Would you like to get some secrets revealed by the top people in the SEO industry?

I have made a list of interviews with SEO gurus and people who are good at making money on the Internet. No doubt, you will find a lot of tips on how to improve your work at the websites to generate a better income from your own projects or from the projects of your customers.

If you have bookmarked some interviews that are not on the list – please contact me and I will add them.

Interview with Ammon Johns

Lee Odden interview

Interview of BOTW

Interview of Andy Hagans

Interview of Matt Cutts

Interview of Eurotrash

Interview of Jason Lexell

Interview of Lots0

Interview of Frank Watson

Interview of Nick Wilson

Interview of Jim Boykin

Interview of Jason Duke

Interview of Peter Da Vanzo

Interview of Dan Thies

Interview of NFFC

Interview of David Naylor

Interview of Shawn Hogan

Shawn Walters

Interview of Patrick Gavin

Interview of Hjalmar Gislason

Bruce Stone Interview

Interview with Eric T. Peterson

Interview with Daron Babin of WebmasterRadio.FM

Interview with Dan Thies of SEO Research Labs

Interview with Jill Whalen of High Rankings

Brett Tabke Interview on Pubcon & WebmasterWorld

Interview with Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR

Interview with Barry Schwartz (RustyBrick) of Search Engine Roundtable

Interview with Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz

Interview with Andrew Goodman of Traffick and Page Zero Media

Interview with Todd Malicoat aka Stuntdubl of We Build Pages

Interview with Aaron Wall of SEOBook and Threadwatch

Interview with Heather Lloyd-Martin of SuccessWorks

Mike Grehan Interview

Interview with Eric Ward of URLwire

Todd Malicoat Interview

Cristian Mezei Interview

Bill Slawski Interview

Dax Herrera Interview

Textbook Mike Grehan

Darren Rowse Podcast

Dan Kramer Interview

Raspberrysundae Interview

Greg Hartnett Interview

Robert Scoble Interview

Shoemoney Interview

Ammon Johns

Jim Westergren Interview

Aaron Pratt Interview

John Scott Interview

Mike Grehan Interview

Danah Boyd Interview

Lee Odden Interview

Self Policing PR Spammers

Skippy Interview

Jeremy Zawodny Interview

Greg Boser Interview

Interview Jill Whalen

Philipp Lenssen Interview

Interview Michael Gray

Webmaster Radio Matt Cutts Interview

Interview Rand Fishkin

Interview Jim Boykin

Smart IT Consulting Interview

Interview of Aaron Wall

Matt Cutts

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New sites have (practically) no chance to rank well in Google – most significant traffic source for ANY online resource. Taking into the account the number of new websites and blogs that pop up in thousands daily it is hard to get top rankings in Google – the number of top positions is limited. There are established and authority sites that make it hard to compete with for the top places.

Established sites also search for new and additional traffic sources. No site can get enough traffic.

So, what is left for us? What are the ways to get extra traffic, besides Google, for established sites and new ones?

Below is a short survival guide. Certainly, not every technique works for every type of the website and it is not 100% guarantee that the traffic you generate via below ways will help you greatly and you will stop dreaming of Google traffic. But every bit helps…

1. Contests. Weekly, monthly, any. Remember to add it to special contest directories, also to Volition.com and FatWallet.com sweeps forums.

2. PPC. You can test second tier PPC (in addition to Yahoo! Search Marketing and AdWords) engines – they are chaper, but be ready for high % of fraud clicks.

3. Social bookmarking websites (del.icio.us & similar). A nice free tool that allows to bookmark your content with a number of the most popular websites: www.onlywire.com – saves tons of time.

4. Much unique and good content that can work as viral marketing to spread word about your website.

5. Many quality links – they are valuable for SEO to improve your search engine rankings, but they also can become an important traffic source.

6. Press releases. Find angles monthly. A great list of services to submit your press releases to is here

7. Tests for $ (buy a few links; an established site; expired domains; directory listings; e-zine adv)

8. e-Mail marketing: be in touch with your visitors

9. Target other search engines: Yahoo!, MSN, Ask

10. Affiliate programs (if you have a product or service for sale): build a network of affiliates. It is better to run an in-house affiliate program.

11. Participate in the top forums of your industry. Remember to add signature that will be automatically displayed with your every post.

12. Search webmaster forums for traffic generation techniques specific to your type of the website:

www.sitepoint.com

www.digitalpoint.com

www.wickedfire.com

www.webmasterworld.com

13. Classifieds (incl. Craigslist).

14. Award sites (top 100 sites, etc)

15. Mega traffic mega quick: read this great post on fast traffic generation ways

16. Join some blog carnivals

17. Buy traffic – useless, but it exists as a technique and you can waste a portion of your adv budget

18. Explore your logs: where your visitors come from: more efforts to that channel promotion

19. Alexa top 100 traffic sites: need to discover ways to get your tiny traffic stream from them. For instance, from

a. eBay (signature in e-mails, ‘about me’)

b. Flickr: submit best images with the description & link, create a user group

c. YouTube (see above)

d. Wikipedia

e. MySpace (profile blende with your website, friends generation, bulletins)

f. Craigslist

That’s it. I think there is something for you to test from the list. Good luck.

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In my post on types of links you can generate to improve your search engines rankings I mentioned the most desired and valuable called Link Bait (I wonder who of applied this term first). I admire those people who are good at making new and new link baits. They do it regularly and naturally it seems it comes so easy. In my previous post I recommend you to check the new affiliate marketing forum Here comes another sample of link bait type of content.

Darren Rowse, a well known person among bloggers, has posted A-Z of Professional Blogging

This short ‘Encyclopedia to successful blogging’ includes:

• blogging tools,
• platforms,
• services
• ways of making money from blogging

Summary: In addition to the value of the post where I have learnt about new things in blogging this is sort of sample how link bait should look. I guess it is a good idea to start a collection of link bait types and then generate similar to your own websites.

p.s. I should also work more at my own original posts – but there is so much great information that is published by others – I simply have no time for that.