So lately I have been working closely with a News Media site which is just about to launch in 2 weeks.

I have been contracted to work with their marketing team so we can drive massive amounts of traffic to their website during the launch period and there after.

Because they are trying to build a “proper brand” it is my job to keep the marketing of the site as “white hat” as possible.

I have been doing research for the past 3 weeks on how the most successful media websites drive traffic to their stories and site.

So how do they drive their traffic?

- Type in traffic
- Google news
- RSS feeds
- Favorites
- Google type in traffic
- Twitter
- Email News letters
- Digg
- Mixx
- Reddit
- Other social bookmarking sites
- Link backs from authority blogs
- Google ad words
- Yahoo SEM
- Widgets
- Mobile

The new thing which seems to work really well is the twitter effect. If there is breaking news the media websites link their stories from their twitter account and this would drive a lot of traffic to that specific article.

The next thing which works well is the Google news. This has been around for a while and it drives up to 40% of traffic for some websites.

The other good idea is to link your top stories from Google ad words which a small budget. $100 could drive up to 2000 unique visitors to your site. In return you would hope they browse other stories and sign up as members etc.

Widgets have been gaining a lot of momentum as well in the past year. Building a widget with the RSS feeds in showing the top story definitely works. It will require the right audience for it though or you will need to market it to your audience in the right way.

Social book marking effect is another awesome way to get drive large amounts of traffic to media sites. If you have the right content which is “News” or technology related this could bring in a lot of long term traffic.

I will update this article as I learn more from my experience. I am also working design structures for the sites to see which keeps the users for longer and what kind of things they click on after reading a story.

StomperNet is sending me review copies of both ‘Stomping the Search Engines 2′ and ‘The Net Effect’.

Have you ever heard of John Reese? If you haven’t until now then you are missing out on a lot. I came to know about John Reese few years ago. He is known to be the Internet Marketing Guru of all the Guru’s. He is the guy who made 1 million dollars in 1 day by selling his Traffic Secrets 1.0 course, that’s right 1 million dollars!

Now he has come up with one of the most anticipated courses online. As you would have known from the title, he has come out with Traffic Secrets 2.0

It has already been sold to alot of people around the world and most of them are already generating massive amounts of traffic to their blogs and sites.

If you are really interested in driving alot of traffic to your site I would highly recommend you to consider buying his course. It is jam packed with new, innovate and proven ways to drive traffic to your sites!

You can watch a quick John Reese - traffic secrets 2.0 video below.

Game Rental Landing pages.

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• • This page has no proper flow
  • the text is too clutered in the grey boxes.
  • the logo of the advertisers are way too blended
  • NO call to action box
  • the “one” , “two” , “three” buttons should be in numeric form and are way too large
  • TRYING TOO HARD TO LOOK LIKE WEB 2.0
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There are several ways on how you can do blog optimization for your blog and website. Blog optimization is essential for higher ranking and better visibility on search engines.

Today I will be showing everyone few important tools that should be used in order to optimize your blog and websites.

A must have tool for all the word press blogs is All in one SEO plug-in. This tool is essential for getting the page title and description right for your blog post. Search engines mostly bring up results with this data which is shown to you.

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The websites are given their rankings based on several factors, such as amount of hits per day, quality of hits, difficulty of putting up your content on the sites, alexa ranking and more.

10) Scribd - document upload website. If you upload a great document which is read by alot of people and have you hyperlink or website address on it. You could generate around 100-200 hits per day.

9) Google - Google could generate you alot of visitors if you are on their top 10 result for a high volume search result. Anywhere from 20 - 1000 per day.

8.) Top blogs - this is really hard to get but if your website makes it on the top blogs then you will be generating 1000′ of hits per day. To be on a top blog you need something new yet cool!

7) Technorati - if you get on their WTF or popular page, you will be on fire. Your website could be generating extra 500 visitors per day and even more at times.

6) Netscape - netscape could generate you 1000’s of visitors per day if you have a great news or story.

5) Myspace - if you have a interesting business or personal profile on myspace, it could generate you alot of traffic from its users. By simply hyper linking you site from your profile could get you around 50 hits per day.

4) Youtube - video sharing website. So if you could generate a real cool video and upload it on their site you could get alot of visitors. All you need to do is have your url at the end stating something like this ” check out www.murps.info for more…” You could get around 20- 500 hits per day and even more at times. ( remember the video has to be unique and cool!)

3) del.icio.us - social bookmarking website. This website could generate you alot of traffic if you get on their hot list. The website can generate around 100 hits in a day (for a good website).

2) Stumble Upon - Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests. Stumbe upon can bring you around 100 hits per day - constantly. It is a great idea by its developers. Stumble upon has over 2 million register users.

