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 [...]

Basically, there are two main free traffic generation strategies: SEO and networking. That’s it. By networking, I mean blog commenting, guest posting, social media networking, etc. Today, I want to focus more on SEO; however, we’ll also talk a bit about blog commenting as it applies to SEO. Posts Mentioned in the Broadcast How to [...]

We all know that Google personalizes the heck out of our search results, down to the kind of toilet paper I like best. Sure, it makes sense for finding the best restaurant in your area or checking out what one of your blogger buddies had to say on a subject. However, when it comes down [...]

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 [...]

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 …

If I were to dump a truckload of premium hot-selling vitamins on your lawn today, but you had no idea how to move them, what good would those vitamins be? The same way, I can send you thousands of visitors to your blog today (theoretically speaking, of course), but you have no effective means to [...]

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 [...]

Don’t quote (or fight) me on this, but I strongly believe that link building makes up about 90% of your SEO success. There is only so much on-page optimization you can do to push your site up the SERPs, but the rest of it will definitely come down to the quality (mostly) and quantity …

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.

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: [...]
Dofollow Nofollow Links: Is There a Happy Medium?
by Ana | Traffic Generation on March 1, 2011 · 72 comments
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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