Category: Tips

If you’re like many site owners and bloggers, you want traffic! But the methods people recommend to get that traffic seem to be constantly changing: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Stumble Upon, regular blog posts, guest blog posts, you name it, people recommend it. The worst part is that every time someone talks about one of these techniques, they bill it as the magic bullet that will get you tons of inbound links, traffic, attention, and of course – money!

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How do you identify a good infographic? Well, how do you identify a good tomato? There are certain qualities in a good tomato that you look for when you’re at the produce stand: firm flesh, good color and ripeness, unbroken skin, no bruises. A good infographic is…well…a good infographic is actually nothing like a good tomato, but you still need to be able to tell a good one from a bad one if you want to have a successful promotional campaign (or make a tasty sauce).

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If you haven’t heard about infographics yet, you have quite a lot of catching up to do. Infographics are graphic representations of information. They can be short and simple or long and detailed, but no matter which way you slice it, an infographic is a must-have tool in your online marketing arsenal.

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Effective marketing strategies are essential if your business website is going to thrive online. Ineffective strategies may generate little or not traffic to your website. In some cases, the traffic may flow in but poor targeting can result in few conversions.

These tips will help your website gain more online exposure to visitors who will be genuinely interested in the products and services offered on your site.

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I just read an interesting article on John Paul Aguiar blog where he asked 8 well-known and successful bloggers what one thing bloggers need to do today to succeed that they didn’t have to do in the past. It is interesting read, as are all his articles, and it got me thinking about what it takes to succeed, not just today, but tomorrow as well.

There are many ideas, and theories, about what it takes to succeed online. Some of those ideas are well-founded, while others are guesswork at best. While I haven’t realized the success as the bloggers in John Paul’s article have achieved, I still have learned a lot in my almost 4 years of blogging. One thing, however, has stood out above all other ideas with regards to success online: adaptation.

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I have been using CloudFlare for about 5 months. I mainly chose to look into using CloudFlare because of the performance benefits for my blog. CloudFlare is similar to a CDN in that it will cache many of the static elements on your site, such as images, Javascript, and CSS, and then send them to your visitors when they are requested. This means that your host’s server just needs to worry about sending the dynamic content, such as the Web pages, which reduces the load on the server.

Last week my host had an issue. There was a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the server that hosts my blog. Because I am on a shared hosting plan, the DoS probably caused issues with several sites, and not just my blog

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I am always concerned with the performance of my blog to the point where I try to test the performance on at least a weekly basis. My quest to make my blog perform at its best led me to use CloudFlare to cache and send my static content.

There could be any number of reasons why performance for a blog, or website, decreases and many times you may be able to find the problem and fix it. Other times, such as the decrease in performance on your host’s servers, are out of your control besides alerting your host. In this post I’ll explain the tests I perform to test out the performance of my blog so I can find where my blog performance can be tweaked.

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One of the problems that I have been facing recently is that of how to monitor server availability for my blog. There has been an increase in downtime for my blog, and I wanted to find a way to measure how much downtime I have experienced over the last little while.

The good news is that there are many options that are available that can help monitor server availability for my blog to keep track of the downtime of the web server, some require payment, while others are free. I have recently started using a service that is free, and has helped to determine how many outages I have experienced over the last little while.

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