We all use Google Analytics to track visitors to our Wordpress sites. Right? Not necessarily. There were several services before Analytics was the standard, and even more have popped up in recent years that compete with the big G! Here are some of the best options out there, with a little analysis of our own.
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At Pingable we’re all about Wordpress, which is all about blogging (and a few other things). With an estimated 900,000 blogs created every day, many of them don’t last more than a few weeks. Bloggers put tons of energy into their blogs, then get disappointed when nobody reads them. Here are our favorite ways to [...]
I have scanned the Internet for ideas and ways to drive traffic to blogs. This list is what I have come up with so far. As time goes on I will update, edit, add to the entries, as I think of/ find more ideas. I would love others to contact me with or leave a [...]
Blogrush is a new service by John Reese to generate targeted traffic for blogs. The service is free and many A-list bloggers (Andy Beard, DoshDosh ) have jumped onboard early to benefit from the tier referral system that will reward early adopters.
Viral Effect
The tier system which is detailed below means that early adopters of the service [...]
I read this a while ago on the now closed blog Iffect.net. What he suggested was to view other blogs you read by clicking on existing links from your own blog as much as possible. So if their site is in your links or if they have left a comment on your blog, use those [...]
I have been thinking about blog traffic quality a bit lately. There is definitely good quality traffic to a blog, and then there’s traffic which isn’t so good. What I mean by good traffic quality, is traffic that comes to the site and does more than just leave straight away. An example of typically poor quality traffic, is [...]
Use 5 Adsense blocks on every page, especially when you’re blog is new.
Get music to play automatically when people visit…doesn’t everybody love “Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar on Me”?
Have so much blogger bling (plug-ins, badges, etc) that readers can’t tell the difference between content and bling.
Use fonts that are too large, too small or too [...]
1) Submit your unique articles to social bookmark sites
This is huge. As a unknown blogger, I submitted an article to Reddit. The article made it as high as 47, which is the 2nd page, and my blog got over 1000 unique visitors in the day that followed. Digg and Del-ici-ous, are other examples of popular social bookmarking sites [...]
Getting traffic from popular search engines like Google can really help increase your readership as a blogger. The following are some tips to help improve the SEO of your blog.
SEO = Search Engine Optimization
1) Have a site map
A site map makes it easier for search engines to index your content and find the relevant [...]
