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Spam Attacks! How To Provide The Ultimate Defense In WordPress

I recently suffered from a spam attack from a Russian syndicate of blog spammers. Unusually, they decided to attack the smallest website I own which is my personal joshkohlbach.com website. Basically just a placeholder site for people to contact me about programming gigs. So these guys were pretty insistent and I had to go through [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | December 18, 2010

How to Lower Your Bounce Rates

This post is a monster. It’s nearly 5000 words long and would probably make an excellent eBook being one of the most comprehensive resources on how to lower your website’s bounce rate on the internet. Too many websites around the blogosphere, claiming to be experts in website traffic, focus on only one side of the [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | September 10, 2010

How Use Cases Can Cause You To Rethink Your Web Design

Do you know what you are wanting your visitors to do once they come across your website? How effective are you at doing that? Not knowing why (and hence how) people use your website is a major cause of high bounce rates. For every website you design, a primary purpose should be in mind. That [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | August 17, 2010

Determining Your Best Sources of Traffic

Do you think of traffic as just coming in one flavour? Any traffic to your website is good traffic right? Not always. Sometimes the traffic coming to your website isn’t doing you any favours in terms of giving you additional readers, subscribers, customers, whatever your website’s primary purpose is. The analytical measurement of bounce rate [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | August 11, 2010

Lower Your Bounce Rate By Using Suggestive Links

One of the easiest ways you can improve your blog right now is by telling your visitors what to do next. What I call a suggestive link. That doesn’t mean that it’s rude, just that it gives the visitor a little nudge. Call it a “call to action”, a “call to arms”, a “do this [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | August 10, 2010

How Inter-Site Linking Lowers Your Bounce Rates

If there is one thing that is spruiked correctly in the blogging community it’s how much linking to different articles from your archives in your blog posts can help you turn visitors into readers. Once you get your visitors to read more than one article the chance of them staying, subscribing, buying, etc goes up [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | August 4, 2010

How To Analyse Your Bounce Rate In Google Analytics

This post is a triumphant return to my How To style of blog posts. Along the same vein of bounce rate talk as yesterday’s post on why your website needs a primary purpose, I’m going to take you through how to check some of your bounce rate vitals in Google Analytics. You are using Google [...]

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | July 30, 2010

How To Get All The Features Of AWeber For Nothing

I’ve got autoresponders, sofisticated campaign management, html or plain text, test email capabilities, multiple list management, abilities to setup and send to sublists and parts of lists, ridiculous amounts of statistics, loads of preconfigured html email templates and more.

And best of all? I pay absolutely nothing. $0. Bubka. Nudda.. nothing. Ain’t that sweet?

Continue reading ... | Posted By: Josh Kohlbach | July 15, 2010

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