Published by Patrick on 08 Apr 2009

Generating Website Traffic – Carnival 14

Welcome to the April 1, 2009 edition of website traffic.

Gem-Publishing presents Get 15,625 New Twitter Followers in 30 days posted at Home Business Ideas, saying, “What If You Could Press Just One Button & Automatically Start Getting 1000’s Of Legitimate New Twitter Followers On Autopilot… Even If Nobody Knows Who You Are Now?”

Bai Zijian presents Facts About Xbox 360 Three Red Lights And Repair posted at Xbox 360 Red Lights.

Tim Grice presents Anchor Texts Rule! But How Do We Get Them? posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, “My last few posts have focused on the importance of anchor text when it comes to ranking high on Google and lapping up that lovely traffic. What I haven’t really touched on in any depth is “how to get anchored links”, sure I have briefly mentioned directories and articles etc… But I wanted to dedicate a full post on anchor text.”

Michael Sherriff presents Blackhat Traffic Secrets posted at The Midnight Marketer.

Michael Sherriff presents First Page of Google in 60 Minutes or Less posted at The Midnight Marketer.

Michael Sherriff presents How To Make Your Website Sticky posted at The Midnight Marketer.

Michael Sherriff presents The Smart Money in Hot Dogs and Ebay posted at The Midnight Marketer.

Michael Sherriff presents How To ReTweet Twitter Tweets that You Receive posted at The Midnight Marketer.

Michael Sherriff presents The Best Time To Twitter Someone | Most Popular Time To Twitter posted at The Midnight Marketer.

Debbie Foster presents See Your Stats Without Leaving Your Blog posted at Internet Income – The Journey, saying, “As we”

Debbie Foster presents 7 Ways to Get Traffic posted at Internet Income – The Journey, saying, “One of the top search engine queries is ”

Andrew Rondeau presents The Wonderful World Of RSS Feeds posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, “Of all the millions and millions of websites in the world, 99% of them have one thing in common and hardly anyone notices it or uses it to their advantage.”

My Web Traffic Robot presents Another Great Web Traffic Tip posted at My Web Traffic Robot, saying, “Reciprocal linking is a great way to get traffic and better search engine rankings.”

Bobby Leong presents Article Marketing posted at Internet Marketing Solutions, saying, “use article marketing to attract traffic to wordpress blogs”

Bobby Leong presents Benefits of Article Submission posted at Internet Marketing Solutions, saying, “the 9 benefits of article aubmissions”

Bobby Leong presents Article Marketing Automation Results posted at Internet Marketing Solutions.

Bobby Leong presents Creative Niche Manager, Website Traffic Automation posted at Internet Marketing Solutions.

Bobby Leong presents Develop Website in 5 minutes posted at Internet Marketing Solutions.

Bobby Leong presents Increase Subscribers and Traffic on Turbo posted at Internet Marketing Solutions, saying, “how to increase subscribers and traffic to your websites”

Bobby Leong presents Facebook Yahoo Ads Coupon for Traffic posted at Internet Marketing Solutions.

Debbie Dragon presents Managed Services Success in any Economic Climate posted at MSP University Managed Services Blog.

Larry Payne presents Tips to Blog Traffic posted at Business Software Downloads, saying, “There are many ways to get traffic. I did a little research just to find out how many I could find in 5 minutes and ”

Verna Morris presents The History of the Gold Standard: 25 Great Web Sites to Research Its Rise and Fall posted at Bankling.

Sarah Scrafford presents 100 Best Websites for Free Adult Education posted at Online Degree World.

Sarah Scrafford presents 25 Surprising Things That Google Knows About You posted at e-Justice Blog.

Tim Grice presents Blog Optimization – 4 Steps To Post Optimization posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, “I have had a few emails concerning my recent post about blog titles and implementing optimization techniques. People have been asking for more info on how I go about optimizing my blog and each of my blog posts. The simple answer to the question “how exactly do you optimize each blog post?” is…”

Debbie Ducker presents Profitable Blogging – Grab it why the competition is low. posted at Ducker Promotion Ezine, saying, “A fairly new idea with a lot of potential for entrepreneurs who have insight, drive, and a basic understanding of today”

FBM presents *NEW* eBOOK Resale Right Scripts Software Download posted at eBooks with Resell Rights.

Ian Traynor presents Free Web Hosting And Site Building posted at Marketing Sparks, saying, “Learn how to set up free websites with Google Sites”

Ian Traynor presents A New, Free Twitter Tool posted at Marketing Sparks, saying, “Get a load more Twitter followers with this free tool”

Ian Traynor presents A Good Way To Create Instant Video Sites posted at Marketing Sparks, saying, “A neat way to rapidly build themed video sites uing YouTube videos”

Paul Gallion presents What Makes ListQUIK Listbuilder Different From All The Others posted at Paul Gallion, saying, “A Listbuilder That is Different Than All The Others”

Erika Collin presents 100 Best Blogs for Young Entrepreneurs posted at Online College Degree.

Patricia Turner presents ETF FAQs: Common Questions About ETF Investing | ETFdb posted at ETFdb.

Debbie Foster presents Money From The Internet – Absolutely! posted at Internet Income – The Journey.

