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4 Ways to Increase Your Traffic With StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon is one of the best traffic generators among the top seven social media sites, referring more than other social bookmarking and voting sites such as Digg and Reddit according to Statcounter.

4 Ways to Increase Your Traffic With StumbleUpon

Why? Because when a user likes, or stumbles, a particular page, it is put into the StumbleUpon lineup. As other StumbleUpon users are randomly searching for new content on a specific topic using the Stumble button on their toolbar, any pages in the lineup for that topic will be displayed to them. So how can you capitalize on this great network and start getting traffic? Great Content Before we go any further, the main secret to StumbleUpon success is having great content. Confirmed SEO Facts by Matt Cutts from Google Search Quality. After many months following the blog and video posts of Google’s Search Quality Group big cheese “Matt Cutts” I have been making notes and decided to write down some of his confirmed statements.

Confirmed SEO Facts by Matt Cutts from Google Search Quality

Please note these are taken from the video blogs of Matt Cutts over the past year. Google could change their algorithms and any point on here may then become redundant. In case there are newbies out there Matt Cutts works for the “Google Search Quality Group” and has become famous (or notorious?) 169 Professional Social Media Tools - Cool List! - Being Heardable - Heardable.com. Can a $5 SEO Job Really Bring You More Search Traffic? Want to see if you’re a winner from last week’s contest?

Can a $5 SEO Job Really Bring You More Search Traffic?

Check out the BB Facebook page! You’ve probably heard of Fiverr, the marketplace for $5 jobs. There are a bunch of SEO-related gigs on the site. I don’t like spending time doing much off-site SEO work, so I decided to try one of these out to see if they were worth anything. The results were actually pretty surprising! Background I did some keyword research and came up with a blogging-related keyword that had 1,300 exact monthly searches. I wrote a blog post on the topic and included the keyword in the post title, permalink, first paragraph, and a couple more times throughout the post. I wanted to get it on the first page, so I went to Fiverr. Study #1. 65 Terrific Social Media Infographics. 65 Terrific Social Media Infographics As you know, infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge.

65 Terrific Social Media Infographics

They present complex concepts quickly and clearly, and communicate ideas in an easily understandable fashion. Last year, I assembled a collection of 35 infographics that told the story of social media at that time. That post proved to be so popular that I wanted to update it, including images that are still relevant and adding newer visualizations that illustrate more recent knowledge and insights into the social Web.

Since social media marketing is a relatively recent addition to organizations’ integrated marketing communications plans, it’s imperative for marketing professionals to gain as much understanding as possible about how people leverage social media for everyday interaction. Most of these have been cropped or scaled down — please click on each image or its title to see the full-sized version. The History of Social Networking The State of the Internet. Don’t Just Read What Top Bloggers Write – Look at What They Do! Many people read a huge amount of blog posts each day in order to learn and stay ahead of the game in SEO.

Don’t Just Read What Top Bloggers Write – Look at What They Do!

I used to read loads of posts myself from the industry leading blogs all of the time. But I think you get to a point where, despite it being great to know what’s going on out there, there’s probably only a very small percentage of this information which directly benefits how you do your job. This post from Todd Malicoat about the important things which change in SEO is definitely worth a read.

Image credit: Flickr. Luckie's 30-Day Social Media Makeover. The Social Path About Luckie Luckie & Company is a marketing agency packed with Southern charm and a freakish love of new ideas.

Luckie's 30-Day Social Media Makeover

11 Creative Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website. Use Google Analytics Advanced Segments To Find The Real Questions Your Visitors Ask. To do keyword profiling to find out what your customers are really searching for, to get into their minds and understand what it is they specifically ask, you dont have to go far.

Use Google Analytics Advanced Segments To Find The Real Questions Your Visitors Ask

Your own site has all the answers " and heres how to find them. The 5 Ws (+ 1 H & 1 C) WhoWhatWhenWhereWhyHowCan These six words are at the heart of every conceivable question one can ask. They are the words used by searchers who want specific information; who want to see their questions answered. SEO Matters:How to Get Ranked for Your Website Name. There’s a lot of advice out there on how to get ranked for some competitive keyword terms (like weight loss, credit cards and so on).

SEO Matters:How to Get Ranked for Your Website Name

What about first ranking for your websites name (if you have a new site)? If you create 2ndwebdesigner.com, for example, that doesn’t mean you’ll be #1 for ’2ndwebdesigner’ or ’2nd web designer’ immediately! Why? Put in rough terms, Google ranks websites using 2 criteria: Excel Tools for SEO. Search Engine Optimization is an activity that calls for a lot of tools.

Excel Tools for SEO

There is so much data, so many variables, and so much change, that if you tried to do everything manually over the long term then you would soon get overwhelmed. Thankfully there are a lot of free and commercial tools out there that can help a lot. What they don’t offer though is a way to keep track of all your own vital SEO information in a centralized manner, and you have very little customization or control available. With this in mind we have been turning our Excel talents towards building some small tools that you can customize easily and completely, and taken together give you a great deal of SEO insight. How to Create and Submit Websites to Search Engines like Google. New Google SEO Starter Guide Published: Perfect for Beginners. For all the naysayers who were so sure that Google Instant was the death of SEO (and those before them who thought the "Mayday" update was the death of SEO and so on and so forth), Google has once again made it blatantly clear that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) isn't going anywhere.

Almost two years to the month, Google has just published a fresh new starter guide to SEO. Via Matt Cutts' Twitter: Having combed through it, I can definitely say that this guide beats the pants off of the previous guide and is worth a glance even to seasoned SEOs (even if just for checking up on how Google currently views SEO)!