The Top Five SEO Tips to Avoid

I’ll admit it…I’m kind of a dunce when it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO).  I know the basics, but there are a lot of aspects of SEO that simply confuse the hell out of me.  That’s why I’m happy to include this guest post, from Joe out of the University of San Francisco that gives a bunch of quality tips on the subject…

Promises, promises. You’ve probably seen those flashy ads promising to drive hoards of traffic to your website. But without the proper internet marketing training, who can tell which ad is legitimate and which isn’t? Free advice on search engine optimization, page ranking and keyword phrase strategies isn’t always current — most free help is outdated and is based on a system that’s been overhauled since major search engines like Google, Bing and others took over.

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The Apprentice – Steve Scott Style

While writing last week’s edition of “Get More Blog Traffic,” I made a passing comment about doing a case study of a blog.  To be honest, the comment was buried in the middle of the content, so I didn’t expect anyone to respond to it.

Boy, was I wrong!

In the comments section, I had a couple of folks volunteer their blog.  Plus I also received a few personal emails from people practically begging me to help them out.

Now I can’t pick everyone – My time is already really limited.  However I’ve decided to open this up to all of readers of this site.

So here’s what I’m offering…

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Get More Blog Traffic Blueprint [Week 1]

I’d like to welcome to the introductory lesson of what’s called the “Get More Blog Traffic Blueprint.”  This will be a weekly course on how to skyrocket the amount of traffic your blog gets on a daily basis.  As you already know, every online business needs web visitors.  In this series, I’ll detail the exact steps for taking your blog to the next level.

Today I’m going to give some background on blog traffic – Specifically I want to answer a few questions you might have about this series.  Then next week, we’ll cover what I consider to be the most important aspect for building massive amounts of traffic to your site.  Are you ready?

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How to Get 300 Visitors a Day from Twitter

Today I want to give you a blueprint on how I get 300 visitors a day using Twitter.  I know there’s been a lot written on this topic, but I don’t think too many sites give a step-by-step list on how market their blog.  So this isn’t going to be one those overly-hyped “get THOUSANDS of visitors of day from Twitter” type of posts.  Instead I’m simply going to list the steps I use to generate traffic from this social media site…

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Passive vs. Active Methods For Driving Web Traffic

If you have an online business, you must have web traffic. It doesn’t matter if you own a blog, an affiliate marketing site, or an information product, you need web traffic in order to have any amount of success.

As I detailed in my last trip update, I only have a limited amount of time to work on my online businesses each week. For this site, most of my time will be spent on creating content and long-term income sources. This leaves me with very little time to focus on creating web traffic.

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5 More Tips For the Creating a Successful Lead Magnet

On Tuesday, I described five lead magnet lessons that I’ve learned from developing my first report for this site, “Life Plan Mastery.” In this blog post, I described the importance of creating something that gives real genuine value to the reader.

Today, I want to give five more tips you can use for developing your own lead magnet. We have a lot to cover, so let’s get started…

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