OK, if you’ve been following this series then you already have your blog online – congratulations, you’ve just started on the path to having an online business and financial independence!  However, a blog is of no use whatsoever unless it gets visitors!
Traffic literally means visitors. There are stacks of different ways of driving traffic, and they are certainly not all created equal! Some take lots of time but very little money, while others can be virtually instant but cost a lot.
Now, if you’re just getting started online you …

Continuing my series of posts about social bookmarking, here are my top tips for getting your pages ranked and driving traffic to your sites…
1. Titles – leading and relevant
Without doubt, the single most important factor in whether or not a link to your site is clicked on is the title. While titles of pages and articles are always important, that is never more true than when it comes to social bookmarking. On many sites a visitor only sees the title and a short description, on some others they …

OK short post today, hey it is Sunday after all!
I found a great site yesterday which streamlines the process of submitting to Social media and bookmarking sites. The tool can be found at Social Marker and currently aids submission to 47 of the top social media sites.
Just select which sites you want to submit to (from an exhaustive list ranging from the big boys like Digg and Stumbleupon to small but still useful sites like Connectedy and Backflip) and fill out the URL, title, text and tag fields, then …

Have you ever tried driving traffic from social bookmarking and failed? Ever submitted a page to Digg in the hope of getting a flood of traffic, only to have it buried with barely a murmur?
If that rings a bell then maybe you should try again, but this time target small, more tightly niched bookmarking sites. I’ll be the first to admit, I’ve never looked into the whole social media thing as much as I should, and apart from the occassional stream of traffic from Digg or Stumbleupon after …