How-To Guides
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 [...]
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 [...]
WordPress 3.0 Menus CSS
Image via Wikipedia For those of us not using Thesis theme (hello? Anyone?) you might have come across the new Menus features when you upgraded your WordPress to version 3.0. I’ve held off changing the menu system over from using the defaul Hybrid theme menu out of fear. I tentatively checked what it would look [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
