Case Study in Traffic Building - One Man’s Goal

In four short month’s, Bryan Clark at One Man’s Goal has gone from zero to millions. OK, not quite. He started with so little money, he required donations in order to start a domain name for his site. By the second week of his blog, he was up on his own domain, […]

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Increase Your Search Engine Traffic in 3 Easy steps

I have to credit John Chow and Blog Clout for this tip, it’s easy as promised and works a treat.
Have you ever noticed when checking your referral stats that some visitors are arriving at your website without using the “www” preface? And did you know that when a search engine ranks […]

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The Sunday Seven - Third Edition

Blogging these days brings to light many new ideas that were not previously considered.
Here are some great explanations for novel way of communicating with the online community.
1) Shaun Low has a fantastic article…almost better than Stumble Upon’s site, on what Stumble is and how to make the most of it.
2) Adnan at Blogtepreneur shares […]

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Success in Design - Three Simple Elements

When I visit a new website that hits me with the “WOW” factor, three design element stand out.
1) A screen wide header graphic.
This graphic contains the name of the Website, frequently a tagline, usually an iconic logo or cartoony graphic, and it spans the entire screen width.
2) A […]

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Three Color Tricks for Design Excellence

What color combinations should I use?
My website looks like puke, how can I make it more tasteful?
I really love the colors on XYZ site, I wonder what their HTML codes are?
Should I make my headlines the same color as my background?
These questions and more are probably racing in every new blog owners head when they […]

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Four Keys to Success in Online Marketing

Be Passionate. Be Persistent. Be Generous. Be Innovative.
1) Be passionate about what you are selling. Whether it’s a blog, adwords, affiliate promotion via opt-in squeeze pages, etc, if you are not passionate about it, it will show through in your marketing & follow-through
2) Be persistent. Success does not come overnight, but […]

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The Sunday Seven - Second Edition

This week’s posts include some tips for customizing your blogs look & feel…
I wanted to make a simple change to my default Cutline style sheet by Chris Pearson, including removing the bullets from my sidebar lists (blogroll, recent posts, etc) and adding a unique image to the bulleted lists on my blog entries. The […]

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