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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

While it isn't necessarily cheap, it's inexpensive in comparison to most other types of online marketing and advertising programs, and nothing is more effective at drawing targeted website traffic at the time prospects are looking.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

How can you attract more traffic to your blog? 27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community by Community and Social Media Chris Brogan shares more than two dozen tips for attracting more blog traffic, divided into three categories: Starter Moves (e.g. Generate more comments? Increase the effectiveness of guest-posting opportunities?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

How can generate more targeted traffic to your blog? Blog Project: 30 Traffic Generation Tips by Daily Blog Tips Daniel Scocco invited 30 bloggers to provide a key traffic-building tip and posts the list here, including recommendations from Sridhar Katakam : " Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them.

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

It's great to be able to identify such terms; with a bit more onsite optimization and link-building, the site could be moved up to the first page on Google and get a significant traffic bump. The SEMRush tools provide value for almost any website that gets 1,000+ visits per month (lower-traffic sites may not be in the tool's database).

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Search is constantly changing, and so are the techniques used to gain high ranking and organic search traffic. That's why virtually all successful SEO professionals use those practices, but don't constrain their activities to a static process. In short, best practices are dynamic rather than static.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

Making a statement like that is a great way to generate lots of traffic, and comments, as Micah Baldwin and Mike McDonald have recently demonstrated. So, the end result could be less traffic, but more relevant traffic. "SEO is dead." But it's still nonsense.

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MAY 18, 2009

Secrets by Traffic Travis The creators of SEO analysis tool Traffic Travis present a helpful mini-course on using social media to drive web traffic. John Jantsch here shares his 10 favorites, including SlideShare , CircleUp (a group collaboration app), and Introductions, an app which "speeds the process of effective networking."

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Your SEM keyword reports contain a wealth of data about the keywords being used to drive relevant traffic to your site: which terms are searched most often, which produce the highest percentage of clicks, and which convert most effectively. Use SEM terms for SEO.

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APRIL 14, 2009

Traffic Travis Traffic Travis is very helpful free SEO tool for keyword analysis, backlinks and on-page SEO. I've found its page analysis tools (for keyword density, headings, meta tags etc.) to be particularly valuable, and have even sent before-and-after page analysis reports to clients.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

AdWords Management : How ROI, Costs, and Services Measure Up for Your Business by Pure Visibility Steve Loszewski explains how to use the AdWords Traffic Estimator tool to calculate the potential value of AdWords for your business, and gives tips for maximizing that value.

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JUNE 25, 2008

It's been three years since the launch of this blog, and it still gets less traffic than the Huffington Compost (sigh). social bookmarking sites produced the best results, in terms of driving direct traffic and having active, engaged discussion communities. Maybe I should set my goals a bit more modestly?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

10 Simple Steps To Increase Blog Traffic Via StumbleUpon by How To Make My Blog Marko Saric outlines a process for generating more traffic through StumbleUpon , walking through the steps of sharing great content, making friends in the network, and analyzing results. CFOs are the most skeptical (yeah, another shock).

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Search, Social and Direct Traffic by ProBlogger Darren Rowse provides a detailed analysis of his blog visits from various sources—which, given the obscene volume of traffic his blog draws, is probably fairly representative of blogs in general. Social traffic (e.g. but his overall argument is pretty incontestable.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

She emphasizes that SEO is a long-term project, that getting on page one of Google isn't always realistic (at least in the short term), and that ultimately, traffic and conversions are what matters—not just rankings. Focusing on longer-tail terms can provide respectable traffic and conversions without huge costs.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Traffic Marks: Terrific New Linkbuilding Tool by Small Business Search Marketing Online marketing consutant Matt McGee praises Traffic Marks , a tool that helps identify the top authority sites for link building by showing which sites link to the top 10 sites most frequently for any given keyword.

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APRIL 10, 2008

Assuming one's writing has merit, there is a fairly direct relationship between prodigiousness and readership: posting three times a week will draw more traffic than weekly posting, daily posting will draw more traffic than 3X per week, etc. Patience Don't expect huge traffic overnight.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

The post didn't generate quite as much traffic to this blog as I thought it would. Still, overall, I think the edits made by the SEOmoz team improved the post (I tend to get a bit wordy sometimes).

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MAY 12, 2008

However, a blog can be a valuable tool in helping smaller, newer players improve their rank and generate search traffic. tags: search optimize, on-site optimization, generate search traffic, SEO boost, marketing events calendar, social bookmarking sites, Digg, Del.icio.us Contact Tom Pick: tomATwebmarketcentralDOTcom.

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JANUARY 7, 2008

There simply isn't enough traffic to support 100+ social media sites, although "social media" is defining the market a bit too broadly. The leaders will garner high amounts of traffic appealing to a wide market. Ask , AOL ) and a number of niche sites ( Mahalo , TopNetPix ). tags: Social media sites, Alexa rankings, Web 2.0

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Dainow advises web marketers to ignore total site traffic and focus on conversions. First, the contention that overall site traffic doesn't matter; while it's true that absolute traffic levels don't matter, relative traffic levels do -- site traffic should increase over time.

