On my subway ride to work, I was reminded about an Internet dilemma we should be thinking about more on our blogs & SEO websites: Traffic vs. Sales. I think we regularly concern ourselves with building Traffic instead of understanding how to build it into Sales.
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About a month ago, at the subway transfer station [...]

As usual, Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz fame produces another qualitatively strong post at his site here about (10) Remarkable Strategies in Driving Traffic to a website. We’ve bullet pointed it here for another post in the 2 the point series.

Reporting Remarkable News
Blogging & Blog Comments
Leveraging Social Networks

There are lots of interesting link building techniques shared that are supposedly very effective and can improve your SEO. They include using .edu sites to the common suggestion of commenting on blogs to building tools for others to spread ubiquitously across the Internet.

Well, it looks like a parody produced supposedly by a link bait expert by the name of Lyndon Antcliff of the Cornwallseo.com fame got around not only the Internet, but a bunch of traditional media. It’s hard to confirm, but if you do a search for the article title, you’ll get tons of posts [...]

Some things he says are:

Provide a useful one-time service.
Provide an ongoing service.
Become a resource

And more here in Matt Cutt’s advice in securing links.
A lot of it is intuitive, but it’s good intuitive advice that we should be reminded about.

After writing in Youmoz (part of SEOmoz) recently, I wondered first, if they would publish the post (yes, they did). Secondly, what the reaction would be (good — 8 thumbs up and none down)?  So, thirdly, my natural assumption should be that maybe I’ll attract a little traffic from the post to my [...]

Speakers spoke about .edu domains were decent places to get links.  More places to get links back to your site that were suggested were:Directories, Best of the Web, Yahoo, DMOZ, Joe Ant, Blog Catalogue.
Some “Outside of the Box” techniques that were suggested were:

You’ve seen them.  You’ve probably disregarded them.
However, they seem to be doing something right.  The “make money” by blogging or “learn how I made a killing” type of blogs are ubiquitous on the Internet.  There’s John Chow who has a very expensive sports car splattered all over his front page telling you how he’s made [...]