7 Steps Any Business Owner Can Take To Increase Website Traffic

Chances are if you own a business you own a website. Who could pass up the opportunity to reach thousands of potential clients...right? Well...maybe. Using a website to market your products and services is a great, but have you given any thought to your websites daily, weekly, or monthly traffic? Without traffic (that converts to sales) your wasting one of your best marketing assets.

There are steps that you can take to improve your online exposure and traffic without ever looking at a line of code.  Each step, in one way or another, focuses on your niche or location which will not only increase traffic but should also yield a higher ROI because you'll be putting yourself in front of people who are looking for your services or products.

I mentioned "ROI" so you're probably thinking that there's a fee of some sort.  We'll, there is...your time.  Each step outlined is free but some work (albeit minimal) is required from your end.

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Directory Submissions - A Necessary Evil

After spending that last 4 hours searching for quality directories, submitting and then repeating the process, I'm reminded about how much it sucks. Although directory submission is tedious, it is necessary for SEOing on a budget...or lack thereof.

For those who work within the web world, you're probably familiar with directories. And for those of you who are not the web techie type, the following may be somewhat foreign but I'll do my best to be thorough...feel free to ask questions in the comments.
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Kick The Tires [Hard] When Purchasing Wordpress Themes

I recently purchased a Wordpress theme over at Digitalpoint forums and it's been an experience.  I have purchased a few uncoded templates in the past but never a fully coded theme until now.

Let me just say that I know it's not an easy job to develop a Wordpress theme.  There's a lot that goes into the process and it's very, very easy to overlook a few details.  There are a few stones that should never go unturned...never, never, never:

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Bribes aren’t tax deductible??

I've been working on my taxes all day and ran across the following excerpt from About.com. Here's the link to the actual page (scroll towards the bottom of the page) and below is a screenshot. Bribes and kickbacks don't qualify for a deduction...who would have thought.
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