Arjan presents My Traffic Maker posted at Text Ad Exchanges Blog.

Arjan presents My Web Traffic Robot posted at Text Ad Exchanges Blog.

Kingsley Tagbo presents Which Comes First CBAP Certification Or Business Analyst Training? posted at BUSINESS ANALYST BOOT CAMP, saying, “You want to learn or master all the core business analysis skills, and get a lot of hands-on experience before you start working on your business analyst certification for the following reasons…”

Qwoter.com presents What is a Web Developer? posted at Ricky Deez, saying, “You’ve probably came across the term ‘Web Developer’ online somewhere – or someone told you that your business or websites needs a ‘Web Developer’. A sign of a superior Web Developer is someone who can excel all web design, programming and online marketing.”

Winson yeung presents Free Traffic System Review – How to Fully Make Use of Every Article Submitted to EzineArticles posted at Singapore Internet Marketer’s Blog, saying, “How do I Make Full Use of Article that are Submitted to Ezinearticle ?I myself always submit articles to Ezinearticles.com but just submitting Ezinearticles is just not enough. So I ask myself ”

Travis Millward presents Blog Carnival Submitter Review posted at Talk to Travis, saying, “Today IM Buzz released a new piece of software called ”

Charlie Paule presents Blog Carnival – Submit an Article to a Carnival posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er.

Jack Russel presents Google Cash Detective-GCD-The Google Adwords Playing Field Shifts posted at Biggest Firesale Of Online Marketing Products Reviewed, saying, “Are you like me? Tired of losing money on Google Adwords? Can’t seem to find a profitable keyword-ad-landing page combo? Well, the Google cash detective spy tool is just what struggling ppc marketers need. Read more…….”

Diego Cervantes presents Top 50 Work-at-Home & Make Money Online Blogs posted at Bankling.

Stephan Miller presents 111 Ways to Promote Your Blog : Digital Products Review posted at Digital Products Review, saying, “I think you should have a custom promotional strategy for every blog. If one blog”

Stephan Miller presents How to Submit Your Website or Blog to Directories : Digital Products Review posted at Digital Products Review, saying, “One of the tricks to get directory submissions to work is to vary the titles, descriptions and keywords on your submission. Now with a list of hundreds of directory sites, you don”

Bobby Leong presents Get Traffic to Blogs Automatically posted at Internet Marketing Solutions.

Debbie Foster presents How To Blog For Profit posted at Internet Income – The Journey, saying, “Individuals that dream of blogging for profit can do so with a minimal understanding of blogging software and the willingness to put in the time and hard work necessary. Yet, only a small percentage of individuals actually get the profits they expected from their blog. So why is that?”

Simon Stapleton presents Become an IT Professional Using Your Passion posted at Career & Personal Development for CIOs, Technical Professionals and Self-Professed Geeks, saying, “I get a number of emails each week (especially from students) asking what the best way is to get into IT. There is rarely a simple answer to this (everyone is different, and everyone’s situation is different) but there is one thing I do come back to often as a sure-fire way to create the best opportunity to enter an IT career with.”

Tim Grice presents SEO frauds posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, “I have been getting a number of spam like comments over the past couple of months from 1 source. I say spam comments because each one is almost identical and completely generic. Let me give you an example:-”

Sarah Scrafford presents The 50 Best iPhone Apps for Relationships and Networking posted at Edu Velocity.

Larry Payne presents Increasing Website Traffic posted at Business Software Downloads, saying, “There are many creative ways to increase traffic to your website. Some will cost you money, and some won”

Diego Cervantes presents The Work-at-Home Toolbox: 50 (Legit) Web Sites to Make Money Online posted at Bankling.

Larry Payne presents Viral Advertising/Marketing posted at Business Software Downloads, saying, “The terms Viral Advertising and Viral Marketing refer to marketing techniques that use social networks, software packages, and even advertising sites to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives such as product sales, etc..”

EZ Web Traffic presents Contribute Your Expertise posted at EZ Web Traffic Carnival.

EZ Web Traffic presents Instant Viral Advertising posted at EZ Web Traffic Carnival.

EZ Web Traffic presents Twitter Traffic Magic posted at EZ Web Traffic Carnival, saying, “Discover How to “JUMPSTART” Your Blog Traffic in 4 Easy Steps With The Help of Twitter.”

EZ Web Traffic presents Web Traffic Juggernaut posted at EZ Web Traffic Carnival.

Ian Richardson presents Just what IS the best way to get traffic? posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, “Getting high quality traffic is probably the biggest question asked by both new and established online businesses. After all, it makes no difference if you are selling a product, promoting affiliate links, or displaying adsense – you need traffic. And loads of it. So how do you do it?”

Erika Collin presents The Free Online Tax Filing Toolbox: 25 Sites for Tools, Printable Forms, Software and More posted at Bankling.

American Entrepreneurship presents Expert Q&A: Networking for Small Business posted at American Entrepreneurship.

Erick Simpson presents 3 Value Added Services for a Complete Managed Services Offering posted at MSP University Managed Services Blog.

