Blog Traffic

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This is a guest post by Devesh of Technshare.com and Blokube.com. WordPress is one of the best platforms for blogging and has several advantages. Because of its popularity, its support community is awesome. You will find various tutorials over internet, which will help you to get started with WordPress. In this post, we’ll be adding [...]

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“Do They Celebrate Thanksgiving in Russia?” What??? Sounds like a joke, doesn’t it? This question was actually asked by one of my husband’s unnamed relatives. I was not sure whether to laugh or cry when she said it… However, it gave me an idea for this blog post. Most of us in the U.S. will [...]

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This is a guest post by Lisa Drubec. So, I settled into my chair last night to write some great content for my blog. I fired up the iPod, put in my ear buds and began listening to some teenie bopper song. I don’t typically listen to my iPod while I write, but I was [...]

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As you can imagine, I get a lot of questions on my blog - that’s why I have a contact form. Some questions are easily answered by doing a 5 second search on Google (hint); however, some are quite interesting and I bet many of you wondered about the same thing at one point or [...]

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So, I published a post yesterday: Trackback Spam Be Gone: What I Use To Cut Down On Junk Trackbacks. As the comments started to pour in, I realized that I had a bit more explaining to do on the topic. Some of you might know what trackbacks and pingbacks are, some of you might THINK [...]

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Trackbacks (a way of notifying other blogs that you linked to them in one of your posts) can be a great way to get noticed and even bring more traffic from other blogs. However, anything good is prone to abuse. Trackback spam is definitely on the rise. Estimates from Weblogs.com and Matt Mullenweg’s Ping-o-Matic! service [...]

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Today felt like a good Friday to start a brand new series on Traffic Generation Cafe, called “Blog Audit Friday“. I get a lot of requests from my readers to take a look at their blogs and see what kind of improvements I can suggest. And that’s where the idea for the series came from. [...]

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Do you ever get annoyed when you put a lot of thought and effort into writing a great comment on someone’s blog and then press the “Submit” button, and your comment simply disappears into the thin air? No “Your Comment Is Awaiting Moderation”. No “Your Comment Will Become Visible Upon Approval”. Nothing. Or worse yet, [...]

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This is a guest post by Tristan Higbee. I guarantee that just about everyone reading this is a preblogger. Whether you’re getting ready to launch your very first blog or are a seasoned pro busy plotting your next uber-successful online venture, the majority of us are in some stage of planning to start a new [...]

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Hands down, one of the most effective ways to promote your blog these days is through guest blogging. Ana’s note: I know, you are too overwhelmed with your own blog. Maybe this great post by Glen Allsop will help you understand why you should ditch writing for your own blog (well, no, not entirely) and [...]

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The Last Dofollow Blog Finder Tool You’ll Ever Need I am really excited about this one! I finally found a way to make searching for DoFollow blogs very easy with this super-duper add-your-keyword-to-the-search-window-and-press-search DoFollow blog finder. How does it work? What does it matter? It works. Is it 100% accurate? What’s the fun in that? [...]

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use contests for traffic generation

We all want to increase our blog traffic. We also want to do it NOW and for FREE. Did I get it right so far? In the last post, you got the essentials on how to use a blog carnival as a free traffic generation method. Now it’s time to check out blogging contests. Yes, [...]

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blog carnival traffic generation

This is a guest post by Cori Padgett Photo by Mischaleigh While I don’t have a lot of experience with blog carnivals, when Ana asked me to guest post I couldn’t resist. Considering the recent one I did was literally my very first, I am by no means an expert! However, I did walk away [...]

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