It’s TRAFFIC WEEK here at Jimvesting dot com for the next week and a half. Don’t forget to keep checking back every day for a fresh new tip on how to get insane amounts of traffic to your blog or website!
Before we kick off the week, let’s take a step back and get into some link love! There was definitely some great material that came out across the blogosphere this week. I saw a few notable pieces come out from some of my regular subscriptions, so here are the best of the week:
- John Chow – Shopping in Shanghai: 40 Cent Beer and $10 Ice Cream
- Tushar Dhoot – Winning the War Against Spam Comments
- Nicky Cakes – Newb Guide Part 5: Landing Pages
- ProBlogger – How to Expand Your Blog Audience when Traffic Plateaus
- Iron Blogger – Google Adsense, SEO, Updates and Earnings
A link from John Chow? Yep. You heard right! John brings us an awesome example of just how effective it can be to benefit from currency exchange… notably from China’s standpoint where the USD is stronger. My good friend Tushar Dhoot pulls out all the stops with a great post on defeating spam commenting on your blog. Nicky Cakes rounds out his marketing guide with a nice look into landing pages and how to implement them effectively. Pro Blogger makes a second appearance after this awesome article on how to expand your reach when things seem to reach a peak. Finally, Iron Blogger announces earnings… but more importantly, talks extensively about his new niche blog and building traffic to it.
Stock Market Update
Stocks continued to hand in free-fall, as the Dow Jones fell to new all time lows, down below 6500 points to be exact. With no end in sight, investors continued to sell off their holdings and began to turn to gold as the solution. This week has been a different story 
entirely, and today we saw a major capitulation off of the market bottom with a 5-6% rally across the major market indices.
Around now, you are going to begin to hear predictions that the worst is over, clear skies ahead, and no news but good news. This is fine for now, but we need to put into perspective the fact that we had nothing to live for a few short days ago. Why the sudden change of heart? Every market experiences a bear market rally. Perhaps it is foolish of me to immediately squash this most recent rally as imaginary, but fundamentally speaking things are still going to be bad for an indeterminate period.
For the time being, expect an extended 10-15% upside rally. My prediction is that we covered around 1/3 of the upside today along, so we should still expect more gains on the markets. However, when all is said and done, if you can’t sell at the top… then you might be in the exact same position.
Blogosphere Update
As I mentioned earlier, there was quite a large quantity of exceptional information flowing from the major blogs this week. Additionally, we had one of my favorite websites, theBlogoholic.com, sell for $1,000 (asking price). I can imagine that same blog getting $2k in better economic times, which is not a great sign for blog flippers. On top of this, we had one of my friends who blogs over at MrJavo.com get into the semifinals of the Dell.com social responsibility competition… so be sure to check out his entry.
As I mentioned earlier, this entire week I will be listing and talking about a new traffic source every day of the week. I’ll be talking about everything from Twitter to Blog Commenting, anything that can get traffic to your website. It should be an interesting next several days… so stay tuned and stay bullish on the net!
-Jimvesting
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Nice set of links.
On the stock market, I really hope the disaster won’t last that long since I also have a huge portion of my money invested into it.
Good link love again. Problogger’s post was great and even tushar doot rocked.
Thanks Harish!
Glad you liked my post.
looking forward to more such posts like these.
Great post and interesting links.
Great link love, Jim. And not only because you link to me
I like reading your stock market updates. Allows me to see what the perspective of people who study this full time is.
Thanks once again!
That links to John Chow’s post caught my attention
-Mike
really so good link again thanks for these link 2 link is so impressive and beneficial
Thanks to provide link for ” Winning the War Against Spam Comments” it is really so good thanks again
Please most more of this! Lovely post and great links
What a Great post and interesting links.
Thanks for the list. Now I have some good reading for the evening.
chows article is interesting and i think its one of his very few good post.
I just read about the expensive Ice Cream, Still dont know if that price worth the ice cream.
Also great ideas from problogger, now I know what to do to expand my blog. But I still like to have a lot of traffic and if they click into my PPC the better, lol.
Wow i didn’t know the blogholic had been sold. Congratulations to the owner for flipping it for $1000 i am sure he could have received more if it wasn’t for the world economy right now.