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Every month thousands of new websites arrive on the Internet. Some of them make it into search engines, most of them don’t. The ones that make it are the ones that have quality – “killer” - content. Informative and well-written content means more traffic, better search engine rankings and more visitors. Killer content also keeps the attention of the highly impatient and distracted reader. Here is how you can put the “extra” in “ordinary” content.

Every business website should have a fresh and engaging blog and it should always be monitored. This takes time and discipline. But what if you can’t write? The good news is that a blog requires more than writing skills. It needs good ideas and content – and some basic organizational skills. People like blogs because they are written by other people, and not by slick corporations.

If you work for an online marketing agency the following scenario is probably not uncommon. A client comes to you wanting to help shape the search results for their brand names.

These 10 tips come from my personal experience as a blogger and reflect what I think is the best way to get attention or links from popular blogs. Essentially, you are using these tactics to target large blogs with a big readership in order to get more exposure for your website or business. These methods are for the most part free and only require a little time.

Is your website floundering? Does it gather more dust than visitors? Don’t worry - there are many ways you can jump start it and generate more traffic. You can do this without hiring a web expert or spending any money. While some of these methods require an investment of time, they won’t cost you a dime. Here is a list below:

We all know that social media marketing can be a powerful strategy. Many articles have been written about it. This article is not about convincing or converting you, it is about setting you up and getting you started.

Blogger’s block is loosely defined as the aching, painful feeling a blogger gets when the typing hands go numb and the brain goes dead. It is similar to writer’s block but it can be much more painful. After blogging for a while, it becomes hard for you to find new things to write about.

A new survey by Pew Research reveals interesting new trends in social media with teenagers and young adults. There has been "a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. In 2006, 28% of teens ages 12-17 and young adults ages 18-29 were bloggers, but by 2009 the numbers had dropped to 14% of teens and 15% of young adults.

Marketing with social media is a powerful strategy that involves promoting your website or business through social media channels - such as Facebook and Twitter - to build stronger traffic, brand awareness and user-generated content. Social media marketing is a low-cost marketing method that will easily give you large numbers of visitors, which a business will be able to retain provided there is solid and relevant information on your website.

When you are growing your business or blog, a link from a popular blog can help you tremendously. It will bring you more visitors and hopefully some secondary links or traffic from other bloggers who follow the popular blog. But how do you get a mention and link from these influential bloggers?