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How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog)

How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog)
Since posting my 2005 traffic figures recently, I’ve received many questions about how I was able to start this web site from scratch and build its traffic to over 700,000 visitors per month (Jan 2006 projection) in about 15 months – without spending any money on marketing or promotion. Building a high-traffic web site was my intention from the very beginning, so I don’t think this result was accidental. My traffic-building strategy isn’t based on tricks or techniques that will go out of style. Here are 10 of my best suggestions for building a high traffic web site: 1. Is your content worthy of being read by millions of people? When I sit down to write, I sometimes imagine myself standing on an outdoor concert stage before an audience of a million people. Think about the effect you want your writing to have on people. When you focus on providing real value instead of churning out disposable content, your readers will notice. Strong content is universally valued. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.” She smiled and said, “Wow. Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while. It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that! It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job: 1. Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. Why is getting a job so dumb? Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Who cares how many hours you work? 2. Consider this. 3. Look around you. 4. 5.

Luxury Leather Briefcases, Leather Luggage & Italian Handbags for Women and Men Categories and Tags This post on using Tags and Categories on a blog was originally written by Michael Martin from ProBlog Design and updated recently by the ProBlogger team. Categories and tags are essential for blogs and content organization for many reasons: SEO Benefits: Categories and tags help search engines understand the structure of your website and the topics you coverContent Organization: helps both your readers and you to find and navigate through your content more efficientlyUser Experience: improve the user experience on your blog by helping visitors discover related content. According to Yoast SEO “When used correctly, a good taxonomy system can boost your site’s SEO. In terms of content management and organization, categories and tags are almost identical. A category system could very easily be used as a tagging system, and vice versa. So what is it that makes the two different? Understanding and Using Categories Categories are best imagined as a paper filing system.

Podcast #009 – Kick-start Your Own Business StevePavlina.com Personal Development for Smart People podcast #9 This podcast will give you some tips on how to kick-start your own business, especially a part-time, home-based business. Incidentally, I know the iTunes podcast subscription for this podcast isn’t working. You can still subscribe to it, but for some reason it isn’t displaying all the previous shows. I haven’t changed anything with the feed, so I contacted iTunes support (twice) to ask them why the iTunes listing suddenly stopped working and received no response after two weeks. Enjoy the podcast…

Computing & ICT This programme route has been specifically designed to offer a wide range of options to cover all interests in the realm of computing and information systems for implementation in an organisational or business environment. The content is well balanced to provide a broad coverage of computing expertise through the core modules. The optional modules then allow the student to choose and customise their study tailored to their own fields of interest. Our graduates are employed in a variety of jobs, within all sectors of IT. Typically most expertise can be offered at the 'user-system interface' where the understanding you gain of the systems and technology will be combined with your appreciation of the human user to bridge the gaps that often occur between the user and their organisational environment. The following core modules are required: The following options modules are available to allow the student to fully personalise their MSc in Computing:

Download Joomla Download Joomla! There are two versions of Joomla! available. Joomla 3.2 is the newest version, recommended for most new installs.Joomla 2.5 is the previous version of the CMS, recommended on an as-needed basis for new installs. Please read the entire FAQ section below to learn more about which version of Joomla may be right for you. Download Joomla! Joomla 3.2 is the newest version recommended for most new installs. Release Notes » Advertisement Download Joomla! Joomla 2.5 is the recommended version for existing Joomla 1.6-2.5 sites. Other Joomla 2.5.x packages » Release Notes » Joomla! Which version is best for me? For most new sites, the Joomla! When starting a new site, please plan ahead and check to make sure that any extensions (including templates) that you plan to use are Joomla 3 compatible. Sites that are currently on Joomla 2.5 are encouraged to stay on 2.5, until Joomla 3.5’s release, unless they need to be moved over sooner to take advantage of Joomla 3’s new features.

Top 15 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Websites Here are the top 15 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Sites as derived from our eBizMBA Rank which is a continually updated average of each website's Alexa Global Traffic Rank, and U.S. Traffic Rank from both Compete and Quantcast."*#*" Denotes an estimate for sites with limited data. 1 | Facebook3 - eBizMBA Rank | 900,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 3 - Compete Rank | 3 - Quantcast Rank | 2 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: July 1, 2017. The Most Popular Social Bookmarking Websites | eBizMBA 2 | Twitter12 - eBizMBA Rank | 310,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 19 - Compete Rank | 8 - Quantcast Rank | 8 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: July 1, 2017. 3 | Pinterest23 - eBizMBA Rank | 250,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 29 - Compete Rank | 13 - Quantcast Rank | 26 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: July 1, 2017.

How to Make Money From Your Blog StevePavlina.com was launched on Oct 1st, 2004. By April 2005 it was averaging $4.12/day in income. Now it brings in over $200/day $1000/day (updated as of 10/29/06). I didn’t spend a dime on marketing or promotion. In fact, I started this site with just $9 to register the domain name, and everything was bootstrapped from there. This article is seriously long (over 7300 words), but you’re sure to get your money’s worth (hehehe). Do you actually want to monetize your blog? Some people have strong personal feelings with respect to making money from their blogs. If you have mixed feelings about monetizing your blog, then sort out those feelings first. If you do decide to generate income from your blog, then don’t be shy about it. You can reasonably expect that when you begin commercializing a free site, some people will complain, depending on how you do it. Can you make a decent income online? Yes, absolutely. Can most people do it? No, they can’t. Web savvy What do I mean by web savvy? Perks

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