Dino Dogan of Triberr [tries to] explain to Ana Hoffman, the queen of traffic generation, why web traffic is a false god. read more...

In the spotlight this week:

* List building week at Traffic Generation Café;
* How do you know if your email marketing is working?
* Google Analytics, Blogger, Affiliate Network, AdSense, and yes – airport;
* Does exact anchor text in internal links hurt your SEO?
* What NASA can teach us about social media;
* and how to protect your blog from the recent WordPress hack a read more...

In the spotlight this week:

* YouTube is shutting down;
* Google’s new “innovations”;
* Facebook Home;
* Digg is resurrecting from the dead;
* How to Milk Slideshare for Moo’ Traffic;
* Content marketing song about content marketing;
* and more…
Let’s get down to business.

http://www.trafficgenerationcafe.com/weekly-marketing-skinny-april-6-2013
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In the spotlight this week:

* Affiliate marketing industry is getting slapped around;
* Copyright infringement and my personal woes with it;
* New features on Twitter and Facebook;
* Facebook is coming out with their own Android?
* Google Analytics becomes more hands-on in real time;
* Link building resources;
* …And more.
Let’s get down to business.

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How to get more Facebook fans James Bond style: killer tips for killer results.

Warning: don't click on this link if you want a quick fix.
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If you haven’t getting any significant amount of traffic love from Twitter, in this post let me share six simple tactics I learned. read more...

You’d think that running a business should be a serious matter.

On the other hand, who says we can’t take over the online world and clown around on the side (just in case that online business thing doesn’t pan out)?

These people definitely know how to grab attention. With funny Twitter bios in this case.

I dare you NOT to laugh or share it with your readers.
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I read everything. You get the skinny.

In this week's spotlight: Positive constraints, women (almost) trump men, Twitter is out of its mind 6 seconds at a time, how to drive traffic without SEO, and more. read more...

How to Use Google Plus? Should you even consider spending your time on Google Plus?

Consider this: it's now reported that Google Plus has moved up to become the second largest social media network.

Now Twitter is dragging behind.

To learn how to use Google Plus:
http://www.trafficgenerationcafe.com/google-plus-social-network-tutorial/

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I read everything. You get the skinny. See what happened in marketing in the past week. Plus, awesome Kaepernick presentation and Hello Kitty in space! read more...

Making a video go viral can never be guaranteed but all eight of these videos have one thing in common, they were HUGE worldwide hits last year. read more...

Even when Traffic Generation Café was a brand new blog, I did one thing VERY well: drive traffic from Twitter by getting more and more Twitter followers each day.

I followed three rules: automation, the right bait, and the right foundation.

Learn more about those rules and how to actually apply them to your business to get more Twitter followers. read more...

This is one of my favorite traffic generation tools I've been using for years.

Many folks are too afraid of automation, or they simply speak up against it because they don't know what they are talking about (like that never happens around internet!).

However, when used well, it'll do WONDERS for your Twitter traffic generation.

It did for me. read more...

Make sure to avoid common mistakes when it comes to social media use of businesses trying to build brand loyalty. What are the most common ones? read more...

There are two trends that made a huge change on Social Media landscape and fabric. 1. Content Visualisation. Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest are place ... read more...

We really have no one to blame but ourselves. Social Media professionals are tasked with the challenge of increasing demand for their services and for online community management while systematically asked for evidence or proof of the efficacy of social media engagement. read more...

It’s easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic. Over the years, we’ve grown the Moz blog to nearly a million visits each month and helped lots of other blogs, too. read more...

There are many great small features that are on Facebook but you may not actually be aware of as you use it every day which I'm pretty sure that they're kind of hidden away. Therefore, you really don’t want to miss any of them. Here are 19 Important Facebook Timeline Feature that you should know it... read more...

We now have at least one study that puts meaningful and intimate activities above the wireless umbilical cord. That should be of some comfort, however small. Here is a summary of the results. read more...

Facebook and Yahoo! are in talks about forging an alliance that could spell
the end of Yahoo!’s relationship with Microsoft. read more...