Larry Payne presents Increase Your opt-ins by ditching the name field posted at Business Software Downloads, saying, “This just happens to be the new thing on the block and for good reason. Everybody is getting scared of spam because if you think about it, nobody out there is really wanting to give you there information like they used to do. It is just getting harder and harder to get them to opt-in. So, I decided to find a little bit of information about ”

JD presents SEO – An Introduction To Search Engine Optimisation posted at emarketing4today.com, saying, “Search Engine Optimisation is the holy grail of free targeted traffic. Almost all internet business website owners give some thought towards search engine optimisation. Put briefly, SEO is simply the process of taking certain steps so that major search engines like Google and Yahoo ranks your site near the top of the search results.”

zongo presents Seagate hard drives are not good posted at Computer Hard Disk Data Recovery, saying, “Computer Hard Disk Data Recovery show you why seagate hard drive sucks and are bad !”

Keith Gill presents Discover your Friday Night Essence for true Business Bliss | Internet Business – Vision Driven Business posted at Vision Driven Business.

Keith Gill presents Goal setting and urinals in McDonalds | Internet Business – Vision Driven Business posted at Vision Driven Business.

Keith Gill presents Market Research and What to Market? | Internet Business – Vision Driven Business posted at Vision Driven Business.

Jim DeSantis presents The Google Ranking Secret Is No Secret At All posted at Google Traffic Secret Free at On Line Tribune, saying, “Billions of people are surfing cyberspace, many of them wanting to spend money conveniently. If you have something to sell, how can you ensure they will find you before your competitors? The answer is simple – you need to make friends with the search engines and give the search engines what they want. The good news for you is, 95% of your competitors ignore this secret that is hidden in plain sight because it’s too easy.”

Keith Gill presents Creating an Internet Business from scratch | Internet Business – Vision Driven Business posted at Vision Driven Business.

Keith Gill presents Creating a Real Business | Internet Business – Vision Driven Business posted at Vision Driven Business.

Paul Hooper presents Your Own Software Selling Website posted at Paul Hooper’s Blog, saying, “Download your own Software selling website”

Sarah Scrafford presents 100 (Non-Design) Blogs that Every Web Designer Should Read posted at Web Design Schools Guide.

Larry Payne presents Directing Google To Your Website posted at Business Software Downloads, saying, “Google is the number one search engine on the internet, so any web pages that come up frequently on Google will get a lot of traffic and here”

Bill Urell presents 5 Critical Pieces Of Blog Master Planning posted at Blog Success Review, saying, “Every one of these are crucial to your blog success because if you overlook any, then you might as well not even bother start a blog at all. Even though that sounds a bit cruel without a blueprint, you’ll just go around in circles for a long time to come.”

Tim Grice presents Bounce Rates, Adwords and an Effective Content Structure posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, “We all want traffic to our blogs/sites and in the early days this can be hard to achieve in a short amount of time without paying for it, yes we can use social media traffic but if we don’t already have a popular profile we need other ways to build our name, or our brand if you have a business.”

recuva files presents Windows Recovery Disc How to posted at Hard Drive Data Recovery, saying, “see guide on how to recover windows disk easly.”

Erika Collin presents Top 100 Librarian Tweeters posted at Best Colleges Online.

Erika Collin presents 100 Terrific Web Design Cheat Sheets that Will Save you Time, Money and Mistakes posted at Web Design Schools Guide.

Nancy Miller presents The Top 50 Blogs Shaping the Energy Debate posted at Construction Management Degrees.

Debbie Dragon presents Writing for Money WIthout Being Published posted at Empowering Mom.

Jordan presents Use Twitter To Make Money For Yourself/Business posted at Jordan’s Internet Marketing Guide, saying, “Thanks!”

Larry Payne presents Understanding the 3 Crucial Rules About Niche Targeting posted at Business Software Downloads, saying, “What exactly is a Niche? What is Niche Targeting?To answer these questions, you need to understand how they both relate to each other. First of all, if you are like a lot of people out there trying to make money online by marketing products to individuals or groups of people, then you need to understand this concept perfectly. Why? Because it is the key to unlocking the secret to incredible wealth online.”

Effective Blogging

Will Blears presents Blogging | 11 things to consider before you start blogging | posted at SEO Blog | SEO Tips | Backlinks | SEO Tutorials, saying, “Learn from the mistakes I made when I first started Blogging. This is an 11 chapter series of tips and techniques for putting you on the right path when starting to blog. An exceptional read for new or existing bloggers.”

Jim DeSantis presents The Pros and Cons of Video Blogging posted at On Line Tribune | You Can Blog Too, saying, “Photoblogging was the rage not too long ago but public
demand has moved the Internet into full action video. The era
of video is now dominating cyberspace, cellphones and other
hand-held technology. Video bloggers are finding a mass
audience for products and services. Consider this….”

Jim DeSantis presents 5 Big Mistakes That Bloggers Make! posted at On Line Tribune | You Can Blog Too, saying, “It will be worth your while to spend some time understanding
the common mistakes that bloggers make, mistakes that
make it hard to enjoy what should be an enjoyable, satisfying
experience: Blogging!”

Mark Smith presents The Amazing Things Reverse Phone Number Search Service Can Do posted at How to Find Phone Number.

Jimmy Adames presents Blog Marketing Tips – 7 Effortless Ways To Increase Blog Traffic posted at Internet Business Building.

