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Drive More Traffic to Your Blog or Website With Guest Post Secrets

Drive more traffic to your blog
If you have a website, or a blog, and you want more traffic to it, please read this post carefully.

I bought erica.biz and moved my blog over to it in December 2007. At the time, I had negligible traffic and only 70 subscribers–mostly my real-life friends.

By December 2009, two short years later, I was getting over 15,000 visitors a month from Google alone–and over 30,000 unique visitors a month total.

Now, I’m going to show you exactly how to do the same thing–get a massive wave of traffic and visitors to your blog or website–for far less than you would pay for pay-per-click advertising! (more…)

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How Loyalty Card Schemes Suck You In and Rip You Off

Loyalty card schemes
Loyalty card schemes may be costing you cash.
I am outraged, and I have no one but myself to blame.

There are two grocery stores I shop at regularly: Albertsons and Ralphs.

Albertsons is a SuperValu store, which those of you in other parts of the United States may know as a Lucky, Bigg’s, Cub Foods, or Jewel-Osco. Ralphs is a Kroger brand. (And both of them seem to have abandoned their apostrophes for branding purposes, but I digress.)

Ralphs is a 7.1-mile round trip from my house. Albertsons is 0.8mi and easily walkable. Yet I almost always go to Ralphs.

I finally figured out why the other day, and promptly became supremely irritated with myself. (more…)

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Web Site Copywriting Secrets: Rocket Your Sales with These Two Easy Tips

Web site copywriting secrets.
Web site copywriting secrets; how to get your
web site visitors to buy.
What’s the difference between web sites where visitors buy products consistently — and web sites where visitors don’t buy at all?

Many times, it’s not your product, price, or site design that make your visitors whip out their credit cards. Instead, your web site’s copywriting — the words used on your site — make all the difference. (more…)

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