All Posts Tagged With: "web traffic"
5 Existential Blogging Tips
Most of us want to turn a buck with our web sites. Even if your motivation for producing the site isn’t monetary, profitability is an undeniable yardstick for success.
Traffic determines just how much success your site is going to enjoy. Traffic is a reflection of how well you’ve done optimizing your site for search engines, [...]
Move Over Alexa, Here Comes IZEARanks
The problem with web metrics provided by Alexa and Compete is that their numbers are totally dependent on what they gather from users who are using their Firefox and Internet Explorer toolbars. Mostly this consists of people who are trying to inflate their website’s Alexa and Compete ranking by running the toolbar. In other words, [...]
22Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 16 comments | ContinuedFeedback: How Much Traffic Before Dedicated Hosting Becomes Necessary?
Almost all of us started with a cheap, shared web host. The shared hosts offer a fantastic service for little money. They offer the novice webmaster a managed environment with niceties like web-based administrative interfaces (cPanel, Plesk, etc) for managing their site(s) and services, script based installation of site software via Fantastico, and ftp and [...]
27Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 25 comments | ContinuedHow Military Tactics Can Explode Your Web Traffic
Back in the 90s, Pres. Bush had the Joint Chiefs come up with some pretty cool scenarios to take Kuwait back from the Iraqis. They did their job with flair. Each maneuver Saddam could conceive off, Bush’s Generals had a solution. They thought the plan was airtight. Or so they thought…..
The war dragged on far [...]




