after it is published and do a manual tweet
also. I also use the Tweet Old Posts plugin. OnlyWire is great if you want to do a mass
promotion at one go.

Hook 4:

Networking

- Connect with as many as possible. Here is a list of 8 kinds of tribes you need to
network with. Your networking capacity is your asset.

Hook 5:

Keep it clean and fast

- This could be something you never worry about. A clean and fast site is good in
the eyes of search engines. If you could please the search engines, you could rank
higher in the SERPs. This means more eyeballs will see your content!

Check you site’s loading time. Fix those issues that cause slow loading. Keep your site
free from errors and broken links (I use the Broken Links Checker plugin). Opt for good
quality themes; I personally use Thesis Theme at my blog – Clean coding and hassle
free.

My traffic has almost doubled since I started using Thesis.

Hook 6:

Guest posting

- If you are not doing it already, you gotta consider it. If you are doing it, see that you
are doing it effectively. Guest posting puts your face everywhere on the internet.

You easily become popular on other people’s (usually A-Listers’) platform. Your blog
gains good exposure to a lot of people (which translates to a lot of traffic). And, you
get very high quality backlinks, boosting your authority, SEO and findability.

In summary, I know that the most trivial and boring solutions still work when it comes
to traffic generation. The key lies in identifying and implementing the right hooks in
the right way to get a big catch of traffic.

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If you want traffic, don’t wait. Don’t be lazy. Start to correctly implement the stuff you
already know before going on a hunt to find new tips and techniques.

PS: I very much hope I have provided something of use to you here. I am sure that I
have made you think and revisit the well-know traffic generation techniques.

Now, will ya promote me as crazy as you can? I am sure it is easy for you to promote
this post with the social sharing buttons. You can also promote my post with OnlyWire
at one go. All I need is your support; nothing else. You can promote everyday too; I
will love it!

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HOW BING, SOFTBALL AND YAHOO
GOT ME BLOG TRAFFIC

Article by LISA - http://www.iblogzone.com/author/lisa

When I started thinking about writing an article
for this contest in regards to traffic generation,
I thought, “man…what else can we say about
it already?!”

We have read article after article about how
to drive traffic to our blogs and websites. The
standards are always blog commenting, linking
to others, forums, social media involvement,
guest posting…and lions and tigers and bears!

I wanted to bring something a little different to the table and outside the box so to
speak. And here’s the thing…what I did was outside the box for me, but maybe you
have done this already. If so, kudos to you. But I found 3 things in the last two weeks
that have driven fresh, new, targeted traffic to my own blog.

Softball

But first, a story. Yes, I know you all love stories. When I was in
high school, I played softball. I actually played in grade school
up through college. But back to high school… sophomore year,
my team went through some growing pains. A new coach and
new philosophies.

What we as a team did was basically resist the changes. Look,
every coach has the same mission…to win games. It’s how to
get there that each coach is different. So, after some humiliating
losses, we realized collectively as a team, this guy might just
know what he’s talking about. And what he is talking about is
getting back to basics.

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No matter what level you are at, the basics are never far behind. You can’t turn pro
if you don’t know how to break up a simple double play at second. The same goes
for your blog or online business. There are times when going back to basics will propel
you further than you ever thought possible. We try so hard to re invent the wheel, that
we forget the wheel works just fine the way it is. We just need to grease it every now
and again to get it moving.

Traffic generation tactics are the basics. We can always expand the basics to make
it work for us and give a new twist. So while I was racking my brain to come up with
some ingenious strategy to bring to you, I realized going back to the tried and true
methods would help me….if I could give it my own twist.

Google Real-time Search

So, first things first…run for the Google love. As I began playing around with Google
search, I found Google Real-time search. I wrote a guest post about it for ComLuv
which will give you more in depth information, but here is what I can tell you. If you
are looking for the most up to the second results, real-time search is it.

If you type in real-time, “help with blog traffic,” you will be served up people right
then and there looking for help with getting blog traffic. What do you do with that?
Go to them!! Go help them…give them your words of wisdom and get yourself a new
reader, hence drive this targeted traffic to your site. Read how it helped me more
here:

• Find Blog Traffic In Real-time: Google Style

Bing Search

Then, I decided to try and expand on the basic search engine traffic strategy. I then
went to Bing. WOW is all I can say about this. Let me try and explain this as easily as
possible. Say you are in the dog lover niche and are looking for blogs to comment
on. So, you go to Google (as close to 90% of people do) and type in “dog lovers.”

