Tagged: web traffic

Bing and Now, A Bigger Faster Google

Posted on August 13th, 2009 by Urbain

I have noticed that my web traffic has been increasing significantly through Bing, which is Microsoft’s improved search engine that will eventually partner with Yahoo.  My observation is that Bing is delivering a wealth of one-word search terms to my most active blogs.
Not only does the new Bing give us all the more reason to [...]

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Getting Traffic from CNN

Posted on April 6th, 2009 by Urbain

This is one of those “I discovered it by accident” things that might benefit you.
A few days ago, I noticed that a lot of traffic was coming in from CNN.  It was coming in quickly.  Here’s a look at what was going on, as reported by the Feedjit widget on April 2.
I had no idea [...]

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How Do They Do That … And Why?

Posted on March 22nd, 2009 by Urbain

Every day on this blog, there are at least 50 comments that Akismet has caught and placed in the spam section.  Sometimes the comments are good ones but for the most part, Akismet does a great job in identifying what’s junk and what is not.
A common spam content looks like this (the screen shot only [...]

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Spin ’til You Win … Or At Least Get a Bunch of Articles

Posted on February 19th, 2009 by Urbain

Do you have a hard time coming up with content?
You need to take a look at Jetspinner, which is one heck of service that I just tested out … and you can even get in for free.
Jetspinner Is One of the Best Services I’ve Ever Seen.
The program delivers two powerful punches:  First, the Jetspinner aspect [...]

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1 Day Old Site. Over 200 Unique Visitors.

Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Urbain

All right.  I’ll say it again.  If you’re building a website, you should incorporate a blog into it, or at least set up a blog that feeds traffic to your main site.  And you  absolutely must get Jeff Johnson’s free SEO blog software.
Why?
It works.
A Brand New Blog “Feeder” Site.
I’m writing this article at 8:00 p.m., [...]

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Did Adding the Alexa Widget Increase Traffic Rank?

Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Urbain

Earlier this month, I reported on some techniques that were speculated to increase the Alexa Traffic Rank.  One of the suggested ways to increase Alexa ranking was to add the Alexa badge to a site.  I added a badge on November 30 to test the theory out.  At that time,  Alexa was reporting two different [...]

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A Quick Way to Check on Whether Blog Comments are ‘DoFollow’ or ‘NoFollow’

Posted on December 12th, 2008 by Urbain

Commenting in blogs is the latest rage in getting back links to websites and blogs, and it works when intelligent comments are posted to blogs that ‘dofollow’ the URLs.
What Do The Terms ‘DoFollow’ and ‘NoFollow’ Mean?
DoFollow is basically the absence of the ‘NoFollow’ tag.  What this means is that if a search engine is spidering [...]

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Don’t You Love It When Stuff Works? A Review of SEO Blog.

Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Urbain

After Thanksgiving dinner, I decided to do something about one of many unused domains sitting around and earning maybe a penny or two a month on a parking service.  I had recently listened to an audio on Jeff Johnson’s site in which he talked with a guy who had the same situation — a lot [...]

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The Blog Links Keep Rolling In

Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Urbain

A couple of days ago, I posted an article about Technorati, and how you will increase your blog’s rank and authority there by getting inbound links from other blogs that are listed with Technorati.  I am convinced that submitting articles at AMA (Article Marketing Automation) is the way to go for painless inbound linking work.  [...]

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Get Noticed in the Blogosphere

Posted on December 7th, 2008 by Urbain

Those who are new to the “blogosphere” might not know about its search engine, Technorati.  Just like you want to get your site indexed with Google, Yahoo and MSN, you will also want to get your blog indexed at Technorati.
According to Wikipedia, “As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million [...]

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