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Out of all the social media websites, StumbleUpon is my favorite. Not only do I enjoy using StumbleUpon, but in terms of sending traffic, I don’t think any of the other social media websites can compare. While Digg can send a huge flood of traffic over the course of a couple of days (which can bring down your website’s server if you’re not prepared), StumbleUpon can continue sending a steady stream of traffic for even weeks or months. For example, my 50 Simple Tips for Improving Your Website post was submitted over a month ago, but it’s been reviewed twice in the last day.

One thing that many people don’t know about StumbleUpon is that they allow advertising. Although I’ve heard people complain that StumbleUpon advertising is too expensive (the cost is $0.05 per visitor that sees your page), they are obviously missing the point of how to maximize a StumbleUpon advertising campaign.

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AdWords can be an extremely cost effective method for generating new sales or attracting new customers.  Because there are so many different analytics that you can use, it’s possible to measure exactly how much it’s costing you to generate new conversions.

Although AdWords can be very cost effective, it can also burn a hole in your pocket.  If you don’t know what you are doing, you may be literally throwing money down the drain.  Even if you have some experience with AdWords, there may be small things that you can change that will save you a significant amount of money.

If you are worried that you may be throwing away money on your AdWords campagin, it would be well worth your time to read through the following mistakes that people commonly make with AdWords:
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Many people often seek out various tips on how to score more traffic to their blogs. Some of the most simple things can actually be the most effective things. The thing to consider with blogs — especially WordPress blogs — is the RSS feed. When you publish on a blog, in many ways its not much different than broadcasting on radio.

A radio station broadcasts on the air using a special frequency, please find and get to know these frequencies by their channel. Every blog has a unique channel — again an RSS feed — that broadcasts the information they publish on the Internet in many places. If you look here you will see how an RSS 2.0 feed is broken down. (more…)

Many of the people reading the SEOHosting.com blog might not necessarily be bloggers or have a blog. Having a blog attached to your web site is very important for allowing your to quickly and easily score targeted traffic to your business, products or services. I’ll go into more detail on that topic in the near future. However, in this article, I want to talk to you about how you can get material to write about on your blog.

For those who don’t know me, my name is Garry Conn. I am a full time online publisher who owns and maintains many various sites covering a very broad range of topics. Every single site I own is actually powered using an open source program called WordPress. In my business, it is vital that I have material to write about. If I can’t produce content on my sites, then I can’t continue to rank well for targeted keywords in the search engines. Secondly, I can’t simply write about anything. I have to write about things that are loosely based on the businesses, products and services that I represent. If I don’t then the traffic I target have zero interest in the items that make me money. (more…)

I want to start off by saying that I am not an SEO guru and I never will consider myself to be.  I’d be telling a bold face lie if I said that I was. However, what I do consider myself to be is a very well rounded individual who has some very practical experience in search engine marketing. By default, SEO and SEM are two totally difference animals. However, you really can’t have a successful SEM without a successful SEO, unless of course you are paying for your search engine traffic using programs such as AdWords.

So really, for me being SEM savvy, I have to know the basics in SEO in order to find success in my own search engine marketing ventures, that really is just the tip of the iceberg here.  My business is primarily in making money online with Google AdSense. The way I see it, there is really only one way to do that and that is with successful search engine marketing to a web site or blog that has its content monetized with Google AdSense advertisements.

Think about it for a second, you can’t pay for traffic. If you did, the amount of money you’d spend on the traffic would exceed the amount of money you’d get per click. You can’t really drive traffic using social networking sites such as StumbleUpon or Digg, reason being is that these folks are blind to AdSense ads and don’t click. So really what is left? The last remaining option is in scoring free organic traffic in the search engines. (more…)