The articles listed below cover different ways you can generate and grow the level of traffic to your website. Click the headline to read the full article.
I see an awful lot of bad advice in some of the forums I visit – advice that, at best, will deliver no benefit and at worst may be harmful. One such is on the question of keyword density, and the advice I see so often is to have a density of anywhere between 2% [...]
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The higher the number of page-views-per-visit, the more engaged your readers are. And the more engaged they are the more easily you’ll be able to sell stuff from your site. But you know that already. The question is: how can you increase the number of page-views-per-visit? Here’s what I did recently: A while ago I [...]
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Interesting question in the Warrior Forum from someone who had recently set up a new website and was worried because it had disappeared from the search results. So here’s the thing: initially, new sites often do appear quickly in the natural search results. But then they bounce up and down a bit, going from maybe [...]
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Two or three years ago the rage for webmasters was mobilizing their websites and, at the time, I wrote about my search for a mobile solution for this site. But I don’t have a mobile version of this site now and, although it occasionally crosses my mind, I don’t have any plan to get one. [...]
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I have a customer here in Hong Kong who is targeting incoming visitors, most of whom will come from the US, Europe or Australia. So when he asked me to take over the management and maintenance of his site it presented a good opportunity to review his objectives for it. Which is when I learned [...]
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A question I saw on LinkedIn today reminded me of a conversation I had with a client recently about Pay Per Click, and how to get the best out of it. The first point I made to my client was this: PPC is a great supplementary tool but it’s not something to base your business [...]
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I saw a question in one of the forums today asking what the top 5 ways of promoting a blog are. Interestingly, one of the answers (and there were only two when I looked) focused heavily on SEO: things like keywords in titles, H tags and content, installing SEO plugins, tagging etc. But, while these [...]
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A while ago I wrote about activating Gzip to speed up your page load time. But speeding up your page load time is about a lot more than 1-shot answers – whether it’s activating Gzip, installing a caching plugin or anything else. This graph shows an interesting (and encouraging) trend: It’s from my Google Webmaster [...]
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