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Traffic is a Metric, Nothing More

Note from the editor: These next few days, we will be re-publishing note-worthy content from the Wisdump archive. This particular article was originally posted by Paul Scrivens on November 10th, 2006. The Web 2.0 world seems to have a problem regarding traffic. It seems to be the measure of success for a website and because [...]

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Developing Traffic

Note from the editor: These next few days, we will be re-publishing note-worthy content from the Wisdump archive. This particular article was originally posted by Paul Scrivens on August 8th, 2006. Developing traffic is a fine art on the web. Sometimes we get lost in the fact that just because it is easy to build [...]

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Developing Community

Note from the editor: These next few days, we will be re-publishing note-worthy content from the Wisdump archive. This particular article was originally posted by Paul Scrivens on August 2nd, 2005. Developing traffic for your site is one thing, but developing a community is an even harder task. With traffic you can follow a formula [...]

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Passive Income With Text Link Ads

This is one of those fancy paid reviews brought to you through Review Me. If you know me you know you are going to get the real deal. I have been using Text Link Ads on this site for a couple of months now and I am actually surprised at the amount of people that [...]

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Eating Your Own Dog Food

I’m sure we have all heard the expression “eating your own dog food”. What it refers to is building something and actually using it for yourself. An example would be everyone at Yahoo actually using Yahoo Mail instead of GMail. Think about it, how often do you use your own site? Before we launched 9rules [...]

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Overestimating Users’ Knowledge

Here is something to keep in mind. The traffic to 9rules jumped about 10%-15% yesterday because the ChaCha Search Engine was featured on Good Morning America. That almost has nothing to do with 9rules except a note was posted on the engine a couple of weeks ago. All of the traffic came from search engines [...]

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The Pre-Launch Success Plan

There have been many times on this site and on others where the criteria for building a successful blog have been discussed, but I have never gone over what it takes to make a successful site/blog before it launches. I would advise myself to follow these guidelines since I get a bit overzealous with every [...]

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Benefits of Removing ‘www’ From Your URL

Although I’m sure many of us don’t pay attention to the SEO of our sites because we just like to write and get on with life, there are a couple of quick fixes you can do to your site that will go a long way in helping you out in the Search Engine rankings. As [...]

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Link To Your Site Then Redirect

I’m going to have to call out my good friend James Archer for inspiring this entry so hopefully he doesn’t mind me using him as an example. Recently I have decided I would give FeedBurner another shot. I used them when they first came out, but there were a lot of bugs and what not [...]

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ExpressionEngine vs. WordPress: Comments

Tyme and I do a podcast and the entries for these podcasts consistently get over a 100 comments with the largest receiving over 500. The site that currently hosts the podcasts and discussions runs ExpressionEngine, but we are planning on moving the podcast to its own domain and of course I requested that we use [...]

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