Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has joined Twitter. Not because he wants to connect with his supporters or try to win over his detractors. Chavez joined, because he said he would, and that’s it.
I doubt that we’ll see much interaction between him and his followers. He’s got 16,000+ followers as of this writing, and he’s following 5 people back.
Welcome to the party President Chavez. Pay attention to what I’m about to tell you:
I hope that you’ll listen to your detractors instead of trying to throw them in jail. You can learn …

I am a big believer in article marketing. If you’re looking to generate traffic to your website, writing articles and then posting those articles on various sites is the cheapest and quickest way to get visitors to your website.
There are a lot of nuances when it comes to article marketing. For example, 90% of the success of your article depends on the title. If your article doesn’t have a good title, people won’t open it and read it. Yes, you should provide good content in your article body, but …

I think that’s what I’m going to call this tool a “Time Suck Portal” instead of monitter.  It’s a free twitter tool that lets you see in real time what people are twittering about.  Actually, let me rephrase that.
It’s a tool that lets you follow in real time what people on twitter are saying about a subject that you’re interested in.  Well, actually, that doesn’t work well either.
Let me try this one more time… you know what, forget it.  Just go to the site, type in a subject in the …

Scott Stratten over at his unmarketing blog wrote a really good post about how businesses can use twitter to engage with clients in their local area. In a nutshell, the point is to stop marketing and start engaging.
Don’t just do a simple search for people on twitter in your local area and then start spamming them. Engage with them, get to know them, let them get to know you and take it from there. Scott advocates the use of various tools to make the sorting and engaging easier. One tool …

Google Analytics is a tool that lets you look at the traffic that comes to your website in a more granular fashion. Google Analytics lets you see where your visitors are coming from, how long they stayed, what they looked at and what page they landed on. Knowing this information helps you determine what changes, if any you need to implement in your traffic generation techniques.
What are analytics?
Analytics software, lets you gather stats for the current traffic that comes to your site. If you don’t already have an account, …

Whenever you try to to get more visitors to your site, you need to determine both your starting point and your end point. Much like when you start off on a road trip, you have a starting point and you need to know your end point so you know you’ve reached your goal.
 
First, figure out where you are. Take the time to look at you web stats, either from awstats or Google Analytics, or whatever package you are currently using. How many visitors do you get per day? Do …