December 2010

marketmesuite look

Everyone has always asked for branding on Facebook like MarketMeSuite allows you to brand on Twitter, but it’s not entirely possible with the way their system works. However, these folks found a way to have a signature, with a link, inserted into every single comment you make on Facebook. Talk about mass exposure!

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traffic generation perfect recipe

Chances are you are not Guy Kawasaki.

But that’s OK. Because neither was I.

So you and I can have a real heart to heart on how to REALLY create a popular blog starting with nothing.

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start engaging others

Yeah yeah, I can hear you now, “hear we go again, SEO, I know it’s important.” But hold tight because this is not your everyday SEO. While I concede that search engine optimization is important, I urge you to look at another type of SEO. A New SEO Acronym Now, I’m not going to say [...]

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outbound linking rules

Say hello to Link Intelligence, where bloggers learn how to deal with outbound links the right way.

The link structure of your blog is crucial. You might as well think of it as the biggest slice to your current status on search engine result pages (SERPs).

You see, it’s not about how infrequently or generously you are linking out. It’s all about getting link savvy.

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ana hoffman yournetbiz

Dear Traffic Generation Cafe Readers: THANK YOU and a Merry and Blessed Christmas to all of you!

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build twitter brand image

Whether you seek to bolster your company’s reputation or simply socialize with like-minded people, Twitter is a great venue for it. These two goals are typically handled somewhat differently, but will often have some overlap.

Particularly now that Bing and Google have acknowledged that they’re now paying attention to social signals from Twitter and Facebook indicating the influence level of a user, social media is important to our sites’ traffic.

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dofollow link complaint

If you’ve been a regular reader of Traffic Generation Cafe for any length of time, you know where I stand on a DoFollow/NoFollow issue. If not, let me refresh your memory: Juicy Blog Traffic: Want Some? DoFollow! Does NoFollow Follow? In short, I think DoFollow is a great thing to uphold, ESPECIALLY for newer blogs. [...]

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traffic generation strategy to stay away from

Traffic is one thing that we always wish we had more of. As a matter of fact, we all pay very close attention to Alexa ranking, despite the fact that it’s an extremely unreliable way to measure traffic levels. To be quite honest, that’s the first thing I look at when I visit a new [...]

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blogstar series online credibility image

Online Credibility: Do You Have It and How to Get More of It Out with the old, in with the new. No room for door to door salespeople in our day and age. It all comes down to those first 10-15 seconds when a new visitor finds their way to your blog. In that blink [...]

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blog audit friday image

Welcome to my Blog Audit Friday! It’s that time of the week again when we get to learn what we are doing wrong with our blogs and how to fix it. Now that I’ve done several posts in this series, I can confidently say that most of the blogs I audit have the same issues, [...]

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