December 11, 2007 – 2:48 pm
To get a quick burst of traffic to your blog, send a short email to your list. This is the best kind of traffic - targeted, trusting, and ready to take action. Building trust and marketing to subscribers takes time and experience to master. But at the very least, sending them a short note to […]
December 10, 2007 – 3:03 pm
If you’re not already implementing videos into your search engine marketing campaign, it’s time to get started. Video is a communication channel that cannot be ignored. And make sure to put those videos on YouTube.com. Because not only is it the most popular video content site on the Internet, but Google and Yahoo Video Search […]
December 4, 2007 – 2:20 pm
It’s useful, high-quality content you post outside of your main site(s) - such as Squidoo lenses, Hub pages, FaceBook/MySpace blogs, etc. - and it can be an excellent long-term source of targeted traffic to your site. It can also rank well in search engines, especially when it’s posted on social sites. Most social sites are […]
November 26, 2007 – 11:41 am
Let your competitors focus on grabbing visitor attention with PPC, ezines, blogs and purely online traffic… but for added profits, remind yourself that the phone and direct mail have produced billions of dollars in sales in the past… and that’s not going to change anytime soon. Use multiple media and communication channels to better get […]
November 16, 2007 – 2:15 pm
There are tons of ways to get marketing juice from social networks. Look for the ones that “get it” and give you multiple opportunities to showcase your superior intellect, your penchant for finding funny things and posting them, and your keen awareness of everything that’s going on in the world.In the process you can spark […]
November 9, 2007 – 3:18 pm
Some people are anxious over getting traffic to their websites, but they refuse to see the value in article marketing. Writing articles and putting them into the right directories is still very powerful, and anyone who’s not taking advantage of the opportunity for their business is just foolish. Even if you can’t write or don’t […]
November 7, 2007 – 11:03 am
Guest blog. Offer to write a post on someone else’s site. Even better, have the post already written up and then let the blogger know you have a post ready to guest blog on their site, if it’s okay with them. When you write your guest blog post, find a post on your own blog […]
November 6, 2007 – 12:37 pm
A great way to add value to a post is to give an example that illustrates the post’s main point. Quite often bloggers writing ‘how to’ or ‘instructional’ posts cover the theory of a topic really well but fail to give practical examples of how it works itself out in reality. I find that readers […]
November 5, 2007 – 1:34 pm
I have several distinct goals when it comes to leaving comments on other peoples blogs. They are:
Grab the attention of the readers
Grab the attention of the blogger
Develop my personal brand
Create some backlinks
It’s quite amazing that blog commenting can do so much really! But something I noticed was that each of those goals requires a slightly […]
October 24, 2007 – 7:19 am
Compile some of your best blog posts into a short ebook or report and sprinkle it with links pointing back to your blog. Then give it away to everyone. List it on all free ebook directories you can find. Offer redistribution rights to others in your niche, so they can spread it around. With high-quality […]
