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Woopra - A follow Up Post

Not so long ago I wrote about a killer new stats system that will get you addicted. This post is to follow up and tell you a little more, since when I wrote the last post I have been accepted (finally) and am on my best way to become totally addicted to Woopra. I want to show you how much information is to be gained from their application and what it can do to help you rank better in the search engines. So let’s get into it and see what this baby does for us. First of, it is always great to know who refers traffic to us so that we can go and say thank you were applicable plus see where our efforts to get traffic pay off. Under My Referrers you will be able to see how much traffic you got from a referrer, who sent you the most traffic and a nice nifty graphic which indicates the portion of search engine traffic to your blog. Read more

Website Traffic Series Part 7: Putting A Blog on Your Static Website

The Website Traffic Series will try to cover all the traffic generation strategies available, so some of them might not apply to blogs necessarily. This one, for instance, is geared towards people that have static websites, like a company or business site. Even if you are a blogger, however, you might need to create a static website in the future, or to do consulting for a company that has one, so I think you could still benefit from knowing the different angles of this technique. The Concept: Blogs revolutionized the Web for several reasons. First of all, the appearance of blogging specific software like WordPress or Movable Type, as well as the free hosted solutions like Blogger, enabled pretty much anyone (even people with zero knowledge of HTML) to create their own website and to share with the world their ideas and knowledge. Secondly, blogs introduced features like comments and trackbacks that allowed users to interact with each other more efficiently. What before used to be a monologue (from the few websites that published information) became a conversation where blogs, websites, authors and readers all interacted and shared their thoughts. Read more

Blog Marketing The Business Marketing Bomb

Business bloggers have a huge marketing bomb at their disposal and many don’t even know it. Business blogs are serious marketing bombs if used correctly and I’ll tell you why. How many businesses run a conventional website but once they launch it it is all but forgotten. You can easily see this for yourself when you do a Google search on just about any topic. Thousands of neglected websites are hanging on by a bare thread with nothing much to show for. Guess what, these businesses hardly get any traffic. No traffic equals no sales. It’s a simple as that. Read more

SEO for WordPress and Calculating Your Blog Value

Two interesting things that caught my attention around the blogosphere lately. The first one is a really extensive SEO guide for WordPress by Joost de Valk. Joost is a professional SEO, although you might also know him for the many WP plugins that he coded already. Anyway on this guide he cover several steps to make sure that your WordPress is getting as much search traffic as it should. Here are the sub-topics:

• Basic Technical Optimization
• Template Optimization
• Advanced Technical Optimization
• Altering your blog’s structure for high rankings
• Conversion optimization
• Comment optimization
• Off site blog SEO

The second one is a site called MyBlogValue, that created an interesting quiz with 19 questions to let you discover the value of your blog. After answering the questions here is what I got: 1,809,030 Read more

TweetApp

A couple of new Twitter-based sites: TooMuch and HelpWith.

13 Competitor Tools

A comprehensive list of more than 13 online tools that can help you figure out what your competitors are doing and how they are doing it.

Choosing a Biz Name

Often the first impression of your business is made from its business name; it's a key factor contribution to your identity and image.

WordTracker is Offering a Free 7-Days Trial

If you always wanted to know what those professional keyword research tools have to to offer, now is the time. The guys from WordTracker emailed me today to let me know that they are offering a 7-days free trial to the complete version of their service. Do I think that everyone should be doing keyword research? Absolutely. Here is an example of why it is useful. Suppose your blog is about golf (the sport). After a while you will be looking for ideas to write about. What if you could start that brainstorming process by actually taking a look at what people are searching for inside your niche? With a keyword research tool, you would get a pretty long list of highly search keywords for whatever topic or niche you want. Below you will find an example when I researched for “golf.” Now there are also good and free keyword research tools out there that would give you this information, so you need to evaluate by yourself if you need a professional solution or not. Read more

Link Tips: June 08 2008

Another batch of interesting links for this Sunday. Some readers mentioned that they disliked the “Link Tips” post. Usually I use this column to present interesting articles from around the web that I had no opportunity to mention during the week. What do you think, should we remove this Sunday column, or merely space it, like with one every 15 days?

• Site Analytics Tools: If you are trying to optimize your website in one way or another, check out this list with 15 tools you can use.
• Better Tags Manager: If you are a heavy tag user on WordPress, or if you are trying to integrate your categories with tags, this plugin could help.
• Domain Name Background Check: Before purchasing a domain name it is always a good idea to perform some checks. If you are not sure what factors you should look for, start with this article.
• Problogger’s Tipping Point: Interesting article where Darren reveals the initial growth phase of his blog, and what contributed to it.
• Color Picking Software: If you do web design and constantly needs to discover the color of websites and logos, you should consider using the AdesClrPicker software.
• Adobe AIR Applications: You certianly heard the buzz about Adobe Integrated Runtime right? Wel, if you are not sure what you can do with those apps, visit this list on Mashable with 30 of them.

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Handle comments with Disqus

When we start off a blog, we long for comments. I still remember how I kept revisiting my first few posts several times a day, just to see if a comment arrived from some god’s soul! But as your blog begins to get popular and the comments’ section becomes more of a discussion thread, it gets difficult at times to manage the flow of information, users who comment and other relevant stuff. What experts believe today is, that threaded, portable and social commenting is the future of online discussions. But with the advent of Disqus, such problems are a matter of past. Read more

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