Above is a video of John Chow being interviewed about driving traffic to your site. If you have not heard of John Chow, he is the blog mogul who makes around USD17,000 in August 2007. This guy rocks and is dead serious about making a living off the internet. He has also written a free ebook to give away in order to drive traffic to his blogs. Check out the YouTube video above.
Search engine traffic or organic traffic is useful to increase the number of hits to our sites. With more repeat visitors, the number of hits and unique traffic will soar for more revenue from the various ad placements. So, when you have a blog, it is better to write for your audience for repeat visits and traffic. Webmasters have approached many website optimization firms to increase website traffic so that their blogs and websites will generate more income from the various visitors.
Now there is a website optimization firm from ThinkBIGsites.com. ThinkBIGsites.com has developed a unique blog marketing and inbound linking strategy that helps customers in terms of branding and search engine rankings. Blog marketing is important as it pertains to corporate branding. When you market your blogs or websites, there will be more website traffic and visitors reading your blogs. This will convert to more revenue if you publish Google Adsense advertisements in your blogs and web sites.
PiXPO is a Canadian company that offers video, photo and audio sharing. Users can choose the files to be public or private and to share those special memories with just their friends and families. It can also be used to create YouTV to broadcast your own selection of personal videos spread the word such as make a channel around an event or a product. You can also build an audience of artists, videographers, podcasters, musicians and like-minded people. In the long run, PiXPO saves your money as it runs directly from your PC, so there are no bandwidth or storage costs.
PiXPO makes it easy to get all your videos online. Sure, it’s not too hard to get one or two clips online, but PiXPO is the only solution available that lets you broadcast ALL your personal video. Plus, with music and photo capability, you can broadcast all your media. It is just like a version of YouTube and Flickr combined for your video and photo uploads respectively.
You can download it free here. If you are just back from the party with a digital camera full of videos and photos, then you might like to try PiXPO. Get showing them off! With PiXPO, just dump your files onto your PC, then create a channel. In under 3 minutes you’re broadcasting to the world – right from your own PC. PiXPO makes it easy to create a full-on broadcast of all your media. It’s virtually instant to launch new channels. Plus, it’s super-easy for your friends to see them - just send them a channel link and they’re watching right now.
An online pal sent me an invitation link to join StumbleUpon, a place where you can discover new sites based on your interests. After clicking on the link, decided to check it out. There are a few features; you can channel surf the internet for great websites, videos, pictures, games and more. To begin, I entered the necessary details and then it led me to a page to download the free StumbleUpon toolbar. After downloading the exe file, I ran it on my PC and it was automatically installed on my IE browser but I could not use the tool. Later, I recalled reading that it will operate on Firefox browsers.
Anyway, here’s what you get when you used it on your Firefox browsers. By choosing personalized recommendations according to your interests, you get to rate, review and share what you find; you can also keep an online history of the things you’ve Stumbled and more importantly, there is no adware or spyware secretly installed with this toolbar.
The requirement is that you must be at least 14 years old to join and Stumbling is personalized for you. By telling them your interests, they can bring great websites to you. You may select popular topics out of the over 500 that they have. And if you’d like a few more now, you can click Show More, or you can always make changes later. Do not fret as your information is safe and protected. They have a privacy policy linked up.
Person.com - webcams, chat, personals is a place where you can meet new people for dating, friendship, chat or whatever you want. You can do this by many means and this is where they differ from other sites. Users can meet new friends by performing their own live video show. If you have a webcam - just start our web based messenger and turn your webcam in public mode. Any user of Person.com will be able to watch you.
Or you can browse through currently running live broadcasts and contact performers instantly! All performers are ordinary users just like you. No models, no hired people on cams - everything is user generated. Also you have an option to broadcast your cam only to people you wish.
HighFivez.com is a web community for finding and promoting the most interesting Blog Posts and Blog Authors in the Blogosphere. It has a forum where you can ask any question related to blogs, what other paid programs there are and how to improve your rankings. The cheerful orange and white theme was attractive and reminds me of some signature kitchen cabinets of the exact same colors in Penang, Malaysia. The sign up was easy and you will instantly get a notification of a link to click on to complete your registration. Still in beta version, I find that after clicking on the link to confirm, it should be able to detect my username when I write a new post instead of having to type another username. Other than this minor bug, the rest of the features are fine. Also, after submitting a blog, the newest post should be right at the top and I could not find the new blog submitted besides the most popular ones.
Anyway, I will take note of this new forum and check out the entries as the days go by. As this is still a beta version, I guess improvement will be made from user feedbacks. I thought the idea of segregating the topics based on Popular Posts, Most View Posts, Most Discussed Posts and Popular Blogs was functional and easy to navigate. Do check out this forum and blog community for more interesting stuffs as more posties participate in here.
