Posts under ‘Traffic tips’ Category

Increase search engine traffic? Not by targeting competitive keywords

Pick out a few high traffic keywords such as injury solicitors or whiplash. Build links to them. Pray that these links will pass value and will get your keywords to rank.

Sounds familiar? This is the most common way that SEOs have to say about increasing search engine traffic to your site. Is that the only way? No. In fact, there is a group of SEO professionals, such as… Continue reading

Social media traffic v/s Organic Search Engine Traffic ?

Which is better ? With the social media getting popular and search engines scoring values to social media links and traffic, it’s become increasingly relevant these days. There are websites being built purely to cash in on social media traffic. They dish out “resource lists” and stories tailored precisely for the social media crowd. And the traffic growth on Alexa are really impressive for these sites. And comparing this with… Continue reading

How to increase blog traffic quickly

This is no exaggeration. A true story I’d like to share with you, probably you’ll have something to take back home. :)

I had launched a new website this April 12, related to the IPL chennai super kings. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a cricket team in the Indian Premier League and I support them. ;) I had started this website just because I had to… Continue reading

How to generate traffic from Yahoo Answers

Yahoo Answers is an interesting place to get quality traffic from. Have you been using the service yet? Well, it’s a nice service they’re running out there and is the only service (apart from flickr) that I regularly use from Yahoo. On Yahoo Answers, people ask all sorts of crazy questions. Yep, really crazy ones. I’ve seen some one ask – “Where are my car keys?” But that’s an interesting observation… Continue reading

25 Super sites to wile away your time, productively

Last day, at a seminar,  I was about to give a presentation on SEO, and to break the ice, I asked a question – “Which is the one website that you can’t afford to visit a day.” As obvious, I was expecting someone to answer – Google. But he came up with an answer that stunned me. I’ll never ask that question again. :D

What happens when you overdo things? You… Continue reading

How to scrap in Hindi on orkut

It’s easy to scrap your friends in Hindi. With the Indic  Transliteration technology combined with Google suggest, it’s even more easy now.
Go to the Indic transliteration technology page here and type in your hindi words in english.
Hit space and the word shows up in hindi.
If you want to get more suggestions on the word, then double click on the hindi transliterated word and a drop down list… Continue reading

Robots.txt Optimization tips for bloggers

The robots.txt file is used to control the crawlers activity on a website/blog. It will help you to keep some directories away from crawling while allowing some. For example if yu have two folders 1.Articles and 2.Javascripts – and if you wish to exclude Javascripts from crawling by robots, then you can command it on the robots.txt file.
A few basics about what the robots.txt file is –
- It… Continue reading

How to generate traffic from blog commenting

Writing comments on other blogs is an age-old technique to increase your blog traffic. Everyone knows it – right? You knew it.Let’s have a deeper look at this phenomena. Firstly, is it just a “technique”? Well, i think otherwise.I think it’s a cool and natural way to express your love and admiration to other blogs – and of course, contribute to the thinking process.But unfortunately, many a times people see… Continue reading