Do you have a high bounce rate? Do visitors come back to your blog after reading it for the first time? If you don’t know the answer to these questions, it’s time to give your metrics an in-depth look. It will reveal a lot of things about user behavior and the general usability of your website. If you’re like most website owners, you must be struggling with high visitor turnovers. But there are a select few of blogs which receive repeat visitors. So what makes them different from the rest? It’s time to find out. Read on below. We’ll help you implement strategies that will allow your site to get more with less. Be able to show proof – if you take a look around the web...
There is a misconception among many website owners that podcasting is difficult and best reserved until the site is making thousands a month. There’s actually no reason to be intimidated by podcasting. It is possible to create high-quality, informative podcast using the basic tools available in the market. The podcast may not attract as high a number of people, compared to say, actual text content. But in this regard, you’ll be able to attract a...
You’ve inevitably come across this at one time or another: duplicate content. Duplication is a problem for the search engines, original article creators, and the readers alike. The replication of the same document across different platforms means that new and fresher information may be buried amidst the clutter. Readers don’t want to read the same thing many times if they’re doing in-depth research. Similarly, the search engines want to please users so they need to...
With the integration of Google+ content with search results, it is advised that bloggers should include the seven-month old social network to their blog marketing efforts. If you want to boost your blog’s traffic, now is the time to build your Circles and prioritize it more than your fans and followers.
Here’s why Google+ should become an important part of your blog marketing efforts.
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Backlinking is one of the most challenging parts of promoting a website. How can you encourage other sites that have a high PageRank and traffic to link back to you? Sure, we’ve all heard about social bookmarking, directory submission, and profile links. However, unless social bookmarking is done on a consistently and intensely, it will fail to yield even minimal results in terms of getting traffic. Similarly, directory submission still gives your site a reasonable amount...
By now, you’ve probably heard all about keywords. But beyond keyword research and placing the text into the content, it is also important for you to understand the concepts of keyword frequency, density, proximity, and prominence. All these factors will have an effect on your search engine ranking. So if you want to know more about these factors, read on: Keyword Density – this is simply the ratio of keywords to the overall text. The preferred...
Whether you are writing a blog post, an autoresponder series, or a landing page, you ultimately want readers to respond to what you’re saying. Unfortunately, this does not always happen. In fact, a lot of web users today have become so discouraged by the amount of fluff they read on the internet, that they mostly just scan through online text content. They seldom can digest the information you posted. So it is certainly important for you...
Are you meeting the daily goals that were set out in your search engine optimization (SEO) strategy? The tasks around SEO may be given a lot of fancy names by internet marketers, consultants, and other people involved in the industry. But at the end of the day, most of these would amount to grunt work. As any practitioner can tell you, promoting a blog especially through SEO can become boring and repetitive over time. That’s why...
Every blogger struggles to increase the traffic to his blog. There are countless articles that outline tips, tactics, and strategies on how you can attract more readers and compel them to keep reading. The problem is though, certain tactics can make you lose focus on the big thing: having a good blog. There are hundreds of ways for you to get more traffic, but this shouldn’t be complicated. In this article, we’ll go back to basics....
There are countless website owners who are struggling to attain high rankings. But what the experience of many online businesses shows is that this endeavor is well worth it. If you are interested in attaining and maintaining a high organic search ranking, one of the most important things you need to realize is that Google and other search engines are constantly updating their algorithm. The Panda update, for example, has resulted to the irrelevance of once-prominent...
