SEO for Firefox is something every webmaster shouldnt be working without. What this plugin is it will append various important stats to search results on google. Things like PR, cache, supplmental, alexa rank, etc etc. I use it on a regular basis to help me track important stats for my various sites, instead of some website that most people may goto to find this kind of similar info out. One of the more important recent additions is the supplemental indexing tracker. This has really helped me keep a close eye on the duplicate content some of my sites create, and easily get rid of it. This is definitely a plugin I cant live without now.

Download: SEO for Firefox

Recently I’ve been seeing the usage of these social media networks like DIGG and YouTube for a new form of marketing your blogs/websites. Among some of the resources I turn to for advise on various topics this one being the internet, I stumbled on to http://www.harpzon.com which he recently did a quick article on bringing traffic to your sites through things like making Diggs that speak directly to the Digg community.

Now back when I started doing this whole internet marketing thing a year ago my whole goal was to be a whore on the net for all of my sites. I really saw some of my tactics as being a “spammer” but at the same time gaining tons of backlinks and really getting the name out there. More specifically I looked at “spamming” my site through comments on relevant blogs and making really solid comments on their sites. Now almost instantly after doing that on a TON of sites in the early stages of my site I was able to create some serious amounts of backlinks and people visiting my blog specifically for my content. I’m talking about 40-100 visits per comment I left. Now this may not seem like a lot but when you drop your sites url on 40+ sites it adds up fast. The same goes for DIGG, I took the time to make solid content for the Digg machine to make use of and over the long haul it has really added up to a lot of visitors.

The Rundown:

• *Making relevant and helpful comments on other peoples blogs is easy FREE traffic. You get all your click backs through people clicking on your name (your name generally has your url in it, ryan yockey).
• *Make Digg articles with helpful and relevant content, your title is key here. Bad title ZERO clicks, good title = MONEY in the bank.

So there you have it, a couple solid tips on free traffic to your blog.

The eComXpo was my first virtual trade show. They take an interesting approach to the whole SEM/affiliate marketing convention structure. I liked the fact that I could rip through checking out all the major companies booths within a couple hours. Unlike the bigger trade shows like SES and Affiliate Summit. They also held a good deal of seminars on various topics like “Making Money With Google” and “Ebay Affiliate Program”. But the one I found the most entertaining as well as chock full of solid information was “Build Your Business using Social Media” which gave a great run down on marketing your sites in the major social media networks such as, DIGG and YouTube. The panel on this dicussion was Shoemoney, Kris Jones, Todd Malicoat, And Neil Patel., which if you know who they are means you get great information out of it.

One thing that suprised me was the booth prizes at the event. I rarely ever win anything and I was greeted a week after the event was over with a box from one of the booths. I apparently won a CardScan personal. Basically its a business card scanner. Not that I get loads of business cards to really need one, but there will come a day when I’ll be shuffling through a stack and need a way to organize them. Enough plugging them.

All in all I liked the event. It gave me a good deal of useful information. But it lacked the real life interaction you get from the bigger shows. I recommend anyone go check it out, plus its free, so its a win win.