Rotten Apple

Organic search engine traffic sounds delicious… but is that necessarily a good source of traffic?

No, not for the blogs.

Three reasons:

1. Dead low conversions. (Unless you know how to improve them)

2. Zero loyalty. (Needs conversion)

3. You got them from search engines.

In fact, organic traffic might not be as good as you think. Instead of building links for your keywords or using some strategic SEO battle plan, inorganic traffic do not require these and rather perform better.

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Wrecked Ship

Let’s admit it, a typical blog has a sidebar with four icons at the top; Twitter, Facebook, RSS and FeedBurner.

And perhaps right below that is a form for you to trade in your email to get a free eBook.

What’s more?

10 Popular posts.

Then four boxes of 150×150 animated ads followed by a list of categories.

Why would anyone offer 25+ choices to their readers alone on the sidebar? Don’t you think that’s ridiculous?

Well, here’s a rule for you…

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3 Ways To Shine Holy Light Upon Your Words That Baits Attention

You know… attention on the web is scarce and extremely short, right? We read the stuff that interest us, or else we ignore them. So, how are writers supposed to grab our attention towards their content? Perhaps a flashy pop-up that says “you’re the one millionth lucky visitor, come and get a prize”? That’s destined [...]

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Social Hooks Is Now Live!

Hey, in case you haven’t looked at my about page, my name is Harrison Li, the author behind this blog. I would like to announce that Social Hooks, a blog about psychology, blogging and marketing, is now officially live as of today 4/9/2011. My goal Well, it’s simple, I help small to medium-sized businesses reach [...]

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