Google will return you their most relevant results. Well guess what, so will Bing. AND
ALL SEARCH RESULTS ARE NOT EQUAL. Sure, there are a few sites that are the same…
but in general, Bing will return results to you that are buried deep on Google SERPS….
like pages 10 and 11 or more. It’s a known fact that most people don’t search much
beyond page 2 of results.

Are you seeing the potential here? You are going to find blogs that are fresh blood
visitors to your own blog. These are sites that are not being bombarded by people
using Google for all their search results. And when we search the same keywords,
we tend to come upon the same sites over and over. I did this for the term “traffic

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generation” and I found blogs that were amazing, but were virtually untapped
sources of traffic for me.

I only tested this for a week, but out of using this strategy, I gained 4 new opt ins and
15 RSS subscribers. All from leaving comments on these blogs I had never heard of
or seen before. Now, will it drive 1000′s of visitors a day? Maybe eventually, but more
importantly, it drove laser focused, targeted traffic to me. Boo Yah! That is and should
be, your ultimate traffic goal….conversion.

Try it for yourself, type your keywords in Bing and Google and analyze the results. You
will see some similarities, but you are going to find new places to go, I guarantee it.
Go and make readers out of these people!

Y! Traffic

And finally…I know you are thinking, thank God, she
is about to shut up. This one is simple as well and one I
just tried a few days ago. However, in 3 days, I picked
up 3 opt ins from this, so I’m okay with that, because
I know it works and I can grow that by continuing to
implement this strategy.

If you go to Y! Contributor Network, formerly Associated Content, you can search
keywords as well. Search “blog traffic” and a ton of articles are returned to you. Then,
you can filter the results by publication date. Filter them so that you are returned the
most recent articles from 2010 and 2011.

Now, you can comment on these articles AND leave your blog link as well. Most
articles will have the author’s own blog linked and you can then go off and visit and
comment there. I am sure this works with Ezine as well, but for me, I wanted to go to
places not so saturated (my opinion is all.)

The Bottom Line

I think I have rambled on long enough. My hope with this article is that while you try
to think outside the box, keep the basics in mind. Try to expand on what others have
already succeeded with and you will find new traffic generation methods. There is no
need to make this process so difficult on yourself.

Your turn…..did you search Google and Bing? What did you find?

Appreciate so much if you share this with your readers!

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VIBRANT WAYS TO GENERATE TRAFFIC AND
BUILD RELATIONSHIPS

Article by Cheryl Ragsdale - http://thatgirlisfunny.com/

We’re all in a hurry for the world to beat a path to our door. Traffic is King!

We blog because we want to serve other people in finding the knowledge they’re
seeking or to help them find an entertaining place to spend their time.

We want our hard work acknowledged by people visiting our blog on a regular basis.
We want to see growth in traffic over time to feel like our blogging efforts are working.
What most of us need is a plan that works to keep us motivated.

I’ve found something that helps me to meet those needs.

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WP Plug-In That Tweets Your Oldies But Goodies
A tool that I’ve just started using – that is working beautifully for me – is called Tweet
Old Posts. It’s a wordpress plug-in. It’s easy to install through the wordpress panel.

What’s a little more complicated is deciding which posts you want to exclude.

This ends up needing some tweaking as you go along. I set up my plug-in to tweet
posts older than 45 days. No problem so far.

I soon realized that some of my “old posts” posed a problem for me. I needed to do
some blog maintenance to update the old posts that were being tweeted. Plus, I
needed to exclude anything related to holidays – like Christmas, for instance. Oops!

It’s best to keep a sense of humor in the beginning. In addition, if you are too busy to
keep up with freshening old links or making necessary changes to content, don’t get
your knickers in a knot. If the post hadn’t been “retweeted” by Old Posts, you would
never have known the changes were needed.

I’ve noticed:

• an increase in traffic
• an increase in retweets
• an increase in my self-appreciation for the body of work I’ve created on my blog

I check my twitter stream every day to see which random posts have been tweeted.
I click the links and allow myself to feel pride in the words I’ve written and the
comments I’ve received. Very rarely do I visit one of my posts and think “maybe I
should delete this”.

Give Tweet Old Posts a try to increase your traffic immediately. Your Golden Oldies
will warm your heart too.

Build Community To Drive Traffic
Creating relationships and building community online takes longer than activating
a new plug-in. Let’s use twitter for our next tool. To generate traffic through twitter
requires that you have followers and that you follow people.

It took a few weeks for me to get the hang of twitter. I really didn’t understand how
people could parse out a conversation with everyone twittering at once. Now, I use
Hootsuite to help me sort through the babble to discern patterns so I can follow the
flow of the conversation.

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That sounds harder than it really is. Just imagine being in a room full of teenagers.
Everyone is talking at once – especially the girls – yet, those kids can follow each
other’s trains of thought very easily. We all know how to do this.

