by Onibalusi Bamidele.

Yes, you read that right!

You can write content that “drives” traffic.

There are very few words that can deeply affect the emotions of a blogger and one of those few words is the word “traffic”. The unfortunate thing is that when it comes to getting traffic to our blogs we’re all used to the idea of using tactics, with little concern for the kind of content we create.

In my experience the best way you can generate traffic to your blog isn’t by guest blogging, it isn’t by blog commenting but it is by something I call “writing for traffic“. If you’re ready to start writing for traffic then read below to get a few tips to help you write content that drives traffic.

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by Grant Crowell.

Online retailers are responding to audience demand for more product videos.  The number of videos deployed by these retailers on both their websites and video sharing sites has tremendously increased from last year. Yet while a lot of e-commerce business depends on product page SEO, very few retailers are taking advantage of the huge opportunity of optimizing their videos on their Websites for search results.

Here I talk about the many advantages for retailers and e-commerce enterprises with doing Website Video SEO for their product pages, and 12 of my top tips for what every retailer can, and should, do!

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by Jeff Haden.

I like statistics as much as the next guy (which means not very much) but I don’t need statistics to tell me Twitter is a popular small business tool: My plumber has a Twitter account.

(No, I haven’t checked out his tweets. I found out because his Twitter handle is on his business card… and his invoices, and his envelopes, and the side of his truck.)

Feel like you’re getting left behind? No problem. Here’s a simple guide to getting started with Twitter for business purposes:

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by Rick Dearborn.

The biggest mistake anyone can make in producing a marketing video is also the most common:  It’s what I call, ‘hosing down the business.’

Here ‘s an example:  Imagine you’re a firefighter and you arrive at the scene of a fire.   You see smoke beginning to come out of an upstairs window.  Do you take out a giant fire hose and begin spraying down the entire house?  Of course not.  You identify the specific area that’s burning, and go after that.  Not only do you get the fire out faster, you conserve a lot of water in the process.

The first temptation in creating a marketing video is to grab a camera, and shoot everything you feel is important about your business.    When you do that, you break just about every marketing rule there is.

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by Abhik.

I’m a veteran blogger, I have been doing it for years, well maybe not years, but I have a lot of successful blogs. For people that are looking to start blogging, they need to make sure that they are working it in a way that it is going to become successful. The honest truth is that most bloggers will never get more readership than their mother and their father or their significant other.

But, with the correct blogging tips, you may be able to turn that family-read blog into something that the internet will be dying to read. You want to have that blog that people are constantly checking to see if you’ve updated and that blog that people are telling their friends about.

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by Frank Dickinson.

This whole blogging deal can get confusing at times. We start off like gang busters with a passion and purpose. We write. We share. We create. We even think we are doing exactly what we were called out of the depths to do.

Everything is pixie dust and unicorns. Beautiful. Exuberant. Near perfect…and then we wake up from the dream and realize that blogging is work. It takes focus, persistence and execution.

Been there? Enjoying the tee shirt?

I understand.

We could spend the rest of this blog post talking about the negative reasons why this happens.

It’s Friday and who needs to go into the weekend with a load of negative stuff? What say we focus on:

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by Neil Brown.

Though Twitter doesn’t get as much recognition as Facebook, it is still a powerful social networking site that has many benefits for business use. It’s a great place to connect with peers and thought leaders in your particular industry who can be a valuable resource to you. And, of course, it’s a great place to connect with customers and prospects as well.

Let’s take a look at eight best practices for using Twitter for business:

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by Jessy Troy.

Being a business blogger isn’t always so easy. Aside from having to produce quality content and build up a dedicated following within a saturated business blogoshere, once you decide to express yourself online you are taking a risk. You are constantly opening yourself up to criticism and maybe even harassment, and that can be disconcerting, especially since your potential audience may either be close to home or be difficult to estimate or predict.

Some business bloggers choose to separate their personal and professional lives online using a pen name, alter-identity, or even an anonymous blogging voice. Not only does this feel much safer, but it may also allow the blogger more freedom of expression.

That said, there are several reasons why it still pays to keep your blogging persona as real as possible. Here are six of them:

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by Nate Riggs.

I hear that a lot from the clients I meet with.

“We just want our stuff to go viral. We want everyone to watch our videos on YouTube and tell all their friends about them. You can help us do that, right?”

Umm. Maybe. It depends on attitude and how much your willing to be … uncomfortable.

What Goes Viral The funny thing about that statement, is nobody really knows the answer to that. And, if they say they do, grill the hell out of them and have them explain it to you and take copious notes. Because when their done, I’d really live for you to email me the secret sauce.

Chances are more likely that it’sa bunch of sales BS. For fun, here’s a few recent examples of what actually goes viral:

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by Vikram.

Whether you’re writing because you want to make some money or if it’s just because you want people to read your incredible insights and finally come to understand that you are infinitely superior to them in every way – you still have to direct them to your blogpost.

This is why most articles sharing a common title with this one focus almost entirely on SEO and, while this is a singularly vital point, it isn’t the only one of importance. To approach from a relatively new angle I have, therefore, decided to include a few alternative points to SEO which will also get people to open your article and perhaps even share it with their friends.