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Your Site Bounce Rate – What is it, How to Reduce it.
Posted by: | CommentsOf course you’re using Google Analytics to analyse traffic to your site, aren’t you! And you are checking the Analytics report regularly.
But, do you know what the reported “Bounce Rate” means?
It’s quite simple really, but also very telling… the bounce rate is the percentage of visitors who only read the page that they saw when they arrived at your site. In other words, a bounce rate of 56.4% means that 56 out of each 100 visitors to your site do not click on any links on your site!
HowTo add URL redirection to your Joomla web site
Posted by: | Comments- create a short, obvious URL for a commonly referenced page
- create 2 differnet URLs which resolve to the same actual page so that you can compare the effectiveness of an advertising or other promotion campaign
- correct a spelling mistake
- migration of a previously static page into your Joomla content
- make a often used URL unforgettable (eg you might often refer visitors who raise questions to an FAQ area, wouldn’t it be easier to send them to http://mydomain.com/faq?)
Anyway, whatever your reason, it’s easy to do.
How to find related web sites
Posted by: | CommentsIt is often useful to find other sites which are related to one which is of interest to you. In particular, you should be aware of what sites are considered to be related to your own site(s). If you know what sites are related to yours you’ll have an understanding of the types of sites which are linking to your site.
You can easily find related sites by using Google. For example, to find sites related to this site, I would enter related:www.ebiz4results.com as a Google search phrase.
Armed with this information you can refine your development of inbound links, and gain a greater understanding of the nature or context, of your visitors.
Standardising your site’s URL
Posted by: | CommentsIn the early days of the Internet virtually all site URLs were preceeded by “www” — even today many casual users of the Internet will add the www to a URL, perhaps believing that this designates the “World Wide Web”.
However, most modern sites make the prefix optional. For example, both http://www.ebiz4results.com and http://ebiz4results.com are valid URLs for this site.
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Link Exchanging
Posted by: | CommentsTo get indexed on the search engines, and to improve your search engine ranking your site needs links from external sites to your pages. While you can just hope that other site owners will link to your pages, the results are unpredictable, and may never happen.
But this problem can be solved extremely easily.
How can you get easy, fast links to your site? Go to LinkMetro.com and either sign up for a free account and manually exchange links with over 20,000 other websites listed in very tightly themed categories OR upgrade to an Advanced membership where you can get links even quicker and easier.
Start now my exchanging links to existing pages and whenever you add new content, add “linking” to your checklist. If you would like help with this, give me a call, or use the Contact Us page.
