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Traffic Generation

Youtube Reveals Video Analytics Tool

by Graham Cox on April 10, 2008

Google have introduced a brand new Youtube Video analytics tool for content creators.
Like the Google Analytics Tools, it’s completely free to use and accessible to anyone who has uploaded a video to Youtube. Amongst other things it will show you how your videos compare in terms of popularity to other similar videos and give [...]

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Ebay To Ban Selling of Digital Items

by Graham Cox on March 25, 2008

I‘ve just read on John Thornhill’s blog that eBay will be banning the direct selling of digital items such as ebooks, audio mp3’s, domain names etc from March 31st 2008.
Sadly and quite arrogantly, eBay have deemed it necessary to only give a weeks notice on a policy that will dramatically affect the businesses of hundreds [...]

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Authority Black Book 2008 Released

by Graham Cox on March 4, 2008

Jack Humphrey has just released his 2008 version of the Authority Black Book, the Social Marketing Resource Guide.
Last year’s edition was downloaded over 40,000 times and provided some of the best hands-on advice for generating massive traffic to your blog or website using the power of social marketing.
It’s 67 pages of actionable content and [...]

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No Comment? Improve Visitor Participation On Your Blog

by Graham Cox on February 27, 2008

I‘ve just installed a very handy Wordpress plugin called Comment Luv after reading about it over at the Friday Traffic Report.
It encourages your blog visitors to post high quality comments by automatically putting a link back to the visitors last blog post.
Ofcourse, you’ll need to monitor the quality of comments closely to ensure they [...]

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List Building Using Password Protected Posts

by Graham Cox on February 22, 2008

I‘ve just read a fascinating post by UK Internet Marketer Frank Haywood about the SEO strategies he’s used to climb the Google Search Results for an extremely competitive search term.
For anyone using Wordpress in particular, his post contains tons of valuable advice regarding which plugins to use and how to fully optimise your blog.
But what [...]

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A Cool Traffic Tool For Your Blog

by Graham Cox on February 8, 2008

Every month I attend a meeting of the Bristol Internet Marketing Mastermind Group.
It’s a meeting of fellow marketers from the South West of England and we get together to discuss what we’re working on, form business partnerships and learn new tricks of the trade.
Anyway, we had our last meeting a few days ago, and I [...]

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