Getting traffic to a new blog can be a serious challenge for a brand new blogger. You can have the coolest looking blog in the world, with the best content… but ultimately the question you will have to ask yourself is “Am I going to make money with this?” And it all comes down to [...]

YouTube Marketing: Optimize It For More Traffic Part 1
In this series we will be focusing on video marketing… actually optimizing videos in particular (more specifically for YouTube since they are the king of video sharing sites), since this is an area that generally gets forgotten by most marketers. In this series, I will be using both video and/or articles for these tutorials, and [...]
Top 23 “Do Follow” Social Bookmarking Sites
Many people misunderstand the purpose of social bookmarking (from a niche marketing perspective) and think you get A TON of traffic by bookmarking all their pages… In my opinion it’s a myth. However, it does serve a very important purpose. Getting backlinks to your sites. Unfortunately Google does not count all backlinks because of the [...]
Dominating the Search Engines with Social Media Networks
With the advent of Stompernet’s SMARTS program, Howie Schwartz’s Conversation Domination and Jack Humphrey’s Authority Black Book, leveraging the power of Web 2.0 / Social Media has "officially" gone mainstream. As you know, I’ve used Web 2.0 for quite some time and a while back I created a "flow chart" to explain how I actually [...]
Is Web 2.0 Working For You?
During my Trend Blogging case study I ended up tracking some statistics regarding the "effectiveness" of Web 2.0 sites, and to what extent they were contributing traffic to my blog. Even though I will be writing a separate blog post on the actual methods I used to drive the traffic to the blog, I wanted [...]

