Traffic Building

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 my [...]

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 "no follow" [...]

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 use [...]

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 to [...]

Hubpages Case Study Follow Up – Appear On The First Page Of Google

UPDATE – December 25, 2007:
Since I wrote this update on Hubpages Case Study below, the rankings have changed yet again. And since I didn’t actually mention the Scribd rankings from my Scribd Case Study in my initial update, I’ll include these as well. So here are the Google Search Engine results for both Hubpages and [...]

Case Study Using Scribd.com – Appear on the First Page of Google Part 2

UPDATE: Unfortunately, due to spamming, Scribd.com is no longer suitable for marketing as they no longer allow hyperlinks out of the saved documents… 
Yesterday I wrote about Hubpages and how I managed to appear on the first page of google within a couple of days. Due to the nature of hubs, my hubpage got knocked off [...]