Still trying to answer your questions

February 12, 2010

I have a backlog of questions that I am trying to get caught up on but it’s taking a little. There are over 80 questions that people asked and I am still in the process of replying to all of them. It could be a few days until I’m caught up and have time for [...]

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My crazy idea on how to get traffic

February 11, 2010

Nearly all of the traffic advice on the Internet focuses on how you can get more traffic working by yourself.
I want to try something different. I’ve been thinking about doing something a little more collaborative where you and I work together to get more traffic.
This is kind of a new idea and I would really [...]

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Video: How to Optimize your URLs with WordPress

February 9, 2010
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Question Box: What is the best method for long term traffic?

February 8, 2010

Rachel asked:
What is the best method for long term traffic?
This is a simple question with a very long and complicated answer.
But in a nutshell the best way to get long-term traffic is to build a community. Your most important visitors are the ones that keep coming back. They are the ones that will leave comments [...]

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Question Box: What is the best method for viral traffic?

February 8, 2010

Rachel asked:
What is the best method for viral traffic?
I think getting viral traffic is one of the most difficult methods of traffic generation.
When something goes viral it’s passed on from one person to another. So you’ve got to make something that people are going to want to pass on. Make something that is funny or [...]

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Question Box: How to get enough traffic to my site to be a success

February 8, 2010

Andy asked:
[How do I] get the traffic up to a useful minimum monthly total to claim that a site is a success.
This is a really tough question because it depends on a lot of things.
How do you define what a total success is?
Do you rate things based on how much money they’re making? Or how [...]

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Video: 3 most important parts of article marketing

February 1, 2010
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I achieved my twitter goal for January

February 1, 2010

I have been recently using twitter as a means to get traffic to my website and build my brand.
My goal for this year is to add 1,000 followers to my twitter following. This works out to about 85 new followers every month.
I wrote a post on this that outlines my 10 step process I am [...]

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How to separate keywords in your title tag for SEO

January 28, 2010

One of my readers is Sean and asked,
how to separate keywords on the title tag
Rule #1: keep it short and avoid clutter
If your website is about “German Shepherd manicures” then you want to have those keywords in your title tag to help you rank well in the search engines.
You also want to avoid any [...]

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How to get search engine spiders to return on a regular basis

January 27, 2010

Everyone wants to figure out how to get Google’s spider or crawler to come find new content on their site as soon as that content is added.
One of my readers is Sean and asked:
how [do] I get the search engine spiders to return on a regular basis?
Sites that have a lot of content added on [...]

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My next several posts will focus on answering your questions

January 27, 2010

I have received numerous traffic questions from everyone and I am going to do my best to answer all of them.
Over the next several posts I’ll answer each one of these questions.
Have a question? Feel free to ask:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/1964_ill-give-you-a-free-copy-of-my-next-traffic-product/

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I have decided to make a new website for Internet marketing

January 25, 2010

For the last few months I’ve been contemplating whether I should make a new website to cover different topics within Internet marketing. I had toyed with the idea of expanding the focus of this blog to encompass Internet marketing. But I wasn’t sure if that would be the best way to serve my readers.
So I [...]

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Free Prize If You Ask a Question

January 22, 2010

My goal in creating this blog is to provide the best information out there on traffic generation. If I cannot answer your traffic questions then I have failed.
Unfortunately I don’t know all of your questions.
Will you leave a comment below with your traffic questions?
Some possible questions

How do I do keyword research?
How I get my site [...]

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Why I love DLGuard for managing & protecting the products I sell

January 15, 2010

Most people want to get traffic to their website so they can make money. And a common way to make money is by selling a product.
One problem people have is protecting their digital products from being stolen by online thieves.
When I first started selling my videos online I had a simple URL that I [...]

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Should I change the focus of this blog?

January 14, 2010

My blog is primarily focused on traffic generation.  I want to write about more things related to Internet Marketing and have considered changing the focus of my blog to Internet Marketing.
I have 2 options and I would like your thoughts.
Option 1:  Change the focus to Internet Marketing
If I changed the focus of my blog to [...]

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How I Will Add 1,000 Twitter Followers This Year

January 6, 2010

Most people on twitter want to increase the number of people that follow them.
I currently only have about 170 followers and so gaining 1,000 new followers may seem a little ambitious.
But I am up to the challenge!
I wrote a 10 point plan for TwiTip on how to get 1,000 new followers this year:
http://www.twitip.com/how-i-will-add-1000-twitter-followers-this-year/
(Because of [...]

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Search engine optimization is not really dead…

January 4, 2010

There’s been a lot of buzz recently about the death of search engine optimization. The news that is spreading is that Google and other search engines are discovering better ways to determine what websites should rank high for a keyword and search engine optimization & page rank are going to play a smaller role in [...]

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Top 10 Posts For 2009

December 31, 2009

When I first started this blog post my intention was to have a simple top 10 list of the best posts of 2009.
But I ended up with roughly 40 posts that I wanted to include my top 10 list. So instead I included all of the posts and broke them up by category.
Free Stuff & [...]

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Just got back from sunny Florida

December 31, 2009

My wife and I just got back from Florida where it was nice and sunny and warm. It was kind of hard to come back to the bitter cold of Utah but all good things must come to an end.
Playing catch-up
One of the problems with being gone for a vacation is that you end with [...]

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Free Stuff From Me & Merry Christmas

December 17, 2009

I’ve taken several of my previous posts and turn them into short e-books for you. They are yours to keep and you are free to give them away and use them to build an e-mail list if you like.
As time goes on I will be adding more freebies and goodies.
Keyword Research Basics

10 Ways To Get [...]

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SEO Cheat Sheet – Free Download

December 12, 2009

I want to share with you a two page PDF that I came across as a good reference and resource for search engine optimization. It’s called the search engine optimization cheat sheet.
I’ve got two screenshots of the PDF below and then the download button at the bottom of the post.
Page 1

(Click the image above to [...]

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Warning: This WordPress Plugin Will Hurt Your Traffic And Irritate Your Readers

December 10, 2009

I like to try new things
I am always looking for new and innovative ways to create traffic to my website and rank higher in the search engines.
I try many different methods and some work really well and some don’t. Those that work well I share with my readers on my blog.
SEO Super Comments
I’ve been doing [...]

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Video: How To Sell Stuff Online And Use Paypal As A Payment Processor

December 9, 2009

Introduction
The focus of my blog is how to get traffic to your website. And the reason many people want to get traffic is so that they can sell something online.
The trouble is, many people aren’t sure how to set up the payment processing to sell their stuff.
For example, Frank might have some great e-book on [...]

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Before you start a blog, build a website, or buy a domain read this

December 7, 2009

Introduction
I frequently get e-mails from individuals asking me to analyze their website and tell them how they can rank high in the search engines.  I reply to their e-mails and ask them what kind of keywords they want their site to rank high for.
Sometimes they respond that they don’t know what keywords they should rank [...]

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Video: How to get traffic by analyzing what your RSS subscribers like

December 4, 2009

In this short video I will show you how I use a free tool called Feed Burner to analyze which blog posts are popular with my RSS readers.
Once I know what is popular I can create more posts like that and get more traffic.

Links from the video
Feed Burner

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7 Ways To Create A Professional Twitter Presence

December 2, 2009

I just wrote a guest blog post on TwiTip titled “7 Ways To Create A Professional Twitter Presence”
You can read it here:
http://www.twitip.com/7-ways-to-create-a-professional-twitter-presence/
I would love to hear your comments.

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