Comments on: Driving Up Traffic to Our Little Site

By: The Big Bad Admin

The Big Bad Admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:25:36 +0000

Thanks Akila!

I’ve sat in front of this computer screen for two days now & feel that I finally get it. Your comment helped a ton!!!!

By: The Big Bad Admin

The Big Bad Admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:11:16 +0000

What great advice Jeremy! Thank you. The site is working now & is full of great feedback.

Thanks again & good luck setting up your blog & on your future travels.

-Jaime

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:29:06 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of this myself to get my blog ready to go and optimized before I leave for my trip in August.

You may be interested in checking out http://websitegrader.com/ to get a lot of detailed information about your site. They do a crawl over all the major factors and tell you whats good, whats bad, and what could be better. The site appears to be overloaded at the moment, but it was working a day or two ago.

You might want to check into it!

By: Akila

Akila — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:59:39 +0000

Twitter is a bit overwhelming at first but the best advice I can give you is to just do what comes naturally: follow people you find interesting and retweet articles that you find interesting. That’s all there is to it!

By: Jaime

Jaime — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:24:39 +0000

Thanks for the great comments, Greg and Todd. Where were you two when we set this thing up?

Cheers & thanks again.

-Jaime

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:41:28 +0000

Hi Guys,

Well you started well today by exchanging links with me Greg is right, the links need to be from travel related sites that relate to what you guys are doing.

Submit to blog directories as well to make sure other people…who happen to be lost and not on google…can find you.

Start tweeting, but make sure you build up a community and RT other people’s posts. I am at http://twitter.com/toddwassel Follow me and I’ll follow back and help RT your stuff.

Finally, look into StumbleUpon. I have just started and have not seen huge increases in traffic, but people say it eventually pays off.

Good luck! Todd

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:31:33 +0000

Getting backlinks is 90% of the formula for Google – but don’t just get mindless links…make sure the anchor text means something / is related to your site…rather than just “click here” or your URL as the link.

Best of luck!
Greg