Today I updated the site-hype blog with a rewrite of the ezine article and did social media submissions using the site hype software. I also tried the blog comment function and the twitter function.

All worked fine. Was a while since I really tried to use my own software for real from beginning to end. Only problem is that I found lots of things that I want to change. Ill start on that tomorrow…

In the first your traffic tip I recommend posting to ezine articles, i created the account for this yesterday.

Today I wrote the first text for ezinearticle and an author resource box to match. I took special care to customize the resource box so that the body text flows into the resource box.

I reread each article three times and fixed grammar, spelling and just strange things.  And, then used my brother for an extra round of proof reading. Once you have your articles on the article site and it starts to you can no longer edit it, so better get it right from the start.

Uploading to ezine articles is simple and I only use that site since it the very largest. The goal is to get other sites to use my article and provide backlinks to my site when they publish the author resource box.

I also did a manual rewrite of it to use on my www.site-hype.com blogg.

There are many ways to do rewrites, since i only needed one rewrite i simply read each paragraph of text and tried to express the meaning of that paragraph in another way. Its perhaps not the easiest way to do it but you end up with something that is very different and high quality.

So, in about 2-3 hour i now have 2 origi9nal articles that I actually think are pretty good and one of them uploaded to ezinearticles. I will not see any results from ezinearicles in a while since all articles are manually approved before they are published.

So here are the preparations I have  done today:

I created a new gmail account and a new yahoo account to use for only this site. I still use a variation of my real name for the email, so it won’t look like one of the auto generated email accounts.

Using my new gmail account I signed up to yourtraffictips.com to get the list of traffic tips.

This is my own list but subscribing to it and actually taking action on the advices will give me a chance to review the emails. Besides its always good to be reminded of what you know and to get concrete action tips if you don’t know what to do. I have found that the worst time waster is when you just sit and wait to decide what to do with no specific plan. So for these 30 days the fall back plan is to follow the tip in the email if i don’t have anything more important to do.

Next I created a new account of free ezinearticles. Again a used my real name and added a photo for credibility.

For this project i created a new folder and a text file in notepad where I wrote down

• Url
• Web site Title
• Category
• A short description, one line
• A longer description, about 3 sentences
• Keywords

I will use this document to copy and paste this information to the different forms I will need to fill later.

That was all I had time for today. The rest of the day went to support, programming and work on some other sites. About 1 hour of effective work on this so far.

After much work, more than I anticipated, the Site Hyping report is finally up and available

I have been writing a lot lately about web traffic generation here and you might already be getting my free web traffic tips from YourTrafficTips.com, if you are not getting it you should signup. YourTrafficTips is all about easy to use ideas written down as a few steps, easy to follow. Like a smorgasbord of tactics to pick from.

Site Hyping on the other hand is a step by step system to bring more visitors to your site using social networking and web 2.0. Its much more comprehensive. You will learn from the very beginning how to get more visitors to your web site and exactly what you need to do. You can use the site hyping system as a base and then complement it with ideas from the free newsletter.

This is my first info product targeted at web masters. When I started to write on it I never really intended it to be released as a product, it was just meant for a few selected friends….

In a project that I do with a couple of friends we have a few people that are quite new to site promotion. They know how to create web sites, they are experts in their field and know how to write content, but what’s the point with no visitors.

Me being a bit lazy, I didn’t want to work on all web traffic generation myself. So I decided to write down what has been working for me so far, so that they could do all the work. The one page explanation quickly grew to a 20 page report. I gave the report to the people in my group and… got a lot of questions back… now it was no longer a simple report but rather a step by step system. There is a flow chart to follow on what to do each day and forms to follow and fill in as you do your work.

So I figured, now I have a system that anyone one can follow why not share it with the rest of the world and make some money…  Money is nice to have and I have always wanted to do an info product.

So, if you want more visitors to your site and can follow a step by step system, take my system for a test and let me know what you think.

Site-hype.com will be the main site for my upcoming web traffic software when it is released. I expect it to be launched early next year. In the first round I will limit the number of copies to 100, to make sure everything runs as smooth as possible. There will also be a number of bonuses and a member area.

So signup to the waiting list and be first in line.

Facebook just this week announced that they will integrate their service more closely with their partner sites. When you use Facebook you will be able to access your accounts on sites like Discovery Channel, Digg, Twitter, Evite, SocialThing, StumbleUpon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Geni without an extra login.

Some of these sites are quite well known. I already use Digg, Twitter and StumbleUpon to help promote my software and web sites and you should to.

Geni is a really good service to build you family tree. I use it together with some of my relatives. It is good to get reminders on people’s birthdays and quite fun to see your family tree grow.

EVite is a nice free service to create and send out invitations of any kind. I have really not played around with this but I will take a closer look. If you have experience with the service please leave a comment below.

SocialThing is still in closed beta so you will require an invite to use it. The site allows you have a place for all you friends to see what you are doing on other sites.

Learn about how to use social web sites and more in my traffic tip newsletter, sign up is for free and you get a new idea for at least the next 40 days (and by the time you get there probably even longer).

