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I’ve just gotten back from a fantastic vacation to Vienna with my wife Tatiana. Out of all the European cities we’ve visited Vienna is easily the best! There’s lots to see and do, it’s extremely clean and the people are really friendly and welcoming.

We stayed at this excellent hotel called K+K Maria Theresia. If ever you find yourself in a major European city we highly recommend them as a place to stay.

After just stepping in through the door of our apartment for the first time in nearly a week and firing up my trusty Mac I go to thinking how can I best help you create a big selling website (after being totally shattered from the journey home).

Since starting this blog I’ve been able to help you with things like creating profitable website ideas, techniques on helping you convert more visitors into customers and of course generating web traffic itself. So what I decided to do was give you the links to the top 10 posts that help you create a big selling website… as voted by you.

1. Here’s how you really use the web (and it’s not what you think!)

2. Less Effort, More Keywords and Better SEO

3. 17 “Must Have” Sources Of Website Traffic

4. Why You Need Long Tail Keywords

5. Your shortcut to Internet business success starts right here

6. Your Website Traffic: 7 Crucial Reasons Why You Should Be “Squidooing”

7. How to build massive traffic to your website

8. How To Unleash the Hidden Power of Website Linking

9. Profitable websites ideas made easy

10. Who Else Wants This Free Pay Per Click Website Traffic?

I hope this helps…

(In case you’re wondering how you voted on these blog posts I used this really useful Wordpress plugin called Popularity Contest. What it does is it looks at how many visitors each post gets and gives it a percentage popularity score.) 

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A short time ago word started spreading about a brand new site called Squidoo, I’m sure you’ve heard of it.

It sounded like an interesting concept, a little like a blog and a little like an “About Me” page, they asked you to sign up and create something called a “lens”.

It was certainly a unique idea, and everyone wondered if it would catch on.

Now more than 2 years later the true benefits of building a lens at Squidoo are clear. It is a great place to create a new site about your hobby, passion or business, but even more it is a great place to promote any existing web site you may have.

Not only can you tell Squidoo visitors about your site, but a lens gives the search engines another reason to place your site higher on the results pages. In fact creating and running a Squidoo lens is an excellent way to build “backlinks” to your blog or web site.

That’s just what the search engine spiders love to see.

Here are the 7 crucial reasons why you should be squidooing:

1. You can use a Squidoo lense to help you build your subscriber list by sending people to your squeeze pages
2. Build an authoratitive resource of links to useful websites which makes your lense a resource people want to use and tell others about
   
3. Create lots of deep links to the pages of your other websites (search engines love this)
4. Dominate long tail keyword phrases in the major search engines
5. Build traffic to your other websites blog and online auctions with your external linking
6. Brand you and your websites as an authority figure within your chosen niche market
   
7. Sell more of your products and build multiple streams of internet income

As unusual as “Squidooing” might sound you had better be sure to take a closer look at this incredible way of generating highly targeted, high quality traffic.

Click here to download your “Squidoo Lense Mastery” PDF mind map.
(I’ve never given away so much in a single mind map before so be sure to take a close look if you’re serious about leveraging traffic from Squidoo)

How did I discover the secrets to Squidoo?

I joined this free apprentice program called Squidoo Secrets.

Lastly…

In case you didn’t know this already Squidoo was created by Seth Godin one of the worlds greatest marketing minds.

Before you downlod this next PDF I must warn you that Seth’s ideas can profoundly change the way you look at what you’re doing online, so pay close attention to everything he says…

Click here if you want more online traffic, more revenue, more followers, more attention, more interest, more donations or more influence.

Other useful links to help you create better Squidoo Lenses…

Create a Squidoo Lense
Squidoo Cool
Have a Squidoo lense built for you
Make Your Own TV Channel
Squid Blog

Here are a few of my own Squidoo Lenses…

You want copywriting that sells!
There’s An Idea!

Stay tuned because I’ll be back in a few days time with a special offer on a way for you to flood your website with traffic.

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I’m sure you’ll agree that without traffic your website is nothing more than pixels on a screen. So over the next few weeks I’ve decided to focus on helping you increase the amount of traffic your website gets, so be sure not to miss a single post!

Today I’m going to start with building links in to your website.

It sounds like the simplest thing in the world. Just find someone with a site that has content similar to your own and strike a deal, “You place a link to me on your web site and I’ll place a link to you on mine.”

There was a time when this could be an effective way to generate traffic to your site as well as improve your search engine ranking. But for the most part, those times are gone.

Unscrupulous web masters figured out how to abuse the system by creating link farms and other schemes with absolutely no benefit for the site visitors, and search engines got smart and put an end to the whole thing.

So can’t we benefit from reciprocal links anymore? Sure we can, but with a few caveats. This post will explore how safe linking practices can still help your site gain traffic, and do better in the search engine results pages.

So as you may have already guessed, search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN are skeptical about two-way links.
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Have you ever wondered how many sources of website traffic there could be?

Today I fired up Mindjet Mindmanager and went about brainstorming the various sources of traffic available today. All together I found 17 of them and within each source there are perhaps dozens more to be found.

Here are 5 just off the top of my head…

1. Search Engines
2. Online Advertising
3. Social Networking
4. Integration Marketing
5. Viral Marketing

Click here for the other 12

You can discover exactly what all 17 “must have” sources of  web site traffic are by clicking here to download the completed PDF mind map I created earlier today.

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