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Free content for your website? Don’t go there.

January 8th, 2008 Roven Posted in Google, repeat visits, tips 2 Comments »

savings.gifOne of the many pitfalls that webmasters can fall into is the lure of so-called “free content”. There are dozens of sites which list thousands of articles that can be cut and pasted freely onto your own website to ‘fill it up’. While this might sound like a good idea, it’s not.

First of all, the so-called “free content” is usually nothing more than someone else’s commercial marketing message that they’re hoping you’ll put in your site because it ultimately helps their brand, sells their products or drives traffic to their sites. But that’s a small problem, compared to the really serious problem with free content…

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“Related Posts” - A fast and easy plugin to increase pageviews

January 7th, 2008 Roven Posted in WordPress, repeat visits, website traffic Comments Off

wordpress-icon-128.pngIf you’re a WordPress user, this is something you can do in the next 3 minutes that can radically improve your average pageviews per visit. Click on any article in this site, and you’ll probably see a grey box down at the bottom of the page. There are lots of “Related Posts” plugins you can use, including the original “Related Posts Plugin” and another aptly called “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin” — both are excellent and extremely easy to use.

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How long does it take to build web traffic?

January 5th, 2008 Roven Posted in mathematical models, quantcast, repeat visits, tips, website stats, website traffic 1 Comment »

market_rise.jpgHow fast does web traffic grow? (And how to grow your monthly visitors quickly!)
Most bloggers, developers and webmasters will look at the stats of competing sites and say “I can do that too”. And yes, you probably can. And while much has already been written about “how” you can create compelling web content, and “how” you can grow your traffic — in this post we’ll talk a little bit about “how long” it takes to grow your web traffic, and how to accelerate your traffic growth.

For starters, there’s no simple answer to this question because there’s no simple answer to “What is content”? There are hundreds of different types of content from blogs, to online applications to social networking sites, etc. But there are some truths that are widely understood:

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