Here’s a quick traffic tip. Start helping people on Yahoo Answers. Simply by helping people and answering their questions you can drive hoards of targeted visitors to your website. Watch the video below to learn how. After the video go HERE to learn lots more traffic tactics.

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Getting traffic to your website or blog is vitally important for your business. Once your sales copy & sales process are up to scratch then increasing the amount of visitors going to your website is the number one way to build your business & increase your sales. Here are 3 simple ways to increase traffic to your website or blog fast:

1. Get on Twitter!

Go to twitter & start following people who need what you have. For example if you sell golfing equipment then use twitters search function to seek out golfers & start following them. Once they follow back they will be able to see all your twitter updates, of course do not hard sell them on your products. Supply them with free content on your blog or website that will help them & include links to what you are selling. Here’s a video which will help you get started on twitter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBQU_QArHQA

2. Write articles for other websites or ezines.

Webmasters are always looking for quality content to put on their sites & blogs. Lets stick with the golfing example again. You write an article showing how a golfer can correct his slice and at the end of the article include your details & link to your website or blog. Then go to Google & search for golfing sites and golfing newsletters & contact their owners and offer them your free article. You can even offer to include an affiliate link in there so they not only get free content but can also make money with your affiliate program if you have one.

3. Create a free report & make it viral!

Put together a 10 page+ report which you feel will be of benefit to potential customers & make it go viral on twitter using something like retweet 4 me so people on twitter will have to tweet about your report to get access to it. You can see an example of how it works here

There you have 3 simple ways to start getting more traffic. If you would like more ways to get traffic & learn how to use different kinds of viral marketing & send thousands of targeted visitors to your websites or blogs for free then go visit The Traffic Transformer website to get more information

Here’s a great interview that took place the other night where Jon Stewart interviews Peter Schiff, the former economic adviser to the Ron Paul presidential campaign & the president of EuroPacific Capital. Schiff talks about the economy, bailouts, stimulus, inflation & more. Funny & informative, well worth a watch!

Everyday more and more gadgets, apps & analytics tools are appearing for Twitter. It’s becoming a crowded marketplace with more & more competition, which is good for twitter users as it means lots of great new tools for free! There are now hundreds (maybe thousands) of twitter related tools around but here are 5 of the coolest, most useful tools that all twitter nerds (twerds!) should be using:

1. TwitterCal - Connect Your Twitter Account With your Google Calendar

2. TweetStats - Graph Your Twitter Stats

3. TweetBurner- Track How Many Hits The Links In your Tweets Get

4. TweeTube - Easy Way To Share Videos, Pictures & Links On Twitter

5. TweetMeme - Essentially The Digg.com Of Twitter Updates. (My retweet icon above at the start of this post is a TweetMeme add-on for wordpress - click it if you like the post!)

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Gmail can be a very productive tool, not just email but access to chat, calendar, docs & more all from one spot. Just to make it that bit even more productive here’s how to add Twitter to your Gmail sidebar.

Step 1. Click the green labs icon on the top right of your Gmail account after you’ve logged in.

Step 2. Click Gadgets & add the following URL:

-> http://twittergadget.com/gadget_gmail.xml

Step 3. Click add & the Twitter Gadget will appear on the menu on the left hand side of your gmail account.

Step 4. Log into your Twitter account via the gadget & you can now tweet to your hearts content via Gmail!

You can check out the guys who created the Gmail Twitter Gadget here

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Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey talk about the dramatic growth of Twitter and its future. You can find me on twitter here.