Three Sides Of Traffic was a 2 day event held on Long Island, NY and hosted by Howie Schwartz, Simon Leung and Ross Goldberg. The event was different right from the get go with the cost being a donation to Al’s Angels to help children and families in need.

I attended the event because first and foremost, I’m a Big Howie fan – the man really knows his stuff and always overdelivers- and second, I wanted to undertstand traffic from 3 different “proven” perspectives. And as if learning about traffic from 3 different but effective points of view wasn’t enough, they unselfishly invited a husband/wife team, Lee and Robin Collins, to speak about yet another way of getting traffic.

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So you want to blog to get traffic to your site? Then you will need to know a little about blogging. Here are some important tips to remember when blogging for your business.

 ~ Make it interesting and informative. Make sure your posts offer information on your business, what   your business offers, and informative posts regarding the art of your business in general. Keep it interesting and be sure to include something of value. If the reader feels they got something out of your post, you can be sure they will return for more.

 ~ Be consistent and post frequently but not at the price of quality. Posting daily may get your blog noticed quicker, but even if you don’t post as often, if you consistently include quality content your blog will still grow accordingly.

 ~ Offer them an incentive. Offer your readers a free newsletter or report in exchange for their name and email address. This is a great way to build a list and at the same time increase your blog reader numbers.

 ~ RSS, think RSS! Many blog readers do not actually visit the blog every day. They subscribe to the RSS feeds of the blog. This blogging tactic can be used across the board by all bloggers. The easier your posts are to locate, the more people that will read them.

Blogging is an effective and popular method of marketing that has a high Return On Investment (ROI).  Many marketers choose to use blogs to drive more customers and more business to their site.  These blogs often offer expert opinions and knowledge that visitors are looking for on the Internet.  You can get started blogging by setting up a free blog at sites such as, wordpress.com and blogger.com. 

For all those real observant readers who might be questioning why I haven’t followed my own advice on offering an incentive to my readers, it’s in the works.  This is all a learning process for me and I can only learn and do so much in a day.  But it’s in the works and I hope to have it up soon.  If you keep coming back to read my content you’ll soon see what I have to offer. 

As your blog’s content increases, people in your niche will hopefully mention you for intelligent or interesting discussions.  If this starts to happen, consider it an initiation for an interaction and thank them for the mention and continue to build upon the connection.

When you use a traffic script such as the free www.statcounter.com, you can actually see where your traffic is coming from.  If a large number of visitors come from a certain blog, there is a good chance that they have mentioned you in their latest posts or linked to you from their sidebar or links page.  if that’s the case, then I suggest you pay them a visit, leave constructive comments on their posts and build up a conversation. Read the rest of this entry

The following is a basic list of simple strategies that when put into practice can increase your search engine rankings and website traffic.

• Create a site with valuable content, products or services.
• Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.
• Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target customers.
• Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your web page. Like in your Title, META tags, Headers, etc. Read the rest of this entry

I’ve been reading and educating myself on different aspects of online marketing.  We all desire traffic to our website in hopes that we can eventually make the conversion.  Well, blogging, article marketing, and posting in forums has been where I’ve focused most of my marketing energy .  I figure if I can get some web presence, I can build credibility and work on the like and trust factors.  I know I’m honest, pull no punches and here for the long haul to help you in any way I can;  I just need you to know that!  

I published another article this week and made some posts in forums.  The article I published is titled Every Website Requires Search Engine Optimization and can be found in numerous places.  It still makes me proud to see my articles published but this particular submission was not only accepted in the knowledge base, but made the “Top Pick” list for the online newspaper. 

As a beginner writer, when I write an article I learn so much about the topic and continue to increase my knowledge of the online marketing business.  I also played around with some interesting tools I came across that have to do with forum posts, finding blogs with dofollow links, and a page strength analyzer.  I found them all some what helpful and was especially impressed with the tool that showed me stats on my page strength.  It was here that I discovered that the few articles I published have given me some exposure on the web and in a very distant way recognized on Google. 

Notice how I wrote the headline for this post?  Something I picked up on in my readings.  Include keywords in your headlines as a way of SEO.  Better chance to be picked up by readers and spiders.