Happy Tuesday everyone! Welcome back to the real world. Other than the wind (I keep telling myself the wind makes me super strong on my bike, though it doesn’t really help when you’re riding in it), we had a perfect weekend in Chicago. Hope you did, too!

I was catching up on my Google Reader on Friday night and I came across Scott Hepburn’s “Wanna Help a Fellow Blogger?” post. In it, he talks about ways we can each help drive blog traffic without using Twitter. GASP! Not using Twitter?! Is the world ending?

But…I agree. When we look at our referral sources on traffic, Twitter is number one. And it annoys the snot out of me. Why? Because that means our traffic is totally reliant on me and my network to get the blog posts retweeted every day. And why wouldn’t it be? I tweet the posts. I tweet our guest blogger’s posts. And I tweet blogs of people I respect and admire. So why would you go anywhere else to get the information? I make it too easy. (more…)