Paid Traffic

How To Cut Your Dependency On Big Tech (And Why You Might Want To)

A hard look on the danger posed by market dominance and dependence on Big Tech – and how we can reduce our reliance in our own lives, our blogs and our businesses.

RV Blog Update: Lessons From My First Facebook Boosted Post [10XChallenge]

I decided to test a boosted post on Facebook for my blog. Here is what happened – both the good and the bad. And lessons learned.

Which Comes First: Traffic or Monetization? (How Everything Has Changed)

Which comes first for your blog: Traffic or monetization? It used to be that you had to build the audience before you could monetize. Is that still true?

Twitter Traffic: 10 Best Practices To Actually Get Traffic From Twitter

Try these 10 best practices (backed by data) to get traffic from Twitter (without paying for it).

Blog Traffic: The Ultimate Guide To Increasing Your Blog Traffic

How do you get blog traffic? How do you generate traffic when you’re first starting out? Which strategies are more effective than others? This guide goes into it – in detail.

7 Weeks In… Status Report On The New RV Blog [RV Blog Report #3]

7 weeks into the new RV blog, we check in on the traffic numbers, email list size… and the tactics I’m using to jump start this brand new blog from scratch.

The Foundation Of Real Blog Monetization: The Blog Profit Funnel (Money Levers #4)

The last of 3 important “money levers” to grow your business: The sales funnel. Here’s how it is put together and how to work the numbers to your advantage.

Money Levers #3: Rethinking Traffic And How To Get It

Today, we’re going to discuss traffic. Because I know that one of the biggest objections to people just getting started is that they don’t have enough traffic to make any sales.

Why You Should Be “Pixeling” Your Blog Visitors – Immediately

Enter the world of retargeting. Retargeting is the absolute easiest way to get started in paid traffic. It is also very cheap and very easy to get a VERY good ROI with it. It also just so happens to short-circuit the entire problem of bounce rate.

Free Traffic Versus Paid Traffic. The Smackdown

In this episode, we directly pit free traffic methods up against paid traffic. I outline several different free traffic methods and how they work, then we compare up against how things work when you use paid traffic.

Why Blog Traffic Is Like Rice – And How Blog Traffic Has Evolved

The first key to growing your blog traffic is understanding what the world of traffic looks like today. Bloggers have been using the same techniques to grow their traffic for years now. But, does it work?

UTM Parameters In Plain English: How To Expertly Track Which Traffic Sources Are Actually Converting

How can you tell if your podcast listeners are buying things, or if your Twitter followers opt-in when they come to your blog? The answer is UTM parameters. This post gives you a plain-English description of what they are and how to use them to track your online marketing ROI.

The Second List: How (And Why) To Set Up Your Blog For Retargeting

Your blog is leaking prospects faster than a water main break. And it doesn’t matter how effective your list building strategies are, your blog is HIGHLY inefficient. But, there’s something you can do about it. Also, it is insanely easy to do.