Directory —
Marketing / SEO —
Blog Details for "Free Traffic Tips"
Free Traffic TipsFree Traffic TipsWhether you're an internet marketer, or a small business offline that just happens to have a website, it's not just about the money you earn, it's how much you keep. Reduce your costs by learning how to get more traffic for less money. 
Articles
While You Were Out Gossip - Hell?s First Snowball Delivered by a Flying Pig
2007-11-05 15:26:00 So last week? Started with a flood in the basement. With my computer down there. Then the phone was down. Then a power outage. Brief but ill timed. Gees Louise. I was totally offline for a minute, then a frayed power cord really knocked me out. I threw up my hands, then went ahead and took ... More About: Gossip , Flying , Hell , Deli , Were
Tool Time Friday | Having a little Photophobia?
2007-11-02 23:00:00 How would you like to be able to integrate your pictures with leading photo sites and social networks - and import and export photos with ease? Would you like be able to edit in real-time and full-screen with no page reloading required, while having a fast and easy to use program that offers a clean ... More About: Time , Tool , Friday , Phobia
Tool Time Friday | Oh no, You sent an nasty email to your boss when you me
2007-11-02 14:00:00 Yes, I know this is supposed to be a ‘family site’, but , hey, things can happen - What if you sent an email to your spouse when you meant to send it to your ???? Ever send an email to someone and wish you would take it back? Perhaps it was to the ... More About: Email , Time , Tool , Boss , Friday
Tool Time Friday | Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3?
2007-11-02 08:00:00 Now, what would you think if you could find a tool that would test your site for a plethora of indicators as to popularity, performance, links, pings, CSS and HTML validators, and so much more. Would that interest you? It should. So, here’s the deal - jump over to Jonas John’s page and see how you’re doing. ... More About: Time , Testing , Tool , Friday
Solution to Social Media as a Time Waster? Be Purposeful with Your Time
2007-10-29 17:06:00 Some people think Facebook, is a waste of time. And it can be - IF you’re prone to time wasting. You don’t have to be if you learn how to use it properly. There are plenty of less vocal people who believe StumbleUpon is for amateur sharers. And of course there is the big camp ... More About: Social , Media , Time , Solution , With You
Too Many Links, Too Little Time? Boost Your Signal by Having a Soft Site Li
2007-10-29 12:17:00 If you submit all the links you find, every day, to all the social news, bookmarking and sharing sites you know of, you will get into an endless loop of site sharing. This is far from what you want to accomplish. Instead, see how much sharing you usually get done in whatever time you have ... More About: Time , Links , Site , Soft , Signal
Social News Double Work? Try Bookend Voting and Submitting
2007-10-29 08:09:00 As you finish with basic sharing of sites, you’ll likely want to move on to the subset of those sites that you want to vote for, or submit to a social news site. What you’ll run into at some point is that as you’re submitting stories, many of the links you’ve submitted are already present. ... More About: News , Social , Work , Double , Voting
Share at Optimal Times of the Day
2007-10-28 17:45:00 Depending on what industry you’re in, or what country you’re from, you will find that a particular time of day drives more attention to the links that you have submitted to your favorite bookmarking site. Upon realizing this, There are also dead spots in the day, or certain days of the week where it’s ... More About: Share , Times
Share the Smart Way by Noticing This
2007-10-28 07:42:00 At some point, you’re going to figure out that there’s one place that you’ll want to store every single link you find useful, and another that’s just for promoting your very favorite links of that bunch. Or you’ll find that the atmosphere at one site is more suited to you than other, though they drive ... More About: Smart , Share
Share Better - Find Tools that Help In All Stages of the Process
2007-10-28 03:32:00 There are bookmarklets, sidebar widgets, FB apps, desktop applications, browser extensions or toolbars, and other tools that will help you spread your sharing task over the day. The one hour or less you take to share links can be integrated as part of your regular surfing, blogging or browsing routine. It can reduce your time spent ... More About: Tools , Find , Share , Process , Ages
[series] How to Increase Your Sharing Influence in Half the Time
2007-10-28 01:44:00 Why Share Traffic? What’s the point of social media? Few understand what the fuss over social media is, because they don’t understand how to use these new tools. Every major Facebook, StumbleUpon or Social Media detractor I’ve read about has shown evidence in their writing that they are using the tools ineffectively. Those of us in the ... More About: Series , Time , Sharing , Influence , Half
Share Faster - Start a Link Sharing Ritual
2007-10-28 01:22:00 The first step to better sharing is faster sharing. Organization helps dramatically, so step one of the seven steps to more effective sharing is to develop some type of habit in your link sharing, starting with how you gather links and where you share them. I like to start with people who’ve commented on my ... More About: Link , Start , Share , Ritual , Sharing
Tool Time Friday | ?How?s it doing?? ?I don?t know, I can?t even find its
2007-10-27 00:00:00 What is a blog? According to most people, “A weblog, or simply a blog, is a website which contains periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage.” ... More About: Time , Tool , Find , Friday , Doing
Tool Time Friday | ?BookKit T. and the MG?s?
