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How to Keep Your Blog Traffic - Tips for a Stickier Blog

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0500

So you finally figured out how to get those visitors to your site, huh? Well, partner, it's not over. Now you've got to keep them there if you hope for your blog to be effective. So, how do you keep your blog traffic? I knew you'd ask that... 1. Your Audience Is More Important Than Your Search Engine Rankings Who knows what way the wind will blow in years to come. You may be able to do without traffic from Google one day - just like you're probably doing without traffic from Hotbot right now. However, you'll never be able to do without your clients and prospects. If you could you wouldn't be in business, would you? So pay attention to what your audience wants to hear. If you configure your blog correctly in the first place, you won't have to worry about a good ranking so much. 2. Don't Add to the Noise. It's okay to be silent for short periods if you have nothing interesting to say. In the meantime, while you're keeping your lips tight, find something *really* interesting to say. Of course, I believe that there's never nothing to say.** End Summary**

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Come to http://www.rescueyourblog.com/blogtraffic for more blog tips.

Ten Free Ways to Market Your Site the Web 2.0 Way

Sat, 26 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500

You really want to understand Web Marketing 2.0, without buying hundreds of guides? Learn how to make connections online. The easiest and fastest way to make that connection as a noted authority is to learn the art of giving. Most Web 2.0 sites that will help you market your site will Only work if you make a conscious effort to share your resources. Think of it as traditional networking amplified and assisted by web tools. Realize, though, that the technical details of how to maximize social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, collaborative tools and widgets are all useless without the new underlying first rule of the Web. "What's the new rule, Tinu?" Well, in order to receive, you'll have to start out by giving. The trick is to go beyond the golden rule of doing unto others as you'd have them do unto you, into an even higher rule of doing to others as they want to be done unto. And if you can figure out how to anticipate needs, you've got a bigger head-start than any me-centric marketer, no matter how far ahead they may be in experience.** End Summary**

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Read Tinu's daily Free Traffic Tips column to learn more about all aspects of traffic generation, including blogging, article marketing and get late-breaking search engine news.

How to Keep Top Search Engine Traffic Even When Rankings Fluctuate

Tue, 22 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500

The Question: How Can Anyone Stay on top of the Search Engines when they keep changing their systems of ranking? The Short Answer: Stop betting on just one horse and spread your risk around. The Long Answer: 1- Approach the Search Engines with a strategy that caters to them. I don't just mean get lots of links and use your keywords in the right places. I'm saying that most people try to build towards gaining one major keyword position, and if they lose that spot in an update, their sales and traffic come tumbling down. Instead of pinning your hopes to one keyword ranking, target a number of visitors, and adjust your strategy accordingly. Find the places where search engines need your listings to make their databases better and they'll be happy to rank your site. 2- Make all the different parts of your overall traffic strategy beneficial to your search engine strategy. For example, even though I knew naming a site with the keywords you want in it is out of vogue, that doesn't mean I can't still optimize my site for that area.** End Summary**

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Tinu is a website promotion specialist who writes a daily free traffic column. Go to http://www.freetraffictip.com to learn more about all aspects of traffic generation, including blogging, article marketing and get late-breaking search engine news.

7 Steps to Traffic from Google Groups

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Google Groups as a communication tool is plenty fun and useful, as is. But can you get a bit of a traffic boost as well? Sure. Maybe not in the way you thinkâ¦ 1. Join Join Google Groups if you haven't already. Join discussions if you haven't in a while. It's going to be more difficult to apply theory to an experience you haven't had. The Google Groups experience is similar to participating in forums, but it's not exactly the same thing. And, as we say in Vegas, you can't win if you don't play. 2. Participate You're not going to make much happen by lurking. Say something smart. Get to know other people. Start a group of your own in an area that's needed and invite people you know. Not an expert? So what. Ask questions instead and expand your knowledge. If you don't want to become a guru, you can always find one to interview through Google Groups and then post it on your site as a traffic draw. And guru or not, the more your name is out there, the more people will be curious about your profile, or your link, and end up at your site.** End Summary**

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Get into the Google Group groove with more free tips at http://www.freetraffictip.com/tag/google-groups/ .

How to Keep Your Blog Traffic

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500

Copyright 2006 Tinu AbayomiPaul So you finally figured out how to get those visitors to your site, huh? Well, partner, it's not over. Now you've got to keep them there, while also bringing in new people, if you hope for your blog to be effective. How? I knew you'd ask that... 1. Pay closer attention to your audience than you do to your search engine rankings. Who knows what way the wind will blow in years to come. You may be able to do without traffic from Google one day - just like you're probably doing without traffic from Hotbot right now. However, you'll never be able to do without your clients and prospects. If you could you wouldn't be in business, would you? So pay attention to what your audience wants to hear. If you configure your blog correctly in the first place, you won't have to worry about a good ranking so much. 2. Shut Up if you have nothing interesting to say. And while you're keeping your lips tight, find something *really* interesting to say. Of course, I believe that there's never nothing to say. But I'm a writer and not everyone thinks that way.** End Summary**

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Why should your blog rank okay for one keyword phrase, when it can rank first page for hundreds? See the yellow grid at http://www.rescueyourblog.com/blogtraffic for proof.

