Traffic is commonly known as the 'life-blood' of a blog. Without it, no matter how well you write, no one will be able to find and read it. Below are 10 tips of how to attract an enormous amount of traffic to your site.
The most important thing for any project - its uniqueness, visibility. This includes both the content and design, that is how you bring the material. Then I will describe those subtleties of design that will allow visitors to your project immediately notified of their author, or at least, to see «hand Professional». So ...
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Ponyfish is a free service that allows you to create simple RSS feeds for any Web site that doesn't offer one itself.
There are paid options if you want to manage your feeds and add further options. I bought a $24 (£15) per year plan to create a feed for this blog on CNET UK, and you can check out the results (and subscribe!) here.
Let's walk through how you can create a feed, using my blog here as an example. You don't need an account, but a free account is advised.
First, choose to create a feed, then take the URL of the page you want to create a feed for and paste it in the box.
When you are next upgrading your Wordpress blog or installing Wordpress on a fresh site, make sure you carefully type the url “Wordpress.org” when you go to download the latest code. Do not click on links pointing to Wordpress.org in an effort to get to the website.
I Like Sharing Videos. Look, if you like videos, especially the online kind, then this is the catalogue site for you. The design is a bit plain, but as well as listing an absolute shed load of video portals from just about every country in the world, the site also gives pointers on how to make money from your video plus some viral video goodness. Great resource, just don’t plan on doing much for a few hours or so.
Google’s web stats tool Google Analytics is rolling out a new intro page. On the upside, you can now directly see if the traffic to a certain site increased in the last specific time period. A red arrow pointing down means your site’s losing visitors, a green arrow pointing upwards means it gets more. This should be great for spotting sudden peaks, especially on sites which you’re not watching as closely everyday; and sometimes, such peaks may require you to take action.
Brightcove was once considered to be a formidable challenger for YouTube. However, just about a year ago, it became clear that the company had given up on this dream when it announced that it would no longer accept direct consumer uploads to its service. Since then, Brightcove only featured content from its roughly 40,000 publishing partners on the Brightcove Network, though its main business has been its white-label video platform. Today, Brightcove announced that it will also close the free Brightcove Network and completely focus on its premium services.
Most businesses make the crucial error of hurriedly launching a poorly constructed site for the sake of having something online. It’s only after the site starts performing poorly that they begin to realize something needs to be changed. This is usually when they start searching the internet for solutions, and they learn about SEO.
Building a web site with a nice design isn’t the most important factor in getting it noticed. In order to bring in traffic to your web site, you will need to use SEO web design; this is Search Engine Optimization, which helps increase traffic by boosting up your spot in search listings from search engines like Google, Yahoo and Ask. There are some ways that you can use SEO web design to ensure that your web site is ranked highly by these search engines - and one way to do it is through your web content.
I almost never used You-Tube before I learned to tie some of its content to my web pages. What the heck, it is easy, and it makes a better content for my readers. So while plenty of others in this world are loosing sleep at the thought of their video preferences and contact information getting put out "into the public", there are no twists in my stomach.
