It’s that time of year: School’s out, workers are leaving for vacation in droves and, in the United States, it’s a holiday weekend. If you don’t have a site that’s specifically targeted toward summer activities, it’s almost certainly the slow season. For me and my sites, it’s pretty routine for traffic to drop between 25 […]
How Google Get You to Their Site – Top Lessons in Internet Marketing and ‘Real Company Stuff’ From Google
When it comes to internet marketing, it’s safe to say that Google are the masters – in fact they pretty much invented SEO (intentionally or otherwise) and most forms of marketing are reliant on the search giants to some extent. But there’s a bit of a paradox there if you look closely, that being that […]
10 Tips to Drive Lots of Traffic to Your Blog
If you have been working on blogs for some time or had spent some time in blog sphere you must be aware about the ratio of successful blogs when compared with total number of blogs that are created. I would say there are very few blogs that are able to build lots of targeted traffic […]
Blogging Pitfalls: The Holiday Funk
It’s December 22nd, just three days away from Christmas and a little over a week away from New Years. For most Western bloggers, this is one of the slowest times of the years. Schools are closed, businesses are winding down, employees are heading off to vacation and people are spending time doing things other than […]
Blogging Pitfalls: How Worshiping Analytics Can Kill Your Blog
Generally speaking, bloggers view analytics as a very good thing. There’s hardly a blog that isn’t running some kind of stats program whether it’s Google Analytics, WordPress.com stats or one of the countless other systems. Analytics provide information that can be very valuable to a blogger. A good analytics system will give you stats that […]
The Most Important & Effective Strategy When Business Blogging
Incorporating a blog within any small to large organization’s website can be one of the most important decisions that could be made. Blogs are extremely effective for driving sales, web traffic, building brand awareness and strengthening relationships with customers. However, corporate blogging can be somewhat different from a regular personal blog due to differences in […]
7 Tips for Bootstrapping Your Blog Traffic
Any time you start a new blog, the biggest concern tends to be “how do I build traffic?” Unless you’re hiring or have a crack team of web gurus who know the tricks for building up your blog fast, you’ll just have to do it yourself. However, if you haven’t luxury of a big budget […]
Use WordPress As Private Network To Promote Your Content On Social Networks
Many people blog for fun while others blog to make money but at the end of the day most of us all have the same purpose in mind and the game is all about one thing, one word: traffic. There are many different approaches to blogging and the best way to achieve long term success […]
Sunday Morning SEO: Breaking Through Traffic Plateaus
In this post, I go over the steps I took to break through the traffic plateaus at different times of my blog.
5 Things to Try When Nobody’s Visiting Your Blog
This may sound familiar to some bloggers: You’ve been blogging for almost a year now in a pretty uncrowded niche. You’ve been thinking of nice topics to blog about and your writing is pretty OK. But when you look at your web traffic stats, you see something that doesn’t even reach 300. So what do […]