There are a lot of website analytics programs out there. Here is what I’ve found to be the best way to manage your website and blog traffic. The key is to not make it more difficult than it needs to be.
Direct traffic is when someone types your URL directly into the URL address bar. It’s usually your homepage, but occasionally it’s a page within your site. It might also be from a bookmark. As you might guess, this traffic can be very valuable. Here is how you can increase your direct website traffic.
Facebook is the biggest social network in the world. There is an opportunity to get traffic from Facebook. Here are strategies you can use to improve your Facebook efforts.
Every business is trying to increase web traffic. Some companies have been more successful than others. Here are the secret ways to get traffic…
The sources of traffic for blogs are changing. No longer is Google giving out free traffic. Well, they are, but in different ways. Instead of focusing on what’s not there anymore I thought we could focus on what is there and how you can take advantage of it.
You don’t need to be Ernest Hemingway to have a good company blog. You might be a little apprehensive about your own blogging ability, but there should be people within your own company that can help. Here is how you can seek out the resources right at your own company and use their knowledge to create customer-centric blog posts that bring in sales leads…
Has Google extended an olive branch to original content creators? It appears that, yes, Google has gone back to rewarding at least a few bloggers for their original contributions to the online world. Check out the post for more information…
Three months ago the ruler of the Web, Google, rolled out a substantial change to their natural rankings algorithm. Since then there have been many smaller yet similar updates. The goal Google has is to root out what they define as poor quality, unoriginal content. So far results have been mixed at best and some even think the results on Google’s pages are worse than before. Here is one story…
I’ve written about the benefits of posting frequently for your blog. The annual State of the Blogosphere Report from Technorati confirms – the top blogs on the Web post more than the rest of the blogs and it’s not by a small margin. There is a huge difference in the number of posts the top blog publish compared to other blogs. Check out the article for more…
How do you optimize a blog post for search? Search engines are the way I get the majority of traffic for the blogs I write for. I’ve been told it’s ignorant to think there is an easy way to attack SEO, but there are a few things I do to format a blog post that seem easy and for the most part seem to work. Check out the post for a graphic of my typical blog post along with a few optimizing tips.