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Audience-building Advice for Your Startup, Small Business or Passion Project

Welcome to Think Traffic!

I have one simple goal for this site: to help you build a high-traffic traffic website or blog.

As a blogger and web entrepreneur, I’ve found that getting traffic is both the most difficult and most important aspect of being successful online.

I probably don’t have to tell you that thinking “if you build it they will come” won’t get you very far. That’s just not how things work online. Having great content or a useful site is one of the most important aspects of building a popular website, but great content doesn’t bring in big traffic all by itself.

There’s another unfortunate myth I hear aspiring bloggers and entrepreneurs repeat too often. People think that to build a popular site online, you have to wait to be “discovered” by some big name blogger like Seth Godin or Mike Arrington.

Luckily, that’s not the truth either. A mention by Seth or Mike would definitely help, but you can build a massively popular site without becoming best buddies with an A-list blogger.

The Truth About Website Traffic

Here’s what is so great about working in such a huge and democratic arena like the Internet. If you’re willing to study the right techniques and put in the necessary effort, you can get more than enough visitors to your blog or site to be successful online. You don’t have to wait to get lucky or ask for anyone’s permission.

This blog is here to teach you the techniques, tools and knowledge you need to build real, sustainable web traffic.

There are thousands of things you could be doing to attract people to your site. From using social media to article marketing to search engine optimization to blog carnivals and more, you can’t possibly do everything, and nor do you need to. You have to ruthlessly focus your efforts on those things that work, and stop spending precious time on things that don’t.

Think Traffic will help you discover where to spend your time to get a huge return on your efforts. Read and apply the tips and strategies you find here, and you’ll start attracting traffic, building fans and becoming successful online.

That’s my promise to you.

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Who’s behind Think Traffic?

Corbett Barr, Think Traffic FounderNow that I’ve made you a promise, I suppose I should introduce myself ;)

I’m Corbett Barr, and I’ve been an internet entrepreneur since I first created a custom search engine back in 2003. I’m glad I didn’t leave my day job for that project, because I learned that it takes more than a run-of-the-mill service and some pay-per-click ads to be successful online.

Since then, I’ve created a bunch of other web-based projects, some of which have done pretty well. In 2006, a company I co-founded received venture capital from a top Silicon Valley VC. That site now attracts nearly 200,000 visitors a month and has over a million registered users.

I left the “traditional” startup scene at the end of 2008 to take some time off and decide what to work on next. My wife and I spent 7 months on a road trip through Mexico and I vowed to build my next company without a permanent office or major investors. That lifestyle decision led to starting the blog called Free Pursuits about lifestyle design.

When Free Pursuits (now CorbettBarr.com) attracted over 100k visitors in one month and broke into Alexa’s top 100k websites in the world (woot!), it helped me realize that the part of online entrepreneurship I enjoy most is building website traffic.

I’ve since built my online business into a six-figure income in just 18 months. Much of that time was spent while living at the beach in Mexico. I wrote a whole book about how I built my business that you can read for free right now. Check it out: 18 Months, 2 Blogs, Six Figures.

I want Think Traffic to become the “go to” resource for finding tips and strategies for building real, sustainable web traffic. I’m building a community with your help where lots of different bloggers and webmasters (is that still a word?) share tips and discuss what works and doesn’t work.

I hope you’ll stick around and join me on this journey to build high-traffic websites. If you like (or don’t like) what you read, don’t be shy. Share your perspective in the comments and/or submit your own guest article.

Feel free to write me anytime at editor@thinktraffic.net.

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