website traffic

How I Use Social Media To Drive Traffic to My Latest Blog Post

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Traffic is the lifeline of a blog; if you don’t have it, you don’t exist. Most people rely on the mighty search engines for their traffic. But there are other ways of getting traffic to your blog by utilizing the power of social media. The role of social media sites is front and center when it comes to driving traffic to my site. The most popular ones include; Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in descending order in terms of traffic. This means that Facebook is the biggest traffic referrer to my site, other than the search engines. But how do I really do it?

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Quick and Dirty Guide to Using a Google Analytics Custom Dashboard

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I’m taking a big leap of faith by assuming Google Analytics is your preferred arena for tracking your website data. Most users would be accustomed to the standard reporting dashboard in Google Analytics. A well structured analytics dashboard will answer a few imminent questions so you can determine your site’s performance. I switched to using a Google Analytics Custom Dashboard to easily access the website data I require in a quick manner plus the ease of reproducing these reports is helpful.

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Google Analytics 101 for Bloggers

Getting Started with Google Analytics Just for Bloggers

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Google Analytics is one of the most powerful free tools that Bloggers can use to gain insights about the flow of traffic on our blogs. We can see where people are coming from, how long they stay and what page they’re on when they leave. We can even use Google Analytics to do experiments and run split tests (for free). In a nutshell, Google Analytics can play a significant role in evaluating the success of our websites because of this: We are able to determine outcomes. We can find out if people are taking us up on our Calls to Action. We spend lots of time carefully crafting those CTA’s but do we know how effective they are?

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7 Dead Simple Website Traffic Tips – Even Grandma Likes These

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Over the years I have developed my own website traffic tips that have sent real fireworks through my websites. My tips are never any big secret though and are usually very easy to implement. You could say that my whole life revolves around website traffic because I have been generating it since 2005. When I look back, generating traffic for my quality content is all I have been doing to create successful websites. In the picture to the left it says “get website traffic fast”. I am not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that! Here are a few website traffic tips that even your grandma can follow. I have used all of these to generate the traffic showing in that screenshot.

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Understanding How to Monetize Website Traffic

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Webmasters often wait to monetize website traffic because they presume that they require a substantial amount of traffic to make money. The problem is, just because a website has a decent amount of visitors, this does not mean that the Webmaster can monetize that traffic. You might attract 6000 visitors a day but it only takes one visitor to make a sale. Which would you rather, 6000 visitors a day or one visitor that actually buys something? Yes we can all monetize a website and we can all get traffic to our website, and can we monetize website traffic in order to earn a decent income.…continue reading…

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