Category: Traffic
Shaun Carter dot Com Now Using Entrecard

So yeah, I’m a little behind the times. I have never been into the game of jumping onto the bandwagon immediately after something new comes out, but now I’m ready to take the plunge and give Entrecard a chance on this blog. Look to your right and you’ll see the Entrecard widget in action along the sidebar. For those of [...]

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Shaun Carter dot Com Now Offers DoFollow Commenting

I have decided to do a little test here by eliminating the NoFollow attribute on comments using the Lucia’s Linky Love plugin. I am hoping this will bring more people to the blog and foster some more discussion Another potential benefit to eliminating the NoFollow on comments is increased linking to the site and will increase the PageRank of Shaun [...]

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Traffic Pods

I have become quite interested in traffic exchanges lately and have discovered some great new ones that are making me money in the form of referral commissions as well as generating traffic to some of my websites. The first one I will talk about is called Traffic Pods. On the outside their system looks very complex and confusing because it [...]

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3 Questions To Ask When Setting up a Marketing Plan

By: Dan Moses There must be some reason why some marketing plans outperform others. Said another way, if two equally skilled marketers create a marketing plan… why does one produce 5 x as many members and sales as the other marketer? Is this due to who they know, or the size of their list? Or maybe it’s the price of [...]

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August Blog Income

This is the first blog income post I have done, because this is the first month I’ve monetized Shaun Carter dot Com. This blog utilizes Adsense and Kontera for income and I did a little bit of Adwords advertising during August (only 1 and 2 cent keywords). I do have site wide textlinks available from Text Link Ads for only [...]

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New Blog Milestone – Alexa Rank

The one week Alexa rank for ShaunCarter.com has dropped below 200,000 for the first time today, thanks in part to the large amount of new traffic coming in for the Quixtar/Team stories I have been posting over the last week. The next goal is to break that 100,000 barrier. [tags]shaun carter, alexa, traffic, quixtar, team, team of destiny, amway, alticor, [...]

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The Power of Technorati Tags In Blog Posts

Something you’ll notice on all my blog postings is the use of Technorati tags at the bottom of each entry. These links take you to a page of technorati that shows all of the most recent blogs posted using that same tag term. The benefits of using Technorati Tags are huge, as I am receiving about 30 brand new visitors [...]

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Digg Traffic vs. Google Traffic

Chitika did an interesting experiment comparing the effectiveness of traffic coming from a Digg and that of mostly organic Google traffic. The results are what most everyone expected… Google traffic converts over three times as high of a CTR as Digg traffic. I was a little surprised to see that even the Google CTR is under 1% though, I have [...]

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