Welcome to the December 30, 2008 edition of website traffic.

Erika Collin presents 20 iPhone Apps to Increase Your Productivity posted at Web Design Schools Guide.

Wayne John presents Using Images For Your Social Links On Blogger Posts posted at Wayne John, saying, “You’ve more than likely seen images used as well as text links for social bookmark links on many different blogs and web sites. Using images for your social links will add a little more flair to your Blogger posts. Not only that, using images will save a little more space than the textual name of each service will, in most cases using images will also be more pleasing to the eyes.”

Brian Terry presents The Beginner’s Guide to Overnight Traffic | Big Marketing Secrets Blog posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “I’d like to welcome you to The Beginner’s Guide to Overnight Traffic™ where I’m going to teach you “Seven Steps to Getting Massive Traffic Using Google™ AdWords™”.”

Effective Blogging

Elliott presents Top Blog Marketing Strategies posted at Good Plum | Personal Develpment, Productivity & Attracting Success.

William James presents Information Marketing is all about lifestyle posted at Internet Marketing | Information Marketing | Blog Marketing | Business Success.

Scott Mahler presents Tips for Creating a Successful Blog posted at JBerry Marketing Consultants, saying, “Blogging has been around for a while, but a lot of people still think of it as something people do to spout off random thoughts. Surf around the internet a bit, and you will see how wrong that thought is. Just about every business I know has either added a blog as a companion to their website, or they are in the process of doing it. But, many of them don’t know how to go about starting it, or helping it grow.”

Danielle Branch presents How to Create a Sexy Eye Catching Title posted at Content 123, saying, “So you have written this killer article or blog post, but now you sit trying to think of what the title should be. How can you let the casual looker know what your post or article is about but make it catchy too?”

Other Strategies

Eras Mokei presents Create Your Elevator Speech posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean, saying, “One of the hidden strategies for generating web traffic is good old offline networking, and your elevator speech is crucial for connecting offline to online traffic results.”

Tinu Abayomi-Paul presents Joint Ventures and Why They Should Be Your First Source of Visitors | Traffic Method #4 | Free Traffic Tips | posted at Increase Your Website Traffic, saying, “”People want to partner with those they can trust or who they are friends with. Which means they want a familiar name, someone they have a relationship with, a person whose background they’ve checked into, who won’t disappear overnight, an established business person. “”

Baz Old presents Round Corners With jQuery and CSS posted at Web Development 2.0: Web Design, CakePHP, Web 2.0.

Don presents Article Marketing Smackdown – Article Submission Sites Reviewed posted at AffiliateWatcher.Com, saying, “The key to higher rankings and traffic that a high rank brings is backlinks. One popular way many bloggers are getting backlinks to their site is article marketing. With all the article marketing sites on the Internet today, it can be confusing to choose the best one. Here is a review of the most popular article submission sites on the Internet.”

Vishal Ramkissoon presents Being Friendly For Free Website (Or Blog) Traffic? posted at HavocDynamics, saying, “A non-conventional way of getting free website traffic.”

Isaac Yassar presents Our Quality = Our Value posted at Isaac Yassar .com, saying, “The more quality our website has, the more value it’ll get. The more value it has, the more traffic it’ll get.”

PPC/Adwords

Joshua Dorkin presents Online Real Estate Marketing: Making it Happen with PPC and SEO! posted at Real Estate Investing For Real.

Raymond presents The Best Credit Card Rewards For Google Ads and Search Advertising posted at Money Blue Book.

SEO/SEM

Ruben Ricart presents 31 Tips for Building Traffic posted at Internet Marketing Industry.

Sam presents SEO Insider Secrets for Search Engine Optimization | Surfer Sam posted at Surfer Sam and Friends, saying, “SEO Insider Secrets
Make Your Site a Magnet for Well-Targeted Web Traffic
Use Search Engine Optimization
Bust through the Search Engine Rankings
The objective of Search Engine Optimization, SEO, is to maximize the traffic that comes to your web page. For every search request, the search engine, be it Google or Yahoo or MSN, returns a search report, which is a list of web sites. If your web page shows up in the first few positions of the report, instead of the 24 gazillionth position, people are much more likely to click and visit your page. There is no charge for these visitors, you need not buy AdWords or other advertising, but you must get their attention. Piggyback on Google. Use search engines for the heavy lifting of screening and delivering the right users.
SEO Is Critical to Success
The goal in SEO is to rank high on the search engine report for the keywords that matter to you. Because high ranking is very valuable in building traffic, SEO is a competitive activity.

Optimizing a page for keywords means that the search engines will read the page and “decide” that the page is highly relevant to the keywords. We’re dealing with computer robots that “spider” around the Internet “reading” and evaluating all the pages they find. The algorithms that each search engine relies on are highly classified secrets, and thus SEO is a skill developed by intuition and lots of experience.”

Katy presents Should You Induce Labor During Your Pregnancy? posted at Katy Meets World, saying, “For many women, the though of inducing labor is frightening. However, it is sometimes required to be sure the baby is born healthy or to prevent complications for the mother.”

Giamatti presents Here?s Why Using Camtasia Can Increase Your Affiliate Checks posted at seocialise, saying, “Since there are already lots of people getting into affiliate marketing, it is no wonder that the competition is getting stiff. The challenge is to try and outdo other affiliates and think of ways to be able to attain this.”

Talk Prom Dresses presents How To Choose The Right Prom Date posted at Prom Dresses, saying, “Prom isn’t that far away. Here’s how to lock-in a great date for the big dance.”

Isaac Yassar presents all about SEO (with academic paper style) posted at Isaac Yassar .com, saying, “With this simple custom SEO, it took only one day for Google to put my site in their index, and it’s all free. Check it out.”

denis presents Branson unveils space tourism jet – Promo in Russia posted at promoinrussia.

Social Media

Helen Trump presents Best in Social Media – December 12, 2008 posted at Social Marketing by Michelle MacPhearson, saying, “Blog about the Best Social Media”

John W. Furst presents Twitter Nonsense posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, “What do you want people to think about you, ‘dumb follower’ or ‘smart leader?’ Your twitter profile tells a lot you are probably not aware of.”

Scott Mahler presents Internet Marketing For Your Website: Tips On How It?s Done posted at Datex Media, saying, “Internet marketing has become as important, if not more so, than traditional marketing. With so many websites out there, companies now have the opportunity to reach a much wider audience, and with a good web design that incorporates search engine optimization (SEO), businesses can take advantage of boundless networking outlets, especially in the area of social media.”

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