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Targeted traffíc is the lifeblood of any successful business. In this article, I’m going to show you how to get laser targeted traffíc in just a few simple steps.

1. Article Marketing - One of the best ways to drive targeted traffíc to your website is through the use of article marketing. This is one of the oldest techniques for generating traffic, but it’s still one of the best.

Once you have written your article, you can then submít it to some of the top article directories like EzineArticles, GoArticles, Buzzle, the American Chronicle, ArticlesBase, and SearchWarp. For a listing of the top article directories online, go to…

MasonWorld.com

You can also publish your website to Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, HubPages, Zimbio, and Gather.com.

For a complete listing of Web 2.0 sites, go to…

Web 2.0 Directory : eConsultant

Article marketing is even more powerful when you submit exclusive articles to bloggers and owners of newsletters. This technique has sent me thousands of visitors with a single article. The key is to find the right distribution outlets.

Just imagine if you spend just one hour each day writing and distributing one article. In three months you would have 100 articles all sending you traffic on a daily basis.

So get out there and start syndicating your articles, submitting guests posts, and writing for online newsletters.

2. Viral Ebooks - Why not bundle your articles together and create a viral ebook? Giving away free ebooks is one of the best ways to generate traffic online. It’s also one of the best ways to build your mailing líst.

You can submit your PDF ebooks to:

Scribd
eSnips
DocStoc
Calameo
Issuu
Yudu
FreeIQ , and
ButterflyReports

For a complete líst of ebook directories you can submit to, go to Free Ebook Directories .
Quick Tip:You can also convert your ebooks to exe files and submít them to all the different software directories online. You can convert your ebooks using a free piece of software called WebsiteZip Packer .

3. Blogging - Blogging is one of the best things you can do for your business. Blogging is a great way to get to know your readers. Plus, blogging can play a major role in getting valuable search engine traffic from Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

4. Submit your articles to Blog Carnivals. A blog carnival is a collection of blog posts on a particular subject. They are then posted together on on blog - called a host. The host (who is also a blogger), publishes the carnival on their blog, with links to each blog post that has been submitted.

This creates an excellent opportuníty to get your blog posts shared on other blogs.

There are a number of benefits to participating in blog carnivals. Not only will you generate extra traffic, but it also provides you with quality backlinks and an excellent opportuníty to connect with other bloggers.

To submit your article to a blog carnival, go to Blog Carnival - Blog Communities Publishing Magazines . For extra exposure, submit to multiple blog carnivals. Just make sure they’re all relevant to your topic.

This is one of the easiest ways to create one-way backlinks coming into your site, which is one of the biggest factors when it comes to ranking high in Google.

5. Submit your blog posts to social bookmarking sites.>

Social Bookmarking is one of the easiest ways to get extra traffic and links coming into your blog. Social bookmarking allows Internet users to save and organize bookmarks to a public website, tag them with keywords, share them with others, and browse what others have bookmarked.

Digg, Delicious, Mixx, and Digg are just a few of the social bookmarking sites you can use to maximize your exposure.

You can do a semi-automated submission to over 50 social bookmarking sites at AutoPoster.com .

6. Ustream.tv - Ustream allows you to create your very own tv station on the Web. However, it’s better than TV because it’s a live, interactive experience. While you’re broadcasting the video, you’re also getting feedback from the live chatroom.

Ustream gives your business a human face and a real personality. This is extremely valuable, because people like to buy and interact with people, not impersonal companies.

Live video allows you to reach entirely new audiences and develop a much greater level of engagement. A deeper level of engagement almost equates to a higher conversion rate when done correctly.

It’s also an excellent way to get feedback from your audience.

7. Forum Marketing - Forums are another way to drive targeted visitors to your website. The key to getting quality traffic from forums is to find a forum that is highly targeted to your website, become involved in the community, and create a benefit-laden signature.

You can put a link back to your website in your signature. It’s critical that you use your signature to provide something of extreme value along with a good call-to-action. Otherwise, why would anybody click?

The biggest benefit of marketing in forums is that they are centered around a very tight group of people who are all interested in the same subject. This is essentially a community of raving fans for a particular topic, making them extremely targeted prospects.

Forums are also an excellent way to connect with other bloggers, meet other marketers, and gain insights into your market.

8. Interviews are another great way to generate traffic.
When you interview a fellow blogger, they will almost always publish a link to the interview on their blog. At the same time, you are also sending traffic to their website by posting the interview on your blog.

