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Best of Daily Blog Tips in 2011

on Dec 31, 2011
First of all I wish an awesome 2012 for all the DBT readers. I am sure you’ll all achieve your goals in this coming year (and I’ll make sure to keep publishing tips to help you with the online part of those goals!). Below you’ll find the most popular posts we had in 2011. Make sure you haven’t missed any: January February March April May June July August

Is Your Bounce Rate Killing Your Blog?

on Oct 10, 2011
Bounce rate is a number that’s used to gauge the quality of the traffic your blog or website receives. There are a number of things that can effect your bounce rate, some you can control and some you can’t, and contrary to popular opinion there’s really no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ bounce rate. But no matter what it is, you can always try to make it better. Basically, the bounce rate takes into consideration the number of people who visit your blog, how many pages they view,

Dealing With Setbacks in Life and Business

on Jul 20, 2011
Dealing With Setbacks in Life and Business

Have you ever suffered a setback. Setbacks in life and business happen, they can’t be avoided.  However, you can bounce back quickly if you know how to handle them better.

How Do You Create Trust Without Ever Seeing A Face?

on May 16, 2011
When you are in a business like blogging or internet marketing you have to deal with the very strange reality that you want people to interact with you when they have never met you before. They can’t check your face for signs of deception nor your body language, so they have to rely on what you write to engender their trust. Sometimes it can be very difficult to communicate a message of trust when you are trying to get your other messages across like a product you are trying to sell but here are a

Reduce Your Bounce Rate In One Second

on Apr 26, 2011
So, how do you get visitors to spend more time on your site and reduce your bounce rate, without spending more than one second trying to do it? It’s simple. First of all get inside the control panel of your website (e.g., WordPress admin dashboard, or the equivalent on the software you are using). Now go to the section where you can tweak your CSS and other design aspects (in WordPress this is under the “Appearance” menu). Now find the line controlling the font size on your site, and

What Is High, Normal And Low Bounce Rates?

on Nov 11, 2010
In the past I already explained what is bounce rate, and why small and new websites tend to display their bounce rates incorrectly. Today I want to talk about what is considered to be high, normal and low bounce rates. The first thing we need to consider is that every type of website will have a different ballpark number for what is considered high, normal and low bounce rates. Online forums, for examples, will naturally have lower bounce rates when compared to blogs, because people tend to read many

The Misleading Bounce Rate Of Small And New Websites

on Oct 12, 2010
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article titled “What Is Bounce Rate?“, where I explained the term and how you can calculate it. After that I received many emails from readers stating that they had a really low bounce rate on their blogs/websites, asking whether it was a good sign or not. Some of them had bounce rates close to 0%. So is this a good sign? Yes and no. Yes because the lower your bounce rate, the better, as it means that people visiting your website are getting engaged by your

What Is Bounce Rate?

on Sep 14, 2010
Today I was going to write about why new websites can display very misleading bounce rates, but I realized I had never covered the bounce rate concept before, so I’ll stick to the basics today, and expand on the topic over the coming weeks. If you already know the term, consider this post a refresher. Bounce rate is a very important metric for website owners. It basically tells you what percentage of your visitors are “bouncing” away after landing on your site (e.g., they just visit one page and

End of Dumb Tables in Web Analytics Tools! Hello: Weighted Sort

on Sep 7, 2010
End of Dumb Tables in Web Analytics Tools! Hello: Weighted Sort

Arthur C. Clarke said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That quote comes to mind when I think of a new feature in Google Analytics that carries the unassuming name of Weighted Sort. It is an advanced implementation of technology (mathematical algorithms in this case) and when used it very much feels like magic!

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