Traffic

I Wanna Be a Ass Hat SEO, Please

Published July 10, 2008 | By admin

Yesterday, I ran into a post over at The NetFool than ran down a few Black Hat SEO Techniques. Black Hat techniques always get me thinking. Using the term "Black Hat", automatically assumes the existence of White, Gray and theoretically "No Hat" techniques.

No Hat SEO

Techniques listed under this category are about the only ones that won’t have someone calling you a spammer, black hat, or anything of the sort. It is involves using an "if you build it, they will come" technique. Sending one email to your sister about your new site would automatically eject you from this group. Play around a little and you can make specific posts come up first in your site’s own search engine. Give yourself a damn cookie. Read more... (640 words, estimated 2:34 mins reading time)

Fixed Costs and Fixed Time

Published May 20, 2008 | By admin

Time is money. It may be something we all agree on, but what does it really mean.

Fixed costs are nice. One of my fixed costs is hosting. When I make $4000 in a month, my hosting is $125. If I triple that, it will still cost me the same and the ROI triples.

On the other hand, PPC advertising moves with the income. If I make more through PPC this month, chances are I spent more too. Yes, I can increase ROI. But for the most part, I have to spend more money to make more. And it doesn’t help that the amount of money I spend on ads is limited by my credit. Read more... (674 words, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)

Posted in Adwords, Business, Journal, Linking, ZTD | Tagged Adwords, Linking, money, Pay per click, search engine optimization, Social Media Marketing, time, Traffic, ZTD | 16 Comments

Some WordPress SEO Thoughts

Published April 16, 2008 | By admin

I lay awake at night thinking of things like this. Not long. A few minutes or so. Sometimes I get an idea when I am driving. Sometimes I write the ideas down. Sometimes I see if they will pop back up on their own. The ones that do get focus. But I always give them a little freedom. That way they can tell their friends that I am a good home. And then I wait on the friends. Read more... (2584 words, estimated 10:20 mins reading time)

Posted in Keywords, Linking, Search Engines, SEO, Wordpress | Tagged Linking, pagerank, plugins, Search Engines, SEO, themes, Traffic, Wordpress | 45 Comments

A Final Traffic Update, I Think

Published March 3, 2008 | By admin

Why final? Because I don’t think it adds much any more. This is the sixth one since I started focusing on getting traffic to this blog and I haven’t added too many new tactics, although I need to. Showing numbers is getting old.

The numbers:

	Sept 2007	Oct 2007	Nov 2007	Dec 2007	Jan 2008	Feb 2008	Mar 2008
Feedburner Subscribers	24	57	71		102	136	157
Webalizer Unique Visitors Per Month Read more... (500 words, 2 images, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)	3031	3971	4214		6712	6996	10149
Webalizer Visitors Per Month	7173	8039	9998		14267	15393	20162

Posted in Traffic | Tagged Traffic, traffic update, visitors | 11 Comments

Your Entrecard Inbox is Now a Feed

Published January 31, 2008 | By admin

I had a surprise in my Entrecard dashboard today. The inbox has a feed of the last 50 people to drop a card at my site. I quickly added it to my bookmark toolbar, chose that folder and saw how long it would take Firefox to open 50 tabs by choosing "Open All in Tabs."

I have yet to write an Entrecard focused article yet, but I have noticed a few ways to speed up the process of dropping cards. Read more... (274 words, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

Posted in Advertising, Traffic | Tagged entrecard, Traffic | 10 Comments

Another Free Blogging Ebook

Published September 19, 2007 | By admin

Blog Traffic Made Easy | SiteFever.com

John Robinson over at SiteFever has free ebook on blogging to download. You guys have got to stop releasing these things so quick. I am still in John Chow’s book. But I read things slow, so I can remember everything and do every step when its in front of me.