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 abuse nofollow. Like many sites they are trying to use nofollow to massage search engine [...]
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 been noticeable spikes when content has been stumbled or submitted to more niche sites such [...]
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 a way that’s difficult to analyse.
Overall traffic to the site has increased. Last week [...]
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is a huge business these days, with consultancy firms, websites and software all dedicated to offering advice on how to improve a site’s ranking on Google and other search engines. And certainly it’s important, the most attractive site in the world is largely pointless if nobody can ever find it on [...]
There’s a lot of material out there in the blogging world that talks about methods of driving traffic to your site. One of the most common pieces of advice is that an active presence on social networking sites such as Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Digg, Facebook or LiveJournal can all make significant impact in bringing visitors to [...]
I’ve added the Search page to the site and utilised the Google Custom Search Engine. This is quite a handy piece of kit, basically you use Google’s background mechanisms and specify which sites you want the engine to search through for data. So in this instance I’ve set the search engine to find pages here [...]