Getting Results From Your Search Engine Traffic

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0500

Copyright 2006 Tinu AbayomiPaul "I did what you said and I'm getting 100 visitors a day from Google. But they still aren't buying my product." Never minding that some small businesses would be deliriously happy with 3000 addiitonal visitors a month - what do you do when the plan you had to increase your search engine traffic doesn't give you the results you want? You re-evaluate your plan. Did you target the right keyword? Are your pages ready to convert? How's your lead capture system? Do you even have one? You'll need to ask yourself all these questions, and more, but before you even get to that, here's the thing that doesn't seem obvious, the thing you have to resolve before you can move forward. There's some outside chance - way, way outside - that an increase in search engine traffic just isn't the right way to solve your traffic problem. What's more likely is that you have made one of the following mistakes or oversights. Make sure that the reason your search engine traffic isn't converting is for one of the following reasons before you abandon all efforts. 1.** End Summary**

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Go to http://www.freetraffictip.com to learn more about all aspects of traffic generation, including blogging, article marketing and getting traffic from search engines. Find out what Does work.

7 Reasons Why Your Traffic Generation Efforts Aren't Working

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0600

Copyright 2006 Tinu AbayomiPaul It might be that the traffic method you've chosen doesn't actually work. However, if you researched the method before you bought into it, that may not be true. Make sure it's not one of the following reasons before you abandon it. 1. Actually, it IS working -- but you have unrealistic expectations. Maybe you aren't going to get a million visitors a month. And that's okay, because it may not even take a million *page views* to get your traffic to yield a better income for you. It's more about increasing the percentage of visitors that make you money than it is about numbers of visitors. 2. You've been inconsistent in executing it. Meaning, some days you're gung ho, but most of the time you're not executing your plan. It ain't magic, hon. Someone has to do some work at some point. Either you do it or pay someone else to do it for you. 3. You don't have a plan. You know what they say about a failure to plan. If you don't, trust me, it ain't good. Have a goal.** End Summary**

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Go to http://www.freetraffictip.com to learn more about all aspects of traffic generation, including blogging, article marketing and search engine optimization. Find out what Does work.

What Google Says About Google Bombing Can Teach You About Link Building

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0600

Copyright 2006 Tinu AbayomiPaul Are Some Links Better And, for that matter, should you focus on sheer quantity of links to your site, or the quality of those links? For our first piece of evidence, let's ask Google. In a post to their blog in September, we find the following: By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. While that doesn't mean you should engage in the practice of Google Bombing, by any means, it does give you a clue to how effective it can be to use the description of the site that is being linked to, where appropriate. It isnt a secret that a sheer volume of links can help you get better rankings.** End Summary**

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This article is an excerpt from a discussion of linking. You can view or participate in this discussion at http://www.freetraffictip.com/linking for more, with reference links to resources around the web.

7 Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic with FeedBurner

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0600

Copyright 2006 Tinu AbayomiPaul FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to track your feed traffic and all kinds of other fun stuff. It won't create a feed for you from scratch as often believed - rather it wraps itself snugly around a feed you bring in and adds its services therein. It has a few premium options for the serious feed publisher, too. People ask me all the time if I suggest that they use FeedBurners plethora of free feed enhancement tools. I have always answered a resounding Yes! But lately FeedBurner has moved itself to a whole new level. Did I mention most of these tools are free, and can help increase the traffic you get to your blog, by using your feed? Dont believe me go to http://www.feedburner.com and see for yourself. Tell em Tinu sent you. They have no idea who I am but itll be fun, I promise. So enough with the warm-up already, and lets start talking about some of these incredible features.** End Summary**

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Are Business Blogs the New SEO?

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0600

Copyright 2006 Tinu AbayomiPaul If I've seen it once, I've seen it a thousand times. The most common scenario is that I'll get a new client with little to moderate traffic, fewer than 20 - 50 visitors a day, who is interested in blogging, and wants to know whether it would be worth the effort if no one reads their blog. My answer, invariably, is that if your area of expertise supports a demand for information in a certain niche, having a reasonable number of targeted visitors won't be the problem. Within a six weeks of coaching (or two to three months if they prefer to read the book), they go from dozens of visitors to hundreds, with the increase coming mostly from search engines. And that leads to the question - are blogs the new search engine optimization tool? Do you still need to pay thousands of dollars to attempt to capture a keyword ranking? The answer, of course, is not as simple as it first seems. It's true that with proper blog configuration, a responsible link strategy, carefully planned blog frequency, and well-thought-out keyword research, you can have more traffic from search engines.** End Summary**

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Business blogs may not be the answer to better search engine results alone, but leveraging a few basic search engine optimization techniques can help you get first page rankings for dozens of terms instead of focusing blindly on just one - and not low traffic results either. See the yellow example grid at http://rescueyourblog.com .