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Increase Traffic to Your Website with These Top Seven Linking Tips!

Increase Traffic to Your Website with These Top Seven Linking Tips! by Colin Evans Are you one of those who got conned by the SEO experts into believing that reciprocal linking was only a search engine optimization tactic and was frowned upon by the search engines and therefore a bad practice? Perhaps they should have told the whole truth... Indiscriminate reciprocal linking is frowned upon by the search engines, but careful tactical reciprocal linking benefits everybody and not only is it a good way of getting "quick traffic" it's a good way to get fairly stable traffic - I have websites that still get traffic from links I swapped over two years ago, and this traffic has steadily increased over the years (both ways). Getting good quality links is far more important than getting lots of links, so here are seven tips for getting decent reciprocal links to your websites: 1) Don't worry about a website's PR (i.e. Google PR) because many websites end up with an inf...

The A to Z Guide to Getting Website Traffic

The A to Z Guide to Getting Website Traffic by Shawn Campbell In September of 1999, Brett Tabke wrote "26 Steps to 15k a Day" in the Webmaster World forum. A lot has changed since then, and now is the time to consider a new 26-step plan that meets the current needs of webmasters in 2006. Some of the old ones still apply (writing new content everyday, for example), and some don't (submitting to the search engines is no longer necessary), and we're here to tell you which is which! As you probably already know, bringing in traffic is not easy - it takes hard work, determination and lots of elbow grease. So if you're ready, roll up your sleeves and follow these 26 simple steps, and within just one year you will generate enough traffic to keep you busy for a long, long time! A) Keyword research Before you do anything else, use a keyword research tool and do an extensive job researching the right keyphrases to use for your site. What keyphrases are your direct compe...

10 Essential Blogging Tools

10 Essential Blogging Tools by John Jantsch Copyright 2006 John Jantsch So, you finally decided to take the blog leap. You've heard all about the marketing and search benefits so you stepped up to the plate and signed up for a TypePad, MovableType or WordPress blog software package and now you're a blogger. Okay, now what? Add the ten essential blogging tools listed below and you will also be well on your way to creating and promoting a blog that is a powerful marketing tool. I'll explain the use of the tool and offer some suggestions, including the tools I use on my own blogs including the DuctTapeMarketing blog. Feed reader The best way to learn about blogs and blogging is to read, or at least scan, lots of blogs. One of the wonders of blogs is that you can have every new post from every blog you want to read delivered to your desktop or to online location via RSS, so you can easily read and scan the posts of many blogs in a very short time. Newsgator is a good online c...

Social Bookmarking - The Ultimate Viral Marketing

Social Bookmarking - The Ultimate Viral Marketing by Matt DeAngelis Social Bookmarking could be one of the best things that ever happened to websites and blogs. Basically Social Bookmarketing sites allow users to create a set of content bookmarks. These bookmarks are organized by tags, which are (usually) arbitrary words or phrases the user can assign to content. This gives the user a way to classify, rank and organize content using tags. The most popular Social Bookmarking Site is del.ici.ous, which has millions of users. Social Bookmarking sites have an intrinsic advantage over search engines and other bots -- people choose what to bookmark rather than relying on a program to categorize and qualify content. There is an implied quality in something that someone has taken the time to select. Social Bookmarkers read other people's bookmarks and add them to their own if they like them. There are also RSS feeds so people can see what others are tagging, which I think is really coo...