Ishan B presents Best Free WordPress Templates posted at Save Few Bucks, saying, “This article has details about good quality websites that provide free templates for WordPress. Thanks for taking out time to review this.”

GreatManagement presents Increase The Traffic To Your Site posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, “Watch this video and I”

Sharyce Arciaga presents How To Use Blog Sites To Increase Traffic To Your Blog posted at Internet Marketing Articles.

Jacob Duchaine presents 25 Ways to Boost Blog Traffic posted at Blogging Guy.

GreatManagement presents Use The Best Google Keywords To Generate Internet Traffic posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, “Here”

Anne & Katie presents Google Analytics – How to Add a Filter | How to Videos for WordPress Blogging posted at How to Videos for WordPress Blogging, saying, “There’s a step-by-step video showing you exactly how to ensure your google analytics stats exclude your own site visits.”

Other Strategies

Ellie Fields presents Online Revenues Double. Why? A Web Analytics Story posted at Tableau Software Blog, saying, “Case study of how to dig into a bog change in online revenues.”

Paul Gallion presents The Next Generation of Viral Marketing posted at Paul Gallion, saying, “Use these Widgets for viral traffic to your site and earn at the same time”

My Web Traffic Robot presents First Great Web Traffic Tip posted at My Web Traffic Robot’s Blog, saying, “One of the easiest ways to build up traffic to your website is by marketing with articles.”

oshkhar tiglao presents Pool Enclosures: What Is It? posted at Pool Enclosures.

John W. Furst presents Why .COM Is The Best Of All Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, “A good domain name will improve your rankings, get you more traffic, and convey the right message to your visitors.”

Kathleen Gaga presents Most online job and business opportunities are bogus! posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, “The problem is growing in epic proportions, especially in light of the current economic situation. Otherwise cautious people are being sucked into situations that give the promise of financial security. Sadly many people lose time and money to many of these “too good to be true” opportunities. Some lose a few dollars while others lose thousands.
Here are a few steps you can take to minimize being taken advantage of:”

Susan Tatum presents Do You Really Need to Generate More Leads? posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

oshkhar tiglao presents Pool Enclosures – What Exactly Is It? « Pool Enclosures posted at Pool Enclosures.

Jeonard Cook presents Free Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Service – Is There a Free Service That Will Actually Work? posted at How to Find Phone Number.

Susan Tatum presents How to Provoke Action from Your Prospects posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Leanie Belle presents HTML Or Text Links? posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

Vanalli presents Build links and traffic with Squidoo lenses posted at Make money blogging with Angel, saying, “Squidoos are an easy way to build links.”

Jay Green presents Remote Computer Maintenance: RCM posted at Remote Computer Maintenance, saying, “Save Money”

PPC/Adwords

Brian Tubbs presents Mastering The Adwords Cash Mountain. posted at Website Traffic.

SEO/SEM

Ajit presents Ajit`s World: FOOTPRINTING posted at Ajit`s World.

Brian Tubbs presents Link Building And SEO Go Hand In Hand! posted at Website Traffic.

axel presents Easy Steps To More Search Engine Traffic posted at axel g.

semmy presents Basic SEO for Mini Site posted at myminisitegraphic.com.

Tushar presents SEO Checklist for Creating a New Website posted at TUSHARVICKKIE, saying, “SEO Checklist, a must to know while developing the website. SEO Checklist lists all the necessary elements to keep in mind while developing the website.”

Social Media

Helen Trump presents Anatomy of a Product Launch posted at Social Marketing by Michelle MacPhearson, saying, “Get to know more about the Anatomy of a Product Launch with this exciting blog about CrowdMountain.com”

Helen Trump presents Facebook Marketing Actually Gets Interesting posted at Social Marketing by Michelle MacPhearson, saying, “Learn from this blog how Facebook can be a good tool for your online marketing business”

Jeonard Cook presents Reverse Cell Phone Lookup – A Great Way to Catch Your Cheating Spouse Or Find a Prank Callers Name posted at How to Find Phone Number.

Helen Trump presents Best in Social Media – March 14, 2009 posted at Social Marketing by Michelle MacPhearson, saying, “List of Best in Social Media for March 14, 2009 issue on this blog”

Helen Trump presents Twitter Giveaway – Acer Aspire Netbook (and more) posted at Social Marketing by Michelle MacPhearson, saying, “Twitter Giveaway only on this blog”

vjack presents Twitter vs. FriendFeed posted at Atheist Revolution.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of website traffic using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Published by Patrick on 27 Oct 2008

Generating Internet Traffic: Carnival 10

Welcome to the September 30, 2008 edition of internet traffic.

Article Marketing

Jack S. Keifer presents Tweaking Your Inner Game for Internet Business posted at Jack S. Keifer.

Effective Blogging

keston presents | BrokeBrothersBlog (B.B.B.) posted at BrokeBrothersBlog (B.B.B.).

SEO / SEM

Welly Mulia presents Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia » 5 Reasons Why Most People Fail To Earn Money Online posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet traffic using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Published by Patrick on 19 Aug 2008

Generating Internet Traffic: Carnival 04

Welcome to the August 19, 2008 edition of internet traffic.

