
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 [...]

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, [...]

As most of you know, I was out of town on a skiing vacation with my family. My husband and my daughter surely had lots of fun… Me? This little vacation made me realize that running your own business is a 24/7 deal and if you don’t do it, it doesn’t get done. Don’t get [...]

This morning we are starting a 12-hour drive back to sunshine from the cold, but beautiful Colorado. 12 hours in the car with a 4-year-old… that should be fun. However, I didn’t want to leave you without an assignment for today - as if you have nothing better to do than to hang out with [...]

This post is a follow-up to Ana’s great piece on diversified traffic generation strategies. As you read that article, you may get overwhelmed with the suggested number of techniques and amount of work. You may wonder, how can you even keep all of that in your head? My answer is you don’t have to. I [...]

Say what? What’s this business about “titles with teeth” and how to write them? Exactly. Admit it. You want to know what on Earth I’m talking about. Trust me - you want titles that bite, that leave an impression. If you don’t, you’re lying. Titles matter. Titles form the hooks that bait us to click [...]

As most of you know, there won’t be a live Sunday Coffee with Ana broadcast today. I know you are very sad. However, I am not letting you off the hook that easily. Everybody is entitled to my opinion and I am going to give it to you on the topic of networking, social engagement, [...]

A couple of weeks ago I threw a white glove in your face challenging you to come up with a great post based on my 202 Bite Sized Tips To Increase Your Blog Traffic post. If you haven’t read the original post, take a look at it first: The Best Bloggers Are Natural Hackers: Show [...]

It is 100X easier to get Itunes traffic than it is to get Google traffic and in this post I’m not only going to prove that to you, I’m also going to show you how. Excited? You should be! Ana & Her Love For SEO Now, we all know Ana is all for SEO. On [...]

When Ana suggested that I write a post for her site about how I got started, it really made me think. I had forgotten about the many attempts I had made and the heartaches I created for myself, galloping off on what I thought were the routes to success. I was wrong! I realized that no [...]

Nothing is new under the sun. Nothing is new in website traffic generation. There’s no traffic generation strategy that one can claim as a “new breakthrough” that someone else hasn’t used years ago. That’s just the way it is. So where does it leave us? We need to learn how to use what we have [...]

What better way to spend a Sunday morning than to hang out with other bloggers, network, share some thoughts and links, acquire new friends and possibly new customers/clients? Can’t beat that and that’s exactly what happened this morning on out Sunday Coffee with Ana live broadcast. Here’s what you missed: Questions: 1. HTML code errors [...]

Blog Audit Fridays are some of the most extensive and intense posts I write for Traffic Generation Cafe. Why? Because they take a lot of time. And because I get to take apart someone’s creation; something they’ve most likely put their sweat and tears into. However, I strongly believe that this is the only way [...]
Appetite For Traffic? The Secret Is in the Source
by Alex Whalley on February 28, 2011 · 28 comments
in Blog Traffic
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, [...]
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