Here’s a fun video about why we love twittah…

There are endless ways to build community online. Social media sites like facebook
and twitter are familiar avenues to build traffic by promoting your posts and building
your friend lists.

By virtue of the fact that you are on the comluv site, I know you understand that
commenting is a great way to drive new visitors to your blog. What about some new
ways that you might not have tried yet to establish new connections?

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Have you tried any of these other ways to meet other bloggers?
• Find a commenting group to join or create one yourself
• Search #bloghops or just blog hops on twitter to see who is offering an opportunity
to band together with other like-minded souls in search of more followers or fans
• Do the same thing with facebook fan page “like”. I just started participating in a
Wednesday facebook fan page follower group. I found them by searching for
#bloghop on twitter.
• I run blog carnivals on my blog each week. I have a badge on the post that
directs bloggers to submit their relevant posts through blogcarnival.com. I find this
useful for developing relationships more than it really drives traffic.

Vibrant Ways To Generate New Traffic
When I first started blogging about a year and a half ago, I bumped into an
opportunity to participate in an ebook collaboration for a good cause – breast
cancer awareness. All I had to do was to submit a post I had already written. The two
authors combined over 100 blog posts into one ebook that was then sold to raise
money for Breast Cancer Research.

I was quite pleased with myself for being included and for helping out with a worthy
cause.

Looking back, I’m even more pleased with how things went after the ebook went live.

As part of my goal-setting, I wanted to make connections with other bloggers. I
needed to learn EVERYTHING and I was in a big hurry (per usual).

I decided that I would contact everyone in the book who looked interesting to me to
say hello and to see whether they would like to guest post on my blog. My reasoning
was – if they say no to a guest post, maybe they’ll leave a comment instead.

It worked! People are amazingly generous in the blogosphere.

Many of those guest posts continue to gain views and appear on my Top 25 Hot Posts
list. Not only that, I am still very much connected to those bloggers.

Joining in with people’s projects has generated traffic for me – yes. But even greater
benefits have arisen.

• I’ve met many of my virtual friends in real life
• I’ve been the leader on video projects or have contributed my smiling face to
other people’s video projects
• I’ve run contests on my blog and participated in other people’s contests

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• I ended up being featured on the cover of a book called “50 Athletes Over 50
Teach Us To Live A Strong and Healthy Life”

That last one is important

Because I was on the cover of that book, Kristen from Yahoo (yes, that yahoo) started
a conversation with me that led to her bringing a film crew to Boston (from California).

Kristen creates and publishes videos for a show called Second Act – Vitality on Yahoo
News

If I hadn’t started blogging, this opportunity would never have happened. My
show is scheduled to be published during the first week of April. Look for it to
appear on the Yahoo homepage. (What?!) You’ll know it’s me because I say,
“My name is Cheryl Ragsdale and I’m a Mixed Martial Artist“.

Zou never know who you might meet – inside that ever increasing flow of traffic around
you – because you left one more comment than you usually would or retweeted
someone’s post or followed someone who provided a timely piece of information.

Keep your eyes open. Keep moving forward. Opportunities are everywhere.

Don’t be a stranger – tweet me!

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HOW TO TWEET YOUR TRAFFIC?

Article by Jeevan Jacob John -
http://www.techpupil.com/

Traffic is the art of getting people to click on your site. Most of
us have talked about traffic generation in a generalized way.
In this blog post, we will focus on Twitter. We will discuss how
Twitter can get us more traffic and how we can use certain
strategies on Twitter to get more traffic.

Twitter and Traffic Generation
Twitter is one of the most important social media sites present today. So, we can use
(we should use) twitter to get traffic from it. Most of us are not using Twitter to its fullest
capabilities. What I see is this prevalent trend of promotional tweeting (tweets with links).

But Twitter is far more than that. Just because you tweeted it doesn’t make it so
important that you will get more traffic. Moreover, only a small ratio of twitter users are
the audience of your tweets, because Twitter is updated every second. In this blog
post, we will talk about target/audience specific tweeting techniques, rewording &
retweeting techniques, messaging, give and take love techniques and lots more.
Many of these techniques might be familiar to you.

Rewording and Re-tweeting !

Just Re tweeting your links is not going to be fun. You could do it, but rewording
and re tweeting is much better. You could reword the tweet to be something else
and retweet it. Think about it. Rewording and retweeting is much better than plain
retweeting. You will find out more about this in the next paragraph. Both of the tweets
would look different even though they link to the same page.

