Tag:blog traffic, Blogging zoom, blogrush, entrecard, Google

Everyone loves a good traffic. What good is a blog without traffic?

Much has been said about blog traffic lately and how Google has launched its attacked on selling text links and also the most recent one where they go for those who were paid to blog. Well, they are Google and they can do whatever they like. They do not like paid posts as they will affect the relevance and quality of their search results. Like it or not, we still depend on them to make money online somehow. And their action or rather reaction to the poor response to their warnings is definitely going to affect blog traffic of those who were slapped.

It may be wise (or not so wise depends on how you perceive the importance of Google) to look for ways to increase traffic that are not so dependent on Google search. In my humble opinion, BlogRush failed to deliver the traffic after all the rush as far as I am concern. The traffic generated were insignificant but I do say that their dashboard reports are quite impressive. Blogging Zoom performs better and the results are quite immediate. But it is still dependent on Google. Blogging Zoom drives traffic from among its members and readers and the more popular your post is, the higher chance of getting more traffic. Riding on their expertise with respect to SEO, Blogging Zoom will also help to get your post rank higher in Google search and will direct more residual traffic over the long term. One way or another, Google still comes into the picture.

I would like to dedicate this post to Entrecard, the new way of traffic generation. Traditional business cards works wonders in the bricks and mortar businesses world and it is a must to have, but does it work in the online business? Entrecard is a platform for bloggers to exchange e-business cards. You can design your own e-business card or use their ready made templates. You display your e-business card widget on your blog and other bloggers can introduce themselves by dropping their cards using the widget on your blog. You can do the same to other bloggers by visiting their blogs and drop your card. Since the community is still not that large, you will see immediate results. Bloggers will be dropping their cards the moment your widget is up. I got my first card within an hour or so, and within the next few hours, I have got 20 cards. When you introduce yourself , your card will show up in the blog owner’s inbox. Curiosity side of our human nature will make him click on the link to see who dropped the card. So within the few hours of setting up my widget, I have 20 visitors to my blog. Just imagine the amount of traffic your blog will have when the community grows bigger. But the visitors may or may not read your blog posts. To make them stay longer, make sure that your blog has interesting posts to entice them to stay and read.

Every time you drop your card into someone’s else widget, you will be awarded one credit and the person you drop will also be awarded a credit point. You can use your accumulated points to buy ads in other people’s blog. Your ad will be displayed on their widget for a day. The cost of the advertisement depends on how popular their widget is (ie the number of cards that they received). Each ad will be displayed for only a day and you will have to queue up for your turn if there are more than one ad waiting to be displayed.

This is a fun way of generating traffic to your blog and does not depend on Google. Even if Google slaps your Pagerank, the traffic generated this way will not be affected. But there is some set back though. The widget does not work properly in Internet Explorer. So if anyone using IE, he will not be able to drop a card. This is a major set back and if not rectified, the service will not gain popularity. I spent the whole afternoon trying to figure out how to drop a card because I was using IE. Many would have given up in such circumstances and spend the time doing something more fruitful. The widget works fine with Firefox (see the sample of the widget at the top right hand corner of this blog)

If you have used this service, I would like to hear your comments and feedback.

Tag:blog traffic, Blogging zoom, SEO

If you have tried BlogRush and have not

had any or minimal increase in traffic to your site, don’t give up hope yet. Now that the rush for BlogRush is over and the excitement has more or less settled, and you have not had the results you expected, you might want to take a look at Blogging Zoom, where bloggers group together united in the coup against mainstream media monsters. By staying united, bloggers can now use Blogging Zoom as a tool to take a big chunk of the search market and deliver the rightful traffic to the bloggers around the world.

Blogging Zoom allows members to submit their own posts without any limit and Blogging Zoom will promote the posts on behalf of the bloggers and expose them to search engines. Bloggers will benefit from their SEO expertise. And this service is made available free of charge.

The main objective of Blogging Zoom is to drive quality traffic to your blog. They classified the traffic into Burst Traffic and Long Term Residual Traffic.

Burst traffic depends very much on your reader base. Your reader base supports you by voting or Zoom your post. So the quality of your post and the teaser summary of your post will play an important role too. The voting will determine the burst traffic that you will have.

The Long Term Residual Traffic will depend very much on the teaser. A good teaser will ensure a long term flow of traffic from the search results.

When you submit your post, you are required to write a teaser for your post. A teaser is a catchy summary of your post in not less than 350 characters. The teaser will appear in Blogging Zoom as a short post. Make sure that you write a summary of your post and not copy the content of your post into the teaser. This will avoid duplicate content. Google hates duplicate contents. Ensure that you have all the necessary keywords and the people at Blogging Zoom will use their expertise to get a better ranking for your post compared to if you do it on your own. It is a win-win situation. You contribute your post to them and they drive burst traffic and long term residual traffic to your blog by getting it rank higher of which you may find difficult to do especially if you are a new blogger.

This service is available only for bloggers. Websites are not allowed. The rational behind this is that huge websites already dominates the search engines results. Just imagine if CNN submits an article to Blogging Zoom. They do not need this service. Thanks to Courtney and Vic, this service is only for us bloggers who needs help. Help to compete with those big guys of which we are not able to do on our own.

Tag:free giveaways, freebies

I love free giveaways. For new bloggers or even an experienced bloggers, free giveaways do still catch their

attention. Free does not simply mean poor quality. My friends Mike Mazella and David Thompson have gathered more than 30 top marketers to donate their products both new and exisiting and compliled them for you to download for free. Yes you get me right, they are free for you to download with no catch at all.

On top of that they will throw in a free e-course to teach you how to use the products that you have downloaded. You will be surprised to see the list of products that are avaiable for free. They are not just any products. Beginners as well as experience bloggers will definitely find the products helpful and the best of all, they are free to download.

I was wrong when I thought that there is no such things as free lunch. If you know where to find them, free lunch is still available Having said that, it is for a limited time only.

Tag:SEO experts, SEO strategies

WebProNews talked to a few experts in the SEO market and they revealed all that you need to know to optimize your Web site for the search engines. Learn from the experts by watching this video of the interview.

Tag:contents, keywords, links, page titles, search engine friendly

The best website are those that are built around content. Google and other search engines loves regularly updated content.

Your site needs to have original content, content that’s not a duplicate of another site, content that’s focused on your topics or business and content that’s legitimate.

Website that uses fancy programming techniques are more difficult for the search engines to navigate compared to simple design site. Plain text links are preferred compared to graphics links. A good site is the site that can return a good match for a search query based on content analysis.

Links should preferably be placed after the content on the page. Content on the top of a page is considered more important compared to content at the bottom.

Page titles are also important when designing a page. A page title such as “Welcome to homepage” is not a good title. A page title should include keywords such as “Heart problem risk from Medical Journal” if the article is about heart problems.

Links should should contain keywords for example, “fishing tips” made more sense compared to “Article 12″ if you are linking to an article on fishing tips. Links should emphasize the keyword you use to describe that particular page.