More discounts: Ittybiz has an anniversary sale this week

Posted by Lode | January 29, 2009 .

Yes, even more discounts this week. Naomi of Ittybiz decided to give discounts on her products, because she’s having her 5 year anniversary today. Okay…I guess you need to find a reason to give discounts.
(Of course the only reason is to get even more sales, but who cares? Discounts are good!).
Ittybiz has several great [...]

Early Stage Strategy: Building Links

Posted by Lode | May 21, 2008 .

Incoming links are important for a blog. Most importantly because they drive visitors to your site, and visitors are of first and foremost importance to a blog. But besides bringing visitors, incoming links are the most important factor for getting a ranking in search engines. Search engines determine the importance of a site on many [...]

Early Stage Strategy: Getting Traffic

Posted by Lode | May 17, 2008 .

If there’s one thing new blogs are lacking it’s traffic. Getting visitors to your blog is one of the first priorities, especially if you’re interested in monetizing it like I want to do with Scraping Pennies.
Traffic comes from various sources:

Referral Traffic
Search Engines
Social Media
Direct Traffic
Ad Traffic

I’ll cover each of these sources in this article.
Referral Traffic
Refferal [...]