WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

In this post I want to share a very simple tip that will help you not only determine what to write about but also show you how to allow Google to tell you what search result pages they WANT YOU to dominate!

It is not a lesson in SEO, although it partially covers the point, but a strategy to help you get more targeted traffic to your blog. And if you are like me - you wouldn’t mind to get a few more visitors to your blog, would you?

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Bloggers all want the one thing. Traffic! It makes sense. When you first started out blogging you were probably hoping for thousands of visitors every day, dozens of comments and maybe even a bit of income, right? Well, in the meantime you might have found out that traffic is indeed a myth and your blog resembles a starving human stuck in the middle of the desert.

If that is you, then let it be known there is help at hand. You too can have a blog that pulls in thousands of visitors every day! Yes, every day.

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This post was written by Monika Mundell of Freelance Writing

Tracking your blog traffic could be the best thing you ever did if you aim to rank well in search engines. There is one simple reason for me to say this. That reason is “link clusters”. Courtney Tuttle wrote a great post on link clusters and what they can do for your rankings the other day.

There is no point in repeating what he said, since he explains it all too well already. But I wanted to touch on this and show you how to take a step back from what he recommends you do and actually track your traffic with ease.

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I have to admit I’m a sucker for statistics, research results and statistics to the vital aspects of the site or blog development. SEO and traffic are two of those aspects so when I have read a post on Andy Beal’s blog that shares some extremely interesting research results I simply had to read the rest…

And while the research results consistent with my own behavior I never stopped to think how wide spread that effect might be. Considering that I’m always tight on free time I simply attributed this to my own preference. Well, turns out that If Your Site Is Not On First Page Of Google Search Results it might as well Don’t Exist!

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This post is kind of “ANTI-SEO” and perhaps the most important aspect of it is that we, as bloggers shouldn’t rely solely on Search Engine Optimization. Doesn’t mean we should totally ignore it and in fact I think SEO is an extremely important and must be done but it shouldn’t be a single point of failure as Google very easily Can Make You Look Stupid!

And I want to use myself as an example and provide you with an idea of what a simple algorithm re-calculation can do to your marketing efforts…

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There have been a lot of talk lately about Google AdSense stopped been the true contender for income and while in many ways it’s true (I don’t use simply because affiliate links pay me more) it is still a valuable source of income for great many people. People who have no clue about other form of Internet Marketing or income and quite frankly - probably not even interested to get into all the complexity associated with it.

And just yesterday I read a story featured on USA Today “Gray Googlers strike gold” that I think is a great inspiration for people who are looking to not get rich but perhaps simply supplement their existing income in exchange for couple, three hours of daily work. But it goes beyond that …

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BUM Marketing method spread like a virus in the beginning of this year and popularized Article marketing, bringing it to the masses. Many people have gotten their first taste of success using the methods described in the system not only because it was simple but also because it was COMPREHENSIVE and ACHIEVABLE.

Two major ingredients that make up successful product and when you add to it excellent price (FREE) – it made for an irresistible value. But what does this strategy has to do with blogging? Actually quite a bit and I personally think that anyone is not familiar with the method should check it out. But here I want to outline WHY you should do it …

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