Free Traffic Tips

The Zero Cost Traffic Ezine is now online.

In today’s special Article Marketing Issue:

* What I really think of Jason’s Article Announcer
* Four Free Downloads
* Three Mini-Articles About Article Marketing that haven’t appeared anywhere before
* A Highlight of Recent Blog Posts
* A Special for the First Ten Respondents Only
* Another Special for the First Three Respondents Only

See you there!

I know – I’ve been quite since Tuesday. I’ve almost been awake since Tuesday, technically. I have something big planned that’s going to happen soon – maybe even tomorrow.

For now, I have a tip from one of my favorite tipsters in the world, Michel Fortin. I learned a bunch of tips from him forever ago in Internet time, that made a big difference to me back when I was only looking to make a part time income online.

But I’ll let Michel talk, I have to get on a horizontal surface and go to sleep. Preferably a bed.

Though at this point it doesn’t materr.

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Clip ==> “This new change allows you to pay a premium to run lower relevancy ads and also gives you deeper discounts for exceptionally relevant ads. This new change will lower the cost of quality ads and uses efficient market theory to make it more expensive to run untargeted bulk eBay affiliate ads.”

Link ==> Google Simplifies their AdWords System (Search Engine News).

Thoughts ==> I’m sleepy. I’ll have to give you thoughts another time.

Link ==> Personal Tech Pipeline | Web Tools

Clip==>

Since chairman Bill Gates gave Virtual Earth the green light five months ago, Microsoft has built the site, folded its MapPoint software group and several researchers into a new group inside MSN, and gone on a hiring spree that will see the team grow to maybe 70 people.

Microsoft plans to integrate Virtual Earth with its MSN travel and auto sites and wants to negotiate deals with companies to put their logos on the satellite images, which come from TerraServer, a Microsoft site that was one of the first to make satellite photography accessible to large numbers of online users. Microsoft plans to update Virtual Earth this fall with close-up cityscape photos and more-detailed satellite images.

If you remember a few months back, I started making my husband Google sleep on the couch. I was angry at him (in my mind Google is a man – don’t ask. ) for the whole Autolink thing, and took all my AdSense ads down in protest.

This morning, I invited him to come in and sleep in our bedroom again.

Why? What is this crazy chick talking about now?

If you have a Personalized Google Home Page (which is free by the way), no matter how little you know about RSS, you can subscribe to feeds very easily – if you can type in a keyword or a site’s home page link you can subscribe to a feed.

This is part of the techie-ing down of RSS that is going to take the hard part out of subscribing to an RSS feed. And as I’ve told you before – when that happens? The pretty-good competitive advantage you have by implementing RSS now is going to increase exponentially.

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Thoughts ==> I’ve loved Robin Good’s site for a long time, but recently the amount of good information you can find there is just Out of Control. An issue I was discussing with a friend today led me to my feeds for research on the source he was citing, and that led me directly to this article.

Clip ==> “This newly published online resource publishes 118 positive and negative SEO factors that may likely affect your Google ranking inside search engine page results. The factors are grouped into “on page” and “off page” (links coming from other sites, factors and those factors clearly supported within the recently reviewed Google patent are colored in green.

Remember that the fewer incoming links that you have, the more important on-page factors are. ”

Link ==> Key Factors To Achieve High Google Ranking.

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Thoughts == > I do believe that I am beginning to adore, not just love this site. With this tool, you can take your Google Adwords search information and make it into its own separate resource. Me likey.

Clip ==> Sike. No Clip. Go read his blog, dang it.

Link ==> ProBlogger Secret Project: Blog Tips – ProBlogger

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Clip==> “Danny Sullivan and Gary Price of SearchEngineWatch.com will host a daily podcast on WebmasterRadioFM talking about the latest in search engine news.

If you’ve got a thing for the latest in search engine news and events, there’s a new podcast for you. Set to debut tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. EDT is The Daily SearchCast, hosted by Danny Sullivan and Gary Price of SearchEngineWatch.com fame.”

Thoughts ==> I love podcasts. I love search engine news. Now I can hear it while I surf? Why not.

And damn. Why didn’t I have that idea first?

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