January 2011

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It’s always best to make every actions count in search engine optimization, given that all the effort that you’ve done in the past will dramatically affect your site’s future. So I’ve listed some of the best practices that will both benefit your newly published site’s short-term as well as its long-term goals through series of actions that can help establish your website even on its initial stage.

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Now that Google PageRank update has come and gone, it’s time to finally stop talking about it, right? However, the questions keep pouring in: “Why didn’t I get any PR?” “Why did my site that I barely pay attention to get PR3 and the one I work on every day, got zilch?” “How come TGC [...]

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Have you read Ana’s post about Images that will rock your world? There were some comments on that post that were along the lines of “I am tired of Flickr”. Well, did you know you can actually generate traffic from Flickr? No, I am not talking about putting your blog’s link in your profile and [...]

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If you ask me (not that you are asking), the only way Twitter is fun is when you generate the most traffic with it with the least work. By the way, forgot to mention one important Twitter tip in the video: tweet in blocks. This is a great way to stand out in your followers’ [...]

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Continuing on with social networking and how to use it to position yourself as a “known entity”, a leader, an expert. When I hear you say “Social media is too much noise“, I agree with you. When I hear you say “Social media is a waste of time“, I do share your feeling. However, I [...]

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This is a guest post by Kiesha Easley. If you think you’ve got what it takes to high-jack Traffic Generation Cafe audience, write for us. I’m not your average “status update” (linkless) type of tweeter. Most of my tweets are retweets of awesome content that I’ve run across. I still take time to engage and [...]

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Social Networking: What Can it REALLY Do For You? Effective traffic generation can’t be achieved without finding and tapping into the best traffic resources for YOUR niche. Can’t sell a burger to a vegetarian, in other words. I recently received a question from one of my readers during a live Sunday Coffee with Ana broadcast: [...]

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blog audit friday friendly blogger

This being my content marketing week here at Traffic Generation Cafe, I thought that an audit of this particular blog will fit right in. Why? Because the content of the blog is definitely as unique as the blogger herself. Her titles rock, her topics have teeth, and she shares some great tips in each and [...]

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best bloggers hackers

You either have it or you don’t. Many of us were raised with that in mind, and here we are - walking around this world looking at others who definitely do have it and learning to be OK with it. I say: Hack be with it! *********** This post is the concluding part to the [...]

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Let’s start with this oldie, but goodie: “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Why is it still on the list of the most used phrases? Probably, because it’s so true. When it comes down to blogging, a great picture will become the anchor that will catch your eyes before anything else does. Sometimes, it’s [...]

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list posts into traffic

This is a guest post by Robert Dempsey. If you think you’ve got what it takes to high-jack Traffic Generation Cafe audience, write for us. I‘d like to thank all of the bloggers that took the time to create the huge list posts that get’s lots of traffic and comments. You help me to do [...]

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This is one of the questions I get all the time: how do I manage to write almost daily for the Traffic Generation Cafe, plus guest posts for a number of other blogs? It actually makes me chuckle to hear my name used in the same sentence as “write so much“, “great content“, etc. Let’s [...]

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Oh, my, oh, my… My first live broadcast turned out to be a huge success! What I loved about it: 1. You showed up! 2. Had visitors from Ireland, Australia, India, Singapore, Italy, all over the U.S. - goes without saying. Some of you woke up at 7am, some of you never went to bed. [...]

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