Welcome to the 9th, December 5, 2008 edition of "Bringing more traffic to your blog" Blog Carnival. Some statistics: Submitted Articles - 92. Published Articles - 41. I want to thank all the authors contributing to the issue. Some articles were excluded from the review, since their topic of discussion did not match the main target of the carnival. I am sorry, that not all submissions were accepted, as some of the excluded articles carried a significant value.
Alex_Sysoef presents Allow Google Tell You What Search Results To Dominate posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, "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?"
Dwight presents When will my website get ranked? posted at TM Blog, saying, "Detroit Michigan Digital Advertising Agency talks about SEO, Website Design, Development and Online Marketing for consumers. Great Tips for getting better rankings."
Brian Terry presents 4 Great Ways to Explode Your Article Marketing posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, "The idea of building your online business via article marketing has been around for ages. Even before the Internet it was used by publishers to get free content from contributors in exchange of free advertising."
Andy presents Tip On Writing A Feature Article - For Online Success! posted at Personal Plug, saying, "The No.1 challenge of all marketers is getting targeted traffic and targeted paid traffic is rarely cheap. You all know that Adwords costs are skyrocketing these days just like oil prices and it is getting harder to make money using PPC."
Greg Nemer presents Free and Low Cost Web Pages, Blogs, FTP’s and Html Editors posted at INTERNET MARKETING WITH PURPOSE, saying, "Some of the very best free and low cost tools for building web pages and blogs, editing HTML, and even a few FTP programs to upload your web pages and files"
Wayne John presents 10 Cool Create an Avatar Web Sites posted at Wayne John, saying, "What web site are these people visiting to create these cartoon styled avatars? I found a mess of them, and tried each one out. If you are looking for a new look on the web, this is a great starting point."
Andy presents Top 5 Tips On Designing An Seo Friendly Website posted at Personal Plug, saying, "Getting high rankings in major search engines is essential for maximizing your visibility online and growing traffic to your small business website. More and more small businesses are realizing that the best way to reach prospective customers is through search engines like Google."
Matthew Paulson presents The Importance of Frequent Website Updates posted at American Entrepreneurship.
DebbieDragon presents Baby Stepping Your Way into Social Networking posted at Empowering Mom.
Brian Terry presents Traffic vs. Sales Conversions - Which Is Better? posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, "This is a question I get time and time again, “how do I generate more traffic to my website?”. The problem is and it’s what most people miss out on is it’s not just about the traffic."
Peter Jones presents Bauu Institute: Successfully Building Links via Forums, Blogs, and Social Networks for Book Marketing posted at Bauu Institute and Press, saying, "How to build links to your blog or website to increase it’s traffic."
Jessica presents 10 Top Notch Link Building Tactics for Real Estate Websites posted at Real Estate License Information; Real Estate License Training.
Buildify presents Are You Using Social Networking Enough for Your Corporate Blog? posted at Buildify.
Kiltak presents How to write posts that people will actually read posted at [Geeks Are Sexy] Technology News.
Alex_Sysoef presents Blog Carnivals As Source Of One Way Links posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, "Blog carnivals is perhaps one of the most underused methods and yet - one of the very effective ways to Build One Way Links for FREE. I don’t know about you but incoming link is an incoming link and taking a few minutes to do some simple submissions in my book is VERY EFFECTIVE way to build your blog authority."
cfgoulart presents Blog Promotion and Free Website Content posted at Making Money Resources, saying, "Free content for your blog, help increase traffic to your blog with more content, very interesting."
swollenpickles presents Why I’ve lost faith in Google posted at Swollen Pickles.
Peter Jones presents Bauu Institute: Resources for website page rank building posted at Bauu Institute and Press, saying, "How to bring more traffic to your blog via directories, article marketing, and forums."
Erika Collin presents 100 Fun & Useful Search Engines for Writers posted at LearningXL.
HowToMakeMyBlog.com presents Get Traffic By Building Your Blog Awareness posted at HowToMakeMyBlog.com, saying, "Brand awareness is a marketing concept that refers to a consumer knowing of a brand’s existence. We can translate this into blog traffic building and call it blog awareness."
gazzali presents How To Rank High In Google posted at PROenrichment.
Abel Christianson presents Add Url To Search Engines posted at Adsense Templates Blog.
Brian Terry presents 5 Red Hot Tips To Effective Forum Marketing posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, "You’re NOT allowed to advertise or market directly through your forum posts, this is seen as spamming the forums. It’s a “surefire” way to get banned from ever posting to them again. Here’s the secret to highly effective forum marketing…"
Peter Lee presents Squidoo Secrets Revealed: Drive Unstoppable Traffic To Your Home Business | Work From Home Business Blog posted at Work From Home Business Blog.
