Learning how our web site works is an important task. We've seen some simple examples in previous steps (visits, page views, and unique visitors) as well as determining how long someone visited your site, and which was the last page they viewed. We've shown how some pages are viewed more than others, and where people exit your web site. We've even shown what pages people come to your web site. What we will look at now is how did they get to your web site. Before they were on your web site, … [Read more...]
posted on January 28, 2008 by
Watch out for those scams
From time to time different clients call me up to ask me about something that comes across their desk. Most of the time their gut instinct had it right, and they were looking at a scam. Sometimes the scam is legal, just immoral - like charging $100 a year for a domain name when it can cost under $10. Or they are charging $200 for submitting your site to Google every month for a year, when in reality, you can do it yourself for free. By the way, over submitting to Google or the other search … [Read more...]
posted on December 31, 2007 by
How I’m updating my site
One thing I've noticed, is that while working on other companies web sites, the one web site which tends to get updated the least is.... my own. This apparently isn't specific to me, as I've talked with many other web designers who have the same issue. I've even heard of web designers hiring other web designers to do their web site. Since it has been a little while since I did a major update to my site (this past summer when I added the blog), I decided I should be performing some updates. … [Read more...]
posted on December 15, 2007 by
Getting Ranked in Google
Everyone wants to be ranked in Google - and who doesn't. As the #1 search engine, people go there before the other search engines over 50% of the time. This means that a lot of Search Engine people will focus on trying to get their customers on Google. This can be relatively easy for niche-markets, but harder for more general terms. For example, I have a customer who ranks in the top ten for about 11 search terms on Google. It varies depending upon what shows on the Google report. He … [Read more...]