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Increase Your Web Traffic With Triberr

ALERT: Do not believe the “gurus”. The internet is not a push button-operated cash machine that generates money for you while you sip cocktails on a beach in Mexico. If it was, I wouldn’t be here now and neither would…

Social Media Marketing for People in a Hurry

At the time of writing, Google lists over 3.1 billion pages for the phrase social media, 14 billion for twitter and 19 billion for facebook. That’s a lot of stuff to get through. But most of it is about building…

116 Niche Social Media Sites for Marketing Your Business

Quick, how many social media networks are there? Three? Five? Eight? After researching this post, I now know of at least 116 to add to the big, famous networks. Why niche sites matter The trouble with only concentrating your social…

Triberr – the Secret Web Traffic Generator

There are two things bloggers and website owners like to do more than anything else: 1) Write 2) Check their site stats. And that’s actually in reverse order. Unfortunately, the beautiful upward curve of rising web traffic in your site…

How To Double Your Web Traffic With Triberr

What’s your favorite bookmark? Twitter? Facebook? AdSense? For me, it’s my Triberr bookmark. Because that’s my instant, double-your-traffic-now button. That’s not an exaggeration – it really has doubled my traffic. The long-awaited silver bullet has arrived. What is Triberr? Whatever…

YouTube Resources for Online Video Marketers

This is a guest post by Neil Davidson of My Web Presenters (full bio below) Enjoy! One of the reasons that the Internet can be so intimidating to newbies is the pure rate of change. Technology is constantly advancing and…

How To Make Your Video Marketing A YouTube Hit

You’ve heard all the blah-blah about You Tube being the second largest search engine on the planet but somehow you’ve never quite got around to launching your brand on it. Enough! Today’s the day. If you’ve been shying away from…

Bing – Why You Should Optimize For Microsoft’s Growing Search Engine

Google is king of search engine traffic, right? No other search engine is worth bothering about, right? Wrong! Let me ask you this. How much daily search engine traffic do you think Bing is responsible for? I bet you didn’t…

How to Use Email Marketing to Grow Your Online Business

Growing Your Online Business

As different as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are, they have one thing in common. They may be cutting edge social networks but all of them use “old-fashioned” emails as a big part of their marketing – sending out regular targeted…

Why You Need to Understand Bounce Rate and How To Reduce It

Your website’s bounce rate is one of the most useful web statistics you can get your hands on. This one statistic can tell you whether your online efforts are successful or not. Here’s why. The Definition Every time a visitor…

Tumblr – The Huge Social Network You Forgot

Have you been concentrating so much on the usual social media networks like Facebook and Twitter that you’ve ignored other important traffic sources? It may not hog all the media attention like Pinterest, but Tumblr is one of the fastest-growing…

What You Should Know About Content Marketing

One of the most significant recent trends for startups and web businesses has been the explosion of content marketing. But how can giving away free content help you build a profitable business? Sometimes called branded content or custom media, content…

Why Pinterest is the Queen of Conversion Rates

How good are Pinterest and other social shopping sites at driving traffic and product sales? While social shopping sites have taken off in a major way this year, the question for internet marketers involved with ecommerce sites has been how…

Smart Link-Building Tutorial

Google Webmaster Tools showing traffic increase :-)

Is it possible to increase your traffic by 560% in 10 Days? Yes. Read on to discover the exact methods I used to do exactly that for this site. Link Building is one of the oldest but most abused marketing…

Social Media Buttons for Better SEO

You don’t need me to tell you social networking is a big thing. Depending on your site niche and how active you are on the network, you’ll probably find that at least one of the major social networks is a…

How to Improve Your Video Marketing by 300%

How’s that title for hyperbole? Pretty good. But it’s true. Using video can be a highly effective way to reach your audience. Yet in all the video tutorials you can find on the web there’s one crucial secret that almost…

How To Be More Effective With Your Twitter Marketing

You got yourself a Twitter account because it’s the cool thing to do. Now what? Twitter is a great marketing tool, but like all tools you need to put some effort into learning how to get the best out of…

Best Time to Post on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest

Nothing beats hitting the Publish button on a great blog post you’ve worked hard on and then being able to bask like a cat on a sunny lawn as the retweets, follows, repins and likes start flowing. The first step…

How to use Pinterest to Drive Traffic To Your Site

Pinterest Marketing Ecard

It may be the newest major social network, but Pinterest is already sending more traffic to U.S. retailers than YouTube, Google Plus and LinkedIn combined. That fact alone means it should be part of your promotional strategy, along with Facebook,…

Google’s New Page Layout Algorithm – Too Many Ads & You’re Out

The Google search ranking algorithm undergoes hundreds of changes every year. Some minor, some major. The Page Layout Algorithm is a major one. The target is web spammers and shady search ranking optimization types – but honest publishers need to…

SEO Tutorial – How to Get More Google Traffic Easily

New SEO Strategy: Keep Calm and Write Great Content

For information or product driven websites, one of the most vital parts of your web marketing strategy will need to be SEO: Search Engine Optimization. Although traffic from social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter can be substantial, very often…

Speed Up Your Site For Better Search Engine Optimization

Even though site loading time is now a crucial part of ranking well in Google, it’s surprising how few sites are optimized to load as fast as they could. Over time that will mean lower rankings and less visits –…


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