Site Traffic

Do you remember MillionDollarHomePage.com? If not, it was a simple and fun idea that went on to generate a million dollars and get a mega ton of free publicity and traffic from the media. In short, it was a site that sold pixels (ad space) for money. If all the ad spots sold, it would generate a million dollars, which it did! Keep in mind, at the time of selling ads, it was agreed the site would not be changed or modified for several years. Even years after it first launched, it’s still a top 12,000

You may think that the equation for making money online is quite simple, the more people you have coming to your website the more money you are going to make but that isn’t always the case. You have to consider into that equation that people don’t only have to come to your site they also have to interact with it in the right way to give you the money. They have to click on your adverts, buy your products or act on your ‘calls to action’. If they simply come to your site and the read your content and leave

This guest post is by Glen Allison of www.GlenAllison.com. This is a case study outlining my three-step website development and the graphic design aspects of my blog monetization. As a visual artist, when I finally decided to start monetizing my blog, one of my primary concerns was to maintain the clean graphic design of my website without the clutter of “in-your-face” advertisements screaming at the viewers, whom I didn’t want to overwhelm with my monetizing endeavors.

This guest post is by Marcello Arrambide of Wandering Trader. When it comes to blogging, there are different mentalities around both the quantity of traffic and the quality of traffic. At different stages in a website’s development, we tend to focus on one or the other, but when we start a new blog, we primarily want to get traffic to it. Even if you are a famous celebrity, your new website isn’t going to get anywhere without some effort.

As a long time developer of Internet businesses, I’ve always built things myself. Now with the growth of the Internet, the days of do it yourself are opening up to a real business of buying and selling web sites businesses. This video and blog post come from my coaching of Zac Johnson while he was developing his new book, Flip This Web Site. What I share below are 3 case studies from Flippa, done live (and I’ve never worked with Flippa or know any of the people involved in these web sites, so

My site traffic has been growing surely and steadily since I launched it online. I use Google analytics for stats, with Feedburner for RSS and email updates. I update my travel blog on average twice a week. However, about 8 months ago I noticed a trend. Although my daily visitors were increasing, sign ups to my RSS and email list had stagnated. Choices to Make Being an avid reader of Daily Blog Tips, I knew that a popular incentive to increase subscribers was to offer a freebie. A little offering like an