What Causes Spikes In Visitor Statistics

I call it “spikey” traffic.
You see an instant increase (spike) in your visitor stats, only to see your visitor counts fall, in a day or two.
Today’s Lesson
What are the causes of spikes in your traffic or visitor stats?
1) You left a comment on another blog, and visitors are [...]

Does Your Blog Sell Itself

Starting, and maintaining, a blog, is like learning how to sell real estate.
How? You ask.
I will start with a short story.
Today’s Lesson
Years ago, a friend was starting a new real estate business. She had sold real estate in the past, but now wanted to have her own office. [...]

Blogging - Readership Takes Time

Today’s Lesson
If you read Darren Rowse’s blog at Problogger, he released a video, and answered the question, “How long did it take you to get 1000 visitors a day to your blog?”
His answer was, “approximately one year”.
Now, I’m assuming, he means a steady flow of 1000 visitors a day…not spikey traffic.
One [...]

Unique Visitors - An Analysis

Have you looked at your statistics to see how many “unique visitors” your have?
Is the percentage of your unique visitors high, or low?
Does it matter?
Today’s Lesson
Being analytical, I love to study my blog statistics.
One number that stands out, is my “unique visits”, or “new visits”.
For my [...]

Are You Avoiding Linking To Other Sites

Oftentimes, bloggers don’t link to other sites, as they fear their readers may like the “other” site better, and they may lose a regular reader.
Some bloggers won’t link to other sites, due to page rank…but that’s another story…….
Today’s Lesson
When I first started blogging, my second post was named “Give Credit Where [...]

Error Message With Upgrade To WordPress 2.3.1

Today I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1.
Today’s Lesson
Shortly after upgrading to WP 2.3.1, I proceeded to write a post.
As soon as I hit “Save and Continue Editing”, I received an error message that looked similar to this:
Table ‘wordpress.wp_xxxxxxxxxx(database)cat’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT c.cat_name FROM wp_post2cat p2c INNER JOIN wp_categories c ON p2c.category_id = c.cat_id [...]

HitTail Results In More Traffic

Several weeks ago, I wrote about how to use keywords and keyword phrases , and how I had signed up for HitTail.
It took awhile to accumulated enough HitTail “keywords”, and for the long tail to grow.
Today’s Lesson
I carefully studied the keywords that HitTail produced, as well as the long tail.
In the [...]

Best Resouce For Help With WordPress

Using WordPress for your blog, makes setting up a blog, posting and publishing easy.
Today’s Lesson
After you’ve been blogging for awhile, you may want to change your theme, add HTML code, or additional plugins to your blog.
Finding the best source for technical information on WordPress, is right at your fingertips. You can first [...]

Can You Get Rich Blogging

If you have been surfing the internet, you have probably seen many sites that claim they make lots of money with their blog. Some will suggest, that If you buy their ebook, they will tell you how you can get rich, with a blog, too.
Today’s Lesson
Making money by blogging, is not something [...]

Meta Tags May Increase Your SEO

Anyone who blogs, and researches “about blogging”, will run into the terminology “meta tags”.
Today’s Lesson
Meta tags, are “hidden”, HTML tags in your blog. Search engines can “see” these tags, however, they are not seen by your visitors.
Meta tags can help with your SEO (search engine optimization), as they tell the [...]

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