Archive for September, 2009

Get a stream of traffic to your blog using TrafficSwarm

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Alright, you have a blog or website but you need to generate traffic. Other than telling all your family and friends, which some of you are probably hesitant to tell in the early stages anyway, how can you generate traffic to your blog? Unless you’ve already created a name for yourself in the blogsphere, moving [...]

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eHow: Earnings and traffic results after one month

When I started this project, I posted this freelance earning opportunity as an experiment. Then I followed up with my eHow earnings after one week and my eHow earnings after two weeks. After that last post, which I made on September 10, I stated that I would wait a bit longer to post updates since [...]

Google PageRank: What does it tell you?

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Remember the 80′s movie Can’t Buy Me Love? Patrick Dempsey plays Ronald Miller, a geeky unpopular kid who ends up paying a popular girl, Amanda Peterson, to act as his girlfriend so others will think that he, too, is cool. Guess what, it worked! Now hold that thought. Yesterday, I made a post about Alexa [...]

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Fight blog spam with Akismet

In my last post, Blog spam: yuck!, I described the annoyance that spam brings bloggers every day. In fact, right before I started writing this post, I just deleted four more spam comments (BTW, it’s a good habit to check your comments the same time every day — I check mine every morning). Guess how [...]

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Blog spam: Yuck!

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Many people who start out blogging don’t realize how much spamming takes place on the comments area. Getting comments, in general, is a good thing.  In fact, you can never get enough comments, in my opinion. However, when you start to get comments on your blog, you quickly learn that many of your early comments [...]

How long should a blog post be?

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Ah, the beauty of blogging. We’ve all read countless blog posts by now. Some good, some terrible, and some absolutely amazing. Think about the ones that were terrible, what do they have in common? Most likely, they are the ones that either (1) took too long to get a point across or (2) didn’t give [...]

How to use Google Analytics to see which keywords lead to your blog

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Yesterday, I made a post about the Top 5 things to do for your SEO and received several emails regarding number 5, which was using Google Analytics. One tip in there was to learn more about the keywords that are driving traffic to your blog and apparently, some folks didn’t know how to do that [...]

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