After that shameless plug from Alan about Traffic Bug, I thought I’d just add my 2 cents worth. Like Alan, according to the Traffic Bug panel, I have saved 4882 minutes by using the software. Freeing up time to research and build more niche sites, write for this blog and take time out with my family and friends.  Between us, we have saved a mind numbing, 10502 minutes. Which equates to 175 hours, or 7x 24 hour days of grunt work, which definitely helps us to work SMARTER!.

Once you have had your sites in Traffic Bug for a few months, you will notice that the status of some of them will change to “Idle” which means they have been submitted to all the currently available social bookmarking sites and directories that Traffic Bug use. Now if you think that is the end, think again, a huge seo benefit of backlinks is having them to deeper locations in your site and not just the homepage. Read the rest of this entry

Automated social bookmarking software – for many webmasters and Internet marketers (myself included) this has been a pipe dream for a very long time. Nowadays though, some of those dreams have become a reality.

Note: From time to time you are going to see some shameless plugs for software and services on this blog. And, YES … Kev and I do get some small commissions if you click through our links and buy, or subscribe. BUT … you are not going to see any software or services that Kev and I are not actually already using ourselves. Which we both believe is the only way we can give you honest reviews or recommendations.

This post for Traffic Bug is one of these shameless plugs :-)

As an Internet marketer you will have realized by now that the key to your online success is TRAFFIC. A rubbish web site that gets lots of traffic will be more successful than the best designed site in the world that gets no traffic.

Plain and simple … TRAFFIC = SUCCESS.

A couple of years ago traffic was easy. It was mostly about “on-site optimization”, i.e. the things that you can do to the HTML code on your own page/site. Basically the process was to bang up a page, sprinkle it to death with your keywords, and the search engines of the time would give you good rankings.

Nowadays, it’s not so easy. Read the rest of this entry