2007-10-26 15:00:00 Yes I know it’s “Booker T. and the MG’s”. And this seminal band from Memphis signature song was titled…..? Last Friday I proffered a site which allowed you to have a free web page for all of your bookmarks, etc. Well, here we go again. I’ve found another Free Online Bookmark Manager that just might be the equal ... More About: Time , Tool
Tool Time Friday | A World of Help is Just a Click Away
2007-10-26 09:00:00 Here’s a site which lists over 300 links, broken down into 17 categories. But that’s not all. You can see which sites are ‘New Sites’ or ‘Top Sites’ and you can even ‘Add Sites’ or ‘News Sites’ to the existing list. The list is quite expansive - included are such subjects as: Poetry, Technology, Management, Programming, Health ... More About: World , Time , Click , Tool , Friday
Microsoft to Pay $240 Million for Stake in Facebook - New York Times [del.i
2007-10-25 10:23:00 "The two companies said on Wednesday that Microsoft would invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook . The investment values the three-year-old Facebook, which will bring in about $150 million in revenue this year, at $15 billion." More About: New York , York , New York Times
StumbleUpon's 'Social Search' Upgrade [del.icio.us]
2007-10-25 04:08:00 The maker of the Web browser toolbar aims to mingle "social discovery" with the computing power of major search engines such as Google More About: Social , Search , Upon , Bleu
Google Scares The Search Crowd - Forbes.com [del.icio.us]
2007-10-25 04:07:00 "In the past, a three-point drop in pagerank would signal a massive loss of pageviews from Google . But Schwartz says he knows better. "Typically what Google shows in the toolbar is not what they use behind the scenes," he says. "For about two and a half y More About: Search , Forbes , Crowd , Ares
There?s More to Google Beefs Than Google PR
2007-10-24 22:53:00 Anyone who’s not in search might think there’s only one argument that small businesses and tech bloggers have with Google . There are several. Some are silly, some have merit, some are somewhere in the middle. Today I was reading what Scoble was saying about the little green indicator so many people are obsessed with. He ...
[review] Strategic Social Marketing by Laura Childs
2007-10-22 10:40:00 I don’t do a lot of reviews, as you’ve probably noticed. This is because I like to be able to get a sense of a person, not just their work, if at all possible. I have recently been lucky enough to get to know Laura as more than an admired colleague. It’s true what they ... More About: Marketing , Social , Review , Strategic
Tool Time Friday | Want a Free Web Page for Your Internet Bookmarks?
2007-10-20 00:00:00 Ever wanted to share your favorites/bookmarks with your friends? With “all my favorites” you can. Just give your friends the link to your all my favorites web page and they can browse your favorites. How cool is that? You can specify a name (or short description), for the web link you are about to save. ... More About: Internet , Time , Free , Page , Tool
Tool Time Friday | Oh, shake shake shake, shake shake shake, Shake your Abo
2007-10-19 15:00:00 What if someone had told you that you can put an end to the mess of growing number of favorite links in your Web browser? Could there be a way you haven’t thought of yet?? I believe there is! You can organize your favorite Web pages into easy to access, clear and logical groups of links. Many ... More About: Time , Tool , Friday
Tool Time Friday | You load 43 Things and what do you get, Another day bold
2007-10-19 09:00:00 Okay, I know it’s “You load 15 tons and what to you get, another day older and deeper in debt..”, recorded in 1946 by Merle Travis and later made a hit by Tennessee Ernie Ford, but what do you expect from an old guy who’s into music? 43 Things is, in my opinion, an awesome ... More About: Time , Tool , Friday , Load
Traffic Method #255 | Aspire to Greatness and Market Your Greatness Properl
2007-10-17 21:55:00 You probably don’t realize it but there’s something great about you. It probably isn’t anything you see as special. Maybe you have a talent for contacting otherwise unreachable people. It could be that you have a way of explaining technical things to ordinary people. Maybe you can make even the most angry customer walk away ... More About: Market , Traffic , Aspire , Method , Prop
Thank You for Your Support
2007-10-17 21:34:00 When it comes to this blog, I don’t like to talk about my personal problems too much, because 1- It feels like I’m whining, and I’m a really proud person, so that makes me feel like I’m projecting weakness rather than seeking understanding. Yep, I’ve got “issues”. LOL! 2- Other people have problems too, some worse ... More About: Support , Hank
Tool Time Friday | Jeez, I?m feeling kinda Clutsy Today
2007-10-13 00:00:00 Google is not the only search engine on the block. Really? Yes, really. Here’s one that is one of my favorite alternatives because it is a meta search which means that it combines search results from a variety of different sources. You’re more in command of your own search experience, as, according to the website, ‘Clutsy queries ... More About: Time , Today , Tool , Friday , Kinda
Tool Time Friday | I Spy a FoldSpy
2007-10-12 15:00:00 Back in the ’60’s (1960’s) when I worked for the Harte-Hanks Newspaper chain, it was generally thought that if your article was ‘below the fold’, that was not so bad as people used to open up their paper to scan the whole page. Display advertisers actually wanted to be below the fold, especially if they had ... More About: Time , Tool , Friday , Fold
Tool Time Friday | Who?s on First, What?s on Second, I don?t know?s on Thi
2007-10-12 09:03:00 With the holiday season fast approaching (yikes), it’s always good to know who, when, where, why and how your staff members will be taking their vacations. And it’s sometimes troublesome to make all the pieces fit - that is - to juggle whom you might need to be in house at a certain time ... More About: Time , Tool , Friday
Updated: WordPress Blogger Discovers Problem with AdSense Video Units
2007-10-10 14:22:00 Namely, they aren’t working on WordPress, at least not in later units. I have the same problem. Thought maybe Google had to come by and spider my site but A- the site I was testing it on at Lockergnome has been displaying AdSense for months and B- I picked a specific content provider. So theoretically, why would Google ... More About: Video , Wordpress , Adsense , Blogger , Problem
Is Andy Beard Getting a Raw Deal? | (Kinda Rant-y but Has a Point)
More articles from this author:2007-10-10 02:13:00 Because of the number of posts being made to question Google’s reasoning behind and/or application of their policies, I just want to clear a few things up before I start in on my diatribe on this issue. Number one, I’m not Google bashing. I hate it when people just complain idly for no purpose other than ... More About: Rant , Andy , Deal , Kinda , Point 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
|
