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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I’m sceptical of many new web services to hit the web, as often they are old ideas repackaged as something else. Recently however, I’ve discovered couple of truly unique ideas for web applications that have left an impression with me.
This collection of social signup solutions from around the web increase engagement, and provide a lower barrier to entry for your web application. Click to find out more.
This post examines a few ways you can investigate your web analytics software to find “question phrases” which will help you to improve your website.
Fundraising isn’t easy at the best of times, if you are wondering how best to utilise internet fundraising, and avoid the pitfalls – this post examines 7 tips for better response rates, and increased revenue online.
As I’ve already discussed in the series, there are a number of ways to monitor the results from your marketing efforts, via Google Analytics, but unfortunately – these tools don’t give context. Social networks are more and more giving us the data back to make informed decisions, but with the more closed platforms – data [...]
If you aren’t segmenting your existing analytics data, you aren’t really understanding it fully. For example, you may find that repeat visitors behave entirely different to first time visitors. Or that blog traffic stay longer than your main site. etc etc. This collection of segmentation reports may help you to understand your social media efforts and indeed your overall site traffic that bit more.
With any form of marketing, if you don’t measure , you are pretty much flushing money down the pan. Whilst the social platforms that we use to communicate are, on the whole free - your time is not, and all too often its easy to get blindsided, and fritter the day away by being too [...]
Facebook markup language or FBML for short is used in a variety of places within the social network. Anyone who has written any Facebook applications will already be pretty familiar with its tags, and will probably have used it to write data to walls, or share postings with others programmatically. If however you haven’t yet [...]
Everyone knows that email is one of the best converting tools in your online marketing arsenal. As a sales tool, it kicks arse, as customers have already opted in to hear your message, and are far enough down the relationship chain to care about your message. There are a shed load of email marketing systems [...]
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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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3 ways to improve your online brand recognition.
There are a number of ways to grow a website’s traffic organically. But if you look a bit further at how the web is evolving now, you’ll know that you have to go a bit further to market your site, and indeed yourself online. Social media has introduced an additional avenue for business growth, and [...]
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