Review by Steve Jacobs, Ph.D. for 101 Ways to Boost Your Web Traffic: Internet Marketing Made Easier, 3rd Edition
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I continued to be pleased when I find a product or service that substantially exceeds my expectations. I have had two within the last 5 years – 101 Ways to Boost Your Web Traffic is one. Mr. Wong’s book is easy to read, easy to implement, and free of excess rhetoric. We have increased our web traffic by 1600% in less than 3 months, moved to number 3 position in Altavista, 31 in Anzwers, 36 in Google, 41 in AOL, 45 in hotbot – ALL from positions >200 in less than 3 months. The Center for Applied-Psychology.org…owes Mr. Wong much.

Review by Midwest Book Review for 101 Ways to Boost Your Web Traffic: Internet Marketing Made Easier, 3rd Edition
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In 101 Ways To Boost Your Web Traffic, internet and technology training expert Thomas Wong clearly and carefully explains how to increase the number of visitors (and repeat visitors) to a website easily and quickly; how to save time and money associated with website promotion; how to reach out to a larger, more target audience; how to persuade others to buy your ideas, products, and services while visiting your website; and how to utilize your website to your best advantage both personally and professionally. Wong’s techniques are sound, practical, “user friendly” and internet market tested. In short, they work and work well. Anyone wanting to increase their website traffic, the effectiveness of the website for sales and services, should begin with a thoroughly reading of Thomas Wong’s 101 Ways To Boost Your Web Traffic.

Review by Marlon Brown for 101 Ways to Boost Your Web Traffic: Internet Marketing Made Easier, 3rd Edition
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As a Web site owner with about two years of Internet experience, I’m very impressed by this book. The author has done an excellent job in presenting the essential topics related to Web development, marketing, and promotion. I particularly like the companion site hosted at Intesync. It demonstrates many of the techniques in the book.The first thing I do after reading the book is to pick 5 of the 101 techniques to work on (as suggested by the author). I select to create a Privacy Policy, add a “Tell a Friend” script, set up a mirror site using free Web space and domain name from NameZero.com, revise my news release and send it out using Internet Wire, and place a couple of Ezine ads. The results are still coming in. But I’m already excited about moving onto other techniques!

Review by Bob Nolin for Create Your Own Photo Blog
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Photoblogs are a very popular and useful marketing tool for professional portrait photographers. They’re a great way for studios to stay in touch with their customers. With this in mind, I was very surprised to see that this book does not treat this area at all. In fact, there’s maybe three sentences, total, about marketing and driving traffic to your photoblog. (Basically, the advice given is: participate in online communities, and stick some metatags in your code, and wait for people to show up.) The other surprising thing was how narrow the focus was. What we have here is a book about how to recreate exactly what the author created, no more nor less. She used Movable Type, so that’s all that’s discussed here. (The author claims MT is the most popular blogging software out there. Not true. People are leaving it in droves for Wordpress, since MT has no spam-protection, and Wordpress kills spam in its tracks. ) She even tells you exactly what webhost service to use, going so far as to include screenshots of their website. Very odd.

I don’t know of a good book for portrait photographers looking to add a blog to their marketing program. However, two books I would recommend just because they’re very well written and useful as all get-out are:

WordPress For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) and How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog (How to Do Everything)

Review by M. V. Smith for Create Your Own Photo Blog
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I’ve been a blogger for awhile, and never even considered adding pictures to my text. Photo blogging is a great idea! This book is filled with great ideas. Text blogs may be a fad that will taper off after awhile, but I get the feeling that photo blogs will be around for a long, long time. This book will help promote the concept.

Review by Dan Poynter for 101 Ways to Boost Your Web Traffic: Internet Marketing Made Easier, 3rd Edition
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Building your web site is not enough, you must alert potential clients to it and encourage them to visit it. Buy this book, follow Wong’s advice and they will come. This book provides 101 web-site promotion plans categorized into ten chapters. It even has an implementation checklist to make sure you are covering all the bases and are rounding them in the right order. For coverage, click on Table of Contents in the left-hand column of this page.Thomas Wong is a leading Internet and technology-training expert based in the Silicon Valley. As the author of 113 books (including revisions and foreign-language editions) and over 500 magazine articles, I highly recommend this book to anyone with a web site. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com.

Review by Nora von Gerichten for 101 Ways to Boost Your Web Traffic: Internet Marketing Made Easier, 3rd Edition
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I have to admit that I actually like this book. It is packed with simple yet practical guides for setting up a popular web site. I have read a few other web marketing books, and most of them are rich in principles but lacking specific action steps. 101 Ways comes with easy to follow instructions, which are immediately applicable. I find the idea to constantly test and measure your efforts particularly useful. To test the author’s own efforts, I did a search of “web marketing” in Yahoo! and I was surprised to see his Intesync site listed in the first category!! He proved to me that even with thousands of competitive sites, you can still find a way to be on top.