This can be a very effective technique for generating traffic and meeting new bloggers. Unfortunately, most people are just afraid to ask.

9. Build a List - If you’re not building a líst, you’re missing out on a major source of ongoing traffic. Your líst is the most valuable asset in your business.

Best of all, it can be leveraged at anytime to drive a funnel of visitors to your website.

10. Video Marketing - Video sites have quickly become some of the most highly trafficked sites on the Internet, making them one of the best places to generate lots of extra traffic.

And don’t worry, your video doesn’t have to be a Spielberg classic. In fact, it can just be a PowerPoint presentation with audio. Even simple videos can drive thousands of visitors to your site.

Once you’ve created your video, you can then submit it to the top video submission sites with a tool called TubeMogul .

And finally, My Favorite…

Search Engine Optimization is one of the best ways to generate extremely targeted traffíc online. By following just a few basic principles, you can get lots of traffic from the search engines every month.

Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 18, 2008 10:10 AM

aws_logo_sep08.pngThis morning, Amazon announced that it would soon launch a content delivery network (CDN). This new service, which does not have a name yet, will be complimentary to Amazon’s existing web services and will work seamlessly with S3, Amazon’s online storage solution. Like most of Amazon’s web services, this new product will not require a contract and does not have any minimum-usage requirements. Amazon did not announce a specific launch date, but it expects the new service to be available by the end of this year.

With this new service, Amazon is going up against a number of established companies, including Akamai and Limelight, which are almost synonymous with content delivery. While these larger CDN providers tend to target enterprise customers, though, Amazon’s pay-as-you-go plan seems to be geared towards smaller businesses and developers who might not have a sustained need for a complex CDN solution.

Just like Amazon’s S3 and E2 shook up the market for online storage and cloud computing, this new CDN solution will surely drive down the prices for content delivery. At first, however, Amazon’s new service will not support streaming video or live broadcasts. Because of this, Akamai and Limelight don’t have to fear the competition with Amazon just yet, but we would be surprised if Amazon did not add more video specific features to its CDN in the future.
Preemptive Move

Interestingly, as Om Malik points out, New-York based Voxel just announced a CDN solution based on S3. Amazon rarely pre-announces new services, so we definitely agree that this announcement today should be seen as a preemptive move by Amazon.

Way back in early July, we made note of a little video aggregation engine called ScrapeUp, an offshoot of VideoSift. It turns out both are still alive and kicking. The news today is that the folks who brought you those services are out with another public beta. It’s name is Dwigger. And while it doesn’t quite roll of the tongue, it is for sure an interesting bit of kit. Twitter feeds plus threaded replies plus voting. It’s Twitter, Diggnified.

Moving quickly past the terrible Diggnified coinage that is mine and mine alone, Dwigger is, in short, both a useful and playful application. How it operates: You can paste a pre-published Twitter message URL and submit it to Dwigger, to be voted and commented on. You can also write a fresh post directly within Dwigger, 140 characters long. And if you want to write items exclusive to Dwigger, you may add info as needed. Just keep in mind the character limit, which carries across the various post options. Also, if you happen to be in the city of Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York or London, you can designate your message like so. If only just for kicks.

It’s important to note that both original posts and replies are shown through Dwigger. This is done in order to streamline the communications process. You won’t have to convince your dozens, hundreds, or thousands of followers to log in to Dwigger to see what you’re saying. Everything is simple, everything is smooth. Still, what’s especially pleasing about Dwigger’s presentation is that replies to you are channeled into a thread, a la Pownce. If you want to easily make sense of your Twitter inbox insofar as a particular post you made, Dwigger works like a charm. Add voting to the mix, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for fun.

Indeed, the ability to vote on material is enjoyable, but it certainly needs much more time to become popular and a solid part of the feature set. Dwigger is in its first day as a public item, so give it time, I say. Just keep in mind that the voting component is Dwigger’s own, so votes don’t carry over to other Twitter services as updates or anything of the sort. But that is just as well. Better to keep that part of your Dwigger life separate from your Twitter life.

In addition to the core features, Dwigger has dressed its front page with top weekly posts, popular people, a “Zeit Cloud,” a subscription to the feed, and more. There also is a timeline for a strict clockwork view of activity, in case you don’t want to pull from the RSS flow.