James Lee presents The Unexpected Benefit of Taking Things Personally posted at Online Business Freedom.

Robert Phillips presents How to Use Blog Carnivals to Increase Traffic posted at How to Create a DVD without Spending a Dime.

Davin Warner presents 10 Things money making bloggers should avoid posted at Absolutely Random Stuff.

Paul Gallion presents Get All Your Bonuses in the current issue of VMS e-Zine posted at Paul Gallion.

AndrewB presents Hit Digg’s Front Page by Writing Killer Headlines posted at Personal Hack, saying, “I’m sure you have dreamt about this if you are a blogger or online editor, here is how to to it.”

Richard P. McLaughlin presents Asking For A Stumble posted at Cheap Keywords.

Article Marketing

Traffic2mypage presents Maximizing your web traffic by understanding the bell theory of article marketing posted at Traffic2mypage.com, saying, “For most, writing and submitting articles online is a great tool to build reputation, that can position you as an expert, as well as build backlinks that ultimately will increase web traffic. But many if not most, fail to understand a basic fundamental of the Google algorithm, and worse don’t take advantage of it.”

Jason Isbell presents Blog Carnivals: What are they and how are they useful? posted at Shabam Development, saying, “Blog Carnivals are important ways to speed traffic to your site. Using them well is important. Use them well and you get more use out of them.”

Lee Mcintyre presents Do You Need More Traffic? posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog.

Cheryl Hines presents Article Writing For Dummies! posted at Internet Marketing With The Hines’.

Effective Blogging

AndrewB presents Blog Carnival Submission Service – Explode Your Traffic posted at Personal Hack, saying, “Blog Carnivals are a great way to get backlinks, increase your search engine rankings, and your traffic. However the process of submitting your quality posts to blog carnivals can be very tedious, boring and time consuming. Worst of all you need to repeat it on a weekly basis to see a significant increase in your ranking and traffic. In this post I discuss how you can outsource your Blog Carnival Submission process. Please check it out, and give me your honest feedback by leaving a comment or two, I would really appreciate your opinion, thanks.”

Lee Mcintyre presents Automatic Traffic Blast posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog.

Lee Mcintyre presents 1,258 Free Visitors From Stumbleupon In One Day? posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog.

Samir Bharadwaj presents Blog Ads by PerfomancingAds posted at SamirBharadwaj.com, saying, “You can’t discount the usefulness of well targeted banner advertising for generating traffic. The new PerfomancingAds takes the effort out of buying and selling blog ads and managing inventory, so here’s a detailed guide to the whys, hows, pros, and cons of the service.”

Email Marketing

Susan Tatum presents B-to-B Website Re-design: Advance with Caution. posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Other Strategies

Moon Loh presents How to deal with PPC Advertising posted at MoonLoh.Com.

Raymond presents Battling Blogger Burn Out and Lack Of Blog Posting Frequency posted at Money Blue Book.

Vidyut presents 5-5-5-4-5 Traffic Tips posted at Nerd In Progress, saying, “Its a compilation of the different strategies that have worked well for me over time.”

texasdave presents 5 Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings posted at Make Cash Online.

Heather Johnson presents Illegal interests on the internet posted at Bull3t’s Blog.

Alex Schaefer presents 5 Steps To Make A Viral YouTube Video posted at YouTube Reviews, saying, “Let’s face it; we’d all love to have one of our videos reach hundreds of thousands of viewers daily. The fact is most of us won’t get that opportunity for a long time. Why’s that? It’s simply because we aren’t following the several basic principles that make YouTube videos worth watching. Hopefully, through the use of this article, you will get new ideas on how to make your videos viral!”

The Shark Investor presents How To Trade Domain Names And Websites posted at The Shark Investor.

SEO / SEM

maria gudelis presents maria gudelis on seo press release | Maria Gudelis posted at Maria Gudelis.

SEO Genius presents SEO Tutorials| All in one SEO posted at SEO Tutorials – SEO Tips and Tricks – Marketing Articles, saying, “An array of articles featuring the basics to the not so basic SEO tips, tricks and tutorials. Everything you need to know to rank on the first page for your keywords. Increase your traffic with these SEO articles.”

Nesher presents 50 Questions you answer evaluating Website posted at Collection of the Web Freebies.

Social Media Tools

Moon Loh presents Drive Traffic to Website posted at MoonLoh.Com.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet traffic using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Published by Patrick on 19 Aug 2008

Structural Internet Marketing Elements

There’s a lot of talk these days about how to attract more people to your website.  Heck, I spend a lot of time talking about that myself.  I even host the hugely popular Internet Traffic Carnival every Tuesday!  But the conversation often leaves out an important part of the equation.  It leaves out all the structural elements you can add to your website to make it more search engine friendly.

The first thing you want to make sure of is the URL format you’re using on your site.  Take a look at the permalink of this post.  It includes all the words in my post title.  This is such a simple detail but is incredibly important.  It even motivated me to move my entire website over from Joomla to WordPress back in March 2008.  The words you use in your title are powerful keywords and you want them to be included in your URL.