Target/Audience Specific Tweeting

Let’s say that you are on twitter, and imagine that you are going to share one of your
links. Instead of tweeting it, you could reword it to be “audience specific” so that the
people who are in your group will click your link. Using audience specific retweeting
will help you to get more traffic from a specific audience.

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For example: let’s say that I wrote a post titled “The Pros and Cons of Guest Posting.”

I could tweet the same link with two different headlines: “Why you should guest
post” and “Why you shouldn’t“. These two tweets differ in that they induce specific
audiences to click on your link. Supporters of guest posting might be more willing to
read and share the first link, while the opponents might do the same thing for the 2nd
one. You could get more people to click on your link within a specific audience. You
can use this technique for most articles.

For instance, for this article, I could reweet it as “How to Use Twitter to Generate
Efficient Traffic” or “Using Several techniques to get more traffic from Twitter” etc.,
the list could go on.

You could reword your tweet based on your article, headings, and subheadings. This
tactic can give you a real advantage (by generating more traffic). There is one more
[important] factor that influences this technique: tweeting frequency and timing.

Tweeting Frequency and Timing

Tweeting frequency is all about the number of tweets. Timing is about the time during
which you tweet (time doesn’t refer to day/night, rather it refers to something else, as
you will learn). I am not getting into the tweeting frequency topic, because it is rather
vague and hard to explain. Timing is important.

The time when you tweet your link is very, very important. You need to retweet you
links at least two times when Twitter is at its peak and when Twitter is at its trough (not
many people are tweeting). The first one is important because there are so many
people tweeting (larger audience). The second one is important because your tweet
would be on the timeline for a longer period of time.

In other words, the first one is equal to larger audience, smaller time and second one
is equal to smaller audience and larger time. From one perspective, the second one
is much better because more people are likely to click on it (because the tweet is
on the timeline for a long time). From a different perspective, the first one is better
because there are more people online. Its hard to explain which one is better. So the
best way to do it is to tweet at both times.

Schedule Your Tweets

Let’s say that you don’t have time to apply all these techniques for yourself. So,
what will you do? Forget the technique? No, that would be a bad decision. As wise
decision makers, we need to use tools to help us. Tools like Buffer App and others
would help you to schedule your tweets and keep them for later.

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Many of my friends over at Blogengage had already written about tools that will help
you to schedule your tweets. Be sure to check out those articles @Blogengage.com

@ Mentions

Are @ Mentions useful? Yes, they are. @ mentions show networking (mentions =
networking). @ Mentions can range from simple retweets to complex conversations.
These will really help you to promote your links. For instance, you are networking with
someone (using @ Mentions).

Let’s imagine that you ask the person to check out one of your articles. This person
will be (more) willing to check out your article (compared to the time when you
“didn’t” network with the person). There are many powerful twitter networkers out
there. One person who really stands out is @Nicholas_Cardot of Sitesketch101. You
may check out his twitter profile to know more about him.

Messaging

Yes, messaging will help you to get more traffic. It is just like @ Mentions. Message
them to help you out (or even ask them for a favor in return).

Non Promotional Tweets

These are really worth mentioning! They may not stand out at all. But tweets without
any links are awesome tweets (unless they are related to what you are doing right
now). Useful non-promotional Tweets (like quotes, advices, tips) can help you to
generate more traffic.

For example, you could give out simple advice related to guest blogging. After that,
you could tweet another link with a post related to the topic. This can be really useful
(if the person who reads your non-promotional tweet finds it useful). Think about it
and you will get why it is so useful.

Conclusion!

That puts an end to our discussion about tweeting and traffic generation. Do you
have any other techniques to share? What do you think of my tips [this article]? Did
you find it useful? If so, don’t forget to leave your feedback! Twitter is just one of the
unique ways through which we can make increase web traffic.

Thank you for taking time reading my article!

Note: Don’t forget to share this article. It would greatly help me to win the contest get
the maximum out of the contest

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CHARMING AN OVERLOOKED READERSHIP

Article by epavard - http://comluv.com/author/epavard/

Writing for Those with Reading Difficulties

The first rule of writing is: know your audience. For the blogger that means being on
the lookout for the trend of the moment—the thing that interests a lot of people.
After that, to at least some extent, attracting and keeping readers is about getting
there first—finding the trend and blogging about it before everyone and his dog
blogs about it, too.

Of course, if you get there first, but your writing has no pizazz, you’ll miss your mark
and your audience will pass you by without a second thought. But that’s just one
hump. It’s not just about the writing. If you want your blog to be a draw you’ll want to
make judicious use of graphic design and graphic images so your blog compels the
eyes to take a closer look at the content.

