Technically Easy

Category: Websites and Blogging

This category will contain any blogging-related posts, that includes platforms such as WordPress and Blogger.

  • Traffic Stats: July 2011

    Traffic Stats: July 2011

    At the end of June, I saw a quick drop in traffic on the second to last day of the month. The last day of June ended with normal traffic day, but I was wondering how July would fair. That drop in traffic is still a question mark, but I was happy to see that it didn’t repeat itself at any point in July.

    For the month, July was a good month in traffic. There was the usual small increases on a few days, but for the most part there wasn’t anything really interesting. The amount of traffic received each day was fairly consistent throughout the month, which is nice, but a few days had some good amount of traffic.

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  • 5 Ways to Build Traffic With Infographics

    5 Ways to Build Traffic With Infographics

    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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  • What Web Programming Language Should I Learn?

    What Web Programming Language Should I Learn?

    One of the common questions that I have seen with regards to getting started online is regarding the web programming language someone should learn. It is important to understand that what you need to learn is dependent on what you are looking to achieve with regards to website design. There are a few programming languages available that can easily allow you to create complex designs.

    If you aren’t familiar with programming or design web sites, you should first start simple and learn the basics of website design before getting into a programming language. Once you and understanding of the basics of website design, then you can look at learning the more complex aspects of a web programming language.

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  • How Do You Measure Your Blog’s Success?

    How Do You Measure Your Blog’s Success?

    A few months ago I started reporting my traffic statistics at the start of each month. The traffic numbers are from the previous month, and I always compare the values with the same month the previous year. I know of many other bloggers that also report their traffic statistics, and also their earnings.

    I am not a big fan of posting the earnings I make with Technically Easy, but I don’t mind sharing the traffic numbers. I only recently started to report my traffic numbers as a way for me to keep a record of my numbers and to ensure that those same numbers increase month-over-month. The one question I have been asking myself as I post the traffic statistics is how do I really measure my blog’s success?

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  • HeadSpace Dominates All In One SEO Pack – Here’s Proof

    HeadSpace Dominates All In One SEO Pack – Here’s Proof

    Antonio Coleman always advise new visitors to his site to start here first if they need help learning more about my blog. Plus if you need SEO services to out rank the competition, then it’s best to stop by and learn how SEO is able to grow your site.

    First I will like to thank Paul for give me the opportunity to entertain her readers for a few minutes with a post that I think will change the way you write titles on your blog.

    SEO Plugin Wars

    For years now people have been going crazy over what big brother Google needs when it comes to seo. Now I’m not going to get all into link building and stuff like that, because this post is only about how HeadSpace dominates All In One SEO Pack.

    But saying that, I will say SEO is changing faster then the leaves on the tress are changing from season to season. People are paying big money to use these so called special software’s that will make your keyword search and link building campaign an easy task.

    I’m here to show that you can really get great results by using these so called free stuff that’s available online. These things are the good old plugins we use each and every day to make off blogs competitive with others sites.

    Look this is not another of those top 10 post on which plugins will bring you the most traffic or something. I will describe how installing one free plugin and using it in the correct way can bring you some great free traffic from Google and friends. Let’s Go…

    HeadSpace Or All In One SEO Pack

    For those of you who are new to blogging, then I will suggest you to start here first if you want to get a better understanding of the top topics of blogging. But for those of you who do, then I want to break down these top two SEO plugins for making the best SEO titles.

    Now most people who have a blogging platform mostly talk about the All In One SEO Pack Plugin. The reason for this is because it’s promoted more then any other SEO plugin out there.

    If I had to put a number on it then I will say about 65% of the blogs online use it. This plugin will help you setup what we call a SEO titles which you can implement your keyword into.

    You might ask yourself what’s the big deal in having my keyword in the title. For one it shows Google and friends what that post is about and helps with your over all SEO ranking. Like I said earlier that backlinks play a part in ranking so we don’t have to cover that at this time.

    I won’t be getting into the functions of both of these plugins because I can be here all day. So in a nut shell I will say they both work in the same but with just a few differences here and there. The main job of these plugins are to help you create great SEO titles that will be attractive to the search engine to help you gain great ranking position.

    Which One Do I Use?