Next, you need to identify the keywords you’d like to target.  Once you’ve decided on a few phrases, you need to start building your site around those phrases.  As an example, I wanted to target the phrase ‘Internet Marketing Services’ so I built 68 new pages on my website, all about Internet Marketing Services.  I did that by creating separate landing pages for every local municipality along with that phrase.  I also created a similar landing page for every single state, again including the keyword phrase in the title.

Having all these pages caters directly to the search engines.  They see all these URLs and index my site accordingly.  It also dramatically increases the odds that my page will pop up when someone searches for that particular phrase.  Will my site come up for every single state?  Of course not.  But it will come up for a bunch of them and I expect it will measurably increase my traffic once the search engines have cached all my changes.

The last thing I did was include a paragraph at the bottom of each page stating that Tactical Execution is located in Walnut Creek, California, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.  This text, along with all the links pointing to those pages, also increases the density of keywords while magnifying the exposure of my most valuable keyword phrases – the ones in my own location.

You will also notice that each page has unique content and the images also have keyword-rich names.  In fact, I even optimized the ‘alt’ and ‘title’ tags for each image.  The end results is a series of nicely optimized pages that push my site higher on the search engines for the exact keyword phrase I’m targeting.

It’s important to realize that anyone can do these sorts of things.  Yes, it’s a lot of work.  It takes a lot of time.  But it’s an opportunity open to everyone.  And it works particularly well for businesses where you can add a locality to the keyword phrase.  By doing this, you dramatically reduce the competition you’ll be facing, making it a lot easier to get to the top.  These are all structural elements that play an important role in internet marketing.  Give it a try and see how your Google ranking changes.

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Published by Patrick on 27 Jul 2008

Generating Internet Traffic: Carnival 01

Welcome to the July 29, 2008 edition of internet traffic.

Amy S Quinn presents 100 Tips and Tools to Get Free Cable TV posted at Internet Service Deals.

Hops presents How to track all your blog mentions posted at Hop To It!.

Robert Phillips presents Broken Windows, Broken Business posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY.

Cindy King presents Russian Search Engine Submissions posted at Cindy King, saying, “In most countries Google, Yahoo and MSN are also the leading search directories. But some countries have other local search directories you should know about if you are targeting those countries.This is where you will learn how to get your website registered with other foreign search engines. Only this aspect is covered here.”

Neelakantha presents The Ultimate Guide to Internet Law: 100 Guides and Resources | OEDb posted at OEDb: Online Education Database.

Fiona King presents By the Numbers: 100 Online Calculators for Everything posted at Best Colleges Online.

Alex_Sysoef presents CommentLuv Plus DoFollow Equal Unlimited Link Love posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, “Link building is a never ending process for the bloggers and everyone knows that the more incoming links we get – better we rank in SERP’s and more traffic we get. I have already previously wrote about CommentLuv plugin that help you do just that and what perhaps even better – do it by simply commenting on other blogs!

In this post I will discuss several important aspects to get it just right in order to receive greatest benefits not only in form of traffic but also getting DoFollow links to the deeper internal pages of your blog. I promise not to leave a stone unturned and get you all the info you need!”

Kelly Sonora presents 50 Firefox 3 Add-ons That Will Change the Way You Surf the Web posted at Best Colleges Online.

Sally Thompson presents Is Your Site Hot or Not? 50 Useful Tools for Evaluating Your Website posted at Internet Service Deals.

Paul Gallion presents Learn to Blog for Fun and Profit posted at Paul Gallion.

Kelly Sonora presents The Ultimate Amateur Private Eye Guide: 50 Free Services to Dig Up Info on Anyone posted at Internet Service Deals.

Traffic2mypage presents Increase web traffic @ traffic2mypage.com posted at Traffic2MyPage Blog, saying, “i have compiled a list of 500 directories sorted by highest page rank on my blog that you can submit your links to to increase web traffic to your site…. i”

Robert Phillips presents How to Create an Audio Product Practically for Free posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY.

Effective Blogging

Alex_Sysoef presents Blog Templates For WordPress Review posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, “Web design for WordPress always comes down to evaluating which Blog Templates (or what is commonly knows WordPress Themes) fit your needs the most! This review of available options for choosing best blog template for your WordPress will concentrate not only on their visual appeal (web design factor) but also functionality!”

axel presents Amazing Blogging Skills posted at axel g.

Save Money presents Blog Theme Designers Given Up on IE 6? posted at Web Development 2.0: Web Design, CakePHP, Web 2.0.

Email Marketing

John W. Furst presents Squeeze Page: Straight or Reversed? posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, “You got traffic, now you need to touch base. Is a reversed squeeze page better? Well, there is a way to find out and what is a reversed squeeze page anyway? (It’s about getting more subscribers to your email list)”

Traffic2mypage presents Using OBP to increase web traffic – Part II – Digg posted at Traffic2mypage.com, saying, “This series of posts will show you how to find the best user rated blogs online to comment on that get a tonne of traffic… increase backlinks, market your website and build your reputation online!”

Other Strategies

Nesher presents 14 Ways to Promote your Blog Offline posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World.

Liz presents How Baseball All-Stars Get Web Traffic posted at Nitro Marketing Blog, saying, “Right now, too many utilize only one or two traffic generating techniques or constantly switch from the latest traffic fad to the next. Each and every business should have a balance. With multiple, proven, business-building traffic techniques including—but not limited to—Web 2.0.”

