Michael D. Pollock is the original founder of Solostream. He's a geek-at-heart and a small business veteran with over 14 years of experience in sales, marketing and small business (he mistakenly thinks he may soon have it all figured out). You can contact Michael via email here or online here.
By Michael Pollock in Podcasts
Check out this podcast from two of my favorite savvy solopreneurs, Yaro Starak and Darren Rowse, on how to increase traffic to your blog. Darren gets in excess of 5k visitors per day to his Problogger site, and Yaro recently surpassed the 1k visitor-per-day mark on his Entrepreneur’s Journey site. I’d say they might know what they’re talking about.
Link to podcast (running time 38 minutes).
blogging, traffic, podcast
Introduction: This entire post was compiled from posts made by Iskwew, one of our repeat customers and a frequent contributor to our forum. She raises so many good points that we wanted to share this with the Solostream community through our website.
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On Aug 8, 2006, Don Marsh said:
Where have you been?!?! Are you finished with the Savvy Solocast?
On Oct 31, 2007, Alex said:
thx.
On Apr 14, 2008, Dave Jackson said:
Yaro is a great guy. He interviewed me about Podcasting many moons ago. Great site. Keep up the good work.
Dave
On May 15, 2008, Tim Buchalka said:
Great audio. Web traffic really isn’t that hard if you are prepared to work the basics, keep at it, and finish things off.
In my opinion people spend too much time looking for a quick fix or the “holy grail” of web traffic (whatever that is) rather than focusing on the basics.
Cheers
Tim
On May 26, 2008, David said:
SEO should be the first step to getting traffic i.e keywords, content & backlinks.
On Jul 9, 2008, Greg said:
There are some gems of wisdom in this podcast. Can’t wait to try them out.
On Aug 11, 2008, ROCKFUSE - Make Money Blogging said:
Nice tips! I’m sure I can pick up a thing or two from this. By the way, I find word of mouth marketing as a viable way of viral promotion. I’m surprised by the lack of bloggers who actually use such a method. But, that’s just my oinion though.
Cheers!
Nadeesha.