Free Website Traffic

When it comes to ease of reading, there's an unstated but very real conflict between SEO copywriting and social media writing.  SEO copywriting's main focus is, unsurprisingly, search engine optimization.  While reader enjoyment and retention are nice goals to have, an SEO'd copy's primary reader, at least in the Old School days, is the Search Engine bot.  Googlebot reads text ... Read More

Despite its fairly obvious vulnerabilities to nefarious online buzz gaming schemes, Google Trends has a lot to offer webmasters.  In particular, it gives first mover advantage for webmasters looking for new domain niches to buy and new keyword clusters to capitalize on. Trend domaining Domaining is probably one of the few recession-resistant (notice I used the word "resistant" as opposed to "proof") ... Read More

Twitter has updated its @ setting so that people who follow an account will no longer see that account's @ replies.  However, people can still see account names mentioned with @ as long as it's not a direct reply.  Here's an example: Replies @account won't show:  If an account you're following replies to @account, the message to @account won't show in ... Read More

Due to pressure from state attorney generals regarding the usage of Craigslist's "erotic services" section, CL has decided to drop erotic services and replace it with a new "adult services" section.  What is disturbing about the new section is that it will be manually filtered by CL employees.  Is this a preview of ad censorship?  Not like it's very easy ... Read More

Whatever metaphor you use in viewing your life or your projects affects how successful or happy you are.  For example:  if you view life as a race, you will most likely judge your life based on how many 'stages' you've passed and how many people are ahead or behind you.  The same with viewing life as a series of stairs--you ... Read More

As you probably know from our prior posts, YouTube can be a great source of free traffic to your website.    However, for really viral videos, there's a major traffic leak in this model: You post your popular video A blogger gets the video url and embeds it on a blog. End result: People get to enjoy your content without seeing your link in ... Read More

Just judging from recent "Spicy" ratings from Google Trends system, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that a few people might be trying the "Chump and Dump" technique of building buzz.  This method could be inspired by earlier Google Trends gaming pranks.  It might not be unreasonable to speculate that those who "game" Google Trends to build ... Read More

This is the third installment of our 5-part series analyzing the "Top 50 ways to Drive traffic to your Site".  The previous installments: Part 1 and Part 2. 21. Participate in a banner or link exchange program. How it works: In exchange for showing a free link exchange network's banners on your site, the network will give you credits to show your ... Read More

Whatever you do online, you're bound to encounter interesting individuals who seem to have made it their life's work to show you how wrong, stupid, clueless, or worthless you are.  You'll encounter these inviduals regardless of how you generate traffic--chat, articles, social networks, blog comments, youtube comments, and/or forum posts.  It is rather easy to avoid a deeper discussion about ... Read More

Many webmasters consider NO FOLLOW a curse.  They think that it unnecessarily restricts their linkbuilding efforts.  Indeed, many webmasters think that Wordpress' default NOFOLLOW tag on comments will not yield the intended result--cut down on comment spam.  Regardless, the reality is that the vast majority of Wordpress-based blogs are NO FOLLOW despite the laudable efforts of some webmasters to enable ... Read More