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Conducting keyword research and implementing selected keywords into website content is an important step in an SEO campaign, but it doesn’t start and end there. The ongoing component of an SEO campaign is link building. But all inbound links aren’t created equal.[read more]

Conversions vs. traffic

Even the most brilliant SEO strategies will be for naught if the site itself fails to entice customers to actually buy. Slice and dice your site traffic analytics all you want. But at the end of the day, what rings the cash register is actionable solutions you can use to improve your customer experience.[read more]

List.ly boosts blog traffic (image: Krissy.Venosdale/Flickr)

There are a lot of different tools to help with content creation, drive traffic, and keep your website up to date, but there's one tool that can help you do all three at the same time: List.ly. According to co-founder Nick Kellet, List.ly is "true social curation with lists as a metaphor."[read more]

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If you want success in any venture that runs online, promoting your website is critical. Nowadays, there is a myriad of methods you can employ to drive more traffic to your website. However, the most successful ones are creative and unconventional.[read more]

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A series of Google algorithm updates has changed the way SEOs worked towards link building, content marketing, and traffic conversion. The Penguin update by Google has changed the link building process completely. Inserting bulk keywords in anchor text, or creating low-quality content with the wrong placement of keywords are the tricks of yesteryear.[read more]

These days, it's harder than ever to get your updates noticed on Facebook. Due to the sheer volume of posts hitting the news feed, there's a good chance that your updates will be missed or simply overlooked due to all the other noise. For this reason, it's now more important than ever to make sure your updates are noticed and acted upon. In this post, I'll demonstrate how with 6 simple tricks, you can increase your exposure on Facebook and generate more click-throughs to your website.[read more]

"The funny thing is, it doesn’t think that it needs to compete with Facebook, Foursquare and Groupon,;what Google simply wants to do is to proliferate its brand. Establish your brand’s presence in every social platform to pull traffic from other companies. Divide and conquer. Google just gave it a whole new meaning."[read more]

That was one of the key findings in a study issued by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. The study, an in-depth study of detailed audience statistics from the Nielsen Company, examines the top 25 news websites in popularity in the United States, delving deeply into four main areas of audience behavior: how...[read more]

Brett Relander of Tactical Marketing Labs shares info on how you can become a Kick Ass Blogger. Everything from what to write about, how to get more comments, and how to drive more traffic to your blog.[read more]

In this video interview, Corbett explains how he's used blogs to build a successful 3-pronged approach to business and a graceful lifestyle.[read more]

If you've been blogging for a  few years you've probably noticed that where your traffic comes from is changing. When I started in 2004, most of my traffic (once I actually had any) came from two places, Google and other bloggers. Though I still see traffic from those sources, more and more it's coming from Twitter, Facebook and...[read more]

By now it's almost common knowledge that an unbelievably large portion of your traffic is coming from Google, followed by the rest of the search engines combined, and then finally, you have a few referrals from other sites. One of those other search engines is actually often overlooked, because it's search database is filled, tagged...[read more]