Cool Graphics
So, say you’ve covered those bases: your finger is on the pulse of what’s new and
interesting, you’ve got a great design, and you use lots of cool graphics. You’re batting
a thousand. But then, so are dozens, nay hundreds of others in the blogosphere.

How can you get that qualitative edge that will generate the numbers, too (okay,
okay—you’ll confess—numbers are important)? How do you grab more readers and
keep them from going elsewhere?

The answer is in redefining your target audience. Most bloggers overlook a significant
sector of their readership: those with reading difficulties.

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Whoa. That’s perplexing! Reading difficulties? How many potential readers have a
reading difficulty? Are there so many that you need to take them into account?

Perhaps more to the point: what is it that you’re expected to do for them, exactly? If
they can’t read, they can’t read. Maybe the blogosphere isn’t for those people who
find it hard to read? Not that you mean to sound callous or anything.

The Stats
Okay. Let’s look at the statistics, as blurry as they may be. No one seems to be able to
pinpoint the exact number of people who have dyslexia, but there are two figures that
are cited over and over again. The first is the National Institute of Health (NIH) figure
that says 2%-15% of the U.S. population has dyslexia. The second is the worldwide
figure for dyslexia, which is said to be one in every ten people. Then there’s Dr. Sally
Shaywitz, a leading expert in the field of dyslexia, who says that the U.S. figure for
dyslexia is closer to 20% of the population.

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Twenty percent of the U.S. population is a heckuva lot of readers. But reading
difficulties aren’t limited to those with dyslexia. Dyslexia is just one type of reading
difficulty. Slow or poor readers and those with visual impairments jack up the numbers
even higher. What wouldn’t you give to grab another 20% or more of the reading
public so you could hoist them over to your blog?

Sounds like just the ticket to edge out the numbers competition, doesn’t it?

Brass Tacks
So let’s get down to brass tacks. How can you get your content across to those
who find it hard to read? Is there a steep learning curve to wooing this sector of the
population?

The good news is that most of what you need to know about writing for those with
reading difficulties is stuff you’ve already assimilated. Good writing and design
practices solve most of the problems that get in the way of making your blog legible
to people who find it hard to read. If you’re a whiz at writing and you’ve got a handle
on design issues, your blog is already reaching out to those with reading issues.

Take paragraphs, for instance. A good paragraph contains just one subject. And
guess what? Shorter paragraphs are easier to read.

Dyslexic readers have trouble keeping the place in a very long paragraph. Short
chunks of text, on the other hand, make your blog a pleasure for them to read.

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Dubious Custom
Next we have the issue of
double-spacing after periods;
a dubious custom which so
many of us were taught by
our teachers in school. The
practice dates back to the
time typewriters dictated the
use of mono-spaced fonts.
Double-spacing after periods
made it easier to identify the
ends of typewritten sentences.

But modern fonts are a vast
improvement over those old-
fashioned mono-spaced
fonts. There’s no longer any
need for double-spacing
after periods. Double-spacing
creates vertical rivers of white
space within the text for those
with dyslexia. That makes it
hard for the dyslexic reader to identify where sentences start and end. One space
after a period is just enough space to help the dyslexic reader find the beginnings
and ends of sentences.

Now to the stuff you wouldn’t have known about making your blog accessible to
those who find it difficult to read. Most of us expect to see black text on a white
background. But pure black against pure white generates too great a contrast for
those with reading problems. The high contrast creates a blur effect for some readers
with dyslexia in which the letters seem to whirl into each other. By adding a smidgen
of gray to text and background colors, you’ll reduce the glare and eliminate much
of the blur effect.

Decorative Hooks

Another way to pamper readers with reading issues is to stick to sans serif fonts. Serifs
are little decorative hooks that are added to the ends of letter strokes. They may
make text attractive, but for those with dyslexia, the hooks can make letters difficult
to identify. Sans serif just means that the font lacks these problematic little hooks. The
WINDOWS font that is easiest to read seems to be Trebuchet MS.

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The blogger who aims to attract those with reading difficulties to his website should
also be forewarned that italics are a no-no. The letters slant to one side and have
jagged edges. These unusual letter traits make letters indistinct and all but illegible for
those who find it hard to read. Emphasize text by bolding it, instead.

A blogger generally gets just one chance at drawing new readers. If the person
with dyslexia finds it a challenge to read your content, he’s going to pass your blog
by, even if you’re the next Hemingway. But if you sidestep these common design
mistakes, you’ll not only widen your audience, you’ll make your blog a joy to read.

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HOW TO REALLY GET TARGETED TRAFFIC TO YOUR
SITE: LET US GO BACK TO THE START

Article by Cosmin Stefan - http://www.themilliontwister.com/blog/

When I first found out about the traffic generation contest, I knew there was going
to be a big buzz about it. I was expecting to find out some great tips on traffic
generation. And I was right.

