Tinu Abayomi-Paul
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Articles by Tinu Abayomi-Paul
November 08, 2009
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Can you really get up to 27,000 visitors in a week from StumbleUpon? I did and I can show you how to do the same without cheating the system, or spending 20 hours a week on social media sites. Find out how in this free video at http://www.freetraffictip.com/27kvisitors today.
May 13, 2009
Yeah, yeah, I know you need to sell the sizzle and not the steak. But it helps dramatically if the steak is actually the one you're cooking, and not one you hope to make some day!
April 03, 2009
Sites get traffic, people get access to their favorite sites, Twitter makes money - win, win-win. Anyone who doesn't like it, opts out. For a fee new sites can get listed under suggested resources that could dig through what we like IF we opted into it, and offer us more choices. Why not give us all more of what we love about Twitter and cash in on that?
March 19, 2009
How do you know if sites like Facebook are for YOU? How can you tell if a social networking site can help YOUR company?
March 13, 2009
... this is what is wonderful about Facebook. You get to know people on a more personal level than you would with email, people who you might not otherwise meet in person, though certainly Facebook interactions can spark in-person networking. In the meantime, you can learn what their interest are from their profiles, and find good places to start small talk. You can also observe how they interact, which may help you decide if you want to go any further.
February 18, 2009
Learn how to turn slideshows of graphics or MS Powerpoint presentations into a promotional tool.
September 05, 2007
Not on Facebook yet because you don't think you know anyone else on it? As of this morning at about 4 am Eastern time, Facebook has made it easier for non-members to find out who is already signed up.
Let me tell you how I found out - unlike the rest of the world, it wasn't from the announcement ...
August 30, 2007
By now, most people know what Facebook is. Yes, Facebook is a social utility, but what does that mean? How it works and what it can do for the business person - and this is where its true power lies.
For the business person, it means that your business contacts, your profile, business groups, t...
July 23, 2007
If you're having trouble getting your site noticed by the search engines, you aren't alone, and you may not be doing anything wrong, per se. It may be a matter of doing more of the right things than discovering some grievance you probably have not committed.
There are ready remedies, so even if y...
June 04, 2007
FeedBurner is a service, now owned by Google, that can help you study the blog traffic you get through your RSS feed. The insight you get from studying your statistics can help you better focus your content for your direct-to-blog visitors as well. In the past, I've written about how to increase you...
May 22, 2007
Google Groups as a communication tool is plenty fun and useful, as is. But can you get a bit of a traffic boost as well?
Sure. Sometimes not in the way you think…
1. Join
Join Google Groups if you haven’t already. Join discussions if you haven’t in a while. It’s going to be more difficult t...
January 24, 2007
Google Groups are kind of a cross-breed between public forums, what used to be newsgroups or Usenet groups , , and a discussion mailing list. With an upgrade freshly out of beta last night, the new features seem like they will help facilitate communication between its users even more.
These enha...
July 19, 2006
So you finally figured out how to get those visitors to your site, huh? Well, partner, it's not over. Now you've got to keep them there, while also bringing in new people, if you hope for your blog to be effective.
How? I knew you'd ask that...
1. Pay closer attention to your audience than you...
July 18, 2006
"I did what you said and I'm getting 100 visitors a day from Google." He said. "But they still aren't buying my product."
I'll tell you how I answered this email in a minute or so. But first, let's get to the most important part - what it could mean to your business.
Never minding that some sm...
March 26, 2006
Article marketing should be the holy grail of web marketing.
The benefits you can get are incredible. Articles can help you
* establish yourself as an expert,
* bring you an increase in sales and subscriptions,
* build trust in your product or services from proven techniques readers can try ...
March 24, 2006
Are Some Links Better and, for that matter, should you focus on sheer quantity of links to your site, or the quality of those links? For our first piece of evidence, let's ask Google.
In a post to their blog in September, we find the following: ?By using a practice called googlebombing, however, d...
March 10, 2006
FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to track your feed traffic and all kinds of other fun stuff. It won't create a feed for you from scratch as often believed - rather it wraps itself snugly around a feed you bring in and adds its services therein. It has a few premium options for the se...
February 01, 2006
Microsoft yesterday allowed public access to the Beta version of Microsoft IE7.
This release has been eagerly anticipated by many adopters of RSS, as it has been rumored that Microsoft's take on RSS will bring it further into the mainstream than anything since Google Reader or Yahoo's RSS Headline...
December 19, 2005
What do I mean by how you blog?
One of the most common mistakes made by the novice blogger is to fill their blog with 60 - 80% recycled content. Sure, it's fine to quote other sources and give your opinion. But just re-blogging other posts, or cutting and pasting reprint articles does not a great...
December 05, 2005
What is an algorithm-proof site? Technically, there’s no such thing. Since we don’t know exactly what the search engine formulas for ranking are, from that standpoint we can’t really be sure that our site won’t drop out of the search engines with every update.
