Category Archives: Online Marketing

Ruining ‘nofollow’ With Abuse

I see recently that Sphinn has decided to take a stricter line on the use of nofollow. Links to submitted articles will be nofollow until they go hot. Sphinn are the latest, but they’re far from the only site to […]

Traffic Growth #5 – What Value In StumbleUpon Visitors?

Analytics statistics on traffic sources for 5 May

It’s been a busy week, with the move to WordPress, a complete redesign, and consistent posting. It offers a good comparison to last week’s analysis of a low activity week. Traffic from both social media sites and general flow is […]

Traffic Growth #4 – The moment you stop, traffic drops

Daily visitor stats

As much by force of circumstance as anything else, this week’s analysis is about the importance of continued activity on a blog. I imagine this is need is even more important for an embryonic blog like Fog of Eternity. Various […]

Traffic Growth #3 – Growth From Social Networking

Daily traffic

I think this week has demonstrated that I was speaking much too early when I identified flaws in some social networking sites as traffic drivers. This week has seen a significant increase in overall traffic to the site. There have […]

Traffic Growth #2 – Commenting Works, LinkedIn Doesn’t.

Screenshot of visitor numbers

It’s Monday and time for a first update on the ‘How much traffic can I get through viral methods’ article I wrote last week. The viral method strategy for growing traffic to the site seems to be working, but in […]