How to Build a List Basics: List Building Week

Free…you still have to work for it!

At the core of it, building a list is simple.

You give something of value in return for an email address.

But that’s only scratching the surface really.

The trick is figuring out what your readers value, delivering that, and then keeping them [...]

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Gotta tell you - this was a tough one, although should’t have been.

Of course, family should come first. For all of us.

That’s why, plus the fact that the numbers of my poll show that most of my readers neither attend nor listen to my Sunday broadcasts, I decided to put my energy where it’s most [...]

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You'll need this book to stand out…

Some of you, old-timers, might remember this post, in which I described traffic generation/link building steps I take once I publish a new post.

For the rest of you, here’s the link:

Traffic Generation Step by Step: So You Published a New Post, Now What?

Then Kristi Hines from Kikolani.com asks [...]

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Let me start with an explanation of how this post came about to begin with.

“Blog commenting brings traffic.” We all took it and take it for granted.

But does it really?

I wasn’t too happy with just accepting what everyone said about traffic from blog commenting - what’s the fun in that, right?

Thus the idea was born.

With [...]

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Most bloggers have no idea how to use Twitter to drive free targeted traffic to their blogs. I do.
Twitter is my largest referral traffic source as of right now, and the only way to get the same results is with the help of TweetAdder.

Ana’s Foreword

Cat fight!

What? Too girly? Fine, let’s call it a faceoff.

A couple of weeks ago I asked Nick Cardot from SiteSketch101.com to try to disprove my Twitter theory that quantity trumps quality.

You know what I am talking about… I’ve written about it once or twice…

How Ana Got Her Twitter Groove Back

So why Nick?

Because [...]

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With the recent PageRank update, many bloggers panicked and started taking some radical measures like making their blogs nofollow and plugging any possible “PageRank leaks” - meaning getting rid of many links OUT to other blogs/resources.

As you may or may not have noticed, everything stayed pretty much the same here, at Traffic Generation Cafe - [...]

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We all want traffic - that much is a no brainer, but where we get it from and the methods we employ to actually get it can make or break the growth of your blog.

Like a good pasta sauce, a slight tweaking of the ingredients can make a huge difference to the resulting flavor, so [...]

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