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Google just recently released a new cool search based keyword tool for keyword research. You can use it for free at:
http://www.google.com/sktool

The Search-based Keyword Tool generates keyword relevant and specific to your website. The result from the sktool is based on real searches on Google.

As usual with Google the tool is labeled as beta. Google always seem to put beta after everything they release even if its been tested by millions of users. Anyway, this tool is actually really useful today.

The sktool is created for Google Adwords users but anyone can use it for free. If you are logged into your Adwords account while you use the tool all keywords you already have in your campaigns will be filtered out. You can also specify your own filters to get more specific results. For example you can filter on a range for the bidding price. You can filter the results for a specific page by filling in the URL contains field with the name of your page (ie the part of your domain after the url).

Also note that by default the results are filtered on your billing region. In other words I got my results tailored for Sweden which is not what I wanted since my targeted market is really not Sweden. In the manage settings box in the left hand column simply change the setting to what you want.

When you do a search the tool tries to get keywords from your web site and the keywords you provide as a starting point for its suggestions. The results you get from the keyword search are always matched to the site you provide. Each search returns a list of suggested keywords with an estimate on monthly searched, how much competition there is and a suggested bidding price for the keyword.

But are the Alexa traffic numbers really correct?

It is not statistical valid

The Alexa ranking is not statistical valid for rankings above 100k and it clearly states so on their site. The Alexa ranking is calculated based on the number of visitors to your site that have the Alexa toolbar installed. If your site has too few visitors the estimate on how many of all visitors have the toolbar installed is wrong, its simply not statistical significant.

The results are skewed

Depending on who is your target market, your ranking will differ by huge amounts. People that are interested in knowing the ranking of their own sites are way more likely to have the toolbar installed. If your site is about marketing or targeted to web site owners more of them will have the toolbar. Because of this, Alexas estimate on how many percent of internet users that have the toolbar installed will be wrong. And your site will get an incorrect traffic ranking.

Tomorrow I will tell you how you can easily raise your Alexa ranking. If you want more real visitors to your web site I urge you to sing up to my free web traffic newsletter.

So today I finally decided on the name to use for my new web marketing project, and I am really excited about it! I managed to get a name I like both for the actual product and for the software that is a vital part of it.

I will keep you updated on this project here. When the project has launched I expect to share some interesting results with everyone.

For the last year or so I have used social marketing in many different ways and forms as a tool to drive web traffic to my different sites. Much time has been spent learning the details and following different programs.

I also use and employ traffic assistants to help in the process. There is really too much to do it all yourself if you have many sites and products.

To make the marketing process much easier and effective I am developing a new custom software. The software is right now being tested with other people. There is still work to be done to get it to a quality where I feel alright to share it with others.

The idea, when it is finished, is to share the software with everyone that is in my web traffic program.

I also plan to limit the number of members that I accept in the program to no more than 100. If I can keep the group relative small I expect that it is easier to build a good community in the spirit of helping each other. And I will be able to get to know the people in the group and learn something from them as well.

Another thing I have noticed during the last year is that the free marketing communities I have been part of simply do not work. If people can join for free there is not enough incentive to spend the time working in a system. A lot of the people signing up to the program are simply not that dedicated. The programs that have worked for me have had a monthly fee.

I rather spend a few dollars each month and get results from my time than just spend the time without results. So, the plan will be to have a monthly charge for the service.

Anyways, the next step is to setup a signup page for the site. Explain the project and let folk pre-register for the project launch.

If you want to be among the people in the pre-launch do signup to my free daily traffic tip newsletter. I intend to announce the news there first and you will get a new idea to build traffic to your site every day (well at least for the next 40 days as of this writing).

Here is a quick roundup of 14 popular social sites. All these are nominated for the open web award. Most of these can be used to build web traffic in one way or the other.

Dotblu
dotblu is the place for friendly competition.

Facebook
Facebook probably need to introduction. If you don’t know what Facebook is, just visit the site.

Fast Pitch!
Fast Pitch is a one-stop shop for a business professional to network and market their business.

FriendFeed
Collect all your online activity in one place.

Koornk
koornk is your personal shouting place that lets you stay in touch with your friends via short, quick messages. It works the other way too. And all you have to do is tell your friends (and the world) what are you doing at the moment.

Multiply
Multiply makes it easy to create, share and discuss your blog, photos, and videos with more of the people you know, and fewer of the people you don’t.

MyHeritage
Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love. Geni is another large alternative doing the same thing.

MySpace
Myspace is the social site that started the craze. Create your own space on the internet, very focused on music.

Netlog
Netlog is another really large social site similar to facebook.

Platinum Lounge
A community site where you earn credits for everything you do on the site that you then exchange to real money.
ShareNow
Meet new friends who share your interests.

sMeet
Come and watch videos, test your knowledge in quiz and meet new friends on sMeet without having to download or install. Take part in “Meets & Greets” with celebs, talk on the telephone and listen to live radio shows!

Squidoo
Create your own web site about a given subject.

Twitter
Let everyone know what you are doing now.