Increasing Website Traffic

Paid Links Joy May Be Over Soon

I was originally going to put this link I found on paid links in my weekend entrepreneurial links post but then did some digging and decided it needed some separate post attention! I found an interesting article on one of my semi-regular blog stops OsWorld.biz that glared out at me with the title The Death …

Think of SEO as Free Advertising

One comparison that is so obvious but often needs to be explained is that SEO can be thought of as free advertising. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which for those who don’t know means that you use techniques to optimize your website and the links coming in to rocket yourself to the top of …

You Really Need to Have an SEO Plan

One of the biggest things I’ve learned in building my blog network is that I should really listen to what I read. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve browsed a blog post that says “Follow these steps to sure fire win SEO,” or something like that. Even if these bloggers were just writing …

Kevin Rose Shows Us How to Launch Your Website to The World

I’ve been told personally by several prominent bloggers, as well as read countless times that the easiest way to launch another blog or website is to have an audience. Of course this is quite obvious, and of course I didn’t follow the advice. Launching Blogtown Press would have been much easier had I really focused …

Feeling the Digg Effect

I know, I know. I should be happy I have such a problem as feeling the digg effect. But truth be told, it sucks. I’ve been getting slammed once again via digg and my server can’t handle it. It’s time for an upgrade. I’ve spent the better half of the evening searching around for solutions …

Quick Digg Update

I recently told of one of Blogtown Presses articles getting dugg all the way to the front page. I was, of course, super psyched and was able to track the progress through digg’s interface and our stats. It was interesting to see that over the first 10-12 hours of it being crazy dugg there were …

First Article to the Top of Digg

Thought I would share some exciting news. Blogtown Press had it’s first article to make it to the front page of Digg, all news! The article is from Aloha Update and is about Dog “The Bounty Hunter” Chapman and his recent back and fourth with the Mexican authorities. You can see the digg article here and …

Check out the First Winner Coconut Pic

The first winning coconut went out in the mail and here’s a sneak peak at the beauty. Straight from Hawaii to your doorstep, you could win it. All you gotta do is enter the contest! (PS all you have to do is write one post with a few links)    

Keyword Research Tool

I was recently directed to a great tool for doing keyword research. It uses the overture database and then estimates the monthly searches in Google and MSN (probably from released search percentages). The best part of it is that it offers keywords that are similar and related and shows you numbers for those as well. …

Google Analytics Is Up And Running

Finally Accepted to Google Analytics