For our purposes, an algorithm-proof ...
November 24, 2005
If you’ve ever had a severe drop in your Google rankings in search results, you may think of Google more of an enemy than an ally.
But if you knew what I do, you’d realize that there are tools provided by the search engine that help you learn more about your traffic, and may even help drive visito...
November 01, 2005
One of the reasons successful business blogging is working for small business is because of many of its direct and in-direct effects. In this series of articles, I?ll be talking about some of these effects and how they occur, including increases in traffic, better search engine results, and the enha...
September 15, 2005
What Is It
According to Google, Google's Blog Search is "Google search technology focused on blogs". It includes search engine results specific to blogs not just in the Blogger.com community, but across the blogosphere at large.
What the Big Deal Is
A lot of people have probably heard abou...
September 11, 2005
Information based marketing is one of the oldest and most effective techniques for bringing targeted prospects to your site and converting them into buyers. This is part of the reason that software, and distribution services that make the process of article promotion easier are so popular lately...
August 24, 2005
"But I’m already doing organic search marketing/blogs/RSS/advertising - why should I do article marketing too?"
Because there isn’t one perfect site promotion strategy - one of my biggest secrets to online success is that I use more than one strategy and let them all build on each other together,...
August 14, 2005
You’ve probably heard by now that article marketing can help you build links back to your site. But there’s a lot more to it than that, and knowing the details can help you plan better articles that bring you more search engine benefits for essentially the same amount of work. Here are four of the ...
August 09, 2005
What secrets can any Business Owner learn to get more targeted traffic, an increase in sales, and better pre-qualified leads for sales?
Let's start with the great news first.
The costs are low The return on your investment is high if you learn a few tactics that others don't use. There i...
July 27, 2005
Earlier this month, Realtor Magazine announced that they would be featuring an article about Tampa Bay Realtor John Mudd and the success he has been having in attracting prospects and media attention with his blog on real estate. Since then, many others in the Real Estate market have been curious ab...
July 21, 2005
This is the second part of an article series in which you’ll find many tools that you can use to monitor your site’s search engine position and see how your do-it-yourself search engine optimization efforts are coming along.
The following tools are for monitoring your search results in the three m...
July 17, 2005
To pick up from where we left off in the last article, since we’ve already learned the criteria needed in order to rank highly in Google, Yahoo and other search engines, we then need to do the following things, in this order:
set up your blog so its content fills a deficit
figure out best way...
July 12, 2005
Though the answer is in a book I wrote this July, the question is still asked of me repeatedly. Why does it work for some sites and not others? And how come some blogs get indexed in a day and then are dropped, and others stay in Google indefinitely?
Well, let’s take one question at a time. The a...
May 23, 2005
Sometimes many of us feel like we've made deposits into society, yet we are unable to make withdrawals. Whenever I have felt that way in the past, I read essays like Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Compensation, which I made into a free downloadable copy and distributed last week in the special success ...
April 24, 2005
Those of you who aren't ready to wade into the Blog pool are taking your time for several reasons, according to my informal interviews with people before and after they blog. Others start blogging and then abandon their projects too soon, unaware of the benefits.
Whatever your reason, you should ...
April 18, 2005
Your favorite thing about having a blog may soon be this - they naturally attract search engine traffic.
Blogs already have optimized site architecture. Most are set up with a clear navigation, where every page is set up to link back to the other main pages.
They also have the inherent potent...
February 21, 2005
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As you’ve probably been reading, there are basically three problems many webmasters have with web feeds (that is, among those who are already familiar with them on a basic level).
The three concerns I hear the most are:
“How do I deal with the bandwidth...
February 11, 2005
Why You're Missing Out on A Way to Get Free Visitors If You Aren't Doing This.
Today's tip starts with my own shocking secret.
I hate - *HATE* listening to audio online. I'd rather pay to download a transcript. Most of the time when I'm posting on the road I'm in some hotel where I'm lucky I c...
February 11, 2005
The Budget Webmaster’s 6 Step Guide to Improving Existing Rankings in Google
You know the scenario. You get an occasional click from Google for a certain keyword. You go to find out why you aren’t getting more clicks, and you find out that you’re ranked in the 30's, 50's, or heaven forbid, the ...
February 11, 2005
It's been all over the SEO-student rumor mill for weeks now, and has finally made it into my Inbox - in droves.
The new get-traffic-quick scheme for search engine results has arrived - flooding ping notification sites with update announcements, even though your blog hasn't been updated.
The ...
February 11, 2005
Even though I’ve had several personal blogs for years, I’ve only been officially business blogging since 2003.
So in going back over expenses for the last quarter, you can imagine my shock when I realized that my overall business costs were down about 19%. What saved me so much money? Surprising...