Marketing & Traffic

Drive More Traffic to Your Site from YouTube: An Easy Tip

May 9, 2012 17 Comments

If you use YouTube to post videos, make sure you're leaving a clickable link to your blog in the first part of your video description. It's a great way to drive traffic to your blog from your videos. Update: This tip was originally published in April 2011, but I'd like to refine it because, well, {Continue reading…}

How Can You Use Video in 2012?

March 13, 2012 14 Comments

My aunt and uncle are in town for a few days and they humor me by listening to my impassioned explanations of how their generation is used to people with money and authority deciding what information the masses will see, and how social media is changing that. How everything is turning upside down and now, the {Continue reading…}

How to Customize Your FeedBurner Email Sign-Up Box

January 31, 2012 35 Comments

I mentioned before the importance of email subscriptions and making your sign-up form really easy to find. I see a lot of blogs with the generic FeedBurner sign-up form in their sidebar. The default form looks like this: Now, there isn't anything wrong with this and if you have this in your sidebar, way to go! {Continue reading…}

Branding Tool: KnowEm

January 30, 2012 19 Comments

When it comes to branding, ideally you'll want your name/username to be consistent across all social media sites. Whether you're creating a new site or a new product, or you want to more firmly establish the one you've already got, a great tool to check if and where your desired name is available is called {Continue reading…}

SEO Tool: Free, Printable Beginner's Guide to SEO

January 10, 2012 9 Comments

SEO is one of those things that confuses a lot of bloggers, particularly those that are new. It's a bit intimidating. SEO should be kept in balance with great content, but having some knowledge of SEO is definitely helpful. This is an outstanding guide for beginners at SEOmoz, one of the most highly regarded SEO {Continue reading…}

Traffic Tip: Be the First to Leave a Comment

January 3, 2012 36 Comments

I've talked about how you can build traffic via commenting on other blogs. (I also gave you some extra tips here and here.) Another tip is to comment as quickly as you can once a new blog post goes live. Most blogs have their comments listed from oldest to newest. If you're the first person {Continue reading…}