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There's a lot going right for LinkedIn nowadays. It's on the back of its most successful quarter and year, it has a business model that the majority of sites envy and it showing stable growth in the stock market while other sites fluctuate wildly.Yet it's trying something that is somewhat uncharacteristic of the site in a bid to increase relevance... Read More »
The one great part of online content is that you can measure how well you're doing right down to the tiniest detail. But while some people focus on a few metrics and blindly follow them, what you should do is ask yourself five important questions that will shape your site's strategy... Read More »
If there is one site that can send your website traffic through the roof instantly it is Stumbleupon. With them announcing 20 million users today, we wanted to take a look at the stats from this blog and see what sort of quality traffic they actually send to publishers... Read More »
The last 6 months have seen some of the world's biggest blogs move from a niche audience in to fully fledged businesses with large teams of writers and in many cases small media empires. Social media has helped this transition and with most blogging software being free its a trend that is set to continue and if anything accelerate... Read More »
Our blog has been around for a little over a year and I was surprised to see today that through the first six months of the year we had half a million unique visitors to the site. I know how hard it is to grow blog traffic and wanted to share some of the things that I think have helped us grow this blog to the level where it is at today... Read More »
We are big fans of creating good content and letting that shine so as people will keep returning to your blog and traffic increases but we wanted to get a slightly more technical angle on blogging and how bloggers and website publishers can identify trends and spot how and where they might emerge. Leo Fogarty is the guest author on this one and it is well worth a read for those of you who might not come from a technical background and wanted to learn a little more about Google insights... Read More »
I am always asked about how we get traffic to this blog and the answer is pretty complicated as you will see from the diagram in this post. We use a whole range of social media tools and sharing options including Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and slidshare and as you can see in the diagram we combine it with lots of other traditional marketing methods in order to build an audience here and further enhance our community. Try some of these techniques yourself and see how you get on... Read More »
On Wednesday we were featured on Techcrunch and we just wanted to share some of the traffic stats so as we could give some perspective into the amount of traffic you can expect from one of the biggest blogs in the world. The important thing to do is not just accept the spike of traffic but try to optimize your site so as you can catch RSS readers, new Facebook fans or whatever other goal is best for you. You won't get covered that often so make sure you get it right when you do. Read More »
Twitter traffic has been growing for a couple of years like crazy but October 2009 has seen it drop for the first time and it comes hot on the heels of further bad news with Stephen Fry claiming that he has quit the service. The traffic reports comes from a variey of online services including compete, Quantcast, Alexa and Hitwise who all measure traffic online and although this is only traffic that reaches the Twitter website directly and doesn't include 3rd party apps such as Tweetdeck and Seesmic it does give a good overall indication of where things are headed. Is this bad news for Twitter or is it simply a pause in growth before it starts another spurt? Have a look through the graphs after the jump and see what you think yourself... Read More »
