Dino Dogan of Triberr [tries to] explain to Ana Hoffman, the queen of traffic generation, why web traffic is a false god. read more...

Triberr marketing at your fingertips: your guide to build relationships, maximize your reach, and yes, get more website traffic with Triberr. read more...

In the spotlight this week:

* the future of Google SEO;
* slew of Google+ changes;
* Facebook fun;
* Google Glass (who cares anyway; most of us won’t see one any time soon!);
* Rob Schneider (yes, that one) and Microsoft bashing Google Docs;
* and more.
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Boosting your web traffic conversions will get you a far bigger increase in opt-ins or sales than boosting traffic. Here are 10 easy ways to do it. read more...

Don’t waste that great video. Where to upload it besides YouTube and where else to promote it for maximum effectiveness. Make it go viral with these tips. read more...

My favorite Twitter tool, Tweet Adder, which I’ve been using and recommending for the past two years, had also gone through a major overhaul, removing most automation features that made it a social media traffic generation dream come true.

Which Twitter tools are still worth their salt?

Which ones provide the most time-efficient way to get more Twitter followers?

Which Twitter tools allo read more...

In the spotlight in the past week:

* Has indian payday loan company hacked your blog?
* Matt Cutts: common SEO mistakes to watch out for;
* social media upgrades;
* Who wins the race for privacy?
* Ghost of WordPress;
* and more.
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How do you do more (conversions, leads, sales) with less (website traffic)?

Convert your existing website traffic better.

Don't know how?

Do what I did – get a good traffic conversion plugin to help you to increase your conversions right now, without the cost of time or money.
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You know that Amazon is a buyer’s marketplace and you should be leveraging that – but how?

This post will help you connect the dots between Kindle publishing, Blogging, and Marketing.
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In the spotlight this week:

* W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache vulnerability;
* User-generated content (blog comments) causes Google manual penalty;
* Twitter woes;
* Scam alerts;
* Government sensors Google;
* Tax-free online shopping no more;
* and more.
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On Page SEO Plugins: what are they? What do they do? Will using them result in better search engine rankings and more traffic? Which one is best? read more...

Thomas Jefferson said, “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” In order to please Google, many people will use two, three or four words where just one will do, and their writing quality suffers big time for it. When you write to the point, you stop when you have said your piece. That might be at 100 words. Or it might be at 200. In the case of thi read more...

Reverse Engineering goes well beyond the concept of 'finding good places to get backlinks from' and takes your SEO to an entirely new level. read more...

Google’s advice that we should be creating web content for our readers, not for Google, is wise – at least in theory. The problem is, that Google is now penalizing those very activities that we should be doing to make great websites for our readers. Here are a few examples that I have noticed. read more...

In the spotlight this week:

* List building week at Traffic Generation Café;
* How do you know if your email marketing is working?
* Google Analytics, Blogger, Affiliate Network, AdSense, and yes – airport;
* Does exact anchor text in internal links hurt your SEO?
* What NASA can teach us about social media;
* and how to protect your blog from the recent WordPress hack a read more...

There has been great debate recently over whether news releases carry any SEO value. Let me clear things up.

They do. read more...

Just like immortal swordsmen, walking the earth, we all meet at the Gathering of the search results page. Hundreds of millions of times each day, Google is showing top 10 lists. And there’s only one spot at the top of Google for a given phrase. There can be only one… read more...

Discover 4 hot trends we've seen in the content marketing world that will help push your brand forward and reach more customers. read more...

In the spotlight this week:

* Affiliate marketing industry is getting slapped around;
* Copyright infringement and my personal woes with it;
* New features on Twitter and Facebook;
* Facebook is coming out with their own Android?
* Google Analytics becomes more hands-on in real time;
* Link building resources;
* …And more.
Let’s get down to business.

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Google Alerts is a web content monitoring tool.

You enter a search keyword and the tool shows if the search keyword appears in Google results.

You can select the kind of results you wish to see, namely News, Blogs, Video, Discussion and Books.

From a bloggers’ perspective, this is a tool for blog marketing and analysis. read more...