Posts made in September, 2008

How to Read Your Webstats – Part 3 – Duration of Visit

Posted by on Sep 17, 2008 in Old Blog Posts | 0 comments

How to Read Your Webstats – Part 3 – Duration of Visit

If your site is hosted with NetSource Technologies, another important webstat to look at for insight is the graph of “Visits duration” in your included statistics program.  This graph will tell you how “sticky” your site is – or in other words, how long people are sticking around.  The longer the better of course, as it indicates that visitors have found interest in your service or products and are taking the time to browse longer. The above graph is pretty...

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How to Read Your Webstats – Part 2 – Are the Search Engines Indexing Your Site

Posted by on Sep 16, 2008 in Old Blog Posts | 0 comments

How to Read Your Webstats – Part 2 – Are the Search Engines Indexing Your Site

Yesterday’s article addressed the main question everyone wants to know regarding the website stats for their website – how many visitors did I have?  Today, let’s look at how many search engine spiders are visiting your site. Yuck, spiders! Actually these are good spiders.  The word spider just plays into the “web” terminology for the internet.  Search engine spiders go by other names too, such as crawlers and bots.  All search engine spiders are is an...

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How to Read Your Webstats – Part 1 – Monthly Visitors

Posted by on Sep 15, 2008 in Old Blog Posts | 0 comments

How to Read Your Webstats – Part 1 – Monthly Visitors

If you host your website with us, you have an online statistic program built in as a standard hosting feature.  This statistics program allows you to check important data regarding the success of your website.  It also allows you to find out if marketing campaigns are working, what pages are the most popular, what search engines are referring visitors to you and what keywords these visitors are using to find you in a search.  Checking these statistics on a regular basis will help to monitor...

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Benefits of Blogs

Posted by on Sep 12, 2008 in Old Blog Posts | 0 comments

I saw an interesting article appear on MarketingSherpa.com’s website about blogging.  Since I’m finally getting my blog juices flowing, it was good to be reminded of the benefits involved.  Basically, MarketingSherpa ran a pole of 4,000 corporate bloggers to find out what the biggest advantages to their blogs was.  Here is the breakdown in order of biggest advantage first: Improving web presence through search and news feeds (SEO) Creating thought leadership Creating a channel...

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Browser Wars Are Getting Interesting – Google Chrome is Here

Posted by on Sep 10, 2008 in Old Blog Posts | 0 comments

Last week Google released their new Chrome browser, a very slick and and visually understated browser that holds alot of promise.  I downloaded it last week after it was released and played with it.  What appeals to me most is the performance enhancements that it is bringing to the table.  For example, if you have ever had a crash or lockup happen on one site bring down all your other browser windows and tabs, Chrome will put an end to this.  Chrome simply shuts down the tab with the buggy...

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