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Why I Don’t Worry About Pandas or Penguins or Whatever Else Google’s Up To

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Are you feeling scared of Pandas and Penguins lately?  If you follow Google’s changes and updates you might be. But here’s why I’m not worried about what Google’s up to, other than my usual web marketing geekiness that compels me to keep up with what they’re up to… If you’re doing things right, building multiple [...]

Three Quick & Easy Ways to Get More Traffic From Twitter

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Want more traffic to your website from Twitter? Not sure what to do to make that happen? Here are three quick & easy ways to drive more traffic from Twitter back to your blog. …plus one bonus tip that isn’t quick but is totally worth the time. 1.  Twitter Tools Install and use the Twitter [...]

101+ Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

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Would you like more traffic to your blog?  Join me for a webinar tonight! We’ll cover social media, content syndication, networking, links, search engines, repurposing your content, offline strategies and more. In this 90 minute live webinar (replay will be available) at 4pm Alaska time (that’s 5pm PST/8pm EST) I’ll share 101+ different tools, strategies, [...]

“Cool Kid” Secrets to Getting Social Network Traffic to Your Blog Posts

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Each time we run the Ultimate Blog Challenge or I get in a chat with a group of bloggers, I see a trend… some bloggers know the secrets to sharing their posts in a way that gets click throughs and others don’t.  And many don’t even realize they’ve figured out those secrets. But I’ve got [...]

Get Inspired to Blog!

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Are you ready?  The Ultimate Blog Challenge is back again. Michele & I are so excited to get another month of motivated blogging in action. Join us FREE at http://ultimateblogchallenge.com When you join you’ll get a daily email during October with a blogging idea each day.  Save them and you’ll always have ideas of what [...]

Playing Monday Morning Quarterback

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When I shared with my readers, fans, subscribers and all the generally awesome people like you that I’m connected with online that I was launching a new blog, the questions started pouring in. Why a second blog? How can I possibly blog twice a day (once at DailyBloggingIdeas.com, once at MichelleShaeffer.com)? What if I run [...]

Unmask Who’s Linking to You

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Do you know who’s linked to your website? Are you wondering how your visitors are finding you?  Or if all that work you’ve been doing to build links is paying off? Knowing which site are linking to you and which links are driving traffic is important so you can focus your efforts on the most [...]

What’s Your Two Cents on Alexa?

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Two weeks ago I went on a quest to increase my Alexa rank. So I started looking around for info on how Alexa’s rankings are determined and what to do to increase it. I found some basic hints like adding the Alexa javascript ranking to my site so Alexa has a more accurate count of [...]

*Beep, Beep* Where My Traffic Comes From

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As a follow up to yesterday’s post about diversifying traffic sources, I’ll share some of where my traffic to this blog comes from.  I’ve picked out the most interesting and/or top links to share here. Top sources of traffic to my site over the past day or so, based on my stats: Social Networks: Twitter, [...]

*Beep, Beep* Create Your Own Website Traffic Jam

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Want more traffic to your blog or website?  Here’s an important strategy… D – I – V – E – R – S – I – F – Y (Oh, and also, share something worth reading or that makes your website worth visiting but that goes without saying, right?  This post will assume you have [...]