Squidoo, created by big time entrepreneur Seth Godin, is a free tool that allows anyone to create a single page on a topic they are good at, for free. These single pages, also called Squidoo Lenses, combine together to form a network of user generated opinions or recommendations – called Squidoo. This is why Squidoo is also sometimes referred to as the recommendation website.

If you have been marketing on the Internet for at least a year then its a good chance that you have heard of Google trends www.google.com/trends.

This is a free tool that Google provided their users since 2004 so that they can see what are the
current hot 100 searches in Google. In short, Google trends is an myriad of the hottest searched terms in their system. In addition, in 2008 Google came out with an complimentary service to Google trends which is called Google insights to search: http://www.google.com/insights/search.

2010 … things have changed a lot in the online business world. Competition is heavy, it is  increasingly hard to stand up from the crowd and monetize your online business.

There is no magic button to press. Getting targeted visitors (potential clients) to your online business is the result of hard work and only hard work. All those “get thousands of visitors for free” headlines are lies.

Getting traffic to your website can often be time consuming and expensive, so we decided to put
together a series of “30 Minute Traffic Tips” to help you get traffic to your website as quickly as
possible using free methods.

This EBook is a collaboration of effort from Suzanne Morrison, Ken Troyer, Cynthia Minnaar, Jeff
Casmer and Jeff Schuman. All of us work from home and run a successful internet business. We are
all website owners and have years of experience online.

Using articles to drive targeted traffic to a website is a tactic that online marketers have been using for years but as it is still a very effective way of grabbing the attention of targeted prospects, it is still well worth doing.

Nevertheless, the only downside to using articles to market your business is that they often take some time to become effective traffic magnets, which is why creating your first articles should be the first marketing strategy that you launch.

Here is a cool idea about how to get 1000+ visitors per day to your website from one social networking site. If you are ignoring social networks when thinking your website traffic generation strategies than you are missing the biggest growing trend in 2010.

In this article we will see how to get good traffic from a social network site, and don't worry, the isn't only Facebook out there :)

Traffic is more than a list of names that represent people. It’s all about healthy flow and activity at your sites – the sort of activity that not only keeps your business and web presence alive, but really helps your sales grow… and grow. And if you haven’t yet built your list, you’ll need to make sure you drive people to your sites – and keep them coming back again – with no lags and lulls in the flow. Here are 21 powerful strategies, to help you generate a steady stream of healthy traffic.

2. Think of your headlines as if they were Twitter posts and your opening paragraphs as if they were RSS feed summaries:

On Twitter you’ve got less than 2 seconds to make people decide if they want to click… or pass. It’s the same with every sales page, landing page, blog post or article you create:  With every headline or opening paragraph – you’ve barely got 2 seconds to grab your reader’s attention and make them curious enough to “engage” in a single line or two. To get a feel for creating this immediate interest and impact, go look at the summaries for some of your RSS feeds. See which ones feel punchy and make you want to read more – and which ones feel dull and incomplete. The ones that feel dull and incomplete will be the ones with the slowest starts. You’ll notice that these ones never get around to presenting the hook – the summary ends before the author has meandered to the point. So never, ever waste your first paragraph with “warm-up stuff”. (And do put your keyword in your first line and headline, for blog posts and articles!)

Using Social Bookmarking For Your Website or Weblog

With the millions of blogs and websites competing for the time and attention of internet users, social bookmarking can be a huge help in getting your website or blog noticed. Social bookmarking has proved to be one of the top techniques to promote your website and guide traffic towards it, and the beauty is that it is actually quite simple to do.