• Wong aka The Bad Blogger shared with us some often overlooked traffic sources
and told us how to create viral content.
• Lisa advised to think outside the box but keep things simple.
• Mavis told us how to stay on top after the recent changes with Google.
• Brankica shared with us a whopping 50 traffic generation sources.
• Michele reported on the most effective traffic generation techniques with 3
golden stars.

All posts were great, with awesome insights, arguments and ideas.

But I was a bit disappointed by the fact that no one approached the subject of
targeting your traffic and knowing your audience. This is the first thing a blogger
should consider when planning his traffic generation strategy.

So, I decided to take a chance and participate in the contest with my own guest
post. In this article I will talk about:

1. Determining your target audience;
2. Finding your target audience;
3. Making your audience find you;
4. Measuring the results.

And without further ado, let’s go back to the start!

Determine who your target audience is

This one is a no-brainer and quite an obvious step when starting a blog. But is it really
that simple?

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Here are some simple questions to ask yourself:

• What gender are the majority of your audience?
• What is their education? Their social class or income?
• If you plan on selling something through your blog, will your audience be willing
to buy it?
• Is your audience structured in different segments? Does each segment have
different needs and behavior?

Know your target audience as best you can. What they want, how they act, what is
their common interest. These will all help you when working on your traffic generation
techniques.

Drag your potential readers to you

First, you get yourself out there. Gain exposure and let them know you. Remember!
Targeted traffic. How exactly can you do this?

Hang where they hang

Forums

Most forums have a “links” section where they allow you to announce your site to the
community. Provide a nice description, include a link to your site and make sure you
subscribe to that thread through your e-mail so that you may respond whenever you
get a response.

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If you decide to become an active member of a forum, you will also be able to get
traffic through your signature links.

Blogs

Find blogs in your niche and get traffic through commenting or guest blogging.

Remember step #1. Let’s say your blog is about dating advice. You can find blogs
and forums in that niche. But those looking for a date would also be interested in
looking good right? Fitness, healthy living, fashion, cosmetics… all possible niches for
you to explore.

Analyze the competition

• Find your competitors and do what they do.
• Go to Yahoo Site Explorer and find out where they get their backlinks from.
• Are they active on a specific social bookmarking site? Consider joining them as
well.
• Do they have a blog? Start spamming them!

Make your potential readers find you SEO
Go to Google AdWords or use a paid service to find out what kind of searches are
made that could relate to the topic of your blog;

Pay attention to your title tags;

Install SEO tools which can help you on your blog;

Get quality backlinks to your site;

Write quality and informative content.

Of course, Seo is much more than this. These are just some basic things to get you
started.

Social networks
In order for your audience to find you on social networks, you have to be present on
those social networks. Also, make sure you keep your current readers in mind and
you encourage them to share your content.

When someone is sharing something on Facebook, they are actually recommending
that to their friends. That can be a very powerful message.

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Measuring the results: did you attract the right audience?
After successfully attracting traffic on to your site, it is time to measure your results.
Some things we would need to find out at this point:

• Who are your readers;
• How did they find you;
• What they want from you;
• How they act on your site;

You can find this by:

• Using Google Analytics: find out how people are reaching your site, which pages
are the most visited, what they are searching on your site, what links they click on,
etc.;
• Checking your blog’s comments: talk to your commentators, visit their site, find
out who they are, what they do, etc.
• Measuring your blog’s social impact: use bit.ly or backtype to see who tweets
your posts, use TweetEffect to see which twitter statuses made you loose or gain
more followers;
• Ask them: put up a survey and politely ask your readers what you want to know
about them.

The last method is my favorite, since you can gather a lot more insight from it. Besides,
surveys are fun to take.

These tools can help you in creating a survey for your site:

• PollDaddy.com which does have a free version you can use;
• Online services such as eSurveysPro.com or the free trial version from SurveyGizmo.
com. You can announce it on your site through a widget, a post or HelloBar or you
can send out emails if you want only your subscribers to complete it;
• Use Google Docs to create a form and embed it on your site. Just go to “Create
New” and select “Form”

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And, since we’re on this subject, are you willing to complete the small survey below?
It’s about a topic which I’m sure everyone will find interesting. You guessed it! Guest
Blogging.

I promise to share the results in another guest post after the traffic generation contest
ends.

Please take a moment to fill out this survey.

Thank you! I would love to hear your thoughts on the survey.