They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery and messaging site Twitter must be very flattered since search giant Google has decided to add a ‘follower’ mode to its Blogger blogging tool.

The search company has introduced a new gadget that allows readers to follow their favourite blogs.

To follow a blog with the Followers’ Gadget on Blogger, users click the ‘Follow This Blog’ link. They can also show support for the blog by following it right from their Blogger Dashboard or in Google Reader.

“Following isn’t just for bloggers, it’s also designed to make it easier for readers to keep tabs on their favourite blogs,” wrote Mendel Chuang, product marketing manager with Google. “Maybe you’re following a wedding blog for wedding tips or have a thing for plush toys, or perhaps you want to keep track of Google’s university bus tour.”

The feature allows readers to easily check out what blogs other fans are writing and following.

The gadget also allows readers to follow any blog, even if it isn’t hosted on Blogger or doesn’t have the Followers gadget.
The new feature is currently only available in English but Google plans to make it available in other languages.
The company said it’s also in the process of integrating with Google Friend Connect to add even more engaging social features to Blogger.

By John Kennedy

NEW (Reuters) - News Corp’s MySpace advertising business is operating ahead of expectations and its digital ad business is performing better than the marketplace, the company’s chief operating officer said on Tuesday.

Rupert Murdoch’s international media conglomerate, which owns The Wall Street Journal and the Fox network, also is interested in expanding its digital portfolio of businesses, COO Peter Chernin said at a Merrill Lynch media conference.

“The MySpace advertising business is above budget, above where we expected it to be,” Chernin said of the popular online social network.

Despite the interest in building up its digital and subscription businesses, News Corp is not seriously looking at any big acquisitions.

“I guess on a macro basis there will be more acquisition opportunities going forward,” Chernin said. “Most of the things we’re seeing now still seem a little pricey.”

The company also has planned no big divestitures.

His comments come after News Corp forecast a 30 percent rise in revenue in 2009 at Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace. It rose 57 percent in fiscal 2008.

Still, the company said in August that it faces a “much more difficult economic environment” in its current year that will continue to hurt local television advertising, but not national TV ad sales for now.

Earlier at the conference, CBS Corp Chief Executive Les Moonves said national TV advertising remained strong and that some local advertising was recovering, suggesting that marketers have not cut budgets as deeply as some feared.

(Reporting by Robert MacMillan; Editing by Andre Grenon)

How many browser wars are we on now? I make it at three and counting, each one won by achieving a different objective.

Browser war one, the war to control web standards, saw the massacre of Netscape by Internet Explorer in the late 1990s, followed by a strange lull in which Microsoft convinced itself it had won for good and scaled back development to a bunch of guys in thatched hut.

Skirmishes started again in 2002 with the rise of the intellectual’s favourite Firefox, and an Apple Mac propaganda tool called Safari. Microsoft rebuilt its team and spent more money, mostly on the new neurosis, security.

On February 1st this year, Netscape was officially made extinct, and that seemed to be that until, this week, a bunch of ex-Mozillers surprised everyone with something called Chrome.

This third war has a number of fronts, but being Google its main battlefield is all about the commercial power of information. Having spent years worrying about the code security of IE and Firefox, we now have a legitimate new concern, that of privacy and user independence. Microsoft never managed anything as brilliant.

The cleverest thing about Chrome is the way it resolves the address bar (’OmniBox’) to searches so that typing in a company name is enough to get you to the right website. People have wanted that for years but it does mean that Google can direct users to sites it thinks are the important ones. Crucially, it can also send this data back to Google (though that can be disabled).

On the upside, the browser can notify Google if you visit a likely malware or phishing website, which might (we assume) make it easier for the search giant to strike off offending sites. They certainly don’t do a watertight job of doing this right now. There is also, as Google will point out, a browser incognito mode which a minority of users might tune into.

So there’s a lot of potential to track user habits, websites and interests but also some control over how this happens for those who understand what they are getting into.

Privacy is not a new issue, having spawned a series of minor ‘anonymity’ browsers in recent years that nobody much used. Perhaps they will turn out to have had the right idea at the wrong time. I await the arrival of an OmniBox ‘cleaner’ add-on with interest…

And will Chrome crush IE as has been suggested might be its ultimate aim? No, Microsoft will do that of its own accord if the latest betas of IE are anything to judge by. As ever, don’t waste money on rope; wait for your enemies to hang themselves.

Posted by: John E. Dunn