Free Website Traffic

One of our readers alerted us to an interesting way to get traffic from Drudge Report, the wildly popular (#446 on Alexa) conservative news aggregation site. It appears many marketers watch the site for new updates that feature sites that allow user comments.  Normally, a drudge featured story is good for several thousand views.  Once such a site is included ... Read More

If you're looking to evaluate sites for backlink building purposes or looking to buy the domain, here's some tools that may help you: http://checkbulkpagerank.com/ enables you to check more than 1 site at a time for PR. Great for processing long lists of sites for linkbuilding or dropped domain buying purposes http://www.smartpagerank.com/ allows for more in-depth analysis regarding pagerank. Great www ... Read More

Here's a decent tool for finding relevant stats for competing websites, your own websites, and sites you're looking to buy. It's also good for potential domain buys. Click: XinuReturns It checks PageRank, Backlinks, Indexed Pages, Rankings, Social bookmarking coverage, and other stats. While there are some SEO plugins that carry some of this information, this site has a more extensive list of stats ... Read More

I found this article interesting because I tend to be static and mechanical when it comes to blogging strategy--research niche for payout potential, find keywords, build blog, build backlinks, rinse and repeat. This article focuses on the CONTEXT of content and opens up all sorts of questions regarding DEPTH vs COVERAGE, vertical publishing (build blogs across differing niches) or horizontal ... Read More