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THE 3 STAR RATING TRAFFIC GENERATION REPORT

Article by newbizblogger - http://www.newbizblogger.com

Generating traffic for your website, albeit challenging, can become easier over time
if you put a plan into effect. There are tons of tactics at your disposal, but the key
to being successful with it is to try different tactics and see which works best for you.
I’ve compiled a list of various ideas and have rated them according to popularity
and overall usefulness. Keep in mind you may have to re-evaluate the star rating
system to reflect your industry. This is not a one size fits all system.

Report Legend:

Highly effective

Moderately effective

Fairly effective

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The 3 Star Traffic Generation Report

Create Great Content

Creating great content will always be one of your greatest ammunition in not only to
help you drive traffic to your site but to also help elicit repeat visits. Offering exceptional
content/products is the driving force for any website. You can implement all traffic
generating tactics listed below, but without great content to retain your visitors, all
would be in vain.

Key Tip: Although the content you are sharing may not always be “new”, your view
of the content is. So always strive to put your own unique spin on something to keep
the content fresh.

Paid Advertisement

Paid advertising can be a very effective means of also driving “targeted” traffic to
your website if your advertisement campaigns are set up strategically. Much care
needs to be put into this medium when setting up campaigns. Also, setting up metrics
on the onset in order to measure your progress will be helpful as it can prove to be a
costly tactic.

Although Google Adwords is still a major contender with paid advertising, more and
more site owners are taking advantage of Facebook advertising due to its low cost/
highly targeted advantages.

Key tip: If you plan on experimenting with Google Adwords I would suggest getting
‘Ultimate Guide to Google Ad Words, 2nd Edition: How To Access 100 Million People
in 10 Minutes’ by Perry Marshall & Bryan Todd. The $15-$20 for this book will possibly
save you hundreds of dollars in the long run.

Hosting a Contest

Contests are beneficial on many different levels. Contests promote social sharing,
excitement and are effective means of creating a “buzz” for your website. Be sure
to be clear about the purpose of the contest, the contest rules, the prize(s) being
offered as well as giving people ample time to participate.

Also, if you are hosting the contest on a third party site such as Facebook, make sure
to abide by their terms & conditions concerning contests. Check out third party apps
such as WildFire and EasyPromos is you are looking to run a contest on Facebook.

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Key tip: A powerful strategy in hosting a contest is to encourage social sharing of the
contest details by making that a prerequisite to participate in it.

Video Syndication

With the ever growing rise of video views every day, you would be remiss not to
take advantage of this powerful tactic in some respect. YouTube gets hundreds of
millions of visits per week! Taking a well thought out video and syndicating it out to
multiple video marketing sites via the use of TubeMogul can result in tons of traffic.

Key tip: Creating a great and valuable video is only one part of the equation. If you
want to get the most out of possible views you will need to optimize your videos with
keywords in your title tags and descriptions. Also, but sure to include your website
link!

Podcast Marketing

Podcasting is becoming and ever growing tool that many site owners are beginning
to take advantage of to help broaden their reach and generate more traffic. Simply
creating an audio file (many computers already have a built in sound recorder)
and uploading the file to your website, you can start sharing content in yet another
dynamic way.

If you are running your website with WordPress, this Codex gets into further detail on
how to upload and share your podcast.

Key tip: Utilizing the powerful social aspects of sites such as iTunes as a podcasting
client, can expand your reach exponentially. This document gets into further details
on how to set up this podcasting client.

Integration Marketing

This method is the sharing of virtual real estate with other site owners. For example,
this may be as simple as requesting someone to place your eBook on their thank you
page, download pages, etc. In exchange you can return the favor by doing the
same or promoting their content via other methods such as sending out emails to
your list, placing their link or banner on your website, etc.

Key tip: This is a powerful method of traffic generation so be sure to be strategic with
it. Make sure to target joint ventures with like-minded individuals. As well, make sure
that you are well related with your partner and can stand by their products and
services since you will be promoting them.

Hosting webinars

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Webinars are not only a great way for you to provide value to others but to help drive
unique visits to your website. Hosting webinars allow you the opportunity to provide
value as well as market your products and services.

Some services to look into:

• Freebinar (free)
• Zipcast (free)
• UStream (free)
• GoToMeeting (paid with 30 day free trial)

Key tip: Offer to do a webinar for a collaborator with a substantial email list size as
well as offering webinars to your list. This will be the key factor in maximizing your
efforts using this method.

Setting up Social Networking Accounts

Social Media is currently and will continue to be a powerful tool in traffic generation.
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, are just a few of the social networking mediums
that if used as it’s intended can drive large amounts of “targeted” traffic to your website.

Key Tip: The key factor in using social media for traffic generation is to really engage
and participate within these mediums. Don’t forget the “social” in social media.

