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Sometimes, as we’ve all noticed, bloggers will try to come up with some clever domain name, only to come up with something, well, let’s just call it what it is - S-T-U-P-I-D.
In my personal opinion, domain names should be clear as to what the site is all about. I read an article, not too long ago, that posited the same advice. And, hey, if it’s in writing it’s gotta be true! (Tongue in cheek).
Take our sites’ name for example - “FreeTrafficTip” - now what would you suppose this site is all about?
YES! You’ve got it - tips on traffic that are free. I know it goes beyond that, however, what we try to do is make you as successful as you can be and what do we charge for that? Nothing. It’s - Free. Gratis. No Cost. Put away your wallet. No tipping allowed.
Here’s a tool that might help you come up with a name that’s right up your alley. Check it out and, no, it won’t cost you a dime. Comments would be nice though - as they, too, are free. They also make us feel good.
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Let’s get right to it, shall we?
Static URLs are known to be better than Dynamic URLs because of a number of reasons
1. Static URLs typically Rank better in Search Engines.
2. Search Engines are known to index the content of dynamic pages a lot slower compared to static pages.
3. Static URLs are always more friendlier looking to the End Users.
Example of a dynamic URL:
http://www.widgets.com/product.php?categoryid=1&productid=10
This tool helps you convert dynamic URLs into static looking html URLs.
Example of the above dynamic URL Re-written using this tool:
http://www.widgets.com/product-categoryid-1-productid-10.htm
Note* - You would need to create a file called “.htaccess” and paste the code generated into it. Once you have created the .htacess file simply copy it into your web directory. URL rewriting of this type would work ONLY if you are hosted on a Linux Server.
Dynamic URLs vs. Static URLs.
This article explains the various challenges of Dynamic URLs vs. Static URLs.
 And there you have it and here you’ll get it.
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This tool will determine the country by the IP address.
It’s lightning fast and free. The database is huge and is updated on a regular basis. Go!
Want a bonus?
Click on this link to lookup the host or website which an IP address belongs and the country where this host is physically located.
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In today’s Social Media Issue:
- The First New Traffic Test in a Year
- Our New Facebook Group
- Where to Get Free Help with Linked In
- A Social Media Whitepaper from Jeremiah Owyang
- Another Social Media Whitepaper from MotiveLabs
- Add Us to Google
- Links to 69 Articles on Web Traffic
- The Traffic Methods Series #229 - 239
Whew! Are you as pooped reading it as I was writing it?
Read it here.
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It’s time to share the power of openness with the world.
Open sharing, collaborating on projects, open networking, having an open door policy, participating in discussion groups with contributions, sharing policy, DoFollowing… how do these things generate interest in you, your business, and your site?
Is it true that the more you give, the more you get?
I’m putting this theory to the test at Facebook, and you can be part of the first traffic test I’ve done since last year, and the first totally open one ever!
Spread the word about yourself and the resources you find online. The group is completely open, so you can post videos, articles, photos, links, or whatever else you’d like, just keep it business casual.
This is an open call for you to increase your popularity through sharing. Will it work? You won’t know unless you join - that’s the whole point of our traffic test.
Here’s how to do it.
1- Join Facebook if you haven’t already. It’s fun, it’s free, it’ll take you about a minute, and you can completely opt out of email notifications if you like (I suggest leaving some intact if you’re not logging in daily, or you’ll be out of the loop).
2- Not required, but if you want to be able to talk to me privately, add me as a friend.
3- Join the Open for Web Business Group.
4- Most Important Step - Share Something. Anything.
It can be free advice from a blog post at your site.
It can be a link of a friend.
It can be a PDF file. You can share a video file of less than 15 minutes or 300mb (Facebook imposed limit). You can share a video from YouTube. Upload a link to your recorded teleseminar. Whatever. Just join the group and make one effort per day to share something you find interesting and useful. After about a week, will your traffic rise? It won’t cost you anything but ten minutes a day to find out.