Ian Richardson presents 5 Ways to Make Your Website Sticky posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, "This is an excellent article on 5 effective ways to make your website sticky."
Greg Nemer presents Time Saving Tools and Strategies For Twitter posted at INTERNET MARKETING WITH PURPOSE, saying, "Time Saving Tools and Strategies for Getting More Web Traffic To Your Blog Using Twitter"
Wayne John presents One Simple Method to Keep Visitors on Your Site posted at Wayne John, saying, "One method I use to help keep visitors on my site is by creating my hyperlinks so they open a new window when they are clicked."
Amanda Dry presents Getting Backlinks To Your Webpage | Ashley’s Picks posted at Ashley’s Picks, saying, "Get more traffic by creating backlinks."
Welly Mulia presents 4 Ways To Promote An Affiliate Product And The Most Effective One Is… | Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.
DebbieDragon presents Get More Traffic to Your Blog posted at Empowering Mom.
Anthony McCune presents Thinking Of Starting A Business? The Top 10 Tips posted at The Lives and Times... of Anthony McCune.
The Investor presents Why blogging for money will not make you rich posted at Monevator.com, saying, "Why do people blog for slave-labour wages? While some bloggers make a lot of money online, most people it’s a somewhat unrealistic dream."
Alex_Sysoef presents Why “More” Is Better? posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, "An inspiration for this post was recent conversation with one of my friends, who is brilliant internet marketer but blogging, using WordPress as platform of choice, is rather recent for him. It made me realize that what many of us bloggers accept as common knowledge might have the learning curve for him and many others. In this post I want to describe - Why “MORE” tag is a must have on blog and how to implement it. And as always - this post is based on my personal opinion and something that I use and has proven beneficial to me."
Fiona Veitch Smith presents Dofollow Search Tool is online posted at Hippo Web Solutions, saying, "Use the Dofollow Search Tool to identify blogs that reward commenters with search-engine-friendly links that you can use to boost your own PageRank - and by doing so attract more organic search traffic."
Kano presents Free Keyword Research Tools - Wordtracker GTrends posted at Online Money Making Guide, saying, "Keyword research is one of the linchpins of your efforts to make money online. The Wordtracker GTrends free keyword research tool is a great way to plan your next online endeavor or maybe just tune up your current one. This article looks at what the Wordtracker GTrends keyword research tool is and how you can use it."
Peter Jones presents Bauu Institute and Press: Check Your Competition’s Traffic. posted at Bauu Institute and Press.
Kara-Leah presents Why writing a communications strategy matters - even for a yoga website posted at Prana Flow NZ, saying, "A website is a way to communicate, and if you’re running your own website you could benefit massively from writing a communications strategy for your site. Simply a plan of attack that articulates your key messages, audience and how you’re going to reach them, a strategy is something that anyone can write. Join communications professional K-L Grant of Prana Flow NZ as she leads by example and puts together a communications strategy for her yoga website."
Naren Ghimire presents How to Write a Great Article and Drive Huge Traffic to Your Website or Blog? posted at Spiritual Pub, saying, "Writing is a powerful medium that allows you to connect with people and the world. Not only does it let you pour out your inner feelings and emotions, but also it helps you discover your true self. If your article is great, then it will motivate others in their personal, social and spiritual growth, and can also light a match of inner revolution in their lives. This article discusses seven sutras that will help you create an article that truly resonates, strikes a chord in millions of readers, and helps you drive a huge traffic to your website or blog."
Wayne John presents Modifying Your Blogger Header The Blogger Way posted at Wayne John, saying, "A common thing you’ll find when you start blogging is that you’ll want to make changes to your template. If you use the Blogger blog system, it can be easy or extremely difficult depending upon what you want to do. This post will show you where to go to modify your header as well as some advice as to how to approach the issue of modifying your header image if you choose to do things yourself."
Kathleen Gaga presents Teleseminars - One of the Best Ways to Build Your Business and Your Revenues posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, "Holding live workshops and seminars are a good way to build a business. However due to current economic trends, the traditional methods of holding and conducting workshops make it very difficult to execute and get participation. In addition, the costs involved in getting a venue, audio visual aids and providing refreshments for the participants make it quite expensive and there are many factors that could prevent the event from being successful and profitable. Learn why teleseminars are one of the best ways to build your business."
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