http://www.hypertraffictoyourwebsite.com The big experiment: can we use social media and Web 2.0 techniques to get us on page 1 of Google in a week? Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:10:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok guys, as we've seen over the past few days, traffic is slowly (very slowly) ramping up despite no real content being on the site. Now we're ready to drive organic traffic to the site using social bookmarking and viral videos. The video is (finally) ready to upload -- minor snag, filezilla ... http://www.hypertraffictoyourwebsite.com/archives/17 Very interesting, posted an announcement for a call I'll be doing tonight (remember, create video-content so we can finally start this social bookmarking experiment to drive organic traffic to the less work more money blog) -- and within minutes I got an email from Jeff Landers saying that google alerts had ... http://www.hypertraffictoyourwebsite.com/archives/16 Just a quick update -- had to spend most day actually working (bummer....) Organic traffic is slowly growing (very slowly) as we can see from the following graph. Not a rush of traffic yet, but then, apart from a single post there is nothing on the blog yet. Tomorrow night I'm scheduled to ... http://www.hypertraffictoyourwebsite.com/archives/15 As part of this "organic traffic to your website using social bookmarking experiment", we'll need to do a lot of clicking -- social bookmark the various posts and videos as shown in the viral traffic tutorial (see blogroll on right). I'm right now outsourcing mechanical tasks (clickery-click on the social bookmarking ... http://www.hypertraffictoyourwebsite.com/archives/14 Quick update, despite not doing ANYTHING, I mean, nothing, nada, the blog just sitting over at http://lessworkmoremoneyblog.com/ we've already picked up a number of visitors. Yes, I know, it's not a torrent yet -- but how on earth did ANYBODY find their way there, considering it is brand-new, has no content and isn't ... http://www.hypertraffictoyourwebsite.com/archives/13 Can you help with this one? As you know, youtube videos are limited to 10mins in length. What I'd like to do for this project is post a video that is longer than 10mins, but still host it at youtube. The plan is to split it into several pieces (all under 10 mins), ... http://www.hypertraffictoyourwebsite.com/archives/8 Ok, we're good to go Slight delay, apologies, I was baby-sitting all weekend, so being lazy (read: "male") I took them all to the beach;-) The experiment website is of course this one and the project we're trying to get up on front of Google is on: http://www.lessworkmoremoneyblog.com/ As you can see, I've used Jeff Johnson's SEO wordpress ... http://www.hypertraffictoyourwebsite.com/archives/7 The simplest way I have found to install Google Analytics in the blog is to use, suprise, surprise, a wordpress plugin: http://www.joostdevalk.nl/wordpress/google-analytics/ All you need to do is enter your analytics code (which you get when you sign up for Google Analytics) and you're set to go. What I like about this particular ... http://www.hypertraffictoyourwebsite.com/archives/4 Right then, time for some audience participation. What keywords should we target? The advice normally given falls into two categories: Pick a niche (or keyword) that has lots of traffic (people are searching for it) and has no or very little competition (which you can easily find with the google keyword tool) OR has ... http://www.hypertraffictoyourwebsite.com/archives/3 Hello everyone, I've registered the name for the target site, it is http://www.lessworkmoremoneyblog.com/ right now it's not up (and those of you who've been following me on twitter will know that I'm still fuming -- customer service, how NOT to do it!). The title for the new blog is inspired by the fact that ... http://www.hypertraffictoyourwebsite.com/archives/2