Your avatar. It’s the little square that appears next to your tweets, FaceBook posts, etc. It’s your identification for social media online. Someone recently asked me why I never change mine. I simply replied… It’s part of my brand. For the most part, I use the same icon for 2 Create a Website everywhere. (There [...]
Please Note: This is one of those posts that can be taken the wrong way if you don’t read carefully and watch my video below. Please understand that I am not by any means guaranteeing a massive traffic increase. This is only a suggestion based on common sense and SEO. As you may know, your [...]
Earlier this year, I asked you about your top referral traffic categories (search engines, direct/bookmark traffic, referring sites, etc.) So I thought it would be cool to see what specific sites send you the most traffic. My top 5 traffic sources in the past month were… 1) 2CreateAWebSite.com 2) YouTube.com (From my two channels combined) [...]
This is a guest post by David Tiefenthaler of tips4running.com. Hello fellow website builders. Here is by far the best advice I can give anyone who wants to increase their traffic and visibility. Interview people! My website was growing ever so slowly until I started interviewing people for my website www.tips4running.com. Now my traffic has [...]
If you’ve been involved in affiliate marketing or AdSense for at least a year, you’ve probably received at least one free Google AdWords credit. For those who don’t know, Google AdWords is a pay per click program (PPC) that allows you to bid on keywords, and you only pay when your site gets a visit [...]
I receive traffic from numerous sources; from my e-books to YouTube, social networking sites you name it. But when I look at my traffic stats and review my top two sources, they have been the same for many years… 1) search engines 2) bookmark traffic Of course, the percentage of traffic I receive from these [...]
There’s been a lot of buzz about the value of directory submissions on my forum, so I thought I’d do a video that gives my opinion on this topic. If you’re reading this post via an RSS reader or email, click this link to view the video on my blog. Here’s the link to Matt [...]
In the last site review I mentioned how offering e-books from my site has really helped boost my traffic and income over the years. So I thought I’d create a video showing you how simple it is to create an e-book using Adobe Acrobat Professional. Adobe Acrobat is quite expensive and may not be in [...]
What is your ritual for creating a web page to rank high in the search engines? Do you spend time counting the keywords in your meta tags? Do you obsess over the number of outbound links you have, thinking they might be hurting you in some way? Do you copy your competitor’s meta tags hoping [...]
I’ve always been a stat junky. I love checking my RSS feed subscriber numbers, my AWeber subscriber stats, Google Analytics account, etc. multiple times per day. I’ll admit, I might need therapy. However, if you really take some time analyze your traffic stats and even stats from other sites (I’ll explain that part in a [...]
When you’re first starting a website, it can be tempting to seek new advertisers, build a community (forum) and add other features/additions that can generate revenue and make your site look appealing. The problem is, if you don’t have enough traffic, your site will end up looking vacant, smallish and unimportant. So I thought I’d [...]
I just logged into my YouTube account today and noticed my videos have handy little “Add to MySpace and Facebook” buttons below them. Now anyone who likes your mini flick can post it on two of the most popular social networking sites with greater ease. I’ve toyed with using another video hosting service because I’d [...]
If Google suddenly dropped your site for good what would happen to your online income? For many Webmasters, it would be a total disaster. If you’ve been around long enough to remember the infamous “Florida Update” of November 2003 then you heard the cry around the Net when thousands of Webmasters lost their Google rankings. [...]
Getting ranked #1 in Google for those heavily searched, relevant keywords is the dream of every Webmaster. And if you’ve been around for a while, you know that task is not as easy as it once was. Years ago you could stuff keywords, hide content in your background and perform all kinds of tricks to [...]
Sad but true, many Webmasters still stuff the keyword meta tag and stress over how many (or which) words to use. Most search engines don’t even read this tag anymore so it certainly does nothing for your search engine rank (at least for the search engines that really count.) I know some people will disagree, [...]
I just got serious about blogging in December of 2007. I had a blog on Blogger.com for 2 years, but rarely updated it. Then in November of 2007, I installed Feedburner and discovered I had 430+ subscribers. I was shocked due to the fact I hardly ever blogged. I didn’t want to lose those subscribers [...]
If you’ve been marketing online for any length of time, no doubt you’ve read articles that emphasize the importance of collecting email addresses. Well, I’ve taken that a step further by using an autoresponder, which is a script that automatically sends emails at intervals specified by the user. I’ve been using AWeber’s autoresponder on my [...]
People often stress over domain name choice because they worry if they choose a certain name, they’ll only be found for the keywords in that domain and nothing else. While the domain name is important for branding, letting people know what your site is about etc., don’t stress over getting every “important” keyword in the [...]
I saw a comment on another blog from a new Webmaster who was frustrated about his lack of traffic. He recently submitted a sitemap to Google and Yahoo and wondered why his traffic hadn’t increased. So he titled his blog comment, “Sitemaps Don’t Increase Traffic!”. There’s a lot of misunderstandings when it comes to sitemaps. [...]
Building traffic to a site or blog is an ongoing process that takes time. And over the past 10 years, I’ve learned it’s about the sum of the little tasks you do often. For example, you may not think much of that 3-paragraph blog post you wrote this morning, but two years from now that [...]
If you haven’t tapped into the video world, you may want to consider it. Not only does video help build credibility for your site, it builds traffic too. Just like a website on Google.com, you can optimize your video for YouTube searches, and drive more targeted traffic to your video. Learn how to turn this [...]
You know about search engine submitting, blogging and writing/submitting articles for other sites. So what do you do when you’ve done all these things and still can’t get enough traffic? The video below discusses topics which often get overlooked when people create websites. While some of it may seem like common sense to you, why [...]
In case you don’t know, Yahoo! Answers is a free Q&A community that allows people to ask and answer questions on virtually any topic. I was doing a backlink check on Yahoo the other day. (A backlink check is a way to see how many other sites link to you. Go to Yahoo.com and type [...]
Every now and then I’ll get emails from people who are puzzled as to why they can’t get ranked in Google. And almost every time I review the site in question, I see the same things… Not enough unique, useful content More affiliate links than content Too few pages Not enough backlinks (quality sites linking [...]
There’s a nifty little tool out called “Page Strength” and it takes Google’s PageRank to a new level. It offers more insight into how valuable, important and popular a site or page is as compared to others on the web. Check it out here.
If you are trying to build traffic to your website, giving away a free item that your audience values can be an excellent way to generate visitor loyalty. It’s even better if you can give away something on a regular basis. Just make sure if you do decide to do this, your gift is relevant [...]
Here’s a book I wrote on traffic building. It’s called “20 Ways to Build Traffic to Your Site”. In this eBook, I discuss various methods (most of which I still use) that will help bring in more visits to your website. I’ll admit some of the tips are pretty elementary if you’ve been marketing on [...]
If you want your search engine traffic to grow, you MUST build an effective link exchange campaign. And I’m not just talking about building a “Links” page where you swap links with other webmasters. Those are not as effective anymore. Search engines are starting to ignore those kinds of links pages because they realize webmasters [...]