    To be honest with you it’s not that much of a difference in theses plugins, but I use HeadSpace for a couple of reason. For one it’s easy to use and I never had a problem with it over the years.

    All In One SEO Pack is really easy to use also and have some awesome function that makes life just that much easier. Unfortunately I don’t use this plug because it has an upgrade section where you can unlock more functions. With something like that it just turned me off, so basically I’m sticking with HeadSpace and the results have been crazy good and here’s why.

    First I will like to say that HeadSpace has been downloaded 432,928 times and All In One SEO Pack has been downloaded over 7,979,582 times. So you can just make your choice off those mind boggling stats.

    HeadSpace Mega Search Traffic

    Back on Apr 12, 2011 I decided to post about the new IPhone 5G which was a guest post from one of my best friends which he’s a tech guy. He wanted my readers to get a birds eye view on this new gadget people where going crazy over.

    I used HeadSpace to edit my title to get it in the best SEO spot as I could. I submitted the post just as he gave it to me which has a title of “iPhone 5G Ground Breaking Technology Is Coming Soon”

    Next what I did was post the content and big brother Google did the rest of the work. For about two days the post was not ranked, but on the third day this post went straight to the top of the search engine for the given keyword “Iphone 5G”

    The power of HeadSpace gave me the opportunity to pick a title that included the keyword we wanted to target and plus we used the keyword in the tags which was another big help and something that HeadSpace provides as a option.

    What About Traffic?

    One of the things about doing SEO is that you must be able to get some traffic at some point. The reason why All In One SEO Pack and HeadSpace are so popular, is because they allow you to control the out look of creating SEO titles for higher ranking.

    So over the last three months this post has been able to get almost 2000k worth of traffic from the search engines just by us installing HeadSpace which gave us a chance to write SEO targeted titles.

    To make this as crazy as it sounds, we did little to no SEO on the page to get it ranked. So we think most of the SEO boost was from the HeadSpace plugin which is free to use and can help make your blog post rank just a little higher.

    I’m not saying that All In One SEO Pack is not capable of given you the same, or better, results. We’re just trying to say that whatever SEO plugin you use, make sure you do real research and find those keywords that brings you traffic so these plugins can work the best for you.

    Today is the day you make the choice on making one of these your main platform of building a successful blog by posting blog post at a time.

  • Why I Am Impressed With HostGator’s Jaw-Dropping Service

    Why I Am Impressed With HostGator’s Jaw-Dropping Service

    After three years I decided to change hosts for Technically Easy. For the past three years I was on BlueHost, but recently I have found their service to be sub-par. I found that my site was down more than their 99.9% guarantee, and the performance seemed to be decreasing as well. Also, when I started to use CloudFlare I noticed I had trouble logging into my blog’s dashboard at times. The problems went away when I stopped using CloudFlare.

    I had heard good things about HostGator so I decided to try them out for myself and see if what people were saying was actually true. I was a little worried about moving my blog over, but after seeing their service first hand, I’m kicking myself for not doing it sooner.

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  • Traffic Stats: June 2011

    Traffic Stats: June 2011

    Last month traffic for Technically Easy started off where May ended. I received steady traffic throughout the month, and also had my one day best total ever for this blog. I once again learned that with blogging there are going to good days and bad days as I also had my worst traffic day in about a year a few days later.

    Blogging can be frustrating at times, mainly because when it comes to traffic there is very little that we can control. Sure we can look at generating backlinks, and use social networking to the best of our ability, but in reality, those methods just help enable traffic, it doesn’t guarantee that our blog will actually receive traffic. Let’s look at last month’s traffic numbers so you can see what I mean.

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  • Schema.org – Does it Provide a New Structured Markup Language For All Websites?

    Schema.org – Does it Provide a New Structured Markup Language For All Websites?

    It has been several weeks now since Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! introduced schema.org to webmasters. Schema.org provides information regarding the structure data markup language that has become an initiative for the three big search engine companies. While the new structure markup language does seem intriguing, it remains to be seen how various webmasters will take to the new markup.

    Google introduced rich snippets in 2009 to provide a better way of structuring data on a web page. Once specific markup was added to an HTML page, Google would parse the page and provide an enhanced search result in its search results page. With Schema.org, Google has now come together with Microsoft and Yahoo! to provide a more uniform structured markup language for webmasters.

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