BurningKnife

Some of you have certainly figured out that Youtube videos bring traffic to your website… With Windows Movie Maker, it’s really not difficult to put together a short video that can garner views, and bring you traffic. The problem that many people are running into is audio – or rather, the lack of good audio. Youtube has been seriously cracking down on videos that use copyrighted music.

I use a free service called Link Diagnosis to keep an eye on my link efforts for this website. It shows how many unique links are reported by Yahoo, and more importantly, what the anchor text is. You can also download the information provided into text or CVS format – which makes it a wonderful service for keeping historical data on your link building efforts.

I’m a big believer in information – the more the better. I want to know exactly what’s going on at all times – I have four different statistics modules for this website, for example – each one gives me facts that the others don’t. Without knowing what’s going on – you’ll never be able to improve your website, or improve how much money you’re earning from your site.

This particular link also illustrates a great rule to follow when trying to create an authority website – always try to create pages on your site that are ‘link bait’. Now, you may or may not have ever heard the term – but link bait are webpages created for the purposes of bringing in one-way links to your site.

One of the first things I do every morning is I log into my Google Analytics account, and review the statistics for the previous day. Because Google isn’t ‘real-time’, it’s the best I can do…