Binh presents How to tell Google about your business | Mindset For Success posted at Binh Nguyen’s Internet Marketing Blog.

Christopher Johnson presents 10 Ways To Earn Money In Your Spare Time posted at CoffeeBreakEarnings.com, saying, “10 Ways To Earn Money In Your Spare Time”

Liz presents How To Make MORE During Bad Economic Times posted at Nitro Marketing Blog, saying, “Any time there is a downturn in the economy, there are always great opportunities that rise.”

Nesher presents Nice Name for your Blog with Domain TK posted at Collection of the Web Freebies.

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

Posting on Forums

Traffic2mypage presents Using OBP to increase web traffic – Part III – Youtube posted at Traffic2mypage.com, saying, “Commenting on other sites is a sure fire way to increase web traffic. But how do you find sites that has active click participation?? You use Youtube! Find blogs to comment or advertise on by using youtube statistics.. Read how”

Social Media Tools

Amy S Quinn presents 50 Firefox Add-Ons to Achieve Private and Secure Web Surfing posted at Internet Service Deals.

ChristianPF presents Scour review | The search engine that pays posted at Money in the Bible | Christian Personal Finance Blog, saying, “Scour is a new search engine that pays its users for searching, rating and commenting on the results…”

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Published by Patrick on 06 Jun 2008

What is a “sticky” website?

Anyone who follows their own website traffic statistics is probably aware of their “bounce rate”, the number of people who land on their website and then promptly bounce right back off again.  That’s NOT what you want.  You want people to stick around for a while.  You want people to browse.  You want people to get to know you and learn to trust you.  That’s the objective.

Let’s back up and look at Internet Marketing in general.  At the highest level, all you’re really trying to do is (1) get people to your website and (2) impress them once they get there.  That’s it.  Two steps.  That’s Internet Marketing in a nutshell. I have a whole model devoted to this concept and you can see it by clicking here.

Breaking it down a bit further, you can take the second step and divide it into two pieces.  First, you have to build trust by providing value.  And then you have to monetize that trust.  Now, I’m assuming you’re building a website as part of your business.  I’m assuming you’re trying to make money.  If you’re not, that’s fine.  But for everyone else, there’s no point having a website unless it’s contributing to your business.

Back to the bounce rate.  If your bounce rate is high and most of your visitors are leaving your website shortly after they arrived, you have no way of building trust.  The only way they’ll learn to trust you is if they find value on your site; things that will make their lives better.  So you want a low bounce rate.  And that’s another way of saying that you want a “sticky” website.

The first thing to understand is that people who visit your website are in the submissive position.  They are in a receiving mode.  They have no control over what they see.  You do.  You have the control.  And that’s a huge opportunity that most webmasters never take advantage of.  You can present whatever reality you want and I have a whole blog post devoted at that topic.  It’s called Expand the Frame so check it out.

If someone is in a submissive mode, do you think he or she is likely to make their own proactive decisions?  No.  No, they’re not.  They’re in the receiving mode.  That means you have to tell them what to do at every turn.  Tell them what to do.  Always tell them what to do!  Every single page on your website needs to have options at the bottom, giving the reader ideas of where to go next.

Picture a large tree in the fall; a tree with no leaves on it.  Your homepage is the thick trunk.  Then, it splits off into 4 or 5 big branches.  These are the pages that your homepage directs visitors to.  From there, each branch splits into further branches and further branches, each becoming more narrow than the last.  These are the pages that link off your secondary pages and beyond.

The job of your homepage is to get people into the bowells of your website; into an area that provides value for them.  The job of the secondary pages is to qualify your visitors further and get them into a page that addresses their needs directly.  So the primary options on these various pages should be designed to quickly and easily funnel your website visitors to the pages that speak to them.

But at the end of the branches, on a typical tree, you end up with all the ends of each branch, hanging out in the middle of the air with nowhere to go.  Problem.  Absolutely none of your pages should hang out in the air with nowhere to go.  None.  Each page needs to circle back around to the bowells of the website again.  Read another article.  Schedule an appointment.  Visit our resource center.  Review advanced products.  What ever it is, it has to give your visitors an obvious direction of where to go next.

Tell your visitors where to go.  Tell them what to do.  Tell them where the path is; the path that you designed to introduce them to your business.  Whether you realize it or not, your website is having a conversation with your visitors and you need to think about that conversation and how you want it to unfold.  Then, at the end of every single page, include a link to something you think would follow logically from what they just read.

At the bottom of this post, you’ll see a link where you can subscribe to our free 1-year e-course.  You’ll also see related posts.  Both are designed to keep you on the site; keep you browsing.  The e-course is a free and content-rich program and most of our subscribers link to the page from a blog post.  And the related posts give you an option to keep reading and learn more.  Either way, you’re getting to know the way we do business and with any luck, learning to trust us too.

Take a look at your website.  See where the loose ends are.  Make sure that each page links to somewhere else and funnels your visitors towards what they are looking for.  Done properly, you’ll see your bounce rate go down and your average time on the site go up.  You’ll also see your pages per visit go up.  And sooner or later, you’ll see your revenue go up as well.

