Archive for the ‘Blog Traffic’ Category

Don’t Forget to Optimize Links and Content Against Your Site’s URL

I was so focused on optimizing links and content against my URL separated into two words, that I lost position on the first page of results for a Google search for my site.

You Can Actually Get Traffic from Twitter

Techcrunch reports that nearly 10% of their visitors came in through Twitter in the last 30 days. This is more than any other social bookmarking site, most notably Digg and TechMeMe, and is only surpassed by the almighty Google as the top referral source.

The Three Types of Search Keywords

Something that was the focus of one of the sessions I went to at the web 2.0 conference last week was the three types of search keywords, and how different types of keywords can reflect a user’s likelihood to convert or not.  The keyword itself can reflect either a need for information, a likelihood to [...]

Digg’s Frontpage is Worth about 30,000 Visits

So says DNWire’s Andrew Allemen, who says they got about 30,000 visits combined over the weekend after posting an article about Toys.com losing its Google ranking.
Most of the traffic then left immediately, though a few stuck around.
I’m not surprised by these numbers at all, and its always good to hear first hand accounts on what [...]

Blogger Reveals Source Analytics

I wish their were more source analytics available for all sites.  I wish I could go to a Compete or to a Quantcast and see what percent of traffic comes from Google, Twitter, Facebook, paid ads, email, etc.
In the meantime, many bloggers are revealing the source analytics for their sites.  The quality of the traffic [...]