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If you thought my traffic method of sharing traffic to get traffic was nuts, you’ll love this. My extra traffic method, which shall not today be numbered, is … Give Thanks.
We’re sometimes rushing about on a rough day and life becomes a blur. Let me tell you a quick story of today, then I’ll tell you why my thank yous are going to become semi-daily content and actions.
The Story of Today
At about 3:30 this morning, I woke up with a start. Bolt straight up in bed with that little panic thing in my throat. It’s getting to the end of the month and for the next few days every extra penny that comes in is of critical importance. Because of the holiday coming up, I have to generate two week’s income in one week to stay ahead - working at half speed means getting paid at half speed, lol….
So anyway, of course I was already on edge.
And then. I find out the server is acting up. I swear I can feel it in my chest when the main site starts flaking out, and I’m convinced that’s what awakened me… So after scrambling around trying to fix that problem, I was a bit of a mess. Got zero marketing done. So I did what I always do when I’m in temporary despair.
I thanked some friends for their help and went to do something for someone else.
I’m telling you that gratitude and doing for other people is the best way to turn a bad day around. Until then, I was having the worst day I’ve had since I came back from the hospital.
Here’s the series of events that followed my deliberate abandonment of despair.
1- I went to check on the 69 Traffic articles collection that Robert Scoble was gracious enough to include in his linkblog on. Despite our traffic issues, we started to get a lot of traffic from ISEDB’s Scoop today, I think because Tariq Ali scooped it, turning it into a top story.
(You can Scoop us too. 
If you have time, you know?)
Since Todd mentioned it in a recent Geek News Podcast too, I wrote him a note of thanks.
That made me think… maybe I’m helping more people than my fellow Warrior who I put that list together for, so I wrote a new article after about a day’s silence, the one about Sharing Traffic to Get Traffic.
(Back to Scoble a second. I don’t care what people say about his videos from Sunday. What kind of world is it where we judge people as a whole, expert or not, by the one day we disagree with their views out of 365? Lunacy. And yes, I’d say that even if he never linked to me again.)
2- Andy Beard, reigning King of Niche Marketing read it and linked to it. He really goes above and beyond the call of duty for the bloggers in the No “No Follow” Community at BUMPzee. Scott Jangro deserves some sort of award for that site.
3- As I continued to struggle with this site’s problem, Andy wrote with very supporting words. I asked him to just reprint the article on this site so his visitors then didn’t have to go anywhere, but he wanted me to get some kind of benefit, so he linked to my FeedBurner version instead. He is both a gentleman and a scholar.
4- Maki from DoshDosh, who I’ve never spoken to or even corresponded with before, both commented on the article and submitted it to Sphinn. Being that my fanaticism about DoshDosh reaches groupie levels, this was a special moment for me.
(Please vote for us at Sphinn. There’s like, cool people there. No pressure. But if you love me, you’ll do it, lol.)
5- I smiled the rest of the day away and finally finished an article I was writing about Facebook with a pretty clear head.
The moral? The mere attitude of gratitude works. The way you feel changes the way you color the events of a potentially bad day.
And sharing traffic as well as resources/advice freely works too. There’s no way I would have gotten all of this attention being stingy.
Semi-Daily Thank Yous Will Be Here to Stay
Not only do I plan to do a special post about each one of the wonderful people who have shared me by Monday, not only have I already shared them on Facebook and elsewhere, but I’m permanent linking to them as a testament to what sharing does.
This all started with two thanking and sharing incidents. I created the 69 article list, a project I’ve been positively dreading, a week early for a Facebook Friend who I’d had a really cool discussion with.
That was my sharing, because this person was thinking about buying a guide, but as much as I could use the cash, I like people to verify for themselves that my advice works for them first.
Next, I thanked one person privately, and another in public, and from other sources came floods of goodness. Gratitude and open sharing is a killer traffic combination. you heard it here first.
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