7 content promotion strategies for healthier website traffic.
Content promotion isn’t rocket science, it does however, when done right, take almost as much time as the content creation process itself.
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Some of the more astute among you will have noticed Pinterest’s recent upgrade, including a roll out of Analytics, larger pins and other minor changes to the network. One of the smaller details that stood out for me, was the photo loading. Pinterest lazy load photos – i.e. they only bring them back when the user needs [...]
E-commerce sites are a traditionally tough cookie to crack in terms of attracting links, particularly if you are in competition with larger more established brands and competition.
Could Skype play a role in Microsoft’s move into social media?
One of the most powerful ways to build momentum in terms of signups within your product is to leverage social and viral marketing.
Everyone that runs a website has useful data at their finger tips, often without realising it.
One of the biggest misconceptions I’ve ever encountered on the web is the notion that somehow you can apply statistical analysis to social media marketing.
Its no longer just good enough to create engaging content on your own website that drives traffic, you have to rock the Casbah on Facebook, Twitter et al to be considered a true guru™ of the online space. That means updates and statuses that generate retweets and likes and reshares.
Affiliate marketing is one of those things that anybody with a little internet knowledge can pick up quickly and make decent money at.
As one of the most visible members of the anti-copyright or pro-piracy movement, and a facilitator of file-sharing the notorious Pirate Bay website has had its fair share of raids and attacks from government officials attempting to shut it. As such, the architecture and internal systems used have been focused firmly on hands free decentralised computing [...]
Location aware applications for mobile have become commonplace. Everything from Foursquare, to Google Latitude to Gowalla to Facebook places. All of these startups rely on one common factor – checkins. In almost all cases, users need to actually be willing to share a status update that shouts to the world exactly where they are, and [...]
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Content promotion isn’t rocket science, it does however, when done right, take almost as much time as the content creation process itself.
If you are writing just for your existing site audience, the difference between success and failure has often lots to do with mass appeal on a global level.
This post takes a detailed step by step, no bullshit approach to getting your website from a standing start to achieving a target traffic level of around 1000 unique visitors a day.
Earlier this year Google released guidelines on how to avoid the dreaded Panda update, or indeed to help recover from it. This post examines those guidelines in detail and my thinking on the information shared by Google.
“I came, I shared, I left.” – in many cases, this is the pattern that forms from traffic arriving from social platforms to many sites on the web today. Take a snapshot of the traffic to your website from social bookmarking sites, Twitter, Facebook et al, and you’ll see high bounce rates, low time on [...]
It's always worth pulling back the best of the best of all of your writing in an easily and friendly to read format to draw new and fresh visitors in, and give them a taste of what your site is all about. ... Continue Reading »
A kick ass guide to growing your website traffic online
A complete guide to growing your website traffic, from soup to nuts.
25 things I wish I’d known when I started blogging
Next month will be a milestone for me - I've been blogging now for around two years, and over that time I have to say I've learned a bucket load about how content works online, and indeed how content marketing can drive traffic to a website.
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