Archive for November, 2005

Free Traffic Tips :: Free Traffic Methods Re-Cap Part Four

Free Traffic Method #9 :: Article Marketing

Article Marketing is back “in” again. The truth is, it was never out. If you want visitors to your site virtually overnight, there are few faster ways than to write an article and achieve mass distribution.

Many people, when talking about article marketing, praise the method for its ability to get you links back to your site, if you continue with your article marketing efforts over a period of time. Sure, this is a great way to continue to get exposure, but its a very limited view of what article marketing can do for you.

Others will have you focused on how quickly you can get an article published at another site to show up for your favorite keyword. That can be great when it happens, but it’s also a short-term resolution. Worse, it exposes your target keywords to competitors.

But what if you can use the articles you putlish at other sites as leverage to get you:

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Free Traffic Tips :: Free Traffic Methods Re-Cap Part Three

Free Traffic Method #6 :: Ezines

They say the money is in the list.

“They” aren’t lying.

Just because you’re using RSS successfully, doesn’t mean you necessarily want to abandon email. Some things are more appropriate for email, just like some conversations you have with your clients are better on the phone, and others might be better addressed in a mailed letter.

Ezine Day

Free Traffic Method #7 :: Forums

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Free Traffic Tips :: Free Traffic Methods Re-Cap Part Two

Free Traffic Method #3 :: Business Blogging

One of the fastest ways you can get a continous flow of increased traffic to your site is through blogging.

Do it right and you can get closer to your audience and increase your return traffic (which can help you put your marketing message out more often, which brings you closer to sales, faster.) Not to mention the fact that you can get more search engine traffic from blogging, if you know how to configure your blog to capture the traffic naturally.

My Most Recent Blog Traffic Posts

Overview of My Various Business Blog Posts.

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Free Traffic Tips :: Free Traffic Methods Re-Cap

Before we get back into the Free Traffic Methods series that we keep stopping and starting, I thought would be useful to you if I did a quick re-cap of the free traffic methods we’ve already done some coverage on.

We’ll be going over some of these again, but the on-going coverage will start with some topics we haven’t yet covered.

So here is the first part of the master list of free traffic methods and resources that go into a bit more detail. In coming weeks you’ll be able to reach this list from the sidebar, once we’re done.

Free Traffic Method #1 :: Search Engines

Of course, one of the best ways to get free traffic is from search engines.

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Free Traffic Tips :: Status

I’ll probably be sending my blog posts through with my blog publisher, which means most of the posts won’t be live again until Monday. Until I have the chance to visit with you again, I hope you and your family have a save and happy holiday.

I agree with Gotham Chopra at Intent Blog when he calls the current atmosphere around the Thanksgiving holiday in the States a “quantative indifference”. There has been kind of a well-meaning yet ill-advised political-correctness backlash against Thanksgiving in recent years.

Personally, I’ve decided that I’m going to honor this day as one to be Thankful, Giving, Humble and Repentant. Even if one is offended by how the holiday came about, perhaps aspiring towards a wider sense of goodwill, with the actions that back it, will help bring the warmth of Thanksgiving back to life.

We can’t un-do wrong that may have occured in the world before we came along, but we can make a pact with ourselves to do our best to do good in the world, and make a genuine effort to right any past wrongs we may have committed as best we can- kind of like that show “My Name is Earl“.

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Free Traffic Tips :: Building An Algorithm-Proof Site Part Three

Is there a secret to building an algorithm-proof site?

Yes.

Will I tell you what it is now?

Yes.

Will you like the answer? Maybe. That really depends on whether or not you understand the answer.

If you “get it”, you’ll be overjoyed. If you don’t, you’ll be puzzled. But I’m finishing up a book about the details of the process this weekend, so hopefully that will help clear things up for you.

The answer to your question is this: The secret to building an algorithm-proof site is that there isn’t just one secret.

If you can really focus in and understand that one thing about search, any headaches you’re having about getting better results will clear up.

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Free Traffic Tips :: Building An Algorithm-Proof Site Part Two

Now we know that when search engines come to your site to request documents, and hopefully add them to their public index, they are doing so to solve a problem. If we attempt to understand that problem, and can make our site part of the solution to that problem better than the next site, we can get more traffic from search engines.

So … What is a search engine’s problem – and how can my site be a part of the solution?

Let’s think out the first part. A search engine exists for a reason of course. That core reason is to bring a person looking for information together with a document on the web that has that information. Every time that match is made, the brand is strengthened, the user is happy, the likelihood that that person will use them again – and perhaps the other services that make them money.

How does a search engine solve that problem? It employs a formula. No one knows for sure how the formula works. But one thing we know is that it is calculating something. What would that be?

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Free Traffic Tips :: Building An Algorithm-Proof Site Part One

If you’re just joining us, and trying to figure out what’s going on, we’re on day two of our quest for increasing traffic with free methods.

Today the topic is Can You Build an Algorithm-Proof Site? That is, can you build a site that will keep ranking in the search engines despite any updates to algorithms?

This begs the question – What’s an Algorithm?

Advibe Media defines it as “A set of rules that a search engine uses to rank the listings contained within its index, in response to a particular query”. Let’s take that a bit out of context for even more discovery.

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