Free Website Traffic

We recently ran an historical analysis of several clients' blogs and noticed a distinct pattern--SE activity picks up with more blog updates.  This isn't rocket science--it's always been suspected that frequent updates factors into crawl frequency.  It's also not unreasonable to think of this process as a "race"--the more your blog gets indexed and the more you target fast developing ... Read More

I've been a big No Doubt fan since they released their Tragic Kingdom CD in the mid 1990s.  So imagine my shock when I was going through my daily routine of clearing out my spiced ham folder.  "Gwen Stefani Died"--the email subject just jumped out at me.  Sure enough, it had an attack site link and some bogus badly written ... Read More

BlizzCon 2010 is just around the corner.  It supposedly brings with it the much anticipated launch release of WOW's latest upgrade--CATACLYSM.  As if WOW addicts don't already have enough stuff to worry about, right?  Economy down.  Jobs scarce.  It appears this momentous occasion wasn't lost of PHISHING SCAM operators.  If you've been getting hammered by "Cataclysm Beta Testers" emails lately, ... Read More

Chatroulette.com was a fast growing cam site where people can randomly chat with others on the network via webcam.  It is a one to one set up. As reported at a large webmaster forum, most of the users of chatroulette are GUYS.  We're talking smelly sausage factory levels of guy saturation.  While this might be bad news for dudes looking ... Read More

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

Selling physical goods online can be quite lucrative specially if you know how to generate niche traffic. The problem with physical goods is the fulfillment/shipping and other handling issues. Here's an interesting article on how to source your products, have it drop shipped, etc. You focus on your online store/ecommerce/promotions, the dropshipper focuses on fulfillment. It covers both the advantages ... Read More

Google Buzz has a lot going for it. Really. No need to laugh me out of the room.   For starters, it was initially force-fed to a huge chunk of Gmail's installed base estimated at around 150 million users. It is also better positioned for conversations and site sharing as opposed to Twitter (who's main value nowadays revolves around ... Read More