October 16, 2007 – 8:48 pm
Eye see
Originally uploaded by Stewart Leiwakabessy
It’s been about six days since I posted part 2 in this series of posts about developing a traffic strategy.
You can find the ‘table of contents’ for this and future case studies here.
In the last post, we discussed the meta-structure that I use to bring context […]
October 15, 2007 – 7:22 am
New traffic tactics are like wine. Better taken one vintage at a time and they get better with age. When looking to build your flow of traffic, it is all too tempting to sample many different tactics at once, but it is much better to select carefull, committ to one, and let it play […]
October 10, 2007 – 11:20 am
Since traffic is now on my radar big time, I’ve started to collect links to blog posts, websites, and other resources that might help me select good candidates for my traffic building project.
I’ll post them here to this thread and maybe even provide links to my Delicious bookmarks, stumbles, and clipmarks pages.
For now, I’ll just […]
October 10, 2007 – 3:17 am
Traffic.
Is it ever far from our minds?
Aquiring and monetizing web traffic is certainly one of the most important, and emotional issues we as Internet marketers face. We talk about it, develop schemes and technology to generate it, and pay dearly for it. The most spectacular product launches that we see are about how […]
October 9, 2007 – 1:09 pm
Find something news-worthy about your blog, and draft a press release around it. Aim your release at getting reporters interested in doing a follow up story - you need a ‘hook’ and an ‘angle’. When you’re done, distribute your press release to sites like PR Web which not only give you publicity but also a […]
October 4, 2007 – 7:06 am
Social bookmarking is a great way to drive traffic to your site/blog and to connect to like-minded web surfers to see sites that they have discovered. One of the drawbacks, however, is submitting your content to social bookmarking sites can be time consuming. Enter OnlyWire.com. This service allows you to submit content to multiple […]
October 1, 2007 – 7:04 am
If you want to get more subscribers to visit your web site. There are four words that can multiply your click through rate. It’s so simple you’ll probably say ‘I wish I’d thought of that’. You simply split your article into two parts, publish part one in your ezine and post part two to […]
September 27, 2007 – 3:03 pm
I was just looking at my referrer stats (in Google Analytics) and noticed that this blog received over 80 visitors in the last 24 hours from StumbleUpon. This is a far greater influx of traffic than I have ever seen from a social bookmarking tool. I submitted the review of Rapid Action Profits […]
September 25, 2007 – 3:47 pm
Make a ‘newsy’ blog post; preferably something controversial or provocative and mention it on forums to bring a surge of blog visitors. Post a ‘curiosity’ message with a headline like “Have you read this news about __ ?” Refer to your post but do NOT give out all details, just hint about how important it […]
September 17, 2007 – 6:07 pm
I posted about BlogRush over the weekend and wanted to share an update. I actually removed the widget from this blog earlier today for two reasons: 1) it was causing pages to load slowly and 2) the links contained in the widget are largely beyond my control. Both of these reasons are founded […]
