About Nick
About Nick Stewart, creator of Nick’s Traffic Tricks
My name is Nick Stewart and I have been studying how to traffic to websites for several years now.
I built my first website in 1997 and back then getting traffic was pretty straightforward. There were not a lot of sites competing with you and you just needed get listed in the Yahoo directory to get traffic.
Almost everything has changed since 1997. This blog is my attempt to share what I have learned since then.
My goal for this blog
My goal is to provide up to date advice on how to get traffic to your site.
My email: nickstraffictricks@gmail.com
Can I answer your traffic questions?
Feel free to ask me any traffic questions you may have and I will do my best to answer them:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/1178_what-is-your-biggest-traffic-question/
Free 68 page traffic guide
I wrote a 68 page traffic guide covering almost every way to get traffic.
You can get it for free here:
http://free–web-traffic.com
My personal goal
My goal is to consistently make $10,00.00 a month from my online business and then my wife will let me quit my full time job as a software engineer.
What is your goal?
Stay up to date
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Contact Nick
Email me any time: nickstraffictricks@gmail.com
Random Facts About Nick
- I don’t like mayonnaise, sour cream or guacamole. But I do love Mexican food.
- I am a software engineer by trade and am proficient in Ruby, PHP, Rails, and MySQL.
- Once every 7 years my birthday is on the same day as Thanksgiving.
- In school I was one of those weird kids that actually liked math and science.
- I love to read and read a book or so each week.
Books I Read in 2010
My goal is to read 50 books in 2010.
- Rework 3/22/10
- The Gunslinger 2/17/10
- Linchpin by Seth Godin 2/9/10
- Crush It! by Gay Vaynerchuk 2/1/10
- What the Dog Saw 1/26/10
- How to Win Friends & Influence People 1/10/10
- Super Freakanomics 1/7/10
Books I Read in 2009
My goal was to read 25 books from July-December 2009.
- The People Code by Taylor Hartman 12/28/09
- The AdSense Code 12/17/09
- Meatball Sundae by Seth Godin 12/13/09
- Smart and Gets Things Done by Joel Spolsky 11/30/09
- More Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky 11/27/09
- The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis 11/20/09
- On Writing Well by William K. Zinsser 11/19/09
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 11/7/09
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown 10/23/09
- My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job by Chad Fowler10/5/09
- The Gabriel Method by Jon Gabriel 10/3/09
- The Richest Man in Babylon 10/2/09
- What Works on Wall Street by James P. O’Shaughnessy 9/22/09
- The Hunger Games 9/19/09
- What are the odds? Chance in every day life 9/14/09
- Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui by Karen Kingston 9/8/09
- Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary by Brandon Mull 9/6/09
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad 9/1/09
- Gung Ho! by Ken Blanchard 8/25/09
- Kite Runner 8/20/09
- Who moved my Cheese 8/11/09
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 8/10/09
- The Dip by Seth Godin 8/5/09
- Banner in the Sky 8/2/09
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 7/22/09
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 7/16/09
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1TB Hard Drive? Never heard of such. Is this like warehouse size storage capacity? LoL. Sounds interesting, will have to look into it.
Nice to meet you, Nick. You have great tips on your blog. Have been reading for a while. Missy.
Missy’s last blog post..3 Column Wordpress Theme, Meet Mandigo
Do you like 3 cheese pizza?
@steve- I am more of a lots of toppings kind of pizza guy!
you could let us know stuff like:
1. How long you have been marketing online
2. your online goals
3. Whats your personal best method of generating traffic
people reference others based mostly on their own self interests (go figure – humans argh..)
the video humanized you if that was your intent , I never heard of you until I pocked around WSO. So glad I did as it is my humble opinion you are set to do great things.
Hi Nick
I was going thru the books you read in 2009 and 2010. What do the numbers at the end of each book signify?
Thanks
Sundaram
They are mostly the same with some updates.
Awesome blog Nick. I’ve actually bookmarked it! I have never actually bookmarked an IM blog. You have some top info on here. Really. I’ll be back
Lisa
Nick,
Love your blog! I really like your straight forward way of explaining things. Getting traffic is one of the things I really struggle with and I can see that I can learn a lot here!
Thanks for all the great info.
Diana
Glad to help Diana.
Great blog Nick! Informative videos too. I keep coming back for more. Thanks.
Hi Nick, I love your blog and wish you could help me expand my own!
Besides that, I am interested in setting up my blogs to have a “Leave your comment” section under each entry. Would you mind looking at my blog http://www.voicelessonstogo.com/blog and letting me know which way would be best to do it? I would like to approve all comments first before they appear. But I would also like them to appear appropriately under their related blog and have it be easy for people to figure out how to comment. Thanks!
Ariella Vaccarino
I am so glad you liked the videos. Are there any topics you would like covered in future videos?
Hi Ariella,
You have a very nice looking blog. Are you using WordPress?
Send me an e-mail at nickstraffictricks@gmail.com and I can help you get your comment stuff working.
Nice blog Nick. Through your blog you can help a lot of people who are very much interested in making money online…
Just wanted to say hello and thank you for all the insightful insights into the world of SEO.
I am getting better everyday and have even managed to optimize a website to reach number 3 for the appropriate keywords. I am working on another site now and hopefully wil get to work on a 3rd website soon.
Cheers! You are a gem, Nick.
Hey Nick. I can’t find the page where I can ask a question so I am posting it here….I have been optimizing a UK website from India. Now when I Google the keywords on http://www.google.co.in the website shows on number 1 position but when I run a search for the same keywords on http://www.google.co.uk the website shows at number 5. Do you think this has anything to do with the website being optimized from India.?
It could be. Or it could be that they’re a lot more sites competing that have been optimized for the United Kingdom. Really hard to say.
No problems. thanks anyways.
I’ve also been wondering about that and I think it’s because from what Google server the data is coming from. I believe they have serveers for the U.S., Canada, UK, China, etc.
Let’s say you’re from India and then go to Google.com, it seems you’re being directed to the nearest Google server to your IP address and then when you type in a search term Google serves up results more for your area. I believe they’re doing this so they can bring more targeted ads for adsense. Because when someone sets up an Adwords ad he has the option to choose which country to show the ads so Google needs to know where the query is coming from and they do it by the computer’s IP address. So this means that top 10 results from each Google server differs somewhat from each other.
I’m not from the U.S. so what I do is type in my search in Google and after I get the results I go to the URL bar and type in “&gl=us” where us is the country code. The results refresh and I should see results as if I’m sending the query from the U.S.
I’m still doing some research on this and all that I said are my observations and not 100% accurate as far as I can tell.
What you’re saying actually does sound right.
Nick, you’re the man! I love your stuff.
Tom Collins
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