Entries fromJuly 2007

One way to get more search engine traffic is to optimize your website for Google Image Search, a tool which allows users to easily find images by typing in specific search terms, phrases and keywords.

Many people utilize Google Image search to find images for a wide variety of topics, which can range from pictures of cars to celebrities and furniture.

Images can not only make your website visually attractive: they can help you to gain more daily search engine traffic.

New websites need links to develop any sort of search engine visibility. Links pointing to a new website can get it indexed and help it to start ranking for low to medium competition long tail keywords.

These keywords will send visitors searching for information on a specific topic to your website and allows you gain a new reader or make some money from whatever affiliate program or ad scheme you are running.

I’ve recently set up several websites for some friends and link building was my main concern because I needed links for the webpages to be indexed and start showing up in the search engine.

Reddit is a popular social news website with user-submitted links that may be voted up or down by their users. Websites voted up to the frontpage usually receive a great deal of traffic and can easily see over 10,000 visitors within the span of a day.

A portion of these visitors is likely to become your feed subscribers or they might even convert well on recommended affiliate links.

Being on the front page of Reddit may also cause your website to go viral on other social websites like Digg, StumbleUpon or del.icio.us, sending you ever more links, traffic and potential audience.

Other websites in your niche often hold the key to getting more traffic for your own website. Their collection of traffic sources and links is one that you can appropriate for yourself when you are trying to build more traffic and links.

Assuming that there isn’t a huge gap in topics covered and content quality, websites that link to your competitor will generally be willing to link to you as well.

If the competing sites in your niche are older and more established, their backlink profile might just reveal the traffic sources you need to grow your own website.

A poll about the use of social bookmarking buttons was set up on Dosh Dosh a week or two ago and it received 221 votes by readers and other visitors.

I’ve just ended the poll and I wasn’t really surprised with the results because they cohered with my personal experiences.

I’ll be the first to say that I have never used any social bookmarking buttons on any website or blog that I’ve come across. All my bookmarks or page submissions are done via a combination of official and third party bookmarklets or tools.

I’ve recently changed the permalink structure for Dosh Dosh and reorganized the categories for my articles. The whole process involved almost every post on Dosh Dosh and led to a large amount of 404 error pages showing up on this site.

This short article details the plugins I’ve used to go through the whole task of renovating my category and permalink structure. I thought it’ll be useful to share my experience of the process.

Starting a new website is a lot of work. Trust me, I know. Writing content can take a lot of time and energy but the most difficult process of all is to actually build a regular audience.

We all want visitors streaming into the site from early on but unfortunately, things don’t always unfold according to our expectations.

Traffic building can take a tremendous amount of effort but you should know that whatever traffic building efforts you’ve done serves as a foundation for future marketing or monetization plans.

Building defensible or alternative traffic sources for your website allows it to stay afloat, should any search engine algorithms negatively impact the amount of organic traffic you currently or are able to receive.

Following my previous introduction to defensible traffic, this article includes a compilation of 10 overall strategies you can use to develop referral traffic sources for your website, blog or business.

As these methods are generally not niche-specific, you can use them effectively for any type of website or industry. Links to similar articles on these topics are also included at the end of this list.

Both Guy Kawasaki and Kevin Rose are established personalities with a following. Kawasaki is known for his early marketing work with Apple, books on entrepreneurship/venture capitalism and recently, his widely read personal blog.

Rose on the other hand, is known as the founder of Digg.com, the largest social voting website on the web. Both Kawasaki and Rose each recently started a Web 2.0-style online social website.

In May 2007, Kawasaki founded TrueMors, a rumor reporting website and Rose (along with some friends) created Pownce, a mashup file sharing and social networking startup just a week ago.