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JUNE 21, 2007

social bookmarking sites at driving B2B website traffic, based on my two-month test, are the mid-tier sites. These sites drove a meaningful though not large volume of traffic across the half-dozen B2B websites and blogs in the test. 8) WireFan Slick design, easy to use, modest traffic. 9) ButterFly An elegant and creative Web 2.0

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JUNE 26, 2007

social bookmarking sites produced the best results, in terms of driving direct traffic and having active, engaged discussion communities. sites didn't drive a large amount of direct traffic (depending on the B2B site, Web 2.0 social tagging-driven traffic contributed by each site (e.g. Overall, Web 2.0 social bookmarking sites.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

social bookmarking sites produced the best results, in terms of driving direct traffic and having active, engaged discussion communities." Social Tagging Sites , Part 4: B2B Traffic Building , May 15, 2007 The first post where I showed, quantitatively, how social media can accelerate traffic growth for both blogs and commercial websites. #6:

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

These include: Huge amounts of traffic, brand building and of course the all precious “backlinks”. However, the most advantageous aspect to performing well in social media is that many people who frequent the sites are webmasters and blog owners.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Everyone who writes a business blog ultimately wants the same thing—more traffic. All good ideas, though you'll need fairly substantial traffic to begin with for these techniques to be practical. But the payoff can be well worth it, in terms of new relationships, higher blog traffic and increased exposure for you and your blog.

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OCTOBER 27, 2008

by E-Commerce Times Writer Peter Hamilton makes the case that online video is useful not only for producing a short-term boost in traffic but also, through blended search, for SEO efforts. StumbeUpon isn't just great for producing low-quality traffic surges, it also produces more high-quality links over time, which is of course great for SEO.

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JUNE 19, 2007

In my test, the sites below were the least productive at driving traffic directly—though they were nonetheless helpful for SEO efforts. It should also be noted that there were wide variations in the traffic driven per site (e.g. Squidoo Surprisingly ineffective at driving B2B traffic despite its huge popularity. tags: Web 2.0,

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JANUARY 18, 2008

7 Reasons Why Niche Social Media Outlets are Better Than Digg by AjaxNinja After noting that "Digg has an immense amount of traffic and getting landed on the front page will send a tsunami of new readers to your blog or website, but getting onto the front page is incredibly difficult.

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JULY 15, 2009

Traffic continues to grow and the number of featured bloggers has doubled. There's been a lot of activity since the B2B Marketing Zone (BMZ) officially launched two weeks ago. Awareness has been expanded through posts from prominent b2b bloggers like Brian Carroll , Ardath Albee and Cece Salomon-Lee.

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OCTOBER 27, 2008

In The Disconnect in PPC vs. SEO Spending , Rand Fishkin demonstrates that "SEO drives 75%+ of all search traffic, yet garners less than 15% of marketing budgets for SEM campaigns. PPC receives less than 25% of all search traffic, yet earns 80%+ of SEM campaign budgets," then asks: "Why does paid search earn so many more marketing dollars?"

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

When frustration in the user community is combined with the opportunity for astronomical site traffic, competitors are bound to emerge. As Michael Estrin points out, "According to Hitwise , more than half of Wikipedia's traffic comes from Google. Despite its flaws, Wikipedia isn't going to disappear.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Fourth, sources of website traffic and associated trends. How much of your traffic is generated by paid vs. organic search, and how much organic search traffic comes from searches on company name-related vs. generic industry search terms? These measures demonstrate the effectiveness of SEO efforts and the trend over time.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Sandy Sanges has also written a good piece, More Traffic For Less Money — How To Get The Most From Content Campaigns , on content network targeting. It's one of the best pieces I've seen providing clear, concise and practical advice on maximizing content network results.

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OCTOBER 9, 2007

I've written previously about typical SEM click-through rates (CTR), which are important—balancing your budget against driving as much traffic as possible to your website. Ultimately, however, what's really important isn't raw traffic, but conversion of that traffic into buyers or B2B leads.

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APRIL 10, 2007

6) "Guaranteed Web Traffic" - Really? 3, 2006) The true value of "guaranteed website traffic" services exposed. 9) More of the Best Website Marketing Tools (Jan. 15, 2007) More helpful tools for SEO, marketing research and blogging reviewed. 7) WMC Interviews: Mike Schultz (Apr. This post tells you how to effectively do it.)

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AUGUST 31, 2009

Looking for some off-the-beaten-trail ideas for driving more site traffic? Improving Web Site Traffic: Miscellaneous Techniques by PromotionWorld Rob Wood offers 10 ideas for increasing traffic to your business website, from creating a "what's new" page where you can post fresh content to adding articles and incorporating site search.

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AUGUST 29, 2007

In this podcast , Paul and I discuss blogging, thought-leadership content and how social media sites can be used to drive B2B website traffic. social tagging to drive B2B website traffic. In case you missed it, last week he took a break from that practice—and interviewed me instead. tags: Paul Dunay, podcast, web 2.0

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