1) Digg - the ultimate Free traffic generation website and probably the best yet. Submitting an article could to digg could get you anywhere from 20 - 50,000 visitors per article. Digg user over 1 million registered users and very loyal users. So if you have a great article you think you want everyone to read. Digg it.

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I had a great pleasure of asking Sid from Rev2.org few questions about his blog and interest. Rev2.org is a blog about web 2.0 start ups.

1) Since when have you been doing rev2.org?

I’ve been writing rev2 for about two years. Back in 2004 when the blogs were starting to gain recognition, I installed WordPress as a subdomain on one of my sites and called it ‘Sid’s Ramblings.’ I wrote about web-related technonogies and such, then moved it to its own domain in the next month and renamed it to ‘The Daily Rundown.’ It wasn’t until about mid-2005 that I decided to really change focus from writing on all things web to purely Web 2.0 and startups under the ‘rev2.org‘ name.

2) What made you do rev2.org?

I think it’s really a combination of a few things. First and foremost, it’s my passion: I absolutely love writing about new web startups and technologies as such. It’s been an excuse to have a grasp on new things, but the fact that I can keep others up-to-date and excited as well makes it better. Secondly, I think people can find all this stuff interesting and exciting — like they would a regular trade magazine or newspaper — and I want to be involved in introducing consumers to these kinds of technologies and exciting them as to what holds for the future.

3) Why rev2.org and not something else?

In terms of the idea, I think there has always been space for a blog which solely and exclusively focuses on Web 2.0. I think as time has passed, the idea is actually grown itself rather than me deciding on what I should write about, etc. And as for the name, rev2 stands for ‘revolution 2′ which I think best describes this change we’re going through.

4) Do you enjoy writing about web 2.0?

To be honest, it’s one of the most enjoyable parts of my day. I’m passionate about everything I write about on rev2, and I think there hasn’t been a single instance where I’ve felt bored or lazy to cover something. Sure, finding the right startups and tools and products are hard to do, but once I’ve hit upon a good one I really can’t move out of my desk until I get a post up on it.

5) Is this your past time or full time job?

It is, and I think always will be, my hobby or a part-time thing I do for fun and some minor income. I’m aware that I could commit myself fully to rev2 and possibly grow it into something big, but I think too much of something can get repetitive or boring, at which time I won’t be truly passionate about what I say. I would write about 10 startups a day if I could, but I’d rather stay far enough from it that I actually enjoy using each and every single one.

6) What do you anticipate in the future of web 2.0 technology?

Good question. Making any definite prediction would be pointless, but I think something that is currently looking to point to the future is software on the web, like what Google’s doing with Office and the upcoming web-based version of Photoshop. Online storage and backup systems seem to be going somewhere too, but I think that’s more for the enterprise market.

7) Your top 5 web 2.0 websites?

Well, having reviewed more than 400 to date, that’s a toughie. The ones I use most frequently (in no order) are probably YouTube, GMail, Del.icio.us , Twitter and Flickr.

Do you have any advice for our listeners?

My biggest advice for all readers would be to be a contributer rather than a traditional user when it comes to Web 2.0 services. Web 2.0 is based around the whole idea of two-way communication ( i.e. user feeds in data to the community and gets back the same), so the best way to carry this whole thing forward is by adding to it.

Thank You Sid, you are a legend.

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Hey guys I need to create a buzz about murps.info blog. In order to do this I have come up with an idea!!!. Obviously to create a buzz I will need your help!
What I need? If you have a blog, I need you to article a small article around 30-40 words aboout murps.info. I need you to keep a postive/ neutral tone to the post. Topic samples - “New market your blog site”, “Free information on how to market your post’s” or something similar. I will need you to have this post on your blog for at least 20 days.

What I have to offer you in return? I have several blogs with Page ranking of 1 or more. If you write an article about murps.info I will in return give you a link back from my Pr 2 blog or website. If you would like you could write me a small (max 100 words) post about your blog and I will post this on my Pr 1 blog ( will give link back and more visitors). I have about 50-60 visitors per day on these blogs.

So this is a win-win situation for most small and up coming bloggers.

After you have written an article about murps.info you could email me the post’s url (about murps.info), your url,keywords or a post about your blog and I will put it up with 3 days. You could contact me thru the contact me form.

Happy blogging.

Welcome to Market Your Post’s Blog. In this blog I will be covering ways to advertising and promoting your blog to the world. The tricks and techniques I will be writing about will “ways to market your blog and post’s without spending no or very little money”. I have been in the blogging industry for few years no and I have learnt alot from it. The tips and tricks I will be blogging about is proven to work and have worked in over 5 other blogs.