Free Web Traffic

I have seen articles all over the web lately screaming:

"Look out! the search engines are changing their ways!"

I say ….. Its about time. Although search engines are continually changing how they work to supply the best information to their users,  internet marketers are afraid they will punish their sites for the tactics they have been using to get their website traffic.

The "Guru’s" that haven’t planned for the direction the new internet is going will be left in the dust with their "killer scripts" and lengthy link lines to exit their pages (one offer after another). I already just filter out their emails and click away from their sales pages without reading them.  They all say the same thing about a different product or service, I don’t need to read them, I already have a thousand times!

I have finally cleaned my computer of all the junk I purchased from them because it was the best, then never used because I had to purchase the complete package for it to work properly. Sure a few of the products worked for a while but were soon obsolete. There used to be an ad on TV that aid "Never fool with Mother Nature" , well trying to get visitors to your web pages by trying to fool search engines and the people you are trying to attract will get you very short term results. You had better be born again, use a new name computer, internet connection and address if you want another chance……. Your BAD NAME, COOKIES,  and IP Address is all over the internet and doesn’t just go away!

Successful "Guru’s of the future will have a large information base spread over the internet linked to search engines with laser targeted long tail tags and keywords explaining the exact nature of ever post and page. Tricks and traps will be punished by lower rankings. People searching on the internet will actually find what they are looking for whether it be info or where to buy.

See more information on Website Traffic on my Hub Page

We have had HeadSpace as a plugin on our blog network since it was formed. Admin uses the basic features with every post. but there is more we can all easily use here to really boost out traffic. Here is an excerpt form the Authors original blog.

HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more.

Because the configuration of meta-data can be a complicated and tiresome process HeadSpace provides several shortcuts to reduce your effort:

• Meta-data nesting - data is collected not only from the page itself, but nested parent pages
• Dynamic data extracted - why repeat yourself when you can extract data from the post itself?
• Full GUI interface - data is entered alongside post content, and with a full auto-suggested AJAX interface for tags and keywords
• Mass-editing - now you can edit meta-data for all pages and posts at one go!

Now if everyone has done their tag/key phrase research and updates it often,  or is doing their research now, Headspace makes it easy updating or changing tags to optimize each page and post so you can change from poorly performing tags/ key phrases to low competition, highly searched ones easily! Remember, your tags must match your post/page content and should be in the content at least once.

TBN has many SEO features that can boost your traffic quickly! Take a litle time to get fimiliar with them. You will see a difference in no time. Support is always here to help.

The FireStats seems to be working fine so far (1 day). Traffic jumped back up. Its funny how a small script problem will drop traffic stats.  Of course we had a drop when I shut down a couple hundred spam blogs or splogs. It has been climbing slowly since. Slower now because I have put the splogs IP’s in the banned list. Firestats works great for finding the spam IP’s I noticed tonight, it looks like some of the banned IP’s are still trying to signup. Bots aren’t very smart I guess 

I will have to get tougher on the spammers as we grow, but right now they are bringing in some pretty targeted traffic. I’m sorry to say they are better at selecting tags than most.    !!! Everyone must remember the tags or search terms are how people find your copy through search engines so they are very important! They also have to be in the copy! I will work on some more posts on tag research and try to set up a live workshop if I get enough interest.

(Check out the Polls in the sidebar to the right and vote YES in the new Tags Training one if you want a live tags training.)

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WordPress Blog Training

Word Press blogs are easy to use and are great at getting your posts on the top of search engines. Just play around with the controls, check the posting training at  WordPress Training They are the authors and know the most about WP blogs. They now have new videos out covering most every aspect of WordPress. Our network may be a little different because it is WPMU  and the installed plugins, but the basics will be the same. Once you master the basics, the rest is a piece of cake.  Realy… its not bad…..

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