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Published by Patrick on 05 May 2008

Expand the Frame

A past client of mine had a business selling wine jelly.  Yes, that’s right.  Wine jelly.  Apparently, it tastes really good.  But that’s not the point.  Before we met, his website had products ranging in price from $4 to $28.  They included different sized jars and one package deal with 4 large jars.  Now, picture what you might think when you stumble upon his website.

If it were me, I would picture a retail shelf vendor and nothing more.  I would picture a few jars with a particular label sitting there on the shelf, beside dozens of competitive products.  There is absolutely nothing that would jump out at me.  And that’s precisely the problem.  He was a retail shelf vendor and nothing more.

After working together, we introduced a once-annual 3-day retreat up in Napa, including an extensive tour of a winery on one day, an afternoon workshop on a second day (teaching participants how to make wine jelly in their own homes) and three gourmet meals per day, each featuring wine jelly in one fashion or another.  The price for the retreat is $3995 and he featured it on his homepage.  Now, picture yourself once again as you discover this website.

In the first case, you have found a retail shelf vendor selling little jars of jelly.  In the second scenario, you have found a parallel universe that you never knew existed; a world full of romance, passion and good food.  You have discovered a world you have never seen, a potential hobby and a rich addition to your life.  It’s a totally different frame.  It’s a totally different experience.

Keep in mind, nobody needs to buy it!

Listen.  When someone clicks onto your website, they are in the submissive position.  They are in the receiving mode.  They have absolutely no control over what they are about to see.  You do.  You control everything they see.  That’s a huge opportunity that few businesses take advantage of.  You can present a small timid frame with your little product or service available for sale.  Or you can present a huge overwhelming presence full of opportunities to change people’s lives.  Your choice.

I’m not suggesting you be deceptive in any way.  I’m only suggesting you think bigger.  Expand the frame of your business.  Think about the personal objectives of your prospective customers.  They are people.  They have their own passions and goals.  Think of ways to let them pursue their own objectives within the context of your business.  Cater to their inner most desires.  Cater to their human side.  Cater to their emotions.

Don’t ever underestimate the passion of your customers.  They might not all buy what you’re offering and that’s okay.  But some will.  Trust me.  Some will.  You’ll see.  Some will engage and see your business as a way for them to improve their own lives.  Cater to them.  Build your business for them.  They have friends.  And if your business is improving their lives, you can bet they’ll be telling their friends.  And some of your other less-passionate customers might just get a bit jealous and engage more themselves.

Think bigger.  Redefine what you do.  Include your customers’ personal objectives into your business plans.  Present an overwhelming online identity and watch your customer interactions change forever!

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Published by Patrick on 04 May 2008

Effective Blogging Process

As of December 2007, Technorati was following over 112 million blogs.  112 million!!  There’s no question that blogs are quickly dwarfing the rest of the internet and the search engines are consistently ranking them higher because of (1) their volume of relevant content, (2) their ongoing flow of new and fresh content and (3) the incredible link structure characteristic of the blogosphere.  But the fact remains that most people who blog don’t really do it “correctly” or at a minimum, could be blogging more effectively.  If you’re a blogger, here’s a process you can follow that will massively expand the reach of your posts.

First things first.  I highly recommend you find the top bloggers in your field and subscribe to their feed.  Select a reader (like Google Reader) and add all your subscriptions.  Technorati is a great place to find the top bloggers in any particular field.  Google is another.  Do some research and find about a dozen bloggers you like and respect.  Okay; having done that, let’s get to the process.

Obviously, it begins with your idea.  You’ve decided what you’d like to blog about.  That’s step number one.

Before you write your blog …

  • Check your reader to see if the other bloggers you follow are talking about the same thing.
  • Put a few keywords into Google to find other resources you can link to in your post.
  • Put the same keywords into Technorati to see if anyone else is discussing the same topic.

Writing your post …

  • In the blogosphere, outbound links = currency.
  • Constantly link to other bloggers and valuable resources in your post.
  • You want your blog to be a single portal to ALL the resources that exist on your topic.

After you publish your new post …

  • Write an email to the bloggers you linked to, letting them know and giving them a link.
  • Bookmark your new post on Delicious, DIGG and StumbleUpon (among others).
  • Submit your blog post to any relevant carnival on Blog Carnival (do this once each month).

Taking these simple steps will ensure your blog post gets nicely integrated into the ongoing conversation that defines today’s blogosphere.  You want to engage in the conversation.  Conversations are markets.  If you want to access a market, participate in a conversation.  Blogging is one of the best ways to do that but you have to let the world know you exist.  The steps above will dramatically accelerate that process.

The last thing to keep in mind is that you can get far more traffic from referral websites (other blogs) than you can from search engines.  Once you’ve linked out to a lot of popular blogs and some of them have linked back to you, you can quickly grow your traffic as part of their audiences become aware of you.  That’s the game.  Find the bloggers in your field and engage in their conversation.  You might be surprised how quickly it can all take shape.

Edith Yeung is a good example of this.  She grew her blog from zero to over 1000 visitors per day in under 10 months by using some of the steps I’ve outlined above and the vast majority of her traffic comes from referral websites (other blogs) and social bookmarking platforms like StumbleUpon.  Give it a try.  Done properly, it can completely change your business in less than a year!

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