Listing your Website with Free Services

Sites such as Google Places, Local.com and Yelp can potentially produce good
results in generating website traffic. These sites get thousands of views daily. Many
people will look to their local markets to seek help; these sites will help you tap into
that pool of prospects.

Key tip: To maximize your effort with these site, request other clients or collaborators
to rate your services and products, write reviews and share your profiles.

Forum Participation

Depending on your niche, forum participation can be a highly effective way of driving
traffic to your site. Forums are unique mediums in that they consist of a community
established around a commonality of issues. Participating in forums with the intention
of helping solve another user’s problems will establish you as a leader in your industry.
With this recognition comes trust; a powerful force in any business.

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Key tip: Forum participation will be most effective if you are a regular member of the
community. One post here and there will probably do little for you; it’s the long term
commitment that’s going to help you stand out from the crowd.

Networking Events & Meetups

One of the biggest advantages of local networking events and meetups is that you
have the opportunity to connect with people related to your industry. This can result
in future collaborations that you may have not had otherwise.

Key tip: Make it your intention to truly connect with a few people as oppose to passing
your card to as many people as you can. The key factor in networking events is
‘in the connections’ as oppose to ‘in the self-promotion’. Also, don’t forget to take
business cards and brochures!

Create your own Radio Show

Creating your own radio show is just one other powerful medium in driving targeted
traffic to your website. Blog Talk Radio is one of the most popular mediums today
that makes “sharing your voice and growing your audience” simple; and you can
easily get started in under a minute with their free package.

Key tip: Radio shows are a huge commitment, so if you plan to use this method, plan
your work and work your plan and don’t expect overnight success.

Email Marketing

Email marketing will not only benefit in creating and building a relationship with your
following, but also allow you to encourage sharing of your content. And as your
email list continues to grow, your reach grows exponentially.

Key tip: Make sure to include a sharing call to action in your emails, such as “please
tweet about…” Most email management services allow you to embed social sharing
icons in your emails. If that is not the case, utilize services such as ClickToTweet to
create promotional tweets to place in your emails.

Another invaluable tool is WiseStamp. This application allows you to add strategic
verbiage and social links in your email that can further promote your website.

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Create Free Software

Creating an application to be given out freely to the public can be another effective
way for you to market your website. It can potentially draw tons of traffic to your
website and at the same time establish you as an expert in your field. Unless you
are a programmer, creating a piece of software can be a costly affair. Check out
BuildItWith.Me in partnering with someone. This is bootstrapping at its finest!

Key tip: To increase your chances of getting a developer to partner with you, offer a
very good compensation package such as 60/40% or 50/50% equity split.

Give away Free Downloadable Publications

Creating and sharing free publications such as eBooks, whitepaper and manifesto’s
are a very effective way to get the word out about your website. You can create
new content from scratch to publish or you can collect a multitude of previously
published articles, refurbish it and create a publication from it.

Key tip: The power tip for this method is to include your website and social sharing
links. As with Email Marketing, be sure to include a “Share on Twitter” and “Share
on Facebook” link at various points in your publication. Once again, check out
ClickToTweet for Twitter sharing. For Facebook sharing, create your link using this
service link.

Content Syndication

Taking an already published article and leveraging it by converting it into other forms
of content sharing forms can potentially produce great traffic results. Check out sites
such as:

• Tutorialized – tutorial submissions.
• New-List – submit content to newsletter publishers.
• Free-eBooks & GetFreeEbooks – convert your content into pdf’s and submit them
as eBooks.
• Slideshare.net – share slideshow presentations of your content.
• Scribd – Submit your pdf’s to a large community of readers.

Key tip: Some of these sites will require upgrades in order for you to maximize your
exposure. Be sure to read thoroughly through FAQ’s and How-to docs to get the
most out of these sites.

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Link Exchange

Link exchanges will do little for you in terms of ranking; one way exchanges are
what you should always strive for. However, one of the benefits to link exchanges is
recognition and the opportunity for more eyes on your site.

Key tip: Look to exchange with site that compliments your niche, not ones that are
direct competitors or are non-related to your niche.

Blog Commenting

Commenting on blogs and getting related to other site owners and their readers can
be a tedious task yet beneficial. This process although time-consuming and slow to
see results, can ultimately generate a fair amount of traffic.

Key tip: The essential thing to remember here is to provide something valuable in your
blog comments that will help you stand out from the crowd. Also, seek out blogs in
the same boat as yourself. You will have a better chance of creating a relationship
with other blog owners with similar readership numbers as you. This is not to say you
shouldn’t seek out to comment on popular blogs, just that your chances of creating
relationships with site owners of very popular blogs are a bit more challenging.

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