Blog Traffic

by Ana Hoffman 190 comments

How to REALLY Create a Popular Blog From Scratch

Not all blogs are created equal.

Some blogs take off like wild fire within weeks of their creation, yet some might take months to even start seeing the light of day.

Your blog might be one of the latter ones.

You write great content, yet your competitor’s blog with mediocre posts seems to get all the website traffic.

Not [...]

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by Guest Author 48 comments

Kindle Publishing: Your Guide to Getting Responsive Traffic with Kindle

Since Amazon introduced the Kindle back in 2007, it’s been training their readers to use it.

You don’t actually need to have a Kindle device to read Kindle books and related services.

You can download a free app to read in the cloud or via your smartphone. If you love your tablet device, that’s cool, because there [...]

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by Ana Hoffman 84 comments

Slideshare Traffic Case Study: From 0 to 243,000 Views in 30 Days

Slideshare.

30 days.

9 presentations.

Over 200K views.

Several first-page Google rankings.

1,400 clicks to Traffic Generation Café and my Facebook fan page.

Over 400 new Facebook fans.

My second largest referral traffic source.

Want some? I don’t blame you.

Here’s how I did it.

Loved it? Embed this presentation on your blog

(just copy and paste the code below)

<iframe src=”http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/18185058?rel=0″ width=”597″ height=”486″ frameborder=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ scrolling=”no” [...]

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by Guest Author 43 comments

8 Unconventional Ways to Use Google Alerts for Better Blogging

We bloggers are always on the lookout for free tools: free blogging tools, free SEO tools, free marketing tools, and it goes on and on!

Surprisingly, we have been ignoring the one tool which is not only free, but has been handed down to us by the search engine Lord, Google, and it’s called Google Alerts.

What [...]

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by Ana Hoffman 40 comments

Be Everywhere: How to Convert Blog Post into PDF in Under 60 Seconds

Understanding the Pareto principle is no rocket science, if you think about it.

“For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.”

In other words, most of the things we do on a daily basis to move our business forward don’t actually make an iota of a difference.

So why aren’t we focusing [...]

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by Ana Hoffman 52 comments

Freddy Krueger of Blogging: How to Write Highly Successful Guest Posts in under 2 Hours

Content marketing seems to be all the rage in 2013.

Forget about Google rankings and start churning out content.

The more, the better.

The longer, the better.

Even more so because of Google’s quest for better search results, which so far meant:

tanked rankings for many solid content-based websites;
overall “SEO sky is a-falling” panic;
plethora of “how to rank in the [...]

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by Guest Author 89 comments

4 Sobering Reasons You Should Avoid Guest Blogging

If you’ve been blogging for longer than a couple of months, you should’ve heard by now how great guest blogging is when it comes down to building an audience.

Pretty much every blogger out there is aware of that fact.

The real problem is that most folks aren’